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Russia’s Finance Ministry to Offer Crypto Trading to ‘Highly-Qualified’ Investors: Report

Russia's finance ministry and central bank are set to unveil a crypto exchange for "highly-qualified" investors, news agency Interfax reported on Wednesday.

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Binance to Offer Crypto Asset Managers ‘Fund Accounts’ That Mirror TradFi Trading

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is offering digital asset managers special accounts that allow pooling of their investors’ assets to make crypto fund management operations fe...

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Death by a Thousand Pools: How Liquidity Fragmentation Threatens DeFi

The maturation of DeFi technology has created a paradox: while battle-tested codebases and rising technical proficiency have lowered the barrier to entry for launching new protocols, securing sustaina...

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Crypto for Advisors: Tokenization of Real World Assets

The creation of a digital representation of assets via blockchain-based tokens is growing. In today’s issue, Herwig Konings from Security Token Market examines the growth of this industry and why to...

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Investor Surveys Reveal Strong Interest in Digital Assets

There was a time when skeptics and professionals alike held the belief that digital assets, cryptocurrencies in particular, might be nothing but a passing trend. That time has come and gone, and the d...

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Financial Building-Blocks: Structured Products and Blockchain

Traditionally in the domain of institutional investors, structured products combine various assets and derivatives to create tailored risk-return profiles. With the advent of blockchain, the potential...

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The Case for Crypto Index Funds

The crypto assets market has grown remarkably over the past 15 years, peaking at a $3 trillion valuation in 2021, with over 26,000 listed cryptocurrencies. This growth has attracted retail and high-ne...

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Insurance Is the Silent DeFi Guardian

Insurance companies have historically shaped standards and promoted safer practices throughout society. In the automobile industry, they drove the development and adoption of now-ubiquitous safety mea...

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Ether ETF’s Lack of Staking Won’t Dampen Strong Institutional Demand, 21Shares’ Ophelia Snyder Says

Institutional investors are unlikely to be concerned that U.S. spot ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) won't be staking the underlying token to provide extra returns, according to Ophelia Snyder...

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How Bitcoin ETFs Are Changing the Risk-Reward Ratio for Institutional Investors

As anticipated, the rollout of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the U.S. market has made a massive positive impact on the digital asset industry. It’s unleashed a stampede of retail inve...

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