By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has reportedly asked banks interested in acquiring the shuttered New York institution to submit bids by Friday.Publish at: March 16, 2023 at 04:43AM
Signature Bank’s Prospective Buyers Must Agree to Give Up All Crypto Business: Report
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Dips Below $25K as Market Debates Liquidity
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data ALSO: CoinDesk’s Shaurya Malwa writes that higher-than-usual market volatility affected bulls and bears alike as crypto futures racked up $300 million in liquidations over a 24-hour period earlier this week.Publish at: March 16, 2023 at 02:18AM
Payments Processor Stripe Secures $6.5B in Funding at $50B Valuation
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data Stripe’s valuation has fallen about 47% from its 2021 fund raise of $95 billion.Publish at: March 16, 2023 at 12:00AM
Art Trading Platform LiveArt Announces NFT Membership Card Linked to Exclusive Drops
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data The platform says its LiveArt X Card is meant to “put an end to NFT flipping and speculation” by encouraging collectors to hold onto their art long-term.Publish at: March 15, 2023 at 11:51PM
U.S. Federal Reserve’s Real-Time Payments System Coming In July
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data The U.S. Federal Reserve is activating its long-awaited real-time payments system in July, the central bank said in a Wednesday statement, marking a transition that some have seen as a government challenge of the crypto sector’s instant-transaction advantages.Publish at: March 15, 2023 at 10:54PM
Bitcoin Slides Below $24.5K as European Banking Woes Spook Investors
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data BTC dropped as low as $23,946 Wednesday midday before pulling back above the $24,000 mark. Equity markets also struggled on the Swiss banking giant news.Publish at: March 15, 2023 at 09:51PM
Salesforce Taps Into NFTs Through Suite of New Web3 Products
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data The cloud services giant is helping companies integrate NFTs to deepen their relationships with customers.Publish at: March 15, 2023 at 09:44PM
DeFi Exchange mStable Mulls Over Acquisition, Merger Offers
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data MStable’s community will vote this month on whether to accept one of the offers, or sunset its struggling stablecoin investments service.Publish at: March 15, 2023 at 09:33PM
Starknet DAO Heads Toward First Governance Vote
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data The vote, opening on March 21, will let members approve a new upgrade for the scaling solution’s mainnet.Publish at: March 15, 2023 at 08:57PM
SEC Chairman Gensler Suggests Again That Proof-of-Stake Tokens Are Securities: Report
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler is doubling down on his opinion that proof-of-stake tokens could meet the definition of securities under the Howey test, thus bringing them under his agency’s regulatory authority.Publish at: March 15, 2023 at 08:50PM
