Coinbase and Standard Chartered have announced an expanded partnership to jointly explore the development of a full range of digital asset services solutions for institutional clients, including trading, custody, staking and lending. The upgrade builds on the two companies' existing business relationship in Singapore, where Standard Chartered currently provides Coinbase customers with real-time Singapore dollar transfers. With JPMorgan Chase introducing the JPM Coin deposit token to Coinbase's L...

According to Decrypt, Opera and the Celo Foundation announced an expanded collaboration at Binance Blockchain Week, with the goal of providing low-cost stablecoin payments to 1 billion people by 2030. According to a statement released by Opera on Wednesday, the announcement includes plans to launch a stablecoin-backed payment card, expand the supply of real-world assets, and jointly launch a mini-app tour in Asia and South America.
The Russian Ministry of Finance is actively considering significantly simplifying the entry requirements for digital asset investors. The proposed simplification measures are expected to expand the range of participants in Russia's experimental legal system for cryptocurrency exchanges (ELR), lower the strict "super qualified" investor threshold (which requires a large amount of assets or income, such as investments of 100 million rubles or annual income of 50 million rubles), and more Russian c...
Caroline Pham, acting chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is seeking CEOs from across the board to join a new "CEO Innovation Council" as institutions step up their efforts to expand regulation of digital assets. "In order to move quickly, the CFTC needs to engage with the public, supported by industry experts and innovators who are shaping the future," said Pham, who announced on Tuesday that she had launched a call for nominations for the commission, with a deadline fo...
Hamak said that based on technical factors, the Federal Reserve may soon expand its balance sheet again.
Zama, a confidential blockchain protocol, announced that it has acquired KKRT Labs, a pioneering research and development company focused on scaling blockchain with zero-knowledge proofs. The strategic acquisition will enhance Zama's technical prowess in blockchain scalability and effectiveness (zero-knowledge proofs) and accelerate its ability to deliver high-performance confidentiality to all public blockchains.
On November 3rd, according to 4E's observation, the traditional volatility pattern after Bitcoin's halving may be failing. The data shows that the current bitcoin volatility is below 2%, a record low, and in the third halving period of 2020, the volatility once exceeded 5%. Japanese crypto company BA...
According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, U.S. House Agriculture Committee Chairperson Glenn "GT" Thompson met with the acting chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Caroline D. Pham, on Thursday to discuss how the commodities regulator will prepare for expanding its crypto regulatory authority and advancing relevant rulemaking next year - a move based on expectations that market structure-related bills will be passed. Fan had previously discussed similar issues wi...
On October 30th, Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell said at a press conference that the Federal Reserve will have to expand the size of its balance sheet again at some point in the future after it just announced plans to stop shrinking it. After the latest FOMC (FOMC) meeting, Powell pointed out that in order to maintain sufficient liquidity in the financial system and control interest rates, the Federal Reserve will eventually increase its holdings again. "Reserves need to grow to cope w...