Grayscale Gears Up for Spot Bitcoin ETF, Updating Trust Agreement for Sake of ‘Operational Efficiencies’
The changes involve the fee structure, and how assets can be custodies for smoother share creation and redemptions
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Binance Will Cease Support for Its BUSD Stablecoin on Dec. 15
Binance said it will end support for its BUSD stablecoin on Dec. 15, following the exchange’s August announcement that it would “gradually” do so after Paxos, the company that actually issued it, was ordered to stop minting the coin in February.
Jack Dorsey Aims to Create Anti-Censorship Bitcoin Mining Pool With New Startup
The startup said it created “only non-custodial” mining pool where miners get the new bitcoin block reward for mining directly from the network.
Digital Finance Firm SoFi Hands Its Crypto Business to Blockchain.com
Blockchain.com President Lane Kassleman said in an interview that his firm’s SoFi partnership equates to hundreds of thousands of users and hundreds of millions of dollars.
Bitcoin Buyer Quietly Accumulates $424M of BTC in 3 Weeks
An unknown entity has bought 11,268 bitcoin [BTC] worth $424 million since November 10 in what appears to be a time-weight average price (TWAP) accumulation strategy.
2024 Will Be the Year Tokenization Truly (Finally) Begins
After several years of being the next-big-thing, next year will be when tokenization of real-world assets really takes off, says Colin Butler, Global Head of Institutional Capital at Polygon Companies.
Digital Asset Platform Coinchange Raises $10M to Scale API Yield Service
The funding round was led by G1.VC, Spirit Blockchain, Good News Ventures, K2.CA and Atoia Ventures, with Mintfox also participating.
Troubled Crypto Exchange Zipmex Proposes to Pay Creditors 3.35 Cents on the Dollar: Bloomberg
The Singapore-based firm has proposed to pay creditors 3.35 cents on the dollar in its latest restructuring plan, according to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter.
Aave’s GHO Stablecoin Nears Elusive Dollar Peg
The asset, which has been valued at less than $1.00 for nearly all of its life, gained ground this week and rallied to $0.985 for the first time since August. Its volatile gains aren’t doing anything to fix GHO’s reputation as a not-so-stablecoin, but they do set the token close to the levels one might expect from an asset that’s […]
Coinbase CEO Says Binance Settlement Will Turn the Page on Crypto’s ‘Bad Actors’
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the industry can finally close the chapter of bad actors after the recent settlement between Binance and the U.S. Department of Justice.