Mastercard to settle transactions for stablecoin wallet in APAC
Mastercard has entered a collaboration that would allow retail customers in the APAC region to spend their stablecoins anywhere Mastercard...
Month: March 2023
Bank collapses are spurring interest in self-custody startups
The implosions of Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank are giving self-custody startups an opportunity to prosper. The collapses of...
Manta Network seeks to bring privacy to non-fungible crypto assets with new NPO platform
The new NFT Private Offering (NPO) platform will enable users to mint Non-Fungible Tokens and Soul Bound Tokens while maintaining...
IMF examines CBDC design in context of Islamic banking, finds some risks magnified
A central bank digital currency’s liquidity and foreign exchange would work differently Islamic law from what might be expected. A...
Coinbase pauses support for Signature Bank’s Signet: Report
The U.S. crypto exchange was reportedly looking for another payment network provider and waiting on the outcome of the situation...
In the aftermath of banks’ horrorshow: Law Decoded, March 13–20.
A week after the twinning collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, and the trouble at Credit Suisse,...
Flagstar Bank Acquires Signature Bank’s Assets and Branches, Excluding Cryptocurrency Operations
On Monday, about a week after the collapse of Signature Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced that Flagstar...
Lido’s Staked Ethereum Token STETH Reaches $10.3B Market Capitalization, Ranks Ninth by Market Valuation
With the crypto economy experiencing significant gains over the past week and the price of ethereum rising 11.9%, the market...
First Republic Bank’s Shares Downgraded to Junk Status by S&P Global; Stock Slides More Than 25% Lower
After UBS acquired Credit Suisse and close to a dozen financial institutions injected $30 billion into First Republic Bank four...
Revolutionary DeFi Protocol IPOR to Be Listed on Bitget on Mar 22nd, 2023
PRESS RELEASE. Victoria, Seychelles, 20th March, 2023 – Bitget, the largest crypto copy trading platform, has announced the upcoming listing...
Investors shelter in short-term Treasuries, reducing Bitcoin’s chance of rallying to $30K
Bitcoin price finally broke through the $28,000 mark, but BTC futures and options data suggest some traders are uneasy about...
Belgian FSMA surveys crypto investors before taking on new ad regulation authority
Crypto ads in Belgium will bear a blunt warning after a new regulation takes effect in May, and “mass” advertising...
Crypto Stories: Scott Melker tells the story of how he became The Wolf of All Streets
Crypto analyst Scott Melker talked about his journey as a trader and how he found the crypto space while working...
Polygon, Immutable zkEVM to tackle ‘huge incumbents exploiting players’
Web3 gaming developers will be able to build on a new zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine that aims to increase ownership...
Ethereum Rallies as Spooked Investors Turn to Crypto, CFX, AGIX, USDC Mar. 21
ETH Ethereum rallied over 20% and Bitcoin was over 30% higher investors turned to crypto after the fallout from the...
