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BIS Launches Innovation Hub With Nordic Central Banks Focusing on CBDCs

The launch of the Nordic hub marks the fifth BIS Innovation Hub Centre to be opened in the past two years.

BIS headquarters in Basil, Switzerland.

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Step Finance to Aggregate Solana’s Decentralized Exchanges Onto Dashboard

The Solana ecosystem is backed heavily by Sam Bankman-Fried, and has been pitched as a faster, cheaper alternative to Ethereum.

A mockup of the Step Finance dashboard

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Kraken to No Longer Offer Margin Trading for US Investors Who Don't Meet 'Certain' Requirements

Kraken said the changes come due to regulatory guidance about leveraged digital asset transactions.

Cryptocurrency prices on Kraken, May 22, 2021.

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Bram Cohen’s Chia Drives Hard Disk Demand in Europe: Report

Research by Context shows just under 200,000 enterprise-grade nearline storage devices of 10TB capacity were sold to end-users in Europe this April.

Chia founder Bram Cohen

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21Shares to List Bitcoin ETP in London on Aquis Exchange

Both 21Shares and ETC Group will be launching crypto ETPs on the Aquis Exchange Multilateral Trading Facility for U.K. investors.

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Ruffer Turned Bitcoin Investment Into a $1.1B Profit in 5 Months: Report

The investment firm says it sold the last of its bitcoin because younger people would not be spending so much time trading as lockdown restrictions are relaxed.

London

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Sotheby’s Opens Virtual Replica of Its London Galleries in Decentraland

The virtual gallery is located in Decentraland’s Voltaire Art District and can be found using map coordinates 52,83.

Sotheby's, New Bond Street, London

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UK’s AML Rules Could Force Up to 50 Crypto Firms to Cease Trading: Report

The FCA has expressed concern that a "significantly high number" of crypto-asset businesses are not meeting its standards on AML.

The offices of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in London. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Japan's BitFlyer Gives US Clients Access to Bitcoin and Japanese Yen Pair Trading

“The BTC/JPY spot market posted over $30 billion in trading volume, making it one of the world’s largest bitcoin to fiat markets,” says bitFlyer.

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