Month: July 2023

A third straight week of positive digital asset inflows has fully corrected nine previous weeks of outflows for the market, according to a report from CoinShares published on July 10.  This week’s inflows registered $136 million. Bitcoin (BTC) funds continued their trend of holding the anchor position, with 98% of the inflows coming from BTC. The
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The Ethereum ecosystem welcomes another layer-2 scaling solution as ConsenSys begins onboarding partners to its Linea network, which has produced significant scaling milestones in testing. Linea is an Ethereum layer-2 scaling network that allows developers to build or migrate decentralized applications for Ethereum. It operates using zero-knowledge proofs and is Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) equivalent, meaning its
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The Chinese government is now considering additional regulations on artificial intelligence (AI) development that emphasize content control and licensing.  A July 11 report from the Financial Times revealed that China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) wants to impose a system that would require local companies to obtain a license prior to releasing generative AI systems, according to
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An Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) made on July 7 seeks to standardize how tokens are bridged between networks. The “Sovereign Bridged Token” standard, or EIP-7281, allows token issuers to create canonical bridges across multiple networks.  The proposal was co-authored by Arjun Bhuptani, founder of the Connext bridging protocol. In a July 7 social media post,
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Andrew Bailey, a Bank of England (BOE) governor, delivered a speech July 10 in which he moved smoothly from the central bank’s efforts to control inflation and maintain public trust in financial institutions to why cryptocurrencies are not money. Instead of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, he would prefer “enhanced digital money.” The spate of bank failures in the
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Chinese president shills CBDCs On July 4, Xinhua News Agency, China’s state broadcaster, published a transcript of President Xi Jinping’s address to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit (SCO). The SCO is one of the world’s largest regional organizations for political, economic and security cooperation, and was established by China and Russia in 2001. During the
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