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Indian Central Bank Could Launch CBDC Trials by December

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Time Stamp: August 27, 2021 2:20 PM - Modified On: August 27, 2021 - Published By:
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) could launch its first digital currency trials by December, according to central bank governor Shaktikanta Das.Sponsored Sponsored The RBI is currently studying different aspects of digital currencies, including their security, potential impact on India’s financial sector. The central bank must also consider how a digital rupee would affect monetary policy and currency in circulation. “We are being extremely careful about it because it’s completely a new product, not just for RBI, but globally,” Das explained.Sponsored Sponsored According to Das, the central bank is also

Kraken Daily Market Report for August 08 2021

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Time Stamp: August 9, 2021 11:31 AM - Modified On: August 9, 2021 - Published By:
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Overview Total spot trading volume at $1.07 billion, the largest Sunday trading volume since June 20th. The 30-day average is up to $843.6 million. Total futures notional at $551.6 million. The top five traded coins were, respectively, Bitcoin (-0.5%), Ethereum (-3.2%), Tether (0%), Dogecoin (-6.0%), and Polkadot (-4.0%). Livepeer was up 9.7%, most other coins were down a few percent. August 08, 2021  $1.07B traded across all markets today Crypto, EUR, USD, JPY, CAD, GBP, CHF, AUD  BTC $44387. ↓0.5% $348.2M ETH $3060.9 ↓3.2% $293.6M USDT $1.0007 ↓0.01% $229.3M DOGE $0.2462 ↓6.0% $95.3M DOT $20.135 ↓4.0% $40.9M USDC $1.0001 ↑0.01% $28.7M ADA $1.4449 ↓1.9% $24.3M XRP $0.7963 ↓2.6% $20.9M LINK $23.578 ↓4.3% $8.27M LTC $151.51 ↓2.9% $7.19M ETC $58.21 ↓4.1% $6.31M KSM $221.0 ↓5.4% $5.45M DAI $1.0011 ↑0.02% $4.56M EOS $4.3441 ↓5.4% $4.02M SOL $38.42 ↓2.8% $3.8M MATIC $1.1046 ↓5.4% $3.76M SC $0.0166 ↓5.1% $3.75M BCH $564.82 ↓3.3% $3.6M UNI $27.079 ↓4.4% $3.42M FIL $66.041 ↓4.8% $3.22M XMR $261.71 ↓3.4% $3.03M MINA $2.26 ↓9.6% $3.02M XLM $0.2913 ↓4.9% $2.63M XTZ $3.2273 ↓5.7% $2.38M TRX $0.0725 ↓4.0% $2.08M SNX $9.853 ↓7.4% $2.01M KAVA $5.7398 ↓5.7% $1.99M

Race cars and earn cryptocurrency with Riot Racers

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Time Stamp: July 28, 2021 10:00 AM - Modified On: July 28, 2021 - Published By:
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The gaming industry has grown exponentially in the past few years, and the play-to-earn gaming model is leading the way with an innovative approach that puts the gamer in the driver’s seat. Play-to-earn is a relatively newer concept that allows players to own part of the game, earn cryptocurrency-backed tokens by playing, and later trade or exchange earned tokens for fiat on cryptocurrency exchanges. While the play-to-earn gaming industry has seen steady growth recently, many of the games have become too expensive to start playing, with the cost to play

Efforce (WOZX): Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak’s Cryptocurrency

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Time Stamp: December 12, 2020 10:52 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Every so often a cryptocurrency is released that makes you a do a double take. Efforce (WOZX) is certainly one of those cryptocurrencies. Efforce was founded by world famous Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and WOZX cryptocurrency token went from a price of 10 cents USD to over 3$USD in its first days on the market. In just the first 13 minutes of trading, WOZX had an unrealized market cap of 950 million USD.Although this price action made the headlines both inside and outside of the cryptocurrency space, it seems that

BTC and ETH Crypto Derivatives in Demand, Market Expected to Grow Further

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 12:42 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The crypto options market has been evolving rapidly over the second quarter of 2020. According to TokenInsight’s recent crypto derivatives industry report, trading volumes are seeing a 166% year-on-year increase compared to Q2 2019. The derivative products driving these volumes are futures and options. While futures grow with traders betting on a bullish price sentiment, both open interest and volumes of options have reached all-time highs.All-time highs On Wednesday, open interest in Ether (ETH) options hit an all-time high of $351 million on Deribit and $37 million on OKEx. In fact, open

Slow But Steady: FATF Review Highlights Crypto Exchanges’ Struggle to Meet AML Standards

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 9:00 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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In June 2019, the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) introduced its revised set of standards for virtual asset service providers. The document establishes the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements that regulated VASPs —  the term mainly referring to cryptocurrency trading platforms — must eventually implement in their day-to-day operations. The guidelines are framed as recommendations, and the FATF leaves it to the participating nations’ governments to develop their own regulations in accordance with suggested principles.The watchdog has also set a 12-month review timeframe to monitor the public and

What is Wrapped Bitcoin? A Guide to WBTC

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 12:24 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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WBTC is a way for Bitcoin to run on the Ethereum blockchain. Performing quick and affordable transactions using Bitcoin (BTC) has long been a problem of the community ever since it became more popular. This is why there have been many developments planning to address this issue.  But what if we can make our BTC coins functional on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain? Would there be a difference? Wrapped BTC (WBTC) is a multi-institution project that aims to solve common BTC problems by creating its ERC-20 token counterpart. And in the

Celebrating The History And Spirit Of Bitcoin Independence Day

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Time Stamp: August 6, 2020 11:27 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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This article originally appeared in our Weekly Bits newsletter. If you want our news and analysis before anyone else, make sure you subscribe now! In my view, Bitcoin Independence Day is a holiday that says a lot about the BTC community. Its origins are highly technical and difficult to understand, the “independence” it celebrates refers to the developer community overcoming interests from industrialized miners and, ultimately, it’s a chance for Bitcoiners to reflect on the young history of the technology and engage in debate. To celebrate, Bitcoin Magazine hosted a day

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

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Time Stamp: August 3, 2020 5:54 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are