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The Dubai Financial Services Authority has granted regulatory approval to the QCD Money Market Fund designed to bring traditional assets like U. S. Treasuries onto the blockchain for institutional use. origin »
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2025-12-16 22:28 | |
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Franklin Templeton announced on Feb. 12 that its tokenized money fund, “Franklin OnChain US Government Money Fund” (FOBXX), was deployed on Solana — the fund is now available on eight different blockchains.
2025-2-13 02:05 | |
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The deal combines the issuers of the second-largest stablecoin and the largest onchain money fund by market cap.
2025-1-22 23:21 | |
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Asset manager Franklin Templeton plans to use the Stellar blockchain to record shares in a new money market fund.
2019-9-4 00:45 | |
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Franklin Templeton Investments files with the SEC to set up a government money market fund with a focus on blockchain-based shares
2019-9-4 23:44 | |
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The value proposition of Bitcoin has long been questioned by its cynics. Unlike traditional assets, the cryptocurrency doesn’t generate cash flow, pay out dividends, produce a fixed yield, or have a maturity date.
2019-9-2 00:00 | |
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CROSS is a project aiming to develop an exchange platform that trades various digital assets globally including CROSS exchange for the coming digital asset and digital money society. The value of CROSS (XCR) is to “provide a platform for exchanging all kinds of digital assets.
2019-8-23 12:30 | |
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Hedge funds are one of the most popular choices for risk-averse investors and rely on the fund’s visionary founder and teams of analysts to guide their money in the right direction. Bitcoin remains a small percentage of the hedge fund industry, but even the oldest and most established funds can see what’s coming. PWC estimates […]
2019-8-17 18:38 | |
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USDX Wallet (a blockchain-powered app for quick transfers and with a stablecoin pegged to the U. S. dollar) has announced the fund withdrawal feature right in the app. Before that, USDX Wallet users could change USDX to other currencies only via crypto exchanges.
2019-8-14 18:10 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges and banks losing money to North Korea hackers to fund for their nuclear missions, a confidential U. N report states. In an exclusive research report published on Reuters from an exclusive U.
2019-8-6 20:31 | |
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Money and power tie. Often, the control of the former means an express gain of the latter. That’s could explain the fragility of the market when the US Federal Reserve are about to decide on the new “route” as far as monetary policy and fund rates are concerned. Interpreted as having a political hand, the […]
2019-8-5 18:43 | |
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In connection with the mass protests in Moscow due to the opposition not allowed to take part in municipal parliament of Moscow election (Moscow City Duma), the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on money laundering by the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) of Alexei Navalny, the most famous of opposition politicians. According to the […]
2019-8-5 14:52 | |
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin believes cryptocurrency transactions may pose certain risks to the financial system as they could potentially be used fund illicit activities such as money laundering and drug trafficking. Mnuchin’s recent comments...
2019-7-25 12:35 | |
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A retired couple in Australia have reportedly lost $900,000 to an elaborate cryptocurrency scam. Mike and Karen Taylor were traveling around Australia in a camper van when they fell for the online scam.
2019-7-19 16:46 | |
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In the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) newly published FinTech note titled “The Rise of Digital Money," the IMF states that banks will face "tough competition" and may even see their services surpassed by tech firms issuing digital money and stablecoins.
2019-7-16 18:53 | |
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Bitcoin ATMs are not currently governed by EU money laundering regulations, and arrests coordinated by Spanish police and Europol in May are bringing new focus to this loophole. A group of eight Spanish and Latin American individuals have been arrested, along with several of their associates, for using crypto ATMs to fund drug traffickers in […] The post Spain Thwarts Bitcoin ATM Scam, Prompting Regulatory Debate Worldwide appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-7-16 16:00 | |
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A new startup based in San Francisco, Near Protocol, was recently able to raise $12. 1 million tokens during its latest venture capital funding round. The two companies that helped to raise more money were two venture firms, Accomplice and Metastable Capital, a hedge fund.
2019-7-11 17:53 | |
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Authorities at the Pasco County jail in Florida recently caught inmates in an elaborate money laundering scheme involving Bitcoin and the dark web. Florida Inmates Find The Best Money Laundering Counterparty: The Government The scheme reportedly involved buying stolen credit card information on the dark web with Bitcoin.
2019-7-5 00:00 | |
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The Blockchain Association has taken over the “Defend “Crypto” fund setup to help finance the legal battle between Kik and the SEC. The social messaging firm has stated that it feels the money could be better put to use by the industry collectively.
