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SEBA Bank and Hashkey Group Forms Partnership to Drive Institutional Adoption

The partnership between SEBA Bank and Hashkey Group is forged to restore trust and allay fears from investors across the board.Swiss digital currency bank SEBA Bank has inked a strategic partnership with Hashkey Group to float new products and services that will drive institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies. As announced, both firms have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to solidify the partnership with a drafted approach to maintain regulatory requirements in the jurisdictions...

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Pakistan Set Up New Laws to Fastrack CBDC Launch

Pakistan is intensifying efforts to launch its CBDC and has issued a timeframe within which it’ll achieve its aim.Pakistan might be the latest in a long list of countries looking to harness the potential of using central bank-issued digital currencies (CBDC). This follows after it announced new regulations in hopes that they will ensure a successful CBDC launch by 2025.Pakistan Approves New EMI Laws, Eyes CBDC LaunchAs part of its efforts in this regard, the first aspect that Pakistan is...

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Reddit Sees Minting of Collectible Avatars at All-Time High

Last Saturday alone, 255,000 Reddit Collectible Avatars were minted making it the highest single-day mints on the platform since launch.Over the last weekend, the social media platform Reddit hit a new milestone with the minting of collectible avatars on the platform. Last Saturday, December 3, Reddit witnessed a new all-time high in the number of Collectible Avatars minted in a single day.Since Reddit launched the collection earlier this year, more than 4.4 million collectible avatars have...

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Former FTX CEO May Have Influenced Alameda Research to Invest $1.15B in Mining Firm Genesis Digital

Alameda consulted troubled entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried before investing in Genesis Digital.A new report has surfaced about a capital injection of over $1.15 billion that was carried out by Sam Bankman-Fried‘s Alameda Research. This was prior to the time that crypto prices began heading for the rocks. According to the report, the capital, which is Alameda Research’s biggest venture investment to date, was put into Bitcoin mining firm Genesis Digital Assets. Although, according to another...

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Galaxy Digital to Acquire Israeli Custody Firm GK8 from Celsius Network

Amongst other things, GK8 will help solidify GalaxyOne, the bigger company’s trading platform.Cryptocurrency financial services firm, Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd (TSE: GLXY) has been selected as the winning bidder for Celsius Network’s owned custody outfit, GK8. As announced by the company, the acquisition is a part of the divestment agenda of the bankrupt crypto lender and it is subject to regulatory approval.GK8 provides a secure institutional digital asset self-custody platform that...

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Chinese Court Applies Property Law to NFTs

While China is seemingly encouraging the ownership of NFTs, NFT prices have been down in the wake of a wider market rout.A Chinese court in Hangzhou city has applied its property law to nonfungible token (NFT) collections. The court ruled that NFTs are like online virtual property and should be protected under Chinese law.While noting Chinese laws are not clear on the features of NFTs, the court moved to establish its legal attributes. According to the case report, “NFTs have the object...

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Elon Musk Opines that SBF Made Donations Up to $1B to Democrats

In his latest “Apology Tour” in which he appeared at the New York Times Dealbook Summit, SBF portrayed himself as a victim rather than a mastermind of all that happened at the trading platform.Since FTX Derivatives Exchange went bankrupt, there have been a lot of permutations as to whether the funds misappropriated by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) were used as donations to politicians. In a recent Twitter conversation, Will Manidis, CEO of ScienceIO, a healthcare data platform, said that SBF made...

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Coinbase CEO Says FTX Clearly Stole User Funds, Rejects Claims of Accounting Error

Coinbase chief slammed crypto exchange FTX over their excuses for an accounting error. Brian Armstrong said that FTX clearly stole customers’ money by moving funds to Alameda Research.After all, what’s transpired in the crypto space with the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, industry heavyweights have weighed in with their opinion. Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong lashed out at FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for his handling of customer funds. As we know, SBF has been giving public interviews...

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