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The Year of Institutional Investment in Real World Assets
Recent macroeconomic shifts and improvements in technology for secure custody, trading and settlement have made investment in tokenized treasuries, private equity and debt that much more attractive. Ultimately, it’s regulatory clarity and property rights enforcement that will make 2024 the year of RWAs. Source link
Bitwise Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Ad Launches
Bitwise is among numerous firms awaiting approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for launching a spot bitcoin ETF. Unlike larger players like BlackRock, Bitwise has been offering crypto ETF products for several years, a point the ad makes clear at the end, saying “ETFs backed by crypto specialists.” Source link
Small ESG-Focused Crypto Asset Manager Is Another Late Entrant to Bitcoin ETF Race
7RCC was founded in 2021 to provide access to crypto and blockchain-related assets for EGS-conscious investors. The company started the process for an ETF 18 months ago but was waiting to have the right infrastructure in place to file an application, which is why it is entering the race much later than other applicants like…
Inside the secretive cannabis lab that makes futuristic weed
Cannabis is changing. Today’s marijuana is more potent than ever and there remain many questions about its benefits and risks. We still can’t meaningfully regulate driving while high. And growing cannabis – legally and not – has a staggering environmental footprint. In The weed of the future, the final episode of our special three-part podcast…
Digital Bank Revolut to Suspend UK Crypto Services Citing FCA’s New Ad Rules: CityAM
The pause was put in place to give the company time to adjust its current business crypto offering to make sure all of the new requirements set by the U.K. regulator in the “back end” Direct Offer Financial Promotion (DOFP) rules, which will be entering into force on Jan. 8, 2023, are met, a source…
Stunning JWST image of Uranus shows 13 rings and nine moons
Uranus, showing all of its rings and nine of the planet’s 27 moons NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI This amazing shot of Uranus, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has given us our most complete view yet of the planet, with its rings and turbulent atmosphere revealed in glorious detail. In April, JWST used…
2024: The Year of Regulatory Compromises
After a year of conflict between crypto companies and agencies like the SEC and CFTC, we can expect to see greater dialogue and progress on regulation in 2024, says Michael Selig, of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Source link
Chimpanzees recognise photos of friends they haven’t seen for decades
Chimpanzees in zoos were shown photos of old group members to test their memory Johns Hopkins University Bonobos and chimpanzees seem to recognise photos of former group members – even animals they haven’t seen for over 20 years. This means that these apes have the longest social memory ever recorded in any animal besides humans….
UK Publishes Regulations for Digital Securities Sandbox to Test DLT, Tokenization
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We may have found a crater on Jupiter’s moon Io for the first time
This may be the first impact crater spotted on Io NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 An amateur astronomer may have found the first crater ever spotted on Jupiter’s moon Io. Io is so volcanically active that eruptions tend to wipe away any impact craters, so we have never seen one until now. Jesper Sandberg,…