Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
The European Central Bank has launched Pontes, giving banks a new route to settle tokenized assets in central bank money. The rollout could remove one of the biggest obstacles to institutional blockchain adoption in Europe: connecting crypto-style ma...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Hana Bank raised $100 million with a five-year foreign-currency digital bond and settled the entire transaction the same day, collapsing a process that normally takes three to five business days into T+0. Issued through Euroclear’s blockchain-based D...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Stablecoin issuer Circle is courting crypto-owning institutions, launching a lending service on Monday that lets them borrow USDC against their bitcoin holdings. Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has launched a service that lets institu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Bitcoin’s price ripped to an intraday high of $87,374 on Monday, Sept. 21, reaching its highest level since late January as billions of dollars flooded back into the crypto economy. The broader sector is now nearing $3 trillion in value, while BTC ha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
David Ripley, co-head of Kraken, a leading U.S. crypto exchange, commented that Europe has taken a more pragmatic approach to crypto regulation, adopting a less belligerent stance when delivering market rules like MiCA, which bring clarity to the ind...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Fairshake, the largest cryptocurrency PAC, is reportedly spending $30 million to spoof the odds of Democrat Sherrod Brown returning to the Senate this year. The move is being taken as payback, as Democrats bombed the CLARITY Act in the Senate. Fairsh...