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Coinbase and Binance Move to Diversify, Stablecoins Under Scrutiny

Coinbase announces NFT platform. Binance launches US$1 billion growth fund. Stablecoins are under greater scrutiny. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Why G20's Financial Stability Board Says $133B Stablecoin Sector Remains Niche

A survey from the Financial Stability Board, a G20 entity that provides recommendations for the global financial system, found stablecoins are currently not being used at a significant scale for mainstream payments. CoinDesk's Nikhilesh De discusses what the data reveals about stablecoins at large amid a global call for stricter crypto regulation.

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What to Watch in Bitcoin This Week

Bitcoin’s price continues to rise, up more than 4% on the day. Patrick Heusser, head of trading at Crypto Finance AG, discusses his crypto markets analysis and outlook, explaining what he sees as drivers for positive or bullish sentiment around bitcoin.

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Blockstream CIO on Tether, Stablecoins, Liquid Network

Reacting to a report claiming Tether loaned out billions of dollars to Celsius and other crypto firms using bitcoin as collateral, Samson Mow, chief investment officer at bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream, discusses the increasing regulatory scrutiny over stablecoins, adding it’s “recycled FUD about Tether.”

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SEC Subpoenas USDC Stablecoin Backer Circle

Circle, a key supporter of the USDC stablecoin, revealed in a regulatory filing that it received an “investigative subpoena” from the SEC’s Enforcement Division in July, potentially about the assets backing USDC. “The Hash” team discusses the latest escalation by SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s signaling federal scrutiny of crypto is on the rise.

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Société Générale Applies for $20M MakerDAO Loan Using Bond Token Collateral

In a proposal Thursday on MakerDAO's governance forums, French multinational banking giant Société Générale (SocGen) applied for the DeFi lending platform to accept on-chain bond tokens issued by the bank as collateral for a stablecoin DAI loan for up to $20 million. "The Hash" panel discusses the historic step towards institutional adoption of DeFi.

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Visa Working on Interoperability Platform for Stablecoins and CBDCs

Payments behemoth Visa has proposed a platform to enable interoperability between central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and other stablecoins. The “universal payments channel” (UPC) aims to allow the cryptocurrencies to be transferred between different blockchain networks.

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Why Is Bitcoin Bouncing?

Bitcoin has gained 6.26% to trade near $44,000 one day after exhibiting bearish price action, but why is it bouncing? Senior Trader and President of Wave Financial, Justin Chuh, discusses his crypto markets analysis and outlook.

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Could China’s Evergrande Default Risk Trigger Domino Effect in Global Financial Markets?

Ming Zhao, an entrepreneur and former analyst at Point72, discusses her outlook for bitcoin as the wider crypto and traditional markets have potentially been impacted by a rising liquidity crisis out of Chinese property developer Evergrande. Could its default risk trigger a domino effect across the global economy? Plus, Zhao's take on the possible impact of China's regulatory storm on crypto, including stablecoins.

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