Spot bitcoin ETF applications from BlackRock and Fidelity, among others, had helped drive bitcoin higher over the past two weeks.
WSJ Cuma sabahı bildirdiğine göre, ABD Menkul Kıymetler ve Borsa Komisyonu (ETF), bir spot bitcoin ETF başlatmak için yapılan son başvuruların yetersiz olduğunu söyledi.
Haber, bitcoin (BTC) fiyatının birkaç dakika içinde 1.000 $ veya %3’ten fazla düşmesine yol açtı. Basın zamanında, bitcoin 30.000 doların biraz üzerinde işlem görüyordu.
The SEC told Cboe it needed to name its partner earlier Friday.
Cboe’nin BZX Borsası, Cuma günü spot bitcoin borsada işlem gören (ETF) fon başvurusu için yeniden doldurduğunda, kripto borsası Coinbase’i gözetim paylaşım anlaşması için pazar olarak adlandırdı.
Fidelity, WisdomTree, VanEck, Galaxy/Invesco ve BlackRock, ABD Menkul Kıymetler ve Borsa Komisyonu’nun (SEC) yıllardır reddettiği bir ürünü piyasaya sürmeyi umarak son birkaç hafta içinde spot bitcoin ETF’leri için başvurdu.
Cuma günü SEC, bu ihraççılardan bazılarına, fon sponsorlarının gözetim paylaşım anlaşmalarında birlikte çalıştıkları pazarın adını vermedikleri için başvurularının “yetersiz” olduğunu söyledi.
SEC, geçmişte “önemli büyüklükteki” pazarlarla gözetim paylaşım anlaşmaları yapılması çağrısında bulunmuştu ve bunun piyasa manipülasyonunu veya diğer istenmeyen davranışları önlemek ve tüketicileri korumak için gerekli olduğunu savunuyordu. Bu anlaşmaların eksikliği, SEC’in daha önce bitcoin ETF başvurularını reddetmesinin birçoğunda büyük ölçüde yer aldı.
Since its inception in 2019, over $300 billion in transactions have been processed using JPM Coin.
Banking giant JPMorgan (JPM) has expanded its blockchain-based settlement token JPM Coin to euro-denominated payments, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
JPM Coin went live with euro payments on Wednesday, according to the report, citing an interview with the bank’s head of Coin Systems for Europe Basak Toprak. German tech firm Siemens conducted the first euro payment on the platform.
Since its inception in 2019, over $300 billion in transactions have been processed using JPM Coin, making it one of the most extensive uses of blockchain technology by a traditional financial institution. The system allows JPMorgan’s institutional clients to make wholesale payments between accounts around the world using blockchain tech as the rails.
The $300 billion is still but a drop in the ocean compared to the nearly $10 trillion that JPMorgan processes by conventional means on a daily basis.
JPMorgan did not immediately respond to CoinDesk’s request for further comment.
The global anti-money laundering watchdog FATF said North Korea is using digital assets to fund weapons of mass destruction
Most jurisdictions still aren’t fully complying with international anti-money laundering norms for crypto, standard-setter the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has said .
“Almost three quarters of jurisdictions are only partially compliant or not compliant with the FATF’s requirements” for virtual assets, according to a statement issued following a regular plenary meeting of the watchdog, chaired by Singapore’s T. Raja Kumar.
The statement said that North Korea was using illicit virtual assets to finance weapons of mass destruction and called for companies to apply anti-money laundering norms as an “urgent priority.”
A forthcoming report from FATF will urge jurisdictions to close loopholes, focusing on emerging risks from decentralized finance and peer-to-peer transactions that don’t use a regulated intermediary such as a wallet provider, the statement said.
Last year the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the decentralized privacy protocol Tornado Cash, saying it had been used by North Korean hackers to fund ballistic missiles.
APLD shares surged on Nasdaq after the firm announced its second AI cloud hosting deal.
