Cointelegraph By Zhiyuan Sun
Taiwan's financial watchdog, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), has awarded the country's first security token offering (STO) license to Cathay Securities.According to local news reports on Nov. 9, Cathay received regulatory approval for its "Sunshine Green Yield" STO bonds with a time to maturity of six years, initial...
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), a coalition of the world's central banks, criticized stablecoins as being "not a safe store of value" in its latest research report dated Nov. 8.In outlining its reasons, the BIS explained that from January 2019 to September 2023, fiat-backed stablecoins maintained their...
Vietnamese Web3 coalition Ninety Eight, creator of the Coin98 decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, has launched a $25 million ecosystem fund dedicated to accelerating Web3 startups in Asia.According to the Nov. 7 announcement, the fund will provide financial and strategic support for selected startups. In addition, startups can use...
Ordinals, a BRC-20 token collection minted on the Bitcoin blockchain, have surged by 40.8% in the past 24 hours to $10.19 after listing on crypto exchange Binance.According to Binance’s Nov. 7 announcement, users can now trade Ordinals (ORDI) against Tether (USDT), Bitcoin (BTC), and the Turkish lira. Binance claims...
Closing arguments for the criminal trial of Sam Bankman Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of crypto exchange FTX, have officially concluded with U.S. Southern District of New York Judge Lewis Kaplan moving to jury instructions.As per the indictment from last December, Bankman-Fried faces a total of seven charges,...
Payment processor Visa has completed the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's central bank digital currency (CBDC) Pilot Programme with HSBC and Hang Seng Bank.According to the November 1 announcement, the e-HKD Programme involves tokenization of deposits, where the money deposited with a bank is minted on the firm's own...
The ongoing criminal trial involving FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) will move into closing arguments on November 1. On Day 15 of the SBF trial, lead defense attorney Mark Cohen's request for acquittal was denied by presiding judge Lewis Kaplan. Instead, the case will move to closing arguments from...
Despite publicly supporting drafting crypto regulation to protect customers, disgraced crypto exchange FTX founder Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried appears to have shared a deep disdain for regulators.During SBF’s ongoing criminal trial, Assistant U.S. Prosecutor Danielle Sassoon inquired if the crypto executive could recall his previous Twitter statements regarding his support...
Snowtrace.io, a popular blockchain explorer tool for Avalanche (AVAX), will shut down its website, powered by Etherscan's Explorer-as-a-Service (EaaS) toolkit, on November 30. The Snowtrace team clarified that only its explorer powered by Etherscan will be shut down.According to the October 30 announcement, Snowtrace users are required to...
Disgraced FTX founder Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried tried to explain his rationale for deleting corporate messages during a closed-door testimony without the presence of the trial’s jury on Oct. 26. When prompted as to why he started using corporate communications on the encrypted messaging app Signal by prosecutor Danielle Sassoon...
