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Nearly 70 Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds Closed This Year, as Institutional Investors Stay Away | France to Test Its Own Central Bank Digital Currency in 2020 | Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler Appointed as New U.S. Senator for Georgia Read More: Market Analysis Report (05 Dec 2019)

Sean Neville is preparing to work on the company’s board of directors from the end of December, according to a media report amid the sale of Poloniex exchange. Read More: Circle Co-Founder Sean Neville Quits as CEO After Reshuffle: Report

KT Corporation wants to use blockchain to streamline roaming processes with China Mobile, the Chinese operator with which it is also partnering on a 5G rollout. Read More: South Korea Telecoms Giant Ramps Up Blockchain Roaming Deal With China

A further blockchain fund promises to develop the technology in Hainan’s dedicated free economic zone, which was established in 2018. Read More: China’s Hainan Free Trade Zone Pledges 0M in New Blockchain Support

Contrary to the public statements, insiders at the European Central Bank (ECB) reportedly say the bank has no laboratory working on a digital euro and little intention to create one any time soon. “Most of these comments [about the digital fiat] seem designed to jolt the private sector banks into improving the inefficient, costly and […]

Adding to the legal uncertainty surrounding cryptocurrency in Russia, the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has confirmed earlier reports that it is cooperating with the Russian Supreme Court and a number of other federal institutions to prepare draft legislation that would allow the authorities to confiscate cryptocurrency, with plans to submit a proposal by the […]

A popular economist said that Bitcoin (BTC) can go lower, meaning that we haven’t seen the bottom yet. However, that low is just a stop on a way to all-time highs, founder of Bitcoin alpha hedge fund Adamant Capital, Tuur Demeester, stressed. “We are way above the bottom of USD 3,000 [and] I don’t think […]

BlockFi, the cryptocurrency lending service, is expanding into trading with an unusual, zero-fee model. Read More: Crypto Lender BlockFi Rolls Out Zero-Fee Trading for Bitcoin, Ether, GUSD

Blockchain-based consumer lender Figure added Morgan Creek Digital’s Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano to its board following a $103 million funding round. Read More: Pompliano Joins Board of Blockchain-Based Lending Firm After 3M Raise

Matter Labs released Thursday the testnet of ZK-Sync, a privacy-minded scaling tool meant to help blockchains boost transaction speeds. Read More: Matter Labs Unveils Layer-2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum Payments

Crypto lending firm Unchained Capital has hired Will Cole of the Wyoming Blockchain Task Force as its new chief product officer. Read More: Stack Overflow VP Joins Crypto Lending Firm as Chief Product Officer