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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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Global Equity Markets Hit by Chinese Developer Evergrande’s Default Fear

A sea of red across the global equities markets is impacting crypto prices as bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap, slipped below $45,000 Monday. Robert Zagotta, CEO of Bitstamp USA, discusses why he sees the correction as purely short-term, adding "a lot of the volatility we're experiencing right now is expected." Plus, his take on bitcoin as a hedge against inflation, stablecoins, and the U.S. crypto regulatory landscape.

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Is Stablecoin Regulation Coming?

A New York Times article Sunday said U.S. regulators are concerned stablecoins could be a source of volatility and bring the dollar-pegged currencies under regulatory purview by declaring them as a risk to the financial system or treat them as securities, money market mutual funds, or as banks.

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US Treasury Department Prepares Stablecoin Report

U.S. Treasury officials are developing a report on stablecoins and their potential risks to the financial system to present to the President’s Working Group for Financial Markets. This allegedly follows last week’s meeting with representatives from financial institutions to discuss stablecoin regulations and other crypto issues.

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US Treasury Turns Its Gaze to Stablecoin Issuers

The U.S. Treasury Department is preparing a report on stablecoins and their potential risks to the financial system. Stablecoin transactions and their impact on financial stability are top-of-mind for Treasury officials. CoinDesk’s Nikhilesh De discusses the federal government’s latest efforts to examine stablecoins and the potential outcome for regulating the crypto industry at large.

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FTX CEO: 'Every Major Finance Firm Is Talking About Crypto'

Sam Bankman-Fried, head of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, and co-founder of decentralized finance (DeFi) project Serum discusses institutional adoption of crypto and his conversations with Wall Street. He launched his career as a trader at Jane Street Capital before entering the digital asset space. Plus, his take on plans for FTX following a $900 million raise valuing the firm at $18 billion, crypto regulators reacting to the SEC's case against Coinbase, and transparency around stablecoins. 

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Yield Guild Games Taps HaloDAO to Help Gamers Put Earnings in DeFi

Yield Guild Games (YGG), a key investor in the “play-to-earn” arena, has teamed up with the stablecoin-focused decentralized finance (DeFi) project HaloDAO to allow its gamers to cash out using its stablecoin and gain yield. "The Hash" squad discusses the latest move signaling the importance of DeFi in emerging economies and the world of blockchain games.

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