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Singapore's Central Bank Backs New Code of Practice for Crypto Companies

The guidance is aimed at assisting regulatory compliance and enhance crypto industry conduct under the city-state's payment laws.

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Markets

Ripple CEO Hits Out at Reports Claiming Firm Is Pivoting From Interbank Payments

The CEO of Ripple Labs, Brad Garlinghouse, has criticized the Financial Times for saying his company plans to move away from interbank payments.

Brad Garlinghouse Ripple

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Attorney Ordered to Pay Out $5.2M for Bitcoin Escrow Mishap

The New York attorney released the funds without authorization and lost investment firm Benthos Master Fund $4.6 million intended for a bitcoin purchase deal.

New York

Markets

Epic Games Blasts Apple's 'Anti-Competitive' Payments Practices in Lawsuit

The Fortnite developer says in-app bitcoin and crypto payments could flourish if not for Apple's payments monopoly.

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Markets

US Postal Service Envisions Blockchain-Backed Mail-In Voting

Whether the USPS intends to experiment with its mail-in voting system was unclear Thursday.

The USPS has not disclosed if it actually intends to roll out its novel voting technique. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Sequoia-Backed Band Protocol Token Starts Trading on Coinbase

BAND surged to 24-hour trading highs shortly after news of the listing broke.

The Band Protocol team in 2019.

Markets

Anchorage Is Streamlining Custody of Tokensoft's ERC-1404 Security Tokens

The new partnership will add direct custodial support for Arcoin and INX, the upcoming INX Limited security token.

(CoinDesk archives)

Markets

New Jersey Man Accused of Paying $20K in Bitcoin to Have Sex Crimes Victim Killed

A New Jersey sex offender is now accused of paying a hitman in bitcoin to murder his 14-year-old victim.

The murder-for-hire never went through. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Crypto Data Site CoinMarketCap Has Gone Offline

The website for popular price aggregator CoinMarketCap appears to be down with all data and news feeds currently inaccessible.

(Shutterstock)

Markets

Elliptic Teams With Fireblocks to Automate Security and Compliance in Crypto Industry

Elliptic has joined forces with Fireblocks to automate anti-money laundering compliance for their shared institutional clients.

Elliptical shadows (Shutterstock)