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CBDC
- Federal Reserve’s Powell Says CBDCs ‘Need to Coexist With Cash’ (coindesk)
- Closing Remarks Chair Jerome H. Powell (federal reserve)
- BOJ must prepare ‘thoroughly’ on digital currency, says Kuroda (Reuters)
- Bank of Japan to begin central bank digital currency experiments later this year (The Block)
- French Firm Launches Euro Stablecoin With Monthly Attestations From PwC (coindesk)
Regulation
- ESMA sees high risk for investors in non-regulated crypto-assets (ESMA)
- France’s government is set to auction off $34 million in bitcoin this week (The Block)
ETF
- WisdomTree Files for a Bitcoin ETF (coindesk)
- SEC Publishes VanEck’s Bitcoin ETF Application, Kicking Off Decision Clock (coindesk)
- Why a U.S. Bitcoin ETF Could Be a Real Thing in 2021 (The Washington Post)
Morgan Stanley
- Morgan Stanley: ‘Threshold being reached’ on crypto as an investable asset class (The Block)
- Morgan Stanley becomes the first big U.S. bank to offer its wealthy clients access to bitcoin funds (Cnbc)
- Morgan Stanley to Offer Clients Exposure to Bitcoin Funds: Report (coindesk)
- Morgan Stanley Bidding for South Korean Crypto Exchange Bithumb (cryptobriefing)
Exchanges
- Coinbase valuation soars to $68 billion ahead of highly anticipated crypto listing (Cnbc)
- Kraken CEO Says He’d Only Want to Go Public at a Valuation Above $10B (coindesk)
- Crypto exchange Kraken could go public next year via a direct listing (The Block)
- Cryptomania gives Austria its first unicorn: Bitpanda (Financial Times)
- Crypto Has Another Unicorn as Bitpanda Raises $170M at $1.2B Valuation (coindesk)
Custodians
- Bank of New York Mellon Invests in Crypto Startup (WallStreetJournal)
- BNY Mellon Joins $133M Investment in Crypto Startup Fireblocks (cryptobriefing)
- BNY Mellon Joins $133 Million In Series C In Bitcoin Custodian Fireblocks (Forbes)
- Crypto security firm Fireblocks raises $30 million in Series B led by Paradigm (The Block)
- Fireblocks Raises $133 Million in Series C Funding To Bring the World’s Biggest Banks and Fintechs Into Crypto (Prnewswire)
- Bitcoin Custody Firm Bakkt Receives BitLicense in New York (Decypt.co)
- Crypto Custody Firm Anchorage Adds Support for HEGIC, RAD and RLY (coindesk)
NFTs
- Beeple NFT Sold for Record-Setting $69.3M at Christie’s Auction (coindesk)
- NFT marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million in Series A round led by a16z (The Block)
- Lessons From the Nifty Gateway NFT Heist: Not Your Keys, Not Your Art (coindesk)
- Hackers stole NFTs from Nifty Gateway users (TheVerge)
Ethereum
- Ethermine Adds Front-Running Software to Help Miners Offset EIP 1559 Revenue Losses (coindesk)
- ConsenSys Confidential: Ethereum Builder Is Back in Growth Mode, Document Reveals (coindesk)
Mining
Opinions
- Surveys Indicate Inflow of Stimulus Checks to Stocks, Bitcoin (cryptobriefing)
- Bitcoin Tech Talk #231 (Jimmy Song)
- Gauge Theory Does Not Fix This (Allen Farrington)
Bitcoin Tech
- A History of Bitcoin Transaction Dust & Spam Storms (Blog Lopp)
- Bitcoin Optech Newsletters (BitcoinOptech)
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