The CFTC Chairman said that with the Ethereum network shifting to a PoS consensus model, they might treat the new tokens as securities.

Bakkt says that it will offer cash-settled Bitcoin Futures in Singapore traded over the ICE Singapore exchange.

In this article we explore the upcoming Bitcoin Options, to be released by the CME Group, and their potential impact on the market.

Coeure will lead the BIS Innovation Hub from January 2020 and look after the efforts of central banking institutions for digital currency and other fintech developments.

The SFC said that Tencent holds the potential to execute such large scale projects.

Reports indicate that the central banks of Hong Kong and Thailand have been working on the development of a CBDC, designed to facilitate bank-to-bank monetary transfers, securities settlement, and corporate payments.

Tether snubs off all the allegations of its involvement in Bitcoin price manipulation during the 2017 bull run using USDT tokens. It calls all the allegations to be completely baseless.

China has a huge cryptocurrency and Bitcoin mining industry due to the availability of surplus and cheap hydroelectric power in regions of Xinjiang and Sichuan.

Under the new licensing procedures, crypto exchanges will have to follow strict KYC and AML procedures and other security token laws.

Huawei will be working with the central bank’s digital currency research unit on different blockchain to token-based projects taking place in the country.