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MicroStrategy said Friday that it completed a $1.05 billion debt offering, the proceeds of which will be used to add to its ever-growing bitcoin hoard.

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Canadian investment firm CI Financial, with Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy as subadvisor, has filed for a new bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).

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A crypto-focused venture firm has acquired the Sushi.com domain name for SushiSwap, a decentralized exchange (DEX) project.

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Crypto trading firm BCB Group has launched a treasury service to help companies buy bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on their balance sheets.

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A serious risk to bitcoin could be a “sudden loss of confidence” in Tether (USDT) stablecoin, according to JPMorgan analysts.

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Quick Take

• A common misconception about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is that privacy can’t exist while transacting, which makes many citizens anxious about general-purpose or retail CBDC. 
• Through the EUROchain research network, the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) developed a proof of concept using anonymity vouchers to enable privacy for certain retail CBDC transactions in 2019. 
• More recently, two McGill University researchers submitted a novel design proposal for a ‘Privacy-Hybrid CBDC’ to the Bank of Canada’s Model X Challenge.

BNB, the exchange token of Binance, has become the third largest crypto by market cap for the first time as its price rally continues.

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KPMG, Coin Metrics and BitGo are together delivering a combined suite of their products — and the idea is to further crypto adoption by institutions and banks.

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A blog post penned by the embattled cofounder of BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, was published on Thursday.

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Fidelity Charitable, the charity unit of the financial services giant Fidelity, collected $28 million in donations in the form of cryptocurrency, according to a report detailing its annual efforts.

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