Dan Ashmore, CFA

[ad_1] On Feb 24th, the US Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs updated the status of the pending crypto regulation, IIJA Act, which will require crypto brokerage firms to submit…

[ad_1] Cryptocurrency is not an old industry. Bitcoin kicked off the industry as we know it when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis block on January 3rd 2009, as the world…

[ad_1] Until a week ago, USD Coin was seen as the world’s safest stablecoin.  BUSD, one of its chief rivals, was shut down last month by US regulators. Tether, the…

[ad_1] They said that blockchain and gaming were a match made in heaven. The only problem is that match got very, very ugly over the past year or so. The…

[ad_1] A lot has changed since I hosted Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino on the Invezz podcast last October.  Just a couple of weeks after we spoke, FTX collapsed in a…

[ad_1] It’s been a rough go of it for Binance recently. And the turmoil is continuing for the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. To me, it signifies a lot of the…

[ad_1] It’s been a rough year or so for crypto. This includes the area of decentralised finance, where total value locked (TVL) has collapsed amid the bear market.  Are you…

[ad_1] After hosting a podcast for close to a year now, yesterday I got to interview a fellow podcast host for the first time. Austin Federa is the head of…

[ad_1] It’s been a wretched year or so in the crypto markets.  The sector of decentralised finance has felt the pinch as much as anybody, with volumes and capital in…

[ad_1] PayPal holds Bitcoin. It holds a lot of it.  The online payments giant (NASDAQ:PYPL) rolled out a crypto service in the US in October 2020, allowing customers to buy…

[ad_1] 1. Economy US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell affirmed that more rate cuts would be coming if inflation and jobs data don’t begin to soften Jobs data came in…

[ad_1] By now, we all know the sordid tale of Mr Bankman-Fried, the one-time crypto prodigy who is now under house arrest in the far-too-comfortable California house owned by his…

[ad_1] 1. Economy Eurozone growth grew 0.1%, unexpected compared to expectations of a 0.1% contraction IMF stated UK the only leading economy likely to head into recession in 2023 These…

[ad_1] Just under a month into this shiny new year that is 2023, and markets are heating up.  Inflation has softened significantly over the last couple of months. The bane…

[ad_1] Exasperation. Irony. Apathy. This week’s story about Binance and its mismanagement of reserves raises many emotions. If you missed it, Bloomberg reported that Binance “mistakenly” pooled collateral for some…

[ad_1] 1.       Economy Eyes trained on interest rate policy as per usual Next big date is Fed meeting on February 1st to discuss latest monetary policy Bank…

[ad_1] Investors are smiling as the US inflation print for November came in at 7.1% this afternoon. This beats even the most optimistic of analysts, with 7.3% the consensus forecast…

[ad_1] Japan jolted the market Tuesday morning with a surprise tweak to its yield curve control strategy. This pumped the Yen against the dollar (USD/JPY), and sent waves throughout the…

[ad_1] 2022 was a chaotic year in crypto, with the collapse of FTX stealing the headlines. But there were also other developments beyond collapsing prices and fallen CEOs.  We interviewed…

[ad_1] “Diamond hands” was the mantra preached by crypto investors during the pandemic boom, which saw Bitcoin rocket north of $68,000 and appear as if it would never come down.…

[ad_1] I’ve wondered aloud how damaging the dent to crypto’s reputation will have been in recent months. The collapse of FTX (deep dive into that sordid affair here) felt like…