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After launching five Permissionless Pools, Clearpool established its first-ever permissioned pool that allows institutional lenders to earn yields up to 15% by staking USDC. The project partnered with Jane Street Capital – a global proprietary trading company aiming to enter the cryptocurrency industry. Permission Pool Decentralized capital markets provider Clearpool launched a permissioned pool on Tuesday, enabling borrowers with higher Know-Your-Customers (KYC) requirements...

In its most recent research, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) estimated that nine out of ten central banks explore how to release their own CBDC. Moreover, 50% of those financial institutions are currently developing such products or passing through experiments. Most Central Banks Are Interested in CBDCs The international monetary institution – BIS – questioned 81 central banks to determine their stance on CBDCs and how close they are to launching one. Per the...

Lazarus – the North Korean hacking group – is back in the news again today, this time because the organization is reportedly using apps to track those involved in the cryptocurrency space. Lazarus Is Doing Everything to Obtain Crypto Among the law enforcement agencies that have discovered this new activity from Lazarus are CISA, the US Treasury Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). All three organizations are now banding together as a means of...

Pro Shares should be a name that everyone in the crypto space knows and understands. Not long ago (during the summer of 2021), the company unveiled a real bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). Pro Shares and the Success of Its ETF The product was not based on actual bitcoins but on futures technology. This got a lot of people talking negatively about it early, though many other analysts felt that while it was inferior to spot trading, it was a step in the right...

Sunshine Tour – a professional golf tournament held in Southern and Eastern Africa – partnered with Luno to bring cryptocurrencies closer to the participants. Apart from prizes in fiat currency, the top golfers will receive awards in bitcoin. BTC Reaching the Golf Course The primary cryptocurrency keeps making its way through the sports industry. The latest such example came from the prestigious golf championship – Sunshine Tour. The tournament, based in numerous African...

Surojit Chatterjee is the chief product officer of Coinbase, one of the largest and most established crypto exchanges in the world. He recently emerged at a conference talking about India’s recent decision to implement a custom it first began roughly four years ago. It appears all banks in India are once again pulling support for crypto payments. India and Crypto… A Complicated Relationship This is very similar to what occurred in 2018. At that time, all banks in India...

The cryptocurrency market has calmed down after the massive drop over the last two days. Currently, ETH lies on top of a critical support level, which most analysts refer to as a key level developed over the previous 12 months. Technical Analysis Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, after the bears pushed the price down more than 10% over the past two days, the weekend has been relatively stable. However, is this calm before a giant storm? ETH...

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis’ latest report indicates that NFT activities have slowed down in 2022, with growth beginning to pick up again since mid-April. The document also noted that growing interest derived from retail investors – as shown in the rising number of small-sized transfers – has not yet overridden the market share dominated by institutional investors. NFT Activities Stabilized in 2022 In the wake of the impressive growth in 2021 – culminating in...

Crypto analytics resource Messari published a report on Polkadot’s Q1 performance, outlining the layer-zero protocol’s price action, network usage, latest developments in staking and decentralization, and possibilities ahead. The paper stated that Polkadot has successfully completed 13 parachain slot auctions, with a total of 127.8 million DOT – worth $2.9 billion (at Q1’s end) and around 11% of the total supply – bonded. In addition, 28 more parachain slot auctions are...

American politics has been historically partisan, but crypto may start bringing new changes. As the midterm election is approaching, digital asset firms and organizations are ramping up their lobbying machine, betting heavily on pro-crypto candidates who could potentially bring favorable policies to the industry. The Financial Freedom PAC vows to create an “orange wave” in Washington by 2024. The Orange Wave May Start from Ohio & Oregon In Ohio’s primary election, bitcoin...