LUNA (UST), a digital token with a once $16 billion market capitalisation that is designed to maintain a 1:1 peg with the dollar, known as a stablecoin, nosedived over the past 36 hours.    Its price fell below $0.65, before somewhat recovering to $0.93 as yesterday before tumbling to as low as $0.59 as of...Continue Reading

Last Friday, the deposit contract for staking Ethereum (ETH) on the Beacon Chain reached over 10% of the entire supply, containing over 12 million in Ethereum. Formerly known as ETH 2.0, the deposit contract for Ethereum’s consensus layer now has ETH worth over $34 billion dollars at current prices.   The Beacon Chain is a...Continue Reading

In the latest signs that Wall Street is moving towards cryptocurrency, Goldman Sachs has successfully offered its first Bitcoin-backed loan.   The secured lending facility lent cash collateralised by Bitcoin owned by the borrower, a spokeswoman for Goldman Sachs said.    “We recently extended a secured lending facility where we lent fiat collateralized on BTC;...Continue Reading

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has published a letter to Australian regulatory bodies on Thursday setting out its expectations of risk management, as well as a roadmap for digital assets policy through 2025.     Chairman Waynes Byres detailed in the letter “while activities associated with crypto assets are still relatively limited in Australia,...Continue Reading

After many months of industry consultation, in November of 2021, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), approved long awaited Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs).   In doing so, ASIC has provided the best-practice requirements and guidelines for those issuing Bitcoin or Ethereum ETFs, emphasising the protection and storage of digital assets.    “We...Continue Reading

At Bitcoin Miami, a significant spotlight was on the Crypto Mining Industry, marking it as a central theme throughout the four-day event. Held from April 6th to 9th, the conference served as a gathering point for cryptocurrency enthusiasts aiming to bolster Miami’s standing as a pivotal hub for blockchain development. The event offered a platform...Continue Reading

U.S. Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has delivered her first major speech on the potential risks and benefits of the growing cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.   In doing so, she sternly argued that financial institutions and regulators should take the potential risks of cryptocurrencies very seriously when conveying them to consumers and the wider economy.  ...Continue Reading

It was learnt in mid March that Do Kwon, founder of Terraform Labs and Ethereum layer 1 blockchain competitor Terra, was planning to accumulate US$10 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to add to the project’s stablecoin reserves.   $UST with $10B+ in $BTC reserves will open a new monetary era of the Bitcoin standard. P2P...Continue Reading

Australia’s federal government is considering legislation to help Australia play a role in the emergence of Web 3.0, a new form of internet that underpins cryptocurrencies and digital assets.   Web 3.0 refers to the third iteration of the web, succeeding Web 1.0 of the 1990s, and the current version of the internet, Web 2.0....Continue Reading

The White House and Joe Biden signed the executive order on digital currencies on Wednesday.   The entire brief can be read here.    In doing so, the U.S. government has directed agencies across the federal government to coordinate strategies to gauge both the advantages and disadvantages posed by cryptocurrency ownership, and whether the U.S....Continue Reading