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Swissquote Dives Into Cryptocurrency Trading With the Launch of SQX

2022-10-04

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2022-10-04

Online trading platform Swissquote has launched a cryptocurrency exchange called SQX that aims to provide a more competitive and secure trading environment. Unlike other crypto exchanges, SQX says that it prides itself on being a centralised trading platform as it believes that currency markets function on the back of long-standing bilateral relationships. As such, Swissquote added that SQX’s new central order book, which sources and aggregates...

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University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Among World’s Best Universities for Blockchain Education

2022-10-04

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2022-10-04

The University of Zurich and ETH Zurich ranked third and 27th respectively on CoinDesk’s latest annual best universities for blockchain rankings. The rankings were made from a shortlist of 240 institutions around the world, calculated based on their scholarly, industrial and pedagogical impact on blockchain. Metrics that were taken into account included the institutions’ blockchain research publications, courses, degrees, conferences, clubs and...

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Revolut is Now a Fully Registered Crypto Service Provider in the UK

2022-09-28

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2022-09-28

Digital money app Revolut has been approved by the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to offer cryptocurrency products and services in the country.

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Coinbase Gets Greenlight to Operate Its Crypto Exchange in the Netherlands

2022-09-28

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2022-09-28

Coinbase has secured regulatory approval from the Dutch central bank as a crypto service provider, allowing it to offer its full suite of retail, institutional, and ecosystem products to customers in the country.

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Charlie Munger, Bitcoin is worthless, Warren Buffet, Day Trading Fans #shorts

2022-09-27

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Portofino Technologies Raises US$50M to Scale Its HFT Crypto Infrastructure

2022-09-20

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2022-09-20

Digital asset trading technology provider Portofino Technologies has raised over US$50 million in equity funding from Valar Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Coatue to scale its technology across the full crypto infrastructure value chain. The company, founded by former Citadel Securities executives Leonard Lancia and Alex Casimo, builds high-frequency trading (HFT) grade technology for institutions and Web3 projects that require digital asset...

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Press Communication in the Metaverse: Rent a PR Cooperates With Zreality

2022-09-13

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2022-09-13

Access to the metaverse is complex and expensive, which is why it is so far used almost exclusively by large companies. The Zurich and Verbier-based PR agency Rent a PR, which has been providing on-demand public relations and communications consulting for five years and has been accepting Bitcoin payments since 2019, is setting another milestone with cooperation and press conferences in the metaverse.

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Crypto Financial Product Provider 21.co Raises US$25M at Unicorn Valuation

2022-09-12

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2022-09-12

Crypto solutions provider 21.co has raised a US$25 million round led by Marshall Wace at a US$2 billion valuation, making it Switzerland’s largest crypto unicorn. The round, which included investors, such as Collab+Currency, Quiet Ventures, ETFS Capital and Valor Equity Partners was the company’s first raise in over two years.

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Financial Crimes in the Metaverse

2022-09-08

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2022-09-08

Business executives are bullish on the prospect of the metaverse, predicting sizeable commercial opportunities in taking part in immersive virtual environments. But despite the high level of interest, industry stakeholders are also growing increasingly concerned over the possible risks brought about the concept.

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Switzerland key to rehabilitating tarnished crypto exchange

2022-09-06

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2022-09-06

Troubled cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is charting its revival in Switzerland after the platform and its three co-founders were prosecuted in the United States.

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SIX Digital Exchange Goes Live With Ethereum Staking Service for Institutional Clients

2022-09-05

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2022-09-05

SDX Web3 Services, the newly launched business unit from SIX Digital Exchange, is now live with its non-custodial Ethereum staking service.

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Hackers Tap Cross-Chain Bridges Vulnerabilities; Whopping US$2B Worth of Crypto Stolen

2022-09-02

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2022-09-02

Hackers and cybercriminals are exploiting vulnerabilities found in cross-chain bridge protocols to siphon billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies out of wallets and smart contracts, a new report by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis claims. A total of 13 separate cross-chain bridge hacks have been recorded so far, netting criminals about US$2 billion, according to the firm. Most of these attacks took place this year, showing that the trend...

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“Shares Market Killing Us” Yanis Varoufakis Crypto Interview

2022-08-24

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Shares Market Killing Us Yanis Varoufakis Crypto Interview Bitcoin News Bitcoin Crash Crypto News In this video Yanis Varoufakis talks about the potential fall of capitalism in his views, the reasons, the major problems and much more.

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Charlie Munger On Bitcoin

2022-08-22

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Global Blockchain Funding Dip; Mega-Rounds Shrink

2022-08-22

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2022-08-22

After a record year 2021, the venture capital (VC) market for blockchain investment is slowing down significantly in 2022 amid uncertain macroeconomic conditions and financial markets turmoil. In Q2 2022, VC investors scaled back cryptocurrency investments due to macroeconomic pressures, concerns about valuations and market volatility.

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CME Group to Launch Euro-Denominated Bitcoin and Ether Futures on August 29

2022-08-08

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2022-08-08

CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, announced it plans to further expand its cryptocurrency derivatives offering with the introduction of Bitcoin Euro and Ether Euro futures on August 29, pending regulatory review.

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CME Group to Launch Euro-Denominated Bitcoin and Ether Futures

2022-08-08

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2022-08-08

CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, announced it plans to further expand its cryptocurrency derivatives offering with the introduction of Bitcoin Euro and Ether Euro futures on August 29, pending regulatory review.

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Meta: Digital Collectibles to Showcase NFTs on Instagram

2022-08-08

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2022-08-08

Starting this week on Instagram, Meta is testing digital collectibles with select US creators and collectors to share NFTs that they have created or bought. Meta/Instagram started with the international expansion to 100 countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas.

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Blackrock Ties up With Coinbase to Offer Its Clients Crypto Trading and Custody

2022-08-05

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2022-08-05

Asset manager BlackRock has selected cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase to provide the institutional clients of Aladdin®, BlackRock’s end-to-end investment management platform, direct access to crypto starting with bitcoin. Coinbase Prime will provide crypto trading, custody, prime brokerage, and reporting capabilities to Aladdin’s institutional client base who are also clients of Coinbase.

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Swiss Blockchain-Insurtech Jarowa Raises CHF 12.4 Million Series A for Europe Expansion

2022-08-02

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2022-08-02

JAROWA is a Swiss digital marketplace and transaction platform for insurance companies, property managers, and leasing companies to manage their trusted service providers and digital orders more efficiently. JAROWA has successfully closed its Series A funding round, led by Eos Venture Partners, a strategic venture capital fund focused on InsurTech. The proceeds will be used to further expand JAROWA’s offering throughout Europe.

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