Firma Cuma günü yaptığı basın güvenliği, Applied Digital’in (APLD), veri merkezlerindeki yapay zeka (AI) bulut bilgi işlem yüklerini barındırmak için 36 ayda 460 milyon $ değerinde olabileceğini bir anlaşma imzaladığını söyledi.
Teksas merkezli kripto madencisinin hisleri, iki ay içinde ikinci AI barındırma sözleşmesi olan Nasdaq’ta %17’ye kadar yükseldi.
Diğer kripto para madencileri gibi, Applied Digital de ılık kripto pazarlarının içinde geliri artırmak için alternatif gelir akışları aranıyor. Olasılıklar arasında yapay zeka, bulut bilgi işlemi ve elde edilen devam tahmini tahmin edilen diğer yüksek verim bilgi işlem uygulamaları yer alır.
Anlaşma, Mayıs ayında Applied Digital’in önümüzdeki iki yıl içinde 180 milyon $ değerinde olduğunu söylediği anlaşmayı takip ediyor. AI ve bulut teklifi için donanım üreticisi Supermicro ile ortaklık kurdu.
Madenciler, diğer veri merkezlerine güç sağlamak için konuşlandırılabilecek ucuz elektrik ve veri merkezi altyapısına erişebilir. Ancak bu yolu seçtikten sonra, müşteriyle yüz yüze gelme yetenekleri oluşturmaları, Amazon Web Services gibi altyapı devleriyle rekabet etmeleri ve genellikle veri merkezlerinin kalitesini iyileştirmeleri gerekir.
Bu hafta, Iris Energy (IREN), yüksek performanslı bilgi işlem istemcilerini takip etme stratejisini yeniden canlandırdığını söyledi.
The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has been surging this week after three financial services giants filed applications for spot bitcoin ETFs.
Bitcoin continued its mid-June surge, soaring to a one-year high above $31,000.
The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was recently trading at $31,110, up nearly 4%, according to CoinDesk Indices. It is up roughly 20% over the past week.
BTC last changed hands over $31,050 last June. It crossed $31,000 briefly on April 10.
Bitcoin began spurting earlier this week, a few days after BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, applied for a spot ETF and as two other financial services powerhouses refiled their applications for similar products.
This is a developing story.
The crypto exchange is accused of serving Belgian customers from countries outside the European Economic Area in violation of the law, the Financial Services and Markets Authority said.
Belgium’s top markets regulator is ordering embattled crypto exchange Binance to immediately cease serving local customers, according to a Friday notice.
The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) said Binance is “offering and providing exchange services in Belgium between virtual currencies and legal currencies, as well as custody wallet services, from countries that are not members of the European Economic Area,” which the regulator says is in violation of a prohibition.
“The FSMA has therefore ordered Binance to cease, with immediate effect, offering or providing any and all such services in Belgium,” the notice said.
Binance is in the regulatory hot seat as it battles U.S. SEC allegations it violated securities laws and was recently revealed to be the subject of an investigation by French authorities. The exchange has also pulled out of European Economic Area markets like the Netherlands and Cyprus over regulatory issues.
The “Twitter hacker” plundered nearly $1 million from victims of his elaborate online schemes.
A British man who made roughly $900,000 in an elaborate Twitter hack and a separate crypto-related SIM-swapping scheme received a 5 year sentence from a federal judge on Friday, Inner City Press reported.
People’s lives were affected by Joseph O’Connor’s actions, said Judge Jed Rakoff during the sentencing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday.
O’Connor, also known by his social media handle PlugWalkJoe, engineered a devastating Twitter hack in 2020, hijacking prominent accounts on the platform and using them to promote a bitcoin giveaway scam. He made $103,960 from the scheme.
O’Connor pled guilty to partaking in SIM-swapping attacks that targeted high-profile executives in the cryptocurrency industry, resulting in the theft of $794,000 worth of digital currencies.
The hacker evaded authorities’ grasp for a year before his arrest in Spain in 2021. He has served 28 months of his sentence, with just under three years left to serve.
