Around the world, policymakers and regulators are hurriedly writing, adopting, and amending crypto-asset regulations. Nearly three-quarters of the countries surveyed in the Atlantic Council’s Cryptocurrency Regulation Tracker are exploring changes to their regulatory framework—and many of those changes are substantial. At the global level, India has made crypto-asset regulation a major goal of its G20...
The latest report from Ripple reveals payments as the top use case for holding crypto as well as a projection that the tokenization scene would grow to $16 trillion by 2030. Ripple, a leading blockchain technology company, has unveiled the latest iteration of its value report. The recent report, dubbed “Crypto Trends in Business and...
After the MtGox hack, Tokyo put in place tough rules that later protected FTX customers. Now, from that secure base, it’s moving to allow blockchain technologies to flourish. More than a million investors around the world were left stranded when FTX suddenly collapsed in November with an astonishing hole, estimated at $8.7 billion, in its...
As digital payment methods continue to take off and contactless payments become the standard, but cyberattacks continue to rise, how can consumers ensure their payment information stays safe? In this article, I will outline some strategies for leaders on how to best implement tokenization in their payment processes. As a disclosure, this is one service...
The market for a new type of tokenized assets – digital financial assets or DFAs – in Russia took a fresh breath in April, with seven DFA issues totaling about 1 billion rubles ($13 million) announced, Kommersant business daily reported. Russia’s top retail bank Alfa-Bank carried out the placement of telecom group Rostelecom notes worth...
Bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies have seen a spectacular recovery this year (though ethereum’s founder has issued a stark warning over crypto’s “next bull run”). The bitcoin price has topped $30,000 per bitcoin for the first time since last summer while ethereum has surged to over $2,000 per ether as upgrades fuel a price...
Organic medicines have been around for as long as humans have been sick. But the past century saw them put on the back burner as synthetic drugs and big pharmaceutical corporations took center stage. Fortunately, there has been a resurgence in the use of organic medicine in recent years. This shift is sparked by growing...
Financial market regulators around the world hardly know what to make of cryptocurrency. This asset class doesn’t fit neatly into existing categories, while the collapse of FTX in 2022 made the need for smarter regulations painfully obvious. National governments want to assert their regulatory oversight of crypto because controlling currencies is how they manage their...
The bitcoin rate rose above $29,000. On the morning of March 30, the price of BTC exceeded this mark, updating the maximum since June 10, 2022. The asset rate rose from $28.3 thousand to $29.12 thousand within half an hour, after which it dropped back to $28.3 thousand in 40 minutes. According to CoinGecko, at...
On March 21, the Fear and Greed index in the cryptocurrency market reached 68 points for the first time in 16 months. The last time the indicator exceeded this value was on November 16, 2021, after Bitcoin set an all-time high at $69,000. On that day, the index was at around 71 points. The Fear...
