American venture capital investor Tim Draper warned business founders to prepare for “more and more” bank failures if the government continues to “print money and whipsaw interest rates.” American venture capital investor and entrepreneur Tim Draper advised founders to keep at least two payrolls worth of cash in Bitcoin or alternative cryptocurrencies, in response to the…
The White House isn’t doing any favors for derivatives traders by turning a blind eye to the biggest players in the space. The White House released its annual economic report on March 20, and it dedicated an entire section to digital assets. The authors should be commended for doing so. I largely agree with the…
Heads of all major U.S. financial regulatory agencies gathered by video to hear a presentation by New York Fed staff that concluded that the banking system “remains sound.” The United States’ most powerful financial regulators gathered on March 24 by video conference for an unscheduled, closed meeting of the Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council…
The Arbitrum airdrop has created quite a hype in the DeFi industry, with several fake airdrops and exploits leading up to the distribution. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. The much-awaited airdrop of layer-2 scalability protocol Arbitrum…
All the pieces are in place for BTC to rally to $30,000, but escalating economic uncertainty and regulatory pressure add strength to the key resistance level. On March 23, Bitcoin price recovered the $28,000 support after a brief correction below $27,000. The movement closely tracked the traditional financial sector, particularly the tech-heavy Nasdaq Index, which…
From forcing people to spend their money to making them save it, central banks around the world could soon use CBDCs to create a dystopian nightmare. During the financial crisis of 2007–2008, many people lost trust in traditional financial institutions and turned to alternative forms of currency, such as cryptocurrencies. It was a way for…
The Terraform Labs CEO is now facing fraud charges in South Korea, the Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors in New York. Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon has been charged with fraud by United States prosecutors in New York, just hours after he was reportedly arrested in Montenegro. In a court filing signed by United…
The crypto exchange claimed that none of its listed assets were considered securities, and any potential targeting of its wallet was based on a “misunderstanding” by United States Securities and Exchange Commission officials. Crypto exchange Coinbase said it has received a Wells notice from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission recommending the regulator take…
In a post-FOMC meeting on March 22, the chairman of the Federal Reserve said his “only interest is that we identify what went wrong here.” United States Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has conceded that his regulator was blindsided by the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, despite it being under their watch. In a press…
DeFi was top of the agenda at the CFTC’s tech committee meeting, with crypto execs giving explanations and discussing the space with the regulator. The United States commodities regulator has gotten a crash course on decentralized finance (DeFi) today, with crypto executives briefing the regulator on key issues affecting the space, including exploits, decentralization and…