emerging markets


Opinion

From Existential to Irrelevance Risk

The crypto industry faces the next big risk on the way to a maturing asset class: irrelevance, says Ilan Solot.

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Finance

Stablecoins Increasingly Used for Savings, Payments in Emerging Countries, but Crypto Trading Still Leads: Report

Commissioned by Brevan Howard and Castle Island Hill, the survey covered more than 2,500 crypto users in Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey, Indonesia and India.

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Markets

Binance Boosts Bitcoin, Ether Trading in Argentine, Brazilian, South African Currencies With Fee Promotion

The crypto exchanges promotion comes as trading volumes plummet to four-year lows, hurting the exchange’s revenue stream.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

Tech

What ChatGPT Thinks About Digital Assets

Todd Groth of CoinDesk Indices quizzes ChatGPT about crypto and then explores how that might factor into an investment opinion.

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Opinion

Bank Consolidation Threatens Freedom, Makes Case for Bitcoin

The biggest threat from the banking crisis triggered by this month’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank might not lie in the potential for depositors to lose their savings but in the censorship power that massive banks are now accumulating as customers move their money.

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Finance

Xapo Bank Integrates Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, Partners with Lightspark

Crypto pioneer Xapo has quietly assembled interest-bearing, deposit-guaranteed USD bank accounts with a view to providing alternative financial services in emerging market countries.

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Opinion

Fed Policy Win Could Harm Bitcoin’s Wall Street Narrative

The January rebound in equities and knockout employment report may have undermined a few buy-bitcoin narratives, but the real value proposition behind bitcoin lies far beyond Wall Street in emerging markets, where bitcoin is in strong demand.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Markets

Binance Garnered Largest Market Share of Crypto Investors From Emerging Markets in 2022

A CryptoCompare report found that as inflation surged worldwide, the crypto exchange giant attracted the largest number of retail investors from countries facing high inflation.

Logo de Binance. (Unsplash)

Finance

HashKey Capital Raises $500M for 3rd Crypto Fund

The firm will back blockchain projects that could achieve mass adoption.

Game7 presenta un programa de ayuda de US$100 millones para juegos basados en blockchain. (Pixabay)

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