Protego Trust Bank N.A. was granted conditional approval for a national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the company announced on Friday (Feb. 5). The charter will allow for Protego clients to hold, trade, issue and lend digital assets. The...
India is looking into a new bill that could ban private cryptocurrencies in favor of a national digital coin, a report says. The bill, titled the “Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill,” could create a framework in which the official digital currency is...
Cryptocurrency-related crime fell in 2020, according to a blog post from Chainalysis. In 2019, criminal activity constituted 2.1 percent of all crypto transaction volume, which came out to $21.4 billion in transfers. But that number dropped to 0.34 percent, or $10 billion, by 2020, the...
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says there could be a surge in DeFi usage in Africa, a report from CoinTelgraph says. Hoskinson said he thought around 100 million users would join the Decentralized Finance sector within the next three years. “Who’s actually going to do peer-to-peer...
Bitcoin hit more than $37,700, a new record high that helped drive the cryptocurrency market beyond $1 trillion, CNBC reported on Thursday (Jan. 7), citing data from CoinDesk and CoinMarketCap. At about 2:42 p.m. Singapore time, bitcoin was up 5 percent over the day before....
Just days after hitting a new record high of over $34,000, bitcoin rapidly swooped below $30,000 briefly on Monday (Jan. 4). CNBC reported that bitcoin fell to $29,315 early Monday morning, a 12 percent drop from Sunday. As of 7:12 pm ET, the cryptocurrency had...
Bitcoin rose above $34,000 on Sunday (Jan. 3), after crossing the $30,000 milestone for the first time ever the day before. It hit $34,544.94 Sunday morning, CoinDesk reported, before declining slightly, sitting at $32,854.16 as of 7:09 pm ET. The “digital gold” saw gains of...
The price of bitcoin has passed $28,000 on Sunday (Dec. 27) just hours after also passing $27,000 for the first time, according to the NASDAQ. In a continuing showing of the strength of the cryptocurrency, bitcoin is now valued at $500,000, according to the report....
The Italian Banking Association (ABI) is running experiments for a digital euro, CoinDesk reported. The experiments aim to examine a digital euro’s technical feasibility as well as its “programmability” as a coin separate from a central bank digital currency, (CBDC) according to CoinDesk. The digital...
