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💵 After raising over $180 million in funding, institutional trading platform Bakkt has reportedly reached a $740 million valuation.
via The Block

👮‍♀️ Former chief executive officer of AriseBank has pleaded guilty to securities fraud related to an initial coin offering and now faces as much as 20 years in prison.
via Cointelegraph

🇯🇵 Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings is entering the cryptocurrency mining chips and systems manufacturing market.
via CoinDesk

👨‍⚖️ Alleged BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik has appealed for extradition to Russia.
via Cointelegraph

🔍 Mt. Gox rehabilitation trustee has reviewed the claims filed by the exchange’s creditors.
via Bitcoin.com

After announcing the launch of a cryptocurrency savings account with six-percent annual interest two weeks ago, the BlockFi lending firm has recently made changes to the terms.

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This week’s #CryptoCaselawMinute has two cases relevant to cryptocurrency mining and one case dealing with credit card transactions.

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The tokenization of assets has been a hotly debated topic in the crypto industry over the last two years. Everything is up for tokenization, from stocks to real estate and even art objects. We tried to figure out whether this is a new way of making money or a step toward revolutionary changes in the market.

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Yllo Messenger is a decentralized peer-to-peer application from the Russian crypto platform of the same name, which is a whole ecosystem and includes a platform for creating users’ own tokens, a Yllo Wallet crypto wallet, and a messenger. DeCenter reviewed the work of the messaging program, with which users can make cryptocurrency transactions and receive rewards in LightToken (XLT) coins for high activity.

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🎫 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, is changing the sale format of Binance Launchpad to a lottery system.
via official website

🤝 UPS has teamed up with a blockchain startup to provide better B2B services.
via CoinDesk

🏦 A Citigroup job ad suggests blockchain initiatives are heating up at the bank.
via The Block

🌎 Agustin Carstens, general manager at the Bank for International Settlements, has warned about the risks posed by central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
via Bloomberg

🇺🇸 Cryptocurrency adoption could be inevitable, according to the mayor of Chicago.
via Forbes

Founder of the Sponsy project, which positioned itself as a “decentralized sponsorship platform,” is now selling the business for $60,000 on eBay.

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Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, which previously acquired a local cryptocurrency exchange called Everybody’s Bitcoin, has completed registration of its digital asset trading platform Rakuten Wallet, which is set to launch next month.

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eToro, a popular Israeli trading platform and social network for investors and traders, has announced the acquisition of a smart contracts development company Firmo.

The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

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We can mark the end of the “winter period” in the cryptocurrency market, which began in 2018. The value of assets on the exchanges is starting to move steadily upward, and the level of $4,000 for Bitcoin may be the last significant resistance before the take-off. News in recent months, as well as the willingness of big capital and tech corporations of world renown, such as IBM and J.P. Morgan, to apply their accumulated experience with the blockchain and create their own cryptocurrencies, are contributing to this. At the same time, official representatives recognize the inevitability of Bitcoin adoption. DeCenter analyzed how these and other events of the past week influenced cryptocurrency rates.

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Bloom is an application from the blockchain platform of the same name, which is an end-to-end encryption-based protocol that is designed to assess financial risk, conduct credit scoring, and store user data. Bloom allows lenders to serve billions of people who currently cannot open a bank account or have a credit rating.

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🔋 Former Enron Corp. chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling reportedly plans to start a blockchain-based energy-finance venture.
via The Block

⌚️ The initial public offering (IPO) listing application filed by Bitmain, a market-leading Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer, has expired.
via ccn

📈 According to a new report, blockchain spending in the U.S. will increase to $41 billion by 2025.
via Cointelegraph

⚫️ eToro has added Tron as a trading option to its platform.
via official blog

🔵 Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx plans to develop a decentralized exchange (DEX) on its own blockchain.
via CoinDesk

A team of developers has created a wallet dubbed Wuabit that will allow its users to access cryptocurrency services from within a popular messaging application WhatsApp. The team also plans to look at providing similar functionality for Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and Viber.

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LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world leader in luxury goods, is set to launch a blockchain platform for verifying the authenticity of upscale market items.

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Reports are mounting that most of the trading volume on the world’s largest digital asset exchanges is questionable, and in light of that, cryptocurrency data startup Messari is introducing the Real 10 Volume metrics, which will only “factor in data from exchanges that accurately report volumes.”

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On March 12, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Leader of the United States House of Representatives, gave a speech in which he argued for the need to introduce blockchain into the legislative branch of government. Patrick Byrne, the head of Overstock, also noted that he is negotiating with the U.S. authorities on the introduction of blockchain, as this technology will reduce corruption and improve the efficiency of officials. DeCenter analyzed how it might work out.

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🤝 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has partnered with risk management firm IdentityMind for KYC and AML compliance.
via CoinDesk

📈 Cryptocurrency market data resource CoinMarketCap has admitted that trading volumes it displays may be fake.
via Bloomberg

📹 Social media platform YouTube reportedly ran a malicious advertisement for Bitcoin wallet Electrum by mistake.
via Cointelegraph

💻 Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has suffered a hack.
via The Block

📊 Weiss Crypto Ratings has published a report outlining its crypto industry outlook and rankings of 122 cryptocurrencies.
via Bitcoin.com

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Pantera Capital-backed brokerage firm Tagomi has become the latest company to receive a BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).

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The second-largest German stock exchange Boerse Stuttgart Group has partnered with Europe’s biggest digital publishing house Axel Springer SE to launch a blockchain-powered trading platform.

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Blockchain-as-a-Service, or BaaS, means the creation of a service that allows users to quickly implement all the advantages of blockchain technology into business processes in a short time and with minimal effort from the customer. ABI Research, a major consulting and analytical company, predicts that by 2023, revenue from the sale of distributed ledger technology (DLT) software and services will be more than $10.6 billion. There is no doubt that a substantial part of this market will be occupied directly by the BaaS segment, and the world’s largest companies are already actively exploring and conquering a new niche. DeCenter figured out how BaaS works, what the main advantages of this service are for businesses, and who are ready to offer them on the market.

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