CryptoCurrency News: ECB President: Europe Has Fallen Behind in the Digital Payments Game

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said a digital euro can place the region at the cutting edge of innovation but it may have fallen behind in the global competition for creating digital payment ecosystems.

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CryptoCurrency News: Former Central Bank Official: Japan Should Take a Digital Yen Seriously

In an interview with CoinDesk Japan, a former Bank of Japan official said the country has many reasons to seriously consider a digital yen.

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CryptoCurrency News: SushiSwap Co-Founder Sees Future Users in China and on Other Blockchains

SushiSwap cofounder Maki believes the project can expand to include other chains, he told CoinDesk China in an exclusive interview.

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CryptoCurrency News: DeFi Mania Proves We Learned Nothing From the ICO Run-Up

DeFi is making money out of nothing but other people's misery. Five thousand years of history tell us how this tale will end.

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CryptoCurrency News: How Monetary Policy Undermined American Resilience

A legacy of artificially low interest rates is not just the death of savings, but a forced buying into the perpetual growth machine of financial asset prices.

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CryptoCurrency News: Binance’s New Platform Will Connect CeFi and DeFi With $100M Fund

The global cryptocurrency exchange giant is putting up $100 million to support DeFi projects on Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

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CryptoCurrency News: US Treasury Sanctions Russians Using Crypto for Election Interference

The U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control has added three Russian nationals and a host of cryptocurrency addresses to its sanctions list.

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CryptoCurrency News: US Congressman Darren Soto to Accept Cryptocurrency Donations for 2020 Election

Supporters can now send the congressman crypto donations via BitPay for his 2020 reelection campaign.

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CryptoCurrency News: Kraken Taps Casa Co-Founder, Former CEO Jeremy Welch as VP of Product

Crypto exchange Kraken announced Thursday that former Casa CEO Jeremy Welch has joined its team as VP of product.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: Ripple’s Case, SushiSwap’s Migration, Ether’s Bears

A DBS Bank economist thinks the coronavirus pandemic will accelerate digital asset adoption while Mastercard announced a CBDC testing ground.

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CryptoCurrency News: Square Forms Group to Stop Patent Hoarding From Stifling Crypto Innovation

Square said the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA) will allow companies to access and share tech innovations with one another.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 10, 2020

With bitcoin lawsuits in the news and SushiSwap's migration completed, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

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CryptoCurrency News: The Revolution You’ve Been Awaiting: Fintech + DeFi

Fintech and DeFi are showing new ways forward for finance. When they combine, outdated intermediaries will really be in trouble.

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CryptoCurrency News: Uniswap September Volume Tops August’s $6.7B Record in 10 Days on Dizzying DeFi Demand

September is the fifth consecutive monthly all-time high for Uniswap volume.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Proposals Move to US House in Consumer Tech Bill

The Consumer Safety Technology Act will now be debated in the House of Representatives.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: DeFI ‘Vampire’ SushiSwap Sucks $800M from Uniswap; BitMEX Basis Lags

SushiSwap, the "vampire mining" protocol, sucked more than $800 million from rival Uniswap in the latest DeFi mind-bender. PLUS: BitMEX futures distortions.

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CryptoCurrency News: Overstock’s tZERO Wins FINRA Approval to Launch Retail Broker-Dealer Subsidiary

The firm announced Thursday that FINRA approved its application to launch tZERO Markets, a retail broker-dealer subsidiary.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why Crypto Investments Are Less Vulnerable to US-China Tensions

U.S.-China tensions are taking a toll on venture funds that invest in non-crypto startups. Investment in the blockchain industry may be less affected.

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CryptoCurrency News: Swisscom Blockchain Wins Grant From Web3 to Help Toughen Polkadot’s Proof-of-Stake Network

Swisscom Blockchain was awarded the grant to build a cloud-based protection layer for stakers on the Ethereum-based Polkadot network.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ether Traders May Be Hedging Against DeFi Slowdown: Analyst

Some are calling the white-hot Defi space a bubble that is unsustainable.

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CryptoCurrency News: YouTube Ignored Warnings About XRP ‘Giveaway’ Scams, Ripple Says

Ripple has disputed Youtube's claims it knew nothing about XRP scams on its site, saying it alerted the video platform hundreds of times.

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CryptoCurrency News: Structural Issues May Be Causing BitMEX’s Low Bitcoin ‘Cash and Carry’ Returns

BitMEX may be one of the largest crypto derivatives platforms, but it offers the lowest return on bitcoin "cash and carry" trades.

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CryptoCurrency News: Australian University Finds Privacy Issues With Blockchain Technology

A research paper from the University of South Australia suggests blockchain technology needs to be refined so it can better protect privacy.

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CryptoCurrency News: How to Watch INX’s IPO in Real Time on the Ethereum Blockchain

Doing its IPO on the Ethereum blockchain gives the public, and INX itself, a novel vista on the process, which traditionally has been a back-room affair.

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