Hong Kong-based digital asset firm HashKey Group has launched a new wealth management platform geared toward professional and institutional investors. In an April 14 announcement, HashKey cited “significant demand from investors to access virtual assets” as the reason for...
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have received a lot of attention recently as a potential game changer in the world of finance. A CBDC is a digital representation of a country’s fiat currency issued and supported by the central...
According to a recent announcement from Binance US, the American-based subsidiary of the largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, the exchange plans to delist the cryptocurrency asset tron. The news follows Binance’s being sued by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading...
FTX Europe AG, the holding company of FTX’s European business, filed a petition for a Swiss moratorium proceeding, which the court granted on Tuesday, according to the announcement. A moratorium proceeding, under Swiss law, enables debt restructuring or the...
ZA Bank, Hong Kong’s biggest virtual bank by assets is reportedly set to provide crypto account services and facilitate crypto-to-fiat exchanges. According to an April 12 Bloomberg report, the bank will act as a settlement bank to allow token...
Bitman Technologies, a Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm based in Beijing, China, has reportedly been fined $25 million yuan ( $3.6 million) by local tax authorities. Local news outlet Sina Finance reported on Tuesday that the fine was imposed by...
FTX Debtors said on April 9 that it had released a report that “identifies and discusses control failures” by Sam Bankman-Fried and his colleagues when they ran the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange. John Ray, the CEO of the FTX Debtors,...
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for April 10, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets. Source link
Now is the “right time” for Hong Kong to push forward with Web3 despite the crypto market fluctuations, according to the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, Paul Chan. In an April 9 blog post, Chan explained that one of...
Positive momentum is building up for the upcoming upgrade to Ethereum, a decentralized blockchain with smart contract functionality, a survey by OKX, a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange, has found. The two-part Shanghai-Capella event, which has been dubbed the ‘Shapella’ upgrade,...