Zooming Out: The Real Takeaway from the Senate’s Digital Asset Debate

Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please consult our website policy prior to making financial decisions. Taking advantage of a procedural move, all progress on the infrastrucre bill’s crypto regulation was neutralized by a single senator. The original unfavorable bill now heads to the House of Representatives. Where does this […]

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Cross-chain Poly Network Gets Hacked for Over $600M, Exchanges & Stablecoin Issuers Act to Save the Lost Funds

In what appears to be the largest DeFi attack to date, cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for more than half a billion dollars. “We are sorry to announce that PolyNetwork was attacked on BinanceChain, Ethereum and Polygon,” tweeted the team on Tuesday while sharing the hacker’s address where the assets have been transferred. […]

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Janet Yellen Behind the Push to Cripple American DeFi

Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please consult our website policy prior to making financial decisions. On the battleground between excessive red tape and financial innovation, both elected Senators and unelected officials side with the former. After multiple amendments have been proposed to Biden’s far-reaching infrastructure bill, the US digital […]

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Nasdaq Eyes Tokenized Real Estate while tZERO Begins Onboarding Exodus Investors – Digital Securities Weekly

Nasdaq Marketplace Services Platform Of all the markets expected to be transformed by digital securities, real estate is widely agreed upon to be the most ripe.   Nasdaq’s Vice President and Head of Digital Assets Johan Toll, recently took a look at why this is, and what Nasdaq is doing about it. “Issuing real estate tokens […]

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Binance Is Restricting Futures Trading for All HK Residents, Also Limiting New API Key Creation

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced on Friday that it is restricting access to its platform by Hong Kong residents with immediate effect. “We will be restricting Hong Kong users in respect of derivatives products (including all futures, options, margin products, and leveraged tokens) in line with our commitment to compliance.” Users from Hong Kong will also […]

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