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Crypto Biz: From shorting the Venezuelan Bolivar to shorting the US dollar - News
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Riot Platforms secures $100M ‘Bitcoin-backed’ loan from Coinbase The Bitcoin mining company holds 19,223 BTC currently valued at nearly $1.8 billion.
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Ripple acquisition Hidden Road secures FINRA registration The Ripple-owned Hidden Road is now a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority member, which expands its broker-dealer capabilities.
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Fed's Powell reasserts support for stablecoin legislation “Stablecoins are a digital product that could actually have fairly wide appeal and should contain consumer protections,” Powell said.
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Securitize manages $38B with acquisition of MG Stover admin business The tokenization company has issued $3.3 billion in onchain assets, including BlackRock’s tokenized US Treasury fund, BUIDL.
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3iQ’s Canadian Solana ETF selects Figment as staking provider The Ontario Securities Commission, a provincial regulator, approved 3iQ’s SOL Staking ETF earlier this week.
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