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Tyrone Ross on Why Financial Advisors Are Taking Notice of DeFi
Financial advisor and crypto advocate Tyrone Ross joins The Breakdown for a discussion on financial advisors, DeFi and the most important company in crypto. One man. Three piping hot…
Canadian Regulatory Group Targets Crypto Exchanges Holding Users’ Digital Assets – CoinDesk
Canada’s top financial watchdog has told crypto exchanges they will be subject to securities law if they act as custodians to users’ digital assets. The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA)…
Binance in Talks to Launch Crypto Trading Joint Venture in Japan – CoinDesk
Crypto exchange Binance is eyeing the launch of a new trading platform dedicated for the Japanese market. According to a blog announcement on Thursday, the firm said it is…
Deribit Takes On New Trading Tools to Capture ‘Exploding’ Options Market – CoinDesk
Amid increasing activity within the crypto derivatives market, software maker Trading Technologies (TT) announced Wednesday it would provide trading tools to users of leading crypto exchange, Deribit. Included in…
Winklevoss-Led Gemini Exchange Now Has Its Own Insurance Company – CoinDesk
Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has created its own insurance company to protect clients against the potential loss of coins from its offline vaults…
Coinbase-Led Crypto Ratings Council Plans Transparency Boost as New Members Join – CoinDesk
The Crypto Ratings Council (CRC), the Coinbase-led organization hoping to create a standard for assessing whether different cryptocurrencies are securities under U.S. law, is adding new members. The group…
Anchorage Moves Into Crypto Trading With New Brokerage Service – CoinDesk
Crypto services startup Anchorage has launched a crypto platform for its institutional investors and acquired the data analysis firm Merkle Data. Announced Wednesday, the moves mark an expansion in…
Why Crypto’s ‘Rogue State’ Narrative Is a Risk to the Industry – CoinDesk
Crypto tokens weren’t the only thing that saw a major pump yesterday. The total value locked in DeFi ascended to new heights. While part of this can be explained…
Crypto Analytics Firm Elliptic to Tell US Congress Privacy Coins Need Stricter AML Rules – CoinDesk
A crypto analytics startup will recommend the U.S. Congress call for more stringent anti-money laundering (AML) enforcement around exchanges facilitating the trade of privacy coins during a hearing on…