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SEC rejects VanEck’s spot BTC ETF application, yet again
The U.S. SEC on 10 March rejected the investment manager VanEck’s application to create a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP). The SEC alleges that no exchange has so far demonstrated its fund’...
Elon Musk Open to the Idea of Acquiring Struggling Silicon Valley Bank
20 seconds ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News Elon Musk stated that he is open to the concept, which is an interesting reaction. Musk has articulated his plan to make Twitter the world’s preeminent financ...
Judge Expresses Concerns Over Proposed Bail Conditions for Former FTX Founder
Sam Bankman-Fried is a well-known figure in the cryptocurrency industry, having founded FTX in 2019. However, he found himself in legal trouble in 2022, when he was arrested and charged with market ma...
Defunct Crypto Lender BlockFi Has $227 Million in Uninsured Funds with Troubled Silicon Valley Bank
Air pollution is a significant public health concern worldwide, and recent studies have found high levels of air pollution in major cities around the world. The issue is particularly prevalent in deve...
Circle’s USDC instability causes domino effect on DAI, USDD stablecoins
The stablecoin ecosystem felt an immediate effect as USD Coin (USDC) depegged from the US dollar due to a subsequent sell-off after Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) did not process $.3.3 billion of Circle’s ...
Circle’s USDC Reserves Remain Stuck at SVB, Raises Concerns Over Crypto Stability
Circle is one of the leading issuers of USDC, and the company has been on a mission to make it the preferred stablecoin in the cryptocurrency space. However, recent developments have raised concerns o...
MinePlex Refutes Claims of Illegal Activities and Lack of Working Product in Vietnam
Singapore-registered cryptocurrency company MinePlex denies all allegations of illegal activities made against the company by Vietnamese TV channel VTV. The company plans to take legal action after VT...
Zodia Custody Registers as VASP in Luxembourg with CSSF
Zodia Custody announced its registration as a VASP in Luxembourg. The registration would help in attracting customers as Luxembourg is a premier center for the industry. John Cronin commented that the...
Pro-XRP Attorney Thinks Cramer Owes Americans an Apology After Championing SVB
California state regulators closed the bank yesterday in what is now described as the second-biggest banking failure in U.S. history. Attorney John E. Deaton has suggested that CNBC Mad Money host Jim...
Circle Unable to Withdraw $3.3 Billion from SVB, Causing USDC Sell-Off
Circle is a Boston-based fintech company that provides payments and investment services using blockchain technology. USDC is a stablecoin issued by Circle and Coinbase, pegged to the value of the US d...
XRP Used as Solution by Blockchain Financial Service to Convert Funds During USDC Depeg
In the wake of the USDC depeg event, Austin, Texas-based blockchain financial service Reaper Financial, which focuses on acquiring and burning digital assets, has announced that it is converting the U...
Coinbase reassures customers on staking services amid SEC crackdown
In recent years, staking services have become increasingly popular among cryptocurrency investors. Staking refers to the process of holding and locking up a certain amount of cryptocurrency in a walle...
Global AUM of crypto ETPs rose to $28 billion in February: Fineqia
The cryptocurrency market is seeing yet another rough patch as prices fall amid negative sentiment around collapsed crypto-friendly banks Silvergate Bank and Silicon Valley Bank. But the declines bein...
Circle’s USDC Reserve Mishap Leads to Massive Sell-off
In May 2021, Circle, a fintech company that offers payment and trading solutions, revealed that it had discovered a massive discrepancy in its USDC reserves. Silicon Valley Bank, which was responsible...
DAI Depegs as Stablecoin Rout Plagues Crypto
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Binance and Coinbase Halt USDC Transfer – Is Circle’s USDC Next in Line for a UST-Style Collapse?
Coinbase and Binance, two of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, have taken action in response to Circle’s stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC), suffering a de-peg following the collapse of Silicon V...
USDC de-pegs, Kraken CEO wonders if the market is losing trust in US products
By Mar. 11, USDC, a stablecoin, de-pegged, falling to as low as $0.89 during the Asian session, trackers reveal. USDC de-pegs after Silicon Valley Bank folds The de-pegging of the USDC, theoretically ...
USDC Issuer Circle Reveals It Couldn’t Withdraw $3.3 Billion From Silicon Valley Bank
Stablecoin issuer Circle disclosed late Friday that around $3.3 billion of its $40 billion USDC reserves remained at Silicon Valley Bank. This comes after the high-tech lender’s share price dropped pr...
SEC Wells Notice, what is it and why more may be coming
Ad On February 21, Paxos halted the issuance of new BUSD tokens after it was given a Wells Notice, a document the SEC provides to entities under investigation. The SEC can issue a Wells Notice to outl...
SVB closure spurs a crypto crisis: Coinbase and Binance suspend USDC conversions
Just a day after covering Silicon Valley Bank stock (NASDAQ: SIVB) 60% dip after it announced it was raising funds to cover a loss it made after selling securities at a loss, the SVB closure is causin...
DeFi Altcoin Defies Crypto Downtrend, Surges 51% This Week Amid Skyrocketing Trading Volume
An under-the-radar decentralized exchange (DEX) altcoin jumped by 20% on Friday, defying a nearly universal crypto market downtrend. Kwenta (KWENTA) is a derivatives DEX that offers exposure to real-w...
USDC and DAI remain at about $0.90 following Circle’s disclosure of funds at SVB
The fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank spread overnight to the USDC stablecoin, which lost its peg to the U.S. dollar and dropped as low as $0.88. Following Circle’s disclosu...
Elon Musk Trolls Those Who Call Crypto a Scam as Two Major Banks Crash
Yuri Molchan Twitter boss Musk has posted another meme related to crypto and to two major banks that are shutting down Contents Elon Musk makes fun of crypto haters as two banks go down Bitcoin grows ...
American Express and 4 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends
American Express Oracle and Johnson Controls were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. It was a fairly light week for such announcements, with earnings season hav...
3 cryptocurrencies to avoid trading for the week of March 13, 2023
Since the early days of the cryptocurrency industry, when Bitcoin (BTC) was the only digital asset in existence, the sector has exploded with tens of thousands of cryptocurrencies of all kinds, but no...
Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure May Lead to Smaller Fed Rate Hike
The second-largest bank failure in U.S. history might help the Federal Reserve do its job of tightening credit and slowing the economy. To be sure, the sudden collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank unit ...
Main Worrisome Events That Led Global Crypto Market Cap Collapses Below $1T
The last time the global market capitalization for cryptocurrencies traded below the $1 trillion mark was late January. The global crypto market capitalization has slipped below the $1 trillion mark f...
Avoid Market Volatility With Big Eyes, Stablecoins Tether And Origin Dollar
Here is why stablecoins like Tether and Origin Dollar are ideal for those who wish to avoid the instability of altcoins. Although it isn’t a stablecoin, Big Eyes is doing all it can to keep investors ...
After Twitter, Elon Musk To Buy Collapsed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)? Here’s The Complete Truth
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the United States was shut down by regulators as a result of Silvergate Capital Corp’s abrupt closure and SVB’s careless fundraising. The abrupt collapse has resulted in t...