LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s biggest soccer club, Benfica, will become the country’s first to join the crypto craze, partnering with blockchain-powered fan engagement firm Socios.com to launch a fan token, the club announced on Tuesday. “We have been paying very close attention to Digital Assets,” SL Benfica CEO Domingos Soares […]
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By Jessica DiNapoli and Divya Chowdhury DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency firms, many of which lined the main street in Davos this week, were told they will need to clean up their act before gaining complete acceptance from the World Economic Forum’s old guard. “The future of crypto, I’m sorry […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Big Indian crypto exchanges CoinSwitch Kuber and WazirX have disabled rupee deposits for the purchase of cryptocurrency through a widely-used state-backed transfer network, spurring users to renew demands for regulatory clarity. India has spent years working on a law to ban or regulate cryptocurrencies, with a ban […]
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Thousands of cryptocurrency enthusiasts are gathering in Miami as the city builds its reputation as one of the key locations to develop the blockchain technology despite its underdog status. Dozens of companies are using the Bitcoin 2022 conference running Wednesday through […]
By Huw Jones and Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) – Risks from the $2.6 trillion crypto market could grow quickly and regulators need pre-prepared measures to bring the sector to heel, the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a risk monitoring watchdog for the G20 economies, said on Wednesday. While cryptoassets like bitcoin […]