UK-based Standard Chartered revealed plans on Thursday to establish a Luxembourg-based entity as its regulatory hub for crypto and digital asset custody services across the European Union (EU). 🚨 BREAKING 🚨 🇪🇺 $1 trillion Standard Chartered will now start offering…
Jeremy Allaire, Circle’s CEO, revealed on Thursday that the company had donated $1 million USDC to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. @circle has contributed 1M USDC to President Trump’s Inaugural Committee. We are excited to be building a great American…
On January 9, PeckShieldAlert, a blockchain security and forensic platform, revealed that crypto hacks and scams cost $3.01 billion in 2024. This represents a substantial 15% increase compared to the $2.61 billion lost in the crypto industry in 2023, thus…
Mastercard has unveiled the expansion of its innovative Crypto Credential solution to the UAE and Kazakhstan, marking its debut in the Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA) region. The solution aims to simplify cryptocurrency transactions by allowing users to…
China’s massive and tech-savvy population still drives global demand for blockchain applications, in spite of strict regulatory restrictions, found the ‘GTM in Asia’ report by Foresight Ventures and Primitive Ventures. “Western discourse often assumes that “China has completely banned crypto,”…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has unveiled the “Supervisory Incubator for Distributed Ledger Technology” (DLT) to help banks safely adopt blockchain-based solutions and unlock their potential. The initiative, announced on January 8, is aimed to assist banks in adopting…
Crypto exchange platform OKX has issued a warning about a fake OKX Wallet browser extension that recently appeared on the Firefox browser plugin store. The warning note posted on X stressed that OKX has not released any Firefox plugins. Further,…
Bullish Group revealed on Wednesday that its German subsidiary, Bullish DE Custody GmbH, had secured key regulatory approvals from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) to advance its operations in Europe. The approvals, granted on December 20, authorize Bullish DE…
Federal prosecutors revealed that they anticipate a substantial amount of data from Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon’s communications as part of the evidence in his upcoming trial, according to new legal documents. This extensive review includes an analysis of Kwon’s…
MicroStrategy, the biggest corporate Bitcoin (BTC) holder and a provider of business intelligence solutions, has partnered with STACKIT, a cloud provider within the Schwarz Group, one of the world’s largest retailers, to launch the MicroStrategy Sovereign European Cloud. Excited to…