The Associated Press (AP) has launched a premium NFT collection on Binance that includes news items from the company’s archives over the last 100 years. The collection tagged “Unique Moments” was compiled by Australian NFT publisher MetaList Lab as authorized by AP News. It features photos, articles, and other digital …

Huobi Japan has received the green light from the local Financial Market Services Agency to offer crypto exchange services. In an official statement released on Thursday, the firm confirmed that it now has the authorization “to engage in the trading, underwriting, and management of cryptocurrency derivatives, as well as operate …

Tether has been issuing stablecoin loans backed by bitcoin, ethereum, and other volatile digital currencies.  Alex Mashinsky, CEO of crypto lending firm Celsius made this claim while speaking to the Financial Times. “If you give them enough collateral, liquid collateral, Bitcoin, Ethereum and so on…they will mint tether against it,” …

Banque de France has tested the use of its CBDC and Blockchain technology in executing a series of government bonds. The experiment was carried out in collaboration with some of the heavyweights in the country’s financial industry, including the French public debt office. The Financial Times reported that around 500 …

Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) branch chief Lisa Bragança believes that the market regulator wants more than one bitcoin ETF. During an interview with CoinDesk TV, the financial and securities litigator expressed optimism that the SEC would approve more bitcoin ETFs. “I’m expecting that the [SEC] will allow …

Despite the recent uptrend, bitcoin whales appear to be declining. Citing data from Glassnode,  prominent crypto-journalist Colin Wu reported that the number of investors who hodls 10,000 bitcoins or more has declined to a record low of 82. According to Glassnode, the number of addresses with current holdings of ≥ …

Bitcoin bulls have done quite well this month, fighting off the bears to climb above the $60,000 mark. The recent uptrend ensured a spike in bitcoin’s price, trading volume, and market cap. Multiple indicators suggest that we could see the world’s largest digital currency by market cap retest and even …

CEO of Square Inc Jack Dorsey said the company might build an open-source bitcoin mining system. In a tweet on Friday, Dorsey informed his followers that the American financial services digital payment firm is contemplating a “bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals and businesses …

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin, has incurred the wrath of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC. The watchdog confirmed in a statement today that Tether Holdings Limited (the company behind Tether coin) has been ordered to pay a civil monetary penalty of $41 million for “untrue or misleading statements and …

The executive director of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), Shinichi Uchida, confirmed earlier today that the country would focus on simplicity and flexibility when designing its CBDC. Mr. Uchida also wants “vertical co-existence” between the proposed digital yen and the existing payment options. “To achieve vertical coexistence, a relatively simple …