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Cboe Digital Chief Legal Officer Weighs in on Spot Bitcoin ETF Excitement
Cboe Digital Chief Legal Officer Weighs in on Spot Bitcoin ETF Excitement
Bitcoin (BTC) briefly broke above $35,000, fueled largely by investor optimism that spot bitcoin ETFs are on the way. As part of CoinDesk's State of Crypto 2023 event in Washi...
Cboe Digital Chief Legal Officer Weighs in on Spot Bitcoin ETF Excitement

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Tokenization of RWAs Gets Boost With DTCC Deal to Buy Blockchain Startup Securrency
Securrency provides institutions with blockchain-based regulatory technology on top of existing legacy systems to enable digital asset adoption in a compliant manner.
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L-R: Bank of America's Christopher Wallace, Teunis Brosens of ING, the European Commission's Ivan Keller, the Bank of England's Sasha Mills and Marina Reason of Herbert Smith Freehills (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)
DLT Securities Rules Are Here to Stay, EU Official Says
New European laws took effect in April, but fears over its limited scale may have inhibited take-up.
L-R: Bank of America's Christopher Wallace, Teunis Brosens of ING, the European Commission's Ivan Keller, the Bank of England's Sasha Mills and Marina Reason of Herbert Smith Freehills (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

Crypto adoption is in a "turning point" as it converges to the existing financial system (21.co)
Tokenized RWAs Could Grow to a $10T Market by 2030 as Crypto Converges to TradFi: Report
Digital dollars, also known as stablecoins pegged to the U.S. dollar, represent the "first successful tokenization implementation," 21.co analysts said.
Crypto adoption is in a "turning point" as it converges to the existing financial system (21.co)

The Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland (Fred Romero/Flickr)
Banks Must Disclose Crypto Exposures, Global Regulator Says
The guidance will ensure transparency and market discipline, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said
The Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland (Fred Romero/Flickr)

DeFi is losing the race against TradFi (Noah Silliman/Unsplash)
DeFi Is Losing the Race to Become the Future of Finance
Money market funds are offering more than 5% annual returns, Ethereum stakers meanwhile get just 3.3%.
DeFi is losing the race against TradFi (Noah Silliman/Unsplash)

Sergey Nazarov on What’s Next for Chainlink, Future of Tokenizing Real World Assets
Sergey Nazarov on What’s Next for Chainlink, Future of Tokenizing Real World Assets
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov spoke to CoinDesk managing editor Aoyon Ashraf during the Sibos 2023 conference in Toronto, Canada. The wide-ranging interview covers Nazar...
Sergey Nazarov on What’s Next for Chainlink, Future of Tokenizing Real World Assets

The ability to transfer all PYUSD user funds into PayPal may leave crypto natives hesitant to adopt the stablecoin. Oliver Buchmann/Unsplash)
What's Wrong With PayPal's Stablecoin?
If PYUSD is to gain true and lasting traction, the newly minted stablecoin issuer needs to address certain centralization concerns, Kima Chief Technology Officer Guy Vider wri...
The ability to transfer all PYUSD user funds into PayPal may leave crypto natives hesitant to adopt the stablecoin. Oliver Buchmann/Unsplash)

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Traditional Finance Exchanges Divided on Crypto Services: Survey
A World Federation of Exchanges survey found 41% of respondents already offer crypto-related products or services, with a further 24% planning to offer them in the future.
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