Libra (LBA) & Facebook

Trials for a French wholesale central bank digital currency will kick off next year.France is responding to the threat posed by Facebook’s Libra to monetary policy sovereignty.The EU country is hoping to be the first to issue a wholesale CBDC.Immediately after Facebook announced its plans for a global cryptocurrency, France emerged as one of the social media giant’s biggest opposition to Libra. One of the arguments that French officials put forward in their case against Libra then was that...

« Le 18 juin 2019, Facebook a rendu public un projet de cryptomonnaie baptisé Libra. Ambitieux, il rassemble au sein d’un consortium plusieurs géants du numérique afin de créer « la devise d’Internet ». Dans le même temps, Libra a suscité de vives réactions de la part des autorités publiques et des régulateurs, d’aucuns évoquant une atteinte à la souveraineté monétaire des Etats. Au-delà des...

Kelly Loeffler – the CEO of Bakkt, the institutional crypto trading platform owned and governed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – has been hired to take over a temporarily vacant Senate seat.Can Kelly Loeffler Push Crypto in Government?Many see this maneuver as a positive step and believe that perhaps crypto will now have a friend in the U.S. Congress. Bakkt was first announced in late 2018, but it took nearly a full year for the platform to get off the ground. After several months of...

We all know how it is to forget someone’s birthday, holiday or, god forbid, anniversary. Before we used our little calendars with post-its all around saying: “your first kiss anniversary, he wore a brown jumper, buy beer”, etc. However, since we have Facebook, it was hard to forget, well, almost anything. With its ‘calendar’ and ‘memories’ it reminds us of all the things we’ve done in the past – yes, that includes your drunk uncle puking after New year’s brunch. Its “Year in Review” videos,...

As cryptocurrency adoption continues to spread all over the world, several entities including corporate organizations and governments are gradually catching the crypto bug. Based on a report from a French financial media platform Les Echos, France has now joined a list of countries that have shown interest in the crypto sector and have taken it a step further with a decision to float their own digital currency. France will now test its crypto sometime in the first quarter of next year.During...

Usually, when analyzing stocks, Wall Street analysts are like a pack of wolves – agreeing on most of the stocks’ directions finding sort of an informal consensus on Wall Street among this crowd. However, there are always some stocks that separate analyst’s opinions. One of those is one of the most controversial these days – Tesla. For now, this stock has the widest gap from bottom to the top, according to different analysts.Even though in the year-to-date analysis it did grew slightly – from...

Not everyone is pleased with bitcoin, but now the European Central Bank (ECB) – which described bitcoin as the “evil” spawn of 2008’s financial crisis – says it’s on the verge of doing something about it.The ECB and Its Digital PlansWhat is this plan? To develop a new centralized cryptocurrency issued by the bank. This isn’t much of a plan when you really think about it considering just how many countries and governments say they’re looking to exact the same steps. China, for example,...

Place/Date: - November 29th, 2019 at 10:09 am UTC · 5 min read Contact: eToro, Source: eToro Photo: eToroIf Facebook’s Libra project is to succeed it should use stablecoins issued by regulated third parties rather than create its own cryptoassets – that’s the conclusion of a new position paper published by eToro.Libra has come under fire from politicians and regulators in the US, UK and Europe, who are worried by parent company Facebook’s scale and power, as well as its previous track...

As we all know, PayPal has been very supportive – for the most part – of Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency project, but the company was also among the first to exit the Libra Association. PayPal has remained relatively quiet regarding the details of its exit, but now chief executive Dan Schulman is sharing his thoughts on Libra and explains why his company refused to engage any further in the project’s progression.Schulman: It Wasn’t Regulation that Spooked UsLibra is arguably one of the...

Libra’s announcement earlier this year brought a lot of mixed reactions, but it also attracted a lot of attention towards the field, causing other teams to think in this direction. One of these is Saga Monetary Technologies’ token dubbed SGA, which will be launched on December 10th. SGA token will be pegged to the Special Drawing Right monetary reserve.A New Type Of StablecoinSaga Monetary Technologies announced the creation of SGA – a new type of stablecoin. It will start trading on December...