India is on track to ban all but a few private cryptocurrencies after the government announced Tuesday the upcoming introduction of a new financial regulation bill. Indian crypto exchanges have already suffered panic selling over crypto bill confusion. The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency bill will create a facilitative framework for an official…

MoonPay, a payment infrastructure provider for crypto companies, said Monday it has raised $555 million in an all-equity Series A round led by Coatue and Tiger Global that values the firm at $3.4 billion. The funds will be used to hire people, expand geographic coverage and add more payment methods such as letting users buy…

We continue to describe the cryptocurrency industry through the eyes of “traditional” financiers, primarily bankers. As it turned out, they are not as blinkered as we used to think. Moreover, they can reasonably assess the prospects of a decentralized financial world. Crypto is turning corporate As the digital asset ecosystem grows and more people get…

The World Economic Forum (WEF) published a resource suite about digital assets, including central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoins. More than 85 members of the WEF Digital Currency Governance Consortium contributed eight white papers to inform lawmakers and individuals in the private sector. The World Economic Forum announced on Friday its Digital Currency Governance…

Muhammad Ali Bandial on Khaleej Times tells the story of Alex Meurer, who believes the principle of magnetism brings it all back to you, on track to be a billionaire. The world is taken over by digital advancement and some people have been intelligent enough to make some wise and smart choices to gain greater…

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that for a long time, I have been analyzing the cryptocurrency industry from the “inside”. Yes, it is very convenient: you know and understand everything; you are immersed in the processes and see their internal dynamics. But it also leads to certain distortions of perception. We shouldn’t forget that people…