blockchain

The chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Jay Clayton, expressed the opinion that the second most capitalized Ethereum cryptocurrency, most likely, cannot qualify as a security. Reported by The Block. Back in June of last year, the head of the SEC corporate finance department, William Hinman, expressed the opinion that Ethereum does not contain the characteristics inherent in […]

According to analyst of the financial conglomerate Barclays Ross Sandler, the steakblokin of the social network Facebook can generate in the medium term a multi-billion dollar extra income. This is reported by CNBC. In a note for investors, Sandler expressed the opinion that his own coin could bring the largest social network from 3 to 19 billion US dollars of additional income by 2021. The analyst stressed that his […]

The Sparkpool mining pool reported that it was able to verify the sender of the Ethereum transaction with an unusually high commission and returned half of the erroneously sent funds to it. This writes CoinDesk. According to the representatives of the pool, on February 25 they received an email from an anonymous user, who said that on February 19 he sent a transaction, having mistakenly paid 2,100 ETH (to that […]

The US Marshals Service (USMS) is considering the feasibility of establishing the position of an agent who will be entrusted with managing confiscated bitcoins and other cryptocurrency. Cointelegraph writes about this with reference to public documents published last week. The documents are part of the Request for Information on the procedural rules for the management and sale of seized cryptoactive assets. A key element of the Confiscation Program […]

Deutsche Börse, the leading stock exchange in Germany, has announced a strategic partnership with Swisscom, the Swiss state-run telecommunications company, and Sygnum, a Swiss-Singapore-based fintech company, whose main objective is to create a regulated infrastructure for digital assets. As stated in a joint press release, the new initiative aims to create a technology based on a distributed registry of the ecosystem of a tokenized economy, which, according to partners, “has the potential to transform […]

Switzerland's largest stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, is preparing to launch yet another exchange-traded product (ETP) tied to the XRP token rate. It is reported by CoinDesk. A product linked to XRP under the ticker AXRP is planned to be hosted by the Swiss company Amun AG. According to its CEO, Hani Rushwan, the appropriate permission from the SIX has already been received. “We can confidently say, […]