BBVA services stretch across Latin American countries, where investors have extensive interest in all kinds of digital assets, as well as in Europe and Turkey. The company noted in its official announcement that it plans to continue the expansion of its portfolio of digital assets in the coming months. The new BBVA service is currently…
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2. EIP-3238: Difficulty Bomb Delay EIP-3238 is being introduced to smooth the path for the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade. An important feature of Ethereum, the difficulty bomb makes Ethereum mining more challenging. When the difficulty bomb is triggered, block times will become so long that mining will no longer be profitable. This contributes to a phenomenon…
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An ETF issuer at SIX since 2015, VanEck Investments Ltd., currently offers 20 ETFs for trading at SIX and ranks among the top 10 ETF issuers in relation to number of trades. The new listings bring the number of of ETP issuers at SIX to 10. The number of new ETP issuers for the current…
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The latest CoinShares Weekly Digital Asset Fund Flows Report from 1 June which tracks inflows and outflows across different crypto investment vehicles, found that the price volatility in crypto markets has been a catalyst for investment. A total of $74 million of net inflows were recorded, primarily led by Ethereum and altcoin products. Chief Executive…
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Jack Forestell, executive vice president and chief product officer, Visa, commented: Crypto-native fintechs want partners who understand their business and the complexities of digital currency form factors. The announcement today marks a major milestone in our ability to address the needs of fintechs managing their business in a stablecoin or cryptocurrency, and it’s really an…
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Environmental Backlash As the network expands, the time for analysing it also grow and with it, its energy consumption. According to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Bitcoin currently consumes approximately 121.36 terawatt-hours (TWh) a year. This number is higher than the energy consumption of Argentina (121 TWh), the Netherlands (108.8 TWh), and the United…
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Kraus added: Central clearing of the products significantly reduces the settlement risks and thus enables many professional investors to invest in crypto products. All clearing is set to be dealt with by Deutsche Börse Group's central counterparty, Eurex Clearing. Deutsche Börse launched the world's first centrally cleared Bitcoin ETN on Xetra back in June 2020,…
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Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) filed criminal complaint on Thusrday against one of its employees for suspected insider trading in payments company Wirecard. BaFin said that the employee of the securities supervision department sold structured products based on Wirecard on 17 June 2020. The date is one day before Wirecard’s auditor EY found that 1.9…
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The official announcement stated: In many ways, this collaboration started with the Scaling Bake-Off that we hosted in this community with the Ethereum Foundation. In this new stage of our partnership, immediate efforts will be focused on bringing Ethereum to Reddit-scale production. Our intention is to help accelerate the progress being made on scaling and…
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Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products, said: Based on increasing client demand and robust growth in our Bitcoin futures and options markets, we believe the addition of Ether futures will provide our clients with a valuable tool to trade and hedge this growing cryptocurrency. Ethereum is the second-largest…
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