BNY, the world’s largest custody bank, and trading giant Citadel Securities said Tuesday they had completed a transaction using tokenized U.S. Treasuries, showing how blockchain technology could help Wall Street move assets between trading and financing more quickly. The transfer focused on collateral, a key… Read More
“Moving assets onchain is only the first step,” said Bitget CEO Gracy Chen. “The bigger question is how efficiently that capital can work once it is there.” The IMF’s message is that while the use case is real, the market is still nascent. It said… Read More
The “interim final” status of the one rule means it becomes immediate policy but will be open for public input as it’s implemented. The other rule proposal explicitly folds “event contracts, including those based on sports, politics, cultural, and weather-related events” that are routinely traded… Read More
Wallets linked to the U.S. government moved 12,267 bitcoin BTC$81,429.31, worth about $1.01 billion, on Thursday, according to data provided by blockchain intelligence firm Arkham. The coins left a wallet holding funds seized in the 2016 Bitfinex hack and went to a new, unlabeled address,… Read More
The U.S. Treasury Department has scrapped a years-old proposal that would have forced banks and crypto businesses to collect and report more information when customers sent large amounts of crypto to wallets they controlled themselves. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, withdrew the rule… Read More
The crypto industry’s leading political action committee, Fairshake, released another list of candidates it’s supporting for the November elections, backing 13 Democrats and 19 Republicans — all incumbents — in their U.S. House of Representatives races. The candidates tend to be safe bets to return… Read More
