United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in June. In an Aug. 4 filing with U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, lawyers for Coinbase filed a motion for judgment, claiming the SEC had “violated due process, abused its discretion, and abandoned its own earlier interpretations of the securities laws” in asserting certain regulatory authority over the crypto exchange. The legal team cited precedent from the SEC v. Ripple case, in which a…
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Bitcoin due key MACD bull flag repeat as BTC price freezes at $29.3K
Bitcoin (BTC) further reduced volatility ahead of the July 30 weekly close as traders eyed an exciting long-term bull signal. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView BTC price makes weekend “slower than ever” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed sideways BTC price action over the weekend, with BTC/USD sticking in a tiny $150 range. #Bitcoin Trading within a $10 range for the past 1.5 hours. Weekends are slower than ever lately. pic.twitter.com/FmZLL82wrk — Daan Crypto Trades (@DaanCrypto) July 29, 2023 Conditions throughout the week had remained calm, despite a…
Read MoreWeb3 usernames may see greater adoption due to recent advancements
Ever since the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) was launched in 2017, Web3 users have been able to replace the long strings of characters that make up a crypto address with a more easily memorized blockchain username or Web3 domain name. For example, Ethereum users can now send crypto to the network’s founder, Vitalik Buterin, at his username, vitalik.eth, without knowing that his address is 0xd8da6bf26964af9d7eed9e03e53415d37aa96045. But despite this advancement making it much easier to identify users, hardly anyone has taken advantage of it. There are over 200 million unique addresses…
Read MoreReal-world asset protocols outperform DeFi blue chips due to tokenization wave
Real-world asset (RWA) protocols have become a hot trend within decentralized finance (DeFi) circles. An RWA protocol is a decentralized application that allows entities to tokenize and trade real-world assets. These assets range from stocks and government bonds to real estate and commodities. They are also known as asset tokenization protocols. DeFi provides certain advantages over TradFi by making the smart contracts transparent and enabling a wide degree of financialization of assets by making them divisible, transferable and tradable on decentralized platforms. The top uncollateralized lending protocols for institutions, TrueFi…
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