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Digital assets present both opportunities and challenges that the regulators have to deal with, says Raghuram G. Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India. A well-functioning financial system is a key component of any successful economy. Without efficient payments and broadly accessible financial services, people cannot engage easily in commerce, save for a…

Goldman Sachs offered its first-ever lending facility backed by Bitcoin, a significant step for a major U.S. bank that shows an increased interest in crypto from traditional financial institutions. It allows crypto owners to receive fiat by using their crypto assets as collateral, which is the first case for Wall Street banks. According to Bloomberg,…

What does it take for a technology to really break through? – asks Dan Jeffries, an author, futurist, systems architect, and thinker, speaking on CoinDesk’s Payments Week. How does it go from something only a few people use to something everyone uses without even thinking about it? For over a decade people have wondered whether…

Crypto trading platform Coinbase continues to have a “bull thesis” even amid a crypto market sell-off, Owen Lau, Oppenheimer executive director and senior analyst, says. He believes “this is a great entry point for investors.” “The bull thesis is the long-term crypto adoption,” Lau said on Yahoo Finance Live. “That’s number one thing the market…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (Apr. 16 – 22, 2022): Apr. 16: SHAREit Group, a global technology company, presented its ability to connect numerous users in the Middle East. The platform drives around two million new users to various crypto apps each month. Apr. 17: Credit-based stablecoin DeFi protocol Beanstalk Farms built on…

Coinbase Ventures, the investment arm of crypto exchange Coinbase, recapped what it did in Q1 and what it sees happening in crypto over the rest of the year. One of the most active venture capital firms in the crypto market made 71 investments over the first three months of the year, with a record $12.5…