Japanese regulators want crypto treated like traditional banks
    17 Jan 2023
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    Mamoru Yanase said crypto needs the same safeguards as financial institutions and banks. Financial regulators in Japan have urged global regulators to treat crypto the same way as they do banking, calling for tougher rules for the sector. According to the deputy director-general of the Financial Services Agency’s Strategy Development and Management Bureau, Mamoru Yanase,…

    BTC forming bottom akin to 2018 with one key difference: Bloomberg analyst
    17 Jan 2023
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    The Bloomberg analyst said Bitcoin is forming a bottom similar to how it looked prior to the 2019 bull run but with one major difference in the markets. Mike McGlone, Bloomberg’s senior commodity strategist believes Bitcoin could be developing a  “bottom” in the same way it did prior to 2019’s bull run but said there is…

    Bitcoin steps out of ‘Fear’ for the first time in nine months
    16 Jan 2023
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    The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index reached an index score of 52 over the weekend, marking the first time its hit neutral territory in three quarters. The highly-referenced Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index moved into neutral territory over the weekend following several months of fear. On Jan. 15, the index reached a neutral level of 52, its…

    App-specific blockchains remain a promising solution for scalability
    15 Jan 2023
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    Building an interoperable network of blockchains dedicated to a specific purpose appears to be a viable alternative to layer-2 scalability solutions. App-specific blockchains, or appchains, are specifically designed to support the creation and deployment of decentralized applications (DApps). In an appchain, each app runs on its separate blockchain, linked to the main chain. This allows…

    DeFi was the most attacked ecosystem in 2022: Finance Redefined
    14 Jan 2023
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    2023 started on a bullish note for nearly all the top 100 DeFi tokens, as most of them rose to new multi-week highs. 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 DeFi ecosystem started 2023 on a bullish…

    3 blockchain use cases that extend beyond crypto
    14 Jan 2023
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    Blockchains are decentralized, transparent and increase the capacity of a whole network while giving users full control of their data. Blockchain use cases have expanded far beyond cryptocurrency in recent years, with multiple industries embracing the technology in a wide range of fields, including healthcare, logistics and financial services. There are many factors behind the…