2019-6-29 02:00 | |
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“Libra is not a cryptocurrency. Libra will destroy all stablecoins, but who gives a f*ck. I shed no tears for all those projects that somehow believed there was value in an unheard-of sponsor creating a fiat money market fund that rode on a blockchain,” remarked Arthur Hayes in this month’s BitMEX Crypto Trader Digest.
2019-6-29 22:30 | |
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The International Monetary Fund describes money as something that serves as a store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange. Over the years, many things have been used as money including shells, peppercorns, gold and silver.
2019-6-25 13:54 | |
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The euphoria that followed the bitcoin price's climb to a new 2019 high above $11,000 couldn't last forever, and it wasn't long before some low-volume drama broke out over the weekend on Crypto Twitter.
2019-6-25 21:08 | |
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By CCN Markets: CNBC’s Thursday morning got off to a hilarious start thanks to an interview with billionaire Leon Cooperman. The hedge fund investor said the stock market is “in a zone of fair value.
2019-6-21 01:00 | |
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When you are choosing an online casino or a betting site, you will want to pay attention to the banking options that are supported. You will most likely want to start playing games for the chance to win real money, which means you will have to fund your casino account.
2019-6-14 08:55 | |
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Monopoly-Styled Blockchain Game Raises $2 Million Upland, a blockchain-based property game inspired by Monopoly, was able to convince investors to give $2 million USD in order to fund the project. FinLab EOS VC Fund was the lead investor of the round, which gave the combined amount of money to Uplandme, the company that is creating […]
2019-6-14 00:44 | |
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It’s not a good feeling when an institution you trust with your money won’t give it back to you; it’s the sinking feeling that thousands of investors in a UK mutual fund called Woodford Equity.
2019-6-9 17:37 | |
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Andrew Keys, a co-founder of ConsenSys Capital, has joined DARMA Capital as a managing partner to help usher in Wall Street money to Ethereum. Keys has departed ConsenSys to focus on DARMA full time, as reported by Bloomberg, June 6, 2019.
2019-6-7 17:00 | |
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By CCN: The parabolic bitcoin price explosion, which saw BTC surge 136 percent in 2019, is a trap, according to on-chain analyst and Adaptive Fund partner Willy Woo. The price explosion is simply a short-squeeze driven by hedge funds.
2019-6-6 13:10 | |
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The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.
2019-6-4 19:03 | |
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Craig Wright, the controversial Bitcoin SV creator claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, accused crypto exchange Binance and stablecoin company Tether of funding prostitution and slavery. During the CoinGeek conference in Toronto, Wright said that 30 percent of “Binance and Tether money” is used to fund illegal operations such as prostitution and women in slavery.
2019-6-3 08:16 | |
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By CCN: Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright, just took his ongoing Bitcoin takeover gambit to the next level. Speaking at a CoinGeek conference in Toronto, Wright claimed that money from major cryptocurrency institutions like Binance, Bitfinex and Tether was being used to fund slavery and prostitution.
2019-5-31 14:30 | |
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In addition to the notorious Satoshi Nakamoto saga, nChain’s Craig Wright caught the crypto-ecosystem’s attention by making a rare appearance at a conference in Toronto, in the middle of the short-lived 93% spike recorded by Bitcoin SV’s trading value.
2019-5-31 10:00 | |
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After Craig Wright’s barrage of lawsuits and the campaign to raise money for Hodlonaut, there’s a new movement/initiative in crypto, the “defend crypto” movement/fund organized by the Kin Foundation.
2019-5-29 17:00 | |
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Kik, the embattled messaging startup behind the Kin cryptocurrency, is now crowd-sourcing donations to help fund its legal battle with US regulators. The Defend Crypto Fund is said to be tailored specifically to fight the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “on behalf of the future of crypto in the [United States].
2019-5-28 17:30 | |
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By CCN: On CNBC’s Fast Money, Morgan Creek Digital founder and CEO Mark Yusko, said that bitcoin makes a great diversifying asset in a stocks portfolio and that every investor should invest in the dominant cryptocurrency.
2019-5-23 17:36 | |
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By CCN: Forbes writer Stephen McBride believes that Netflix’s days are numbered. Disney+ will soon be entering the already-crowded streaming market, and Netflix will subsequently lose most of its best content for a substantial market: kids and families.
2019-5-23 01:30 | |
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Veteran investor Mark Mobius publicly announced he had U-turned on Bitcoin May 15 as cryptocurrency markets continue to boom. Mobius: Bitcoin Can ‘Transfer Money Easily And Confidentially’ In a fresh interview with Bloomberg, the emerging markets fund manager and founder of Mobius Capital Partners said he saw a global appetite for Bitcoin in particular – and that this would continue.
