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A panel of judges grilled attorneys for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and prediction-betting platform Kalshi over the company’s efforts to launch political prediction markets in the U.S., without indicating whether they’d allow Kalshi to offer these products while reviewing a lower court’s ruling on the products. Read the full article here
BA Labs, in its proposals to offboard WBTC, had cited perceived risks from Tron founder Justin Sun’s involvement with BiTGlobal, the custodian for the underlying assets. BitGo, the original custodian for WBTC, announced in August that it planned to transition control of the asset to a joint operation with BiT Global, which has regulated operations based in Hong Kong. Read the full article here
Some customer and transaction data was seized by the government in the process of the investigation, it said. Given that the people behind those activities often reside in other countries outside of Germany, where criminal activities like this are “tolerated or even protected,” the authorities noted it may be nearly impossible for German government officials to prosecute them. Read the full article here
In that time, the crypto industry has moved on: markets are up, VC dollars are back, and politicians are once again supporting the industry. Meanwhile, the mainstream media has almost forgotten about the fallen crypto king, SBF himself. So might a judge and jury see SBF’s case differently should it hear evidence from the FTX founder again? That certainly seems to be the hope of SBF’s new legal team, which took over his case after his trial lawyers, Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell, stepped down following his conviction. On Friday, Sept. 13, his new lead lawyer, Alexandra Shapiro, filed an…
Crypto Finance, a subsidiary of Germany’s largest stock exchange operator, signed a deal with Commerzbank to offer trading services to the lender’s corporate clients just two weeks after reaching a similar agreement with Zürcher Kantonalbank in Switzerland. Commerzbank will provide custody services, the companies said on Thursday. The trading service offered by the Deutsche Boerse unit will be available to clients based in Germany and initially focus on trading in the two largest cryptocurrencies, bitcoin and ether. Commerzbank obtained a crypto custody license in Germany in November 2023, allowing the financial services firm to offer a wide range of services…
“When we shopped McLaren, they were team number eight on the grid. A lot of people asked the obvious question, was that the right move? Now leading the 2024 Constructors Standings,” said Rafique. McLaren last won the constructors’ championship, one of the two world championships contested in Formula 1, in 1998. This year, currently, it is in the lead. Read the full article here
The decision to split up the upgrade wasn’t unexpected. Developers had been discussing previously that Pectra was becoming too ambitious to ship all at once, and expressed desires to split it in order to minimize the risk of finding bugs in the code. Read the full article here
A quick LinkedIn search for profiles containing the keyword “blockchain” on their resumes produces 152,000 results while “crypto” shows 119,000. This is a decline from the peak employment in crypto at about 211,000 mid-2021 due to bear markets, inflation, and layoffs affecting the job market. Read the full article here
So, as it stands, advisors are not meeting client needs. This will leave clients under-allocated at a time when the asset is still experiencing outperformance relative to traditional assets. The opportunity cost of forgoing significant alpha could significantly impair client performance over the long run. It is crucial for advisors to realize the time is now to position their clients for future success. It’s time for advisors to educate themselves on this asset class and pass on what they learn to clients. Remember, as an advisor, a diversified portfolio does not need a significant allocation to crypto. A 5-10% allocation…
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