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The Swiss Financial Markets Supervision Authority (FINMA) has published an addendum to the existing Initial Token Offerings (ICO) Guide. Focused on the so-called stable coins (stablecoins), it pays special attention to the digital currency Libra from Facebook. In a document published on Wednesday, September 11, FINMA confirmed that the Geneva-based Libra Association had requested the regulator to […]

During the live broadcast of Dialogue, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spoke about the regulation of the digital economy, blockchain and the protection of personal data of Internet users. According to the head of government, regulation of the digital industry should be carried out through a set of regulatory acts, and not through a single law, and market participants themselves should determine the standards. “The industry is developing faster than regulatory regulation,” – […]

The developer of equipment and software for the blockchain system of electronic voting at the elections to the Moscow City Duma, the company "CryptoPRO" called the cause of its failure a violation of the rules of operation of the equipment. This was announced by RBC representatives of the company. According to them, the Department of Information Technology (DIT) did not configure the possibility of using a backup system in case of failure of the main, despite the availability of necessary funds. The DIT with charges not […]

Casper Labs, a blockchain startup, raised $ 14.5 million as part of the Series A funding round led by investment firm Acuitas Group Holdings. It is reported by Coindesk. Investors include Arrington XRP Capital, Consensus Capital, Axiom Holdings Group, Digital Strategies, MW Partners, Blockchange Ventures, Hashkey Capital and Distributed Global. Note that Acuitas Group Holdings belongs to the financier Terren Payzer (Terren […]

The international interbank system SWIFT does not see a competitor in digital currencies, reports Fintech Futures. “They [cryptocurrencies] are falling in price like yo-yo, they are useless and unstable,” the system said at a briefing in London. The only digital currency with any potential in SWIFT is considered Libra from Facebook. Cryptocurrencies, in their opinion, can succeed only with the properties of Libra, in […]

The non-profit organization Stellar Development Foundation will conduct an airdrop of 2 billion XLM tokens (approximately $ 118 million) among users of the Keybase messenger. Today we're excited to announce we've partnered with @KeybaseIO for our largest distribution ever! Read the full announcement: https: //t.co/WV6XUmpRfx – Stellar (@StellarOrg) September 9, 2019 According to Stellar representatives, this is the largest coin distribution in the history of the project. […]

Tether has released a stablecoin linked to offshore renminbi (CNH). Offshore Chinese yuan (CNH) added to our basket of supported currencies, new stablecoin CNHt now available! CNHt is pegged to CNH and is available on the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC-20 token. https://t.co/MEWUw171ky pic.twitter.com/R7lN7ADPFb – Tether (@Tether_to) September 9, 2019 “Offshore Chinese yuan was added to […]