2019-5-16 15:30 | |
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By CCN: The Uber stock price continues to freefall today following a historically terrible initial public offering (IPO). Last Friday, Uber held its first day as a publicly traded company with a starting price of $42 – already three dollars below its IPO price.
2019-5-14 22:41 | |
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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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Malta’s Registry of Companies will be recorded on a blockchain-based system. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggests that blockchain tech creates unnecessary risks in money laundering and terrorism financing.
2019-5-9 02:44 | |
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Binance's CEO Changpeng Zhao has done little to hide his dislike for Craig Wright, and now Zhao wants to create a fund to help pay for legal fees accrued by those hit with lawsuits from Wright.
2019-5-8 21:46 | |
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By CCN: Changpeng “CZ” Zhao wants Craig Steven Wright to pick on someone his own size. The binance CEO has announced a new Binance Charity Foundation program dedicated to the legal fees of people who can’t afford to fight sue-happy Wright alone.
2019-5-7 18:45 | |
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By CCN. com: In its neverending conquest to take over the world, Facebook is building a network of online merchants and financial institutions to support its secretive new cryptocurrency. The Wall Street Journal reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s war machine is looking for $1 billion to fund the secretive stablecoin project, Project Libra, and is talking with heavyweights like Visa and Mastercard to get that cash.
2019-5-5 21:15 | |
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We’re a month and some change away from Bitcoin 2019: a conference made by Bitcoiners, for Bitcoiners. The conference will rekindle the same spirit of a similar Bitcoin conference that ended five years ago.
2019-5-3 15:10 | |
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By CCN. com: Bitcoin played a role in staging the Easter Sunday suicide bombing in Sri Lanka that killed 253 civilians, according to Israeli blockchain intelligence firm Whitestream. The agency revealed that the ISIS used Canada-based payment gateway CoinPayments to convert bitcoins to fiat money.
2019-5-2 11:02 | |
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Voters On Aragon (ANT) Decide Not To Fund Polkadot Blockchain The token holders of Aragon (ANT) have recently decided to restrict how much money was being used as development funds in order to support the creation of the Polkadot blockchain.
2019-5-1 21:58 | |
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By CCN: Far be it from this columnist to criticize one of the most successful stock market investors of all time, but maybe Warren Buffett’s just jealous of bitcoin. A stock market genius who began investing at 11 year’s old, Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway is now trailing the S&P 500.
2019-4-29 19:55 | |
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By CCN: Far be it from this columnist to criticize one of the most successful stock market investors of all time, but maybe Warren Buffett’s just jealous of bitcoin. A stock market genius who began investing at 11 year’s old, Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway is now trailing the S&P 500.
2019-4-28 19:55 | |
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According to a recent report by the Financial Times, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are launching their own permission blockchain and a token called “learning coin.” The purpose of these tools will be to study the application of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology. As the report pointed out, the coin was developed […]
2019-4-24 19:20 | |
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United States President Donald Trump has denied any knowledge of reports that a company linked to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan has acquired a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial. “I don’t know about it,” Trump said during a…
The UAE has officially entered the stablecoin race. Universal Digital Intl launched USDU, the country’s first central bank–approved stablecoin, giving it a regulatory edge over Circle
Binance is preparing for a major operational shift after securing three new licenses required to run its global platform in Abu Dhabi. The move positions the exchange to work under one of the world’s most structured digital-asset regimes at a time when regulatory clarity is becoming a competitive advantage.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recorded $523 million in net outflows on Tuesday, its most significant single-day withdrawal since it launched.
The United Arab Emirates has completed its first government transaction using a central bank digital currency (CBDC), marking a significant step in its Digital Dirham project. This test payment, made through the cross-border mBridge platform, confirms the UAE’s technical integration and signals readiness for wider government and private sector adoption of CBDCs. The development is […]
UAE residents can now mine Bitcoin without owning hardware, as telecom operator du launches its first-ever Bitcoin cloud mining platform, “Cloud Miner.” du launches UAE’s first cloud Bitcoin mining platform UAE’s second largest telecom operator du has launched a Bitcoin…
Crypto.com has become the first VASP in the UAE to receive IPA for SVF license, enabling regulated digital payments — like government fees in crypto — automatically converted into UAE dirhams or AED-pegged stablecoins once final compliance checks are completed.…