Month: September 2023

The team behind nonfungible token collection OnChainMonkey is shifting its entire collection of 10,000 NFTs from Ethereum to Bitcoin, in a massive undertaking expected to take several months. “A historical transition is on the horizon as we prepare to migrate our flagship collection, OCM Genesis, from Ethereum to Bitcoin,” Metagood co-founder and CEO Danny Yang
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The United States Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new rules for crypto accounting will eliminate the “poor optics” that plagued companies holding digital assets, according to analysts from Berenberg Capital. On Sept. 6, the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) approved new rules for cryptocurrencies with regard to how companies report the fair value of their
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The European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union, Mairead McGuinness, believes there’s no reason to rush the digital euro until after the next European Parliament elections in June 2024. In her opinion, the European Union’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) project should be approached “quietly and slowly” by the next
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Cryptocurrency self-custody platform Casa has rolled out new functionality for its recently launched Ethereum (ETH) vaults that will allow users to transact via a relay for added privacy. Casa added a multisignature Ethereum self-custody vault to its initial Bitcoin (BTC) custody offering in June 2023, allowing users to manage the self-custody of their ETH holdings with
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The sharp increase in global interest rates may have limited investors’ appetite for crypto ventures, but new projects are still flourishing and attracting capital to speed up growth. Data from the Cointelegraph Research Venture Capital Database shows June closed out with a 29.73% decrease in venture capital investments, with just $779.32 million secured in 62
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Japanese financial holding company SBI Group has announced that its international remittance services arm SBI Remit has partnered with Ripple and SBI Ripple Asia to offer an XRP (XRP) remittance service to bank accounts in several Southeast Asian countries.  In an announcement, the company highlighted that SBI Remit has been using Ripple payments services for
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Even if you aren’t personally familiar with famed Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami, you have surely seen his work. The pop artist’s brightly colored signature characters have appeared on everything from limited edition Louis Vuitton bags to Supreme shirts to Vans skateboarding shoes. Having collaborated with celebrities like Drake, Kanye West and Billie Eilish, and
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United States-based crypto mining operator Marathon Digital Holdings produced 1,072 Bitcoin (BTC) in August — 9% less than in July but five times more than in August 2022. On Sept. 5, Marathon shared the unaudited BTC production and miner installation updates for August. According to the press release, the company increased its U.S. operational hash
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Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and blockchain technology are likely to displace traditional banks, according to a Russian lawmaker. Anatoly Aksakov, head of Russia’s parliamentary financial committee and a major skeptic of Bitcoin (BTC), has predicted that the traditional banking system will “fade away” with the adoption of the digital ruble, local news agency RIA
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