Kalshi wants to let users bet on which political party will control Congress after an election.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission began a formal review and public comment period to evaluate prediction market Kalshi’s proposed contracts to bet on who will control Congress late Friday, canceling a public meeting to discuss the issue in the process.
The CFTC announced Friday night that it had began its 90-day review of KalshiEX LLC’s self-certified contracts for betting on which major political party will control Congress after the next election. The CFTC will need to make a decision at the end of the 90 days, or try to extend it.
The CFTC also announced a 30-day public comment period, seeking input on 24 different questions about the contracts, including whether they are “similar to gaming” as defined by CFTC rules, whether the proposed betting is unlawful, how they compare to previous efforts and more.
The CFTC announced a public meeting last week, set to take place on June 26, which was intended to let the regulator decide whether to commence its review. Another press release Friday announced it was canceled.
Kalshi hinted last year that the CFTC would approve its political event contracts in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections in the U.S., though staff later recommended rejecting the contracts, Bloomberg reported. Kalshi later withdrew its proposal before refiling in an effort to address regulator concerns.
CFTC Commissioners Summer Mersinger and Caroline Pham both dissented from the decision to launch a new review period on Friday. Mersinger argued that Kalshi had been operating in good faith to address the regulator’s concerns, and launching another comment period would delay any resolution.
Moreover, Kalsh’s self-certified contracts do not fall into any definition of “gaming” for the CFTC’s purposes, Mersinger said.
“The Commission should treat Kalshi’s certification in the same manner it treats all DCM certifications of new products, and then do what Congress provided: Undertake a public rulemaking process to establish a legal framework for exercising its discretion to determine whether event contracts, including those relating to political control, may be prohibited from trading because they are contrary to the public interest,” she said.
Pham’s dissent pointed to an appeals court ruling on another prediction market, PredictIt, which the CFTC ordered shut down last year. PredictIt sued to continue operating, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered PredictIt be allowed to continue operating until at least roughly two months after a court ruled on the underlying lawsuit.
If the CFTC were to try and suspend Kalshi’s political event contracts, that might violate the appeals court order, Pham said.
The European Union’s intellectual property office EUIPO wants traders and customs authorities to use open-source tools to authenticate branded goods.
Avrupa Birliği Fikri Mülkiyet Ofisi (EUIPO), markaları, sınır denetimi ve lojistik operatörlerini içeren bir denemenin ardından Pazartesi günü gittiklerini, Blockchain çapında sahteciliği önleme araçlarının umut vaat ettiğini söyledi.
EUIPO, aylarca devam eden ve “umut verici sonuçları” gösteren bir denemenin ardından “dört marka, iki lojistik müşteri ve bir müşteri idaresi ile gerçek hayatta kalma kime testlerine girerek” bir konsept kanıtını tamamladı. Avrupa Blok Zinciri Hizmetleri Altyapısı (EBSI) olarak ayrı bir projeye dayalı olarak Avrupa Lojistik Hizmetleri Kimlik Doğrulaması (ELSA) olarak bilinir.
Merkezi İspanya’nın Alicante’de bulunan bir AB ajansı olan EUIPO, ticari tedarik zincirindeki her bir bağlantısının tutabilmesini takip edebilmesini ve orijinal olarak kontrol edebilmesini sağlamak için bu yıl açık kaynaklı bir platform geliştirmeyi hedefliyor.
Sahte ile imha için dağıtılmış defter kullanımı yeni bir fikir değil, ancak pratikte başarılı olamadı. EUIPO projesinin savunucuları, açık kaynak teknolojisini kullanarak, IBM’in geçmişteki Kasım ayında sona erdiğini yazmayı TradeLens gibi gereksiz yerde merkezileştirilmiş sistemlerin kaderinden kaçınabileceğini söylüyor.
EUIPO, sahte küresel ticaretin %2,5’ini oluşturduğunu ve yaklaşık 412 milyar avro (451 milyar dolar) değerinde olduğunu söylüyor.
