Visa survey: 25% of small businesses plan to accept crypto payments in 2022
    22 Jan 2022
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    According to a survey of the payment giant Visa, almost 25% of small business owners across 9 countries, including Brazil, Singapore, UAE, and Hong Kong, said they intend to embrace digital currencies as a form of payment in 2022. Also, 13% of consumers in these countries predicted retail stores will begin allowing crypto settlements in…

    Arab Bank Switzerland is offering clients access to DeFi tokens
    20 Jan 2022
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    Arab Bank Switzerland, the Geneva-based affiliate of Middle Eastern lender Arab Bank PLC, has extended its crypto offerings focused on wealthy investors. It includes ten major decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens, such as AAVE, COMP, UNI, and more. Arab Bank Switzerland began offering crypto custody and brokerage of Bitcoin and Ether back in 2019. Recently, CoinDesk…

    Bahrain’s crypto platform Rain raises $110 million in the latest funding round
    20 Jan 2022
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    Based in Bahrain, crypto exchange platform Rain has raised $110 million in a Series B funding round, led by global venture capital investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Coinbase Ventures, and Paradigm. According to the statement issued by Rain, other investors participated in its latest funding round, including Global Founders Capital, MEVP, Cadenza Ventures, and CMT Digital….

    How do traders capitalize on crypto market crashes and liquidations
    20 Jan 2022
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    Everyone’s a genius trader during bull markets, but there are also ways to generate profits during bear trends. How to capitalize on liquidations, writes Elaine Hu on Cointelegraph. The first week of the new year saw a vicious pullback across all cryptocurrencies in the market. Ether (ETH) price dropped from its November peak at $4,800…

    Spain moves to regulate influencers promoting crypto
    19 Jan 2022
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    The first country in the EU, Spain, is trying to control the way cryptocurrencies are marketed, with new restrictions on influencers’ promotions. According to the new rules published Monday, posts promoting crypto-assets must now include the appropriate disclaimer. Fines for non-compliance could reach €300,000. The new rules will come into force in February. The fast…

    NFT-2022: What to expect from a brand-new industry? Part 2
    19 Jan 2022
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    NFT is a huge branch of the blockchain economy that essentially formed before our eyes in 2021. And while few people knew what “non-fungible tokens” even were a year ago, by the end of the year, the most prominent corporations were already integrating NFT solutions into their products, and the market volume amounted to tens…