Twitter’s board announced a plan that would make it harder for Elon Musk to buy the company.
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Quick Take
- This weekly series explores the most interesting insights in NFTs, blockchain gaming, and virtual worlds
- The first wave of blockchain games has struggled to maintain last year’s record-high valuations
- Amidst an onslaught of malicious actors, creators have innovated on behalf of NFT collectors to establish certain safeguards
US president Joe Biden said he plans to nominate Michael Barr to be the Federal Reserve’s next vice chair of supervision.
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In this episode of The Scoop, Hany Rashwan and Ophelia Snyder, cofounders of 21Shares and Amun, discuss the institutional appetite for crypto exchange traded products (ETPs), and how that is representative of a maturing industry.
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Quick Take
- Bitfinex is seeking a license to list companies in El Salvador, CTO Paolo Ardoino told The Block.
- As the next step in its fundraising, El Salvador should pass a new securities law “between one and two weeks.”
Tornado Cash, a popular Ethereum mixer that obfuscates crypto transactions, now blocks OFAC-sanctioned wallet addresses.
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This report provides key insights into the state of the crypto derivatives market. Section 1
starts by highlighting the increasing inflow of institutional capital into the crypto space. It
then outlines the main crypto derivative products and their differences to those in the
traditional finance space.
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The funding will be channeled toward new product development and market expansion.
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Emirates Pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020 site will be repurposed as a center for innovation involving the metaverse, NFTs and web3.
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The Bank for International Settlements published a series of reports about usage of CBDCs in emerging market economies.
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