Blockchain/Bitcoin
Steigende Zinsen in der Schweiz: Was bedeutet das für die Kryptoszene?
Nach der überraschenden Erhöhung des Leitzinses Mitte Juni kam bereits knapp drei Monate später die nächste Meldung als dieser erneut um 0,75 Prozentpunkte angezogen wurde. Die SNB begründet ihren Schritt damit, dass die Inflation zunehmend zu einem Problem wird. Jetzt
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SDX Web3 Goes Live With Its Institutional Custody Service for Crypto Assets
SDX Web3, the newly launched business unit from SIX Digital Exchange, is now live with its institutional custody service for crypto assets. The SDX Web3 Custody service includes key storage, transfer execution and monitoring with banking-grade compliance standards, automated reporting
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Crypto.com to Invest €150 Million to Establish Paris as Its European Headquarters
Crypto.com announced plans to invest €150 million in France to support the establishment of its market operations and regional headquarters in Paris. The announcement comes shortly after the cryptocurrency platform was cleared to operate in France as a Digital Asset
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EU Passes Uniform Legal Framework for Crypto-Assets Across the Bloc
The European Union’s (EU) Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee voted 28 to 1 in favour of the Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA), a uniform legal framework for crypto-assets in the EU. Under the MiCA, entities issuing and trading crypto-assets
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SWIFT and Capgemini Successfully Interlink CBDCs for Cross-Border Payments
SWIFT and Capgemini have achieved CBDC-to-CBDC transactions between different distributed ledger technology networks based on Quorum and Corda technologies, as well as fiat-to-CBDC flows between these networks and a real-time gross settlement system. The experiment showed that the blockchain networks
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Sygnum Partners With T&B Media to Raise US$300M to Fund Its Metaverse Platform
Sygnum, a digital asset technology group with a Swiss banking licence and a Singapore capital markets services licence, is partnering Thai media group T&B Media Global to raise over US$300 million to fund its new interconnected metaverse platform. The raise uses
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Luxury Goods Retailer Bucherer Acquires Digital Authentication Startup Adresta
Swiss digital authentication startup Adresta has been acquired by Bucherer Group, one of the world’s largest luxury watch and jewellery retailers, effective 30 September 2022. A spin-off from Helvetia Insurance, Adresta develops blockchain-based digital certificates for luxury goods. Users can
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Swissquote Dives Into Cryptocurrency Trading With the Launch of SQX
Online trading platform Swissquote has launched a cryptocurrency exchange called SQX that aims to provide a more competitive and secure trading environment. Unlike other crypto exchanges, SQX says that it prides itself on being a centralised trading platform as it
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University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Among World’s Best Universities for Blockchain Education
The University of Zurich and ETH Zurich ranked third and 27th respectively on CoinDesk’s latest annual best universities for blockchain rankings. The rankings were made from a shortlist of 240 institutions around the world, calculated based on their scholarly, industrial
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Crypto.com Can Now Operate in France
Crypto.com has been cleared to operate in France as a Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR). The company stressed that it was subjected to
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