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Videos

Cboe Digital Chief Legal Officer Weighs in on Spot Bitcoin ETF Excitement

Bitcoin (BTC) briefly broke above $35,000, fueled largely by investor optimism that spot bitcoin ETFs are on the way. As part of CoinDesk's State of Crypto 2023 event in Washington, D.C., Cboe Digital Chief Legal Officer Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos discusses what to make of the current U.S. crypto regulatory landscape as more TradFi players enter the digital asset space and many market participants eye the next crypto bull run.

State of Crypto 2023 in D.C.

Finance

Tokenization of RWAs Gets Boost With DTCC Deal to Buy Blockchain Startup Securrency

Securrency provides institutions with blockchain-based regulatory technology on top of existing legacy systems to enable digital asset adoption in a compliant manner.

DTCC is probing the implications of a digital dollar (Kachura Oleg/Getty Images)

Policy

DLT Securities Rules Are Here to Stay, EU Official Says

New European laws took effect in April, but fears over its limited scale may have inhibited take-up.

L-R: Bank of America's Christopher Wallace, Teunis Brosens of ING, the European Commission's Ivan Keller, the Bank of England's Sasha Mills and Marina Reason of Herbert Smith Freehills (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

Markets

Tokenized RWAs Could Grow to a $10T Market by 2030 as Crypto Converges to TradFi: Report

Digital dollars, also known as stablecoins pegged to the U.S. dollar, represent the "first successful tokenization implementation," 21.co analysts said.

Crypto adoption is in a "turning point" as it converges to the existing financial system (21.co)

Policy

Banks Must Disclose Crypto Exposures, Global Regulator Says

The guidance will ensure transparency and market discipline, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said

The Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland (Fred Romero/Flickr)

Markets

DeFi Is Losing the Race to Become the Future of Finance

Money market funds are offering more than 5% annual returns, Ethereum stakers meanwhile get just 3.3%.

(Noah Silliman/Unsplash)

Videos

Sergey Nazarov on What’s Next for Chainlink, Future of Tokenizing Real World Assets

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov spoke to CoinDesk managing editor Aoyon Ashraf during the Sibos 2023 conference in Toronto, Canada. The wide-ranging interview covers Nazarov’s thoughts on cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP), TradFi partnerships and tokenizing real world assets. Travis Detweiler from OPUS filmed this interview.

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Markets

A Bitcoin ETF Has Golden Parallels From History

Gold ETFs dramatically shook up markets. A spot bitcoin ETF could do the same.

(Joshua Sortino/ Unsplash)

Opinion

What's Wrong With PayPal's Stablecoin?

If PYUSD is to gain true and lasting traction, the newly minted stablecoin issuer needs to address certain centralization concerns, Kima Chief Technology Officer Guy Vider writes.

The ability to transfer all PYUSD user funds into PayPal may leave crypto natives hesitant to adopt the stablecoin. Oliver Buchmann/Unsplash)

Finance

Traditional Finance Exchanges Divided on Crypto Services: Survey

A World Federation of Exchanges survey found 41% of respondents already offer crypto-related products or services, with a further 24% planning to offer them in the future.

(Shutterstock)

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