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The latest cryptocurrency news curated on a weekly basis.
Covered topics include regulation, user adoption, macroeconomy, and technology announcements.
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SEC going after crypto insider trading and fraud putting the crypto industry on notice for possible crackdown
- The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is using pre-existing rules in traditional finance to police crypto market
- The SEC uses the ‘Howie test’ criteria to designate cryptocurrencies as securities in order to regulate them:
- There is an investment of money
- There are Investors putting their money into a common enterprise that delivers success based on third party expertise
- There is an expectation of profit from the investment
- Investor success is based on a standalone 3rd party’s performance
- Bitcoin and Ethereum have been classified as commodities and NOT securities by the SEC because no ‘executives’ are driving a company to make investments in BTC or ETH more profitable
- 9 cryptocurrencies have been flagged by the SEC in its case against Coinbase employees who had used 25 cryptocurrencies for insider trading. They are: AMP, RLY, DDX, XYO, RGT, LCX, POWR, DFX, KROM
- SEC may target ‘similar’ cryptocurrencies in the future but the actual criteria remains to be seen
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Multiple Massive hacks in crypto exposing user private keys and draining crypto wallets
- Cross-chain protocol Nomad (bridging different crypto blockchains, such as SOL/ETH) suffered hack and lost $200 million. $22 million has been recovered so far
- Over $580 million was stolen from 8,000 crypto wallets on the Solana (SOL) blockchain. Cause attributed to negligence by Solana wallet company Slope sending user non-encrypted password data to a centralized server
- Near Protocol reveals that it discovered a similar security vulnerability to the Solana hack in June and had resolve the issue on the same day but also points out that crypto wallet passwords could have been leaked
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U.S unemployment rate in July 3.5%
- July rate is lowest since February 2020
- Following release of data, probability of Fed raising interest rates by 0.75% increased to 62%
- Interest rate hikes tend to negatively impact company earnings (higher interest expenses) and thus lower stock prices / cryptocurrencies tend to be correlated to growth stocks
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Coinbase selected by Blackrock to provide clients with access to crypto trading and custody
- cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announces partnership with BlackRock, the world’s largest financial asset manager, to provide its clients with direct access to crypto, starting with Bitcoin
- Institutional investors can access Coinbase Prime directly via a user interface or as an integrated platform via APIs to offer crypto-related products
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Instagram to add support for Flow blockchain-based NFTs
- Instagram has added support for Flow-based NFTs as it expands its NFT initiative into more than 100 total countries.
- Instagram’s NFT integration initiative allows collectors to showcase their verified Flow NFTs on their account. It is still in closed beta testing.
- Flow was created by Dapper Labs is well-known for its NFT projects like NBA Top Shots that enable users to trade NFTs of videos of NBA game footage
- NFT markets have yielded more than $20 billion in sales in 2022
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