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17.11 / 11:05

business Adoption coinbase Chamber of Digital Commerce Lobby Crypto lobby spending in US set to beat 2022 record: Report

With more than a month left before the end of 2023, the United States crypto industry has already spent $20 million on lobbying efforts. In the last year, the total sum stood at $22.2 million.

17.11 / 11:05

Adoption regulation Europe investigation Training Ukraine officials get training on crypto and virtual assets investigation

14 Ukrainian officials received advanced training on investigating new-age financial crimes in a training course held from Nov. 14 to Nov. 17 in Vienna, Austria.

17.11 / 07:53

Adoption security Canada flags concern on AI-generated deepfake disinformation campaigns

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service — Canada’s primary national intelligence agency — raised concerns about the disinformation campaigns conducted across the internet using artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes.

17.11 / 06:03

Blockchain CBDC Adoption Digital Currency Digital Dollar Singapore central bank to trial live wholesale CBDC for settlements

A pilot program for a live Singapore dollar-based central bank digital currency (CBDC) was unveiled by Singapore’s central bank with a wholesale CBDC to be used by local banks for settlements.

17.11 / 03:59

business Adoption ETF SEC Europe Bitcoin rights CoinShares gets buying rights to Valkyrie’s crypto ETF unit

European digital asset management firm CoinShares secured the exclusive option to acquire the exchange-traded fund (ETF) unit of its United States competitor Valkyrie Investments, including the Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund that’s awaiting approval in the U.S.

17.11 / 02:21

business Blockchain Adoption Conference economy data Innovators Grab NOT Web3 should draw newcomers, not be a ‘money grab from brands’ — Tech CEO

The crypto industry should focus on building blockchain-based solutions everybody can benefit from instead of launching cash grabs for brands, says Amy Peck, CEO of tech-focused consulting firm EndeavourXR.

16.11 / 18:23

business event Adoption Latin America Bitcoin regulatory Brazil's crypto regulatory environment is driving competitiveness — CEO of Coinext

Cryptocurrency may be "out of fashion", but it still draws new users to Web3 every day, in particular in emerging markets such as Brazil, according to Bitcoin maximalist José Ribeiro, CEO of crypto exchange Coinext.

16.11 / 17:31

Adoption regulation Europe European Union Euro Bitcoin German parliament member ’staunch opponent’ of digital euro, all in on Bitcoin

The European Union has been actively preparing for what it envisions as the future of money. In the past year, it finalized its landmark comprehensive crypto legislation, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), which is due to take effect in 2024 after closing its second consultation in October.

16.11 / 17:31

Blockchain Technology Adoption applications Dapps end Boosting blockchain adoption by keeping tech on the back end

Understanding the difference between the front and back end is crucial with Web3 technology. The term “front end” describes the portion of Web3 applications that consumers interact with directly. This includes the technology’s user-facing side, websites and decentralized applications (DApps).

16.11 / 13:49

Adoption Payments Web3 banking Podcast Hashing It Out Hashing It Out: How Web3 is causing an evolution of traditional finance

As decentralized finance grows in popularity, many wonder what the future holds for traditional finance (TradFi). In episode 37 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, Elisha Owusu Akyaw talks to Sarah Clark, the CEO of E-Gates, about how TradFi plans to compete and collaborate with the Web3 space and what that means for global payments moving forward. The episode also highlights issues around Web3 payments, such as regulatory compliance, fraud prevention and customer trust.

16.11 / 12:05

Ethereum Adoption ETF SEC security Bitcoin Bitcoin Price Ether ETF BlackRock files S1 form for spot Ether ETF with SEC

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, officially filed for a spot Ether Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Nov. 15.

16.11 / 11:13

Adoption Payments Tesla transport Bitcoin Ferrari’s Bitcoin acceptance is major market win, says CoinFlip CEO

Ferrari’s decision to allow U.S. residents to buy its cars in exchange for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) has become one of the biggest market wins in 2023, according to the CEO of the Bitcoin ATM operator CoinFlip.

16.11 / 06:05

business Adoption Binance Energy Oil and Gas Joint Venture Binance to launch Thai exchange in joint venture with local energy giant

Binance will publicly roll out a Thailand-based crypto exchange in early 2024 via a joint venture with local energy giant Gulf Energy Development.

16.11 / 01:59

business Law Ethereum Adoption SEC Bitcoin ethereum etf analyst Grayscale ETH futures ETF a ‘trojan horse’ for spot Ethereum ETF: Analyst

Grayscale Investments is using its Ether (ETH) futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) application as a “trojan horse” to corner the United States Securities and Exchange Commission into approving its spot Ether ETF, says Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart.

15.11 / 15:07

Art Adoption NFT Artists New York MoMA now has tokenized artworks in its permanent collection

Generative art is proving Web3’s creative anchor in the traditional art world. Last month, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) made headlines by acquiring Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations” (2022) alongside an edition from last year’s “3FACE” project by Ian Cheng. These two mark the first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) and nonfungible token (NFT) additions to MoMA’s collection, already home to relics such as Andy Warhol’s soup cans and Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.”

15.11 / 15:07

business Blockchain Adoption Microsoft Developers Tencent Decentralization Microsoft, Tencent and other tech giants join Decentralized Infura Network

Microsoft, Tencent and 16 other Web2 giants have partnered with Consensys on its mission to decentralize the Infura network — the key point of access to Ethereum for much of the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector.

15.11 / 13:47

Blockchain Adoption Investments Web3 Digital Asset Podcast Web3 advocate and author Alex Tapscott on the future of blockchain mass adoption

Web3, blockchain, crypto and mass adoption were major buzzwords in 2021 and 2022, but the public interest in the terms fell to the wayside over the last year as media headlines narrowed their focus to the now defunct FTX exchange and the trial of its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.

15.11 / 12:12

CBDC Adoption Kazakhstan officially launches digital tenge

The chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Payment Corporation (NPC), Binur Zhalenov, has made the first transaction with the country’s new central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital tenge. During his speech at the XI Congress of Finance in Almaty on Nov. 15, he paid with a debit card tied to the CBDC account, according to local outlet, Kapital.kz.

15.11 / 12:12

Blockchain Citi Adoption Tokens Central Bank Singapore introduces 5 new pilots to test asset tokenization

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has introduced five additional industry pilots to Project Guardian to test various use cases around asset tokenization.

15.11 / 12:12

Blockchain Adoption CoinShares OKX OKX joins Komainu and CoinShares for institutional segregated asset trading

Crypto exchange OKX has partnered with custody provider Komainu and asset manager CoinShares to facilitate round-the-clock trading of segregated assets to push institutional adoption of digital assets forward.

15.11 / 12:12

Adoption regulation Hex Trust Crypto custodian Hex Trust receives Dubai VASP license

Hong Kong-founded institutional cryptocurrency asset custodian Hex Trust has been given the green light to offer virtual asset custodial services to institutional clients and investors in Dubai.

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