2 Stocks to Stay Away From in Early 2021

Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please consult our website policy prior to making financial decisions. 2020 brought a great deal of change to the global economy, and the landscape has undergone tremendous change. Investors have poured capital into assets like the increasingly adopted Bitcoin, as governments print fiat and […]

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FTX Now Allows to Short or Long Grayscale’s GBTC & ETHE and Bitwise 10 Crypto Index (BITW)

This time, cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX has listed the stocks of crypto asset funds. The world’s largest asset manager Grayscale Investment’s two popular products GBTC and ETHE are now available to trade on FTX. Both the products currently trade at 17% and 15% premium respectively on the secondary market. Bitwise 10 Crypto Index (BITW), which […]

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OCC Interpretive Letter #1174 Allows Banks to Act as Blockchain Nodes and Develop/Utilize Stablecoins

In the newly released interpretive letter #1174 from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), United States based banks are now permitted to not only act as nodes within a blockchain network, but may develop/issue/utilize their very own stablecoins. “National banks and Federal savings associations (collectively referred to as “banks”) may use new […]

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Banks Can Now Treat Public Blockchains Similarly to SWIFT, ACH

Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please consult our website policy prior to making financial decisions. 2021 started with groundbreaking good news for the crypto space. The Treasury’s subdivision, OCC, declared that all financial institutions in the US can use public blockchains for their business needs. On the back of […]

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China Gives Away $3 Million Worth of Digital Yuan in Latest CBDC Test

Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please consult our website policy prior to making financial decisions. China continues to lead the charge in testing and implementing Central Bank Digital Currency – CBDC. As Western powers continue to count covid cases, paralyzing their economies, China has long-since left the pandemic behind. […]

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