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New York Stock Exchange Considers 24-Hour Trading, Partially Prompted by Crypto: Report

New York Stock Exchange Considers 24-Hour Trading, Partially Prompted by Crypto: Report

The largest stock exchange in the world is reportedly gauging interest in becoming an around-the-clock operation. According to the Financial Times, the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) analytics team is surveying interest in after-hours trading. FT says the interest is largely driven by the 24/7 world of crypto trading, which saw huge increases in retail investors […]

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Tokenized asset market could hit $16T on public blockchains — RippleX VP

Institutional investors, asset managers and banks are racing to bring financial assets on-chain in a market estimated to grow to $16 trillion in value.

Traditional finance (TradFi) firms have warmed up to the idea of tokenizing financial assets on public blockchains as the race toward blockchain-based tokenization heats up.

According to RippleX senior vice president Markus Infanger, TradFi players are finally bringing financial assets on-chain as they look to deploy for production and solve pain points in various value chains.

Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph during Paris Blockchain Week, Infanger said that TradFi’s use of blockchain is finally becoming tangible.

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CryptoQuant CEO Says Institutions Will Drive a Faster and More Spectacular Bitcoin Bull Run

CryptoQuant CEO Says Institutions Will Drive a Faster and More Spectacular Bitcoin Bull Run

The co-founder and CEO of market intelligence firm CryptoQuant says he believes that blue-chip financial institutions getting involved in Bitcoin (BTC) could spark the biggest bull run yet. In a new thread, Ki Young Ju tells his 332,000 followers on the social media platform X that he expects an explosive Bitcoin bull cycle with the […]

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Societe Generale To Become First TradFi Bank To Launch a Stablecoin, Plans Debut on Bitstamp: Report

Societe Generale To Become First TradFi Bank To Launch a Stablecoin, Plans Debut on Bitstamp: Report

One of the largest banks in France is reportedly becoming the first traditional finance (TradFi) institution to issue its very own stablecoin. According to a new report by The Financial Times, French bank Societe Generale (SocGen) has launched its own Euro-pegged digital asset – dubbed the EUR ConVertible – on the Luxembourg-based crypto exchange platform […]

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Crypto All Set for Renewed Economic Expansion As Biggest TradFi Firms Eye Industry With Envy: Raoul Pal

Crypto All Set for Renewed Economic Expansion As Biggest TradFi Firms Eye Industry With Envy: Raoul Pal

Macro guru Raoul Pal says that crypto assets are set for a new bull market as traditional finance firms begin to move into the nascent sector. In a new thread, the former Goldman Sachs executive tells his one million followers on the social media platform X that the crypto sphere is set for a massive […]

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Crypto portfolio management platform MC2 Finance joins Cointelegraph Accelerator

Decentralized crypto wealth management platform MC2 Finance becomes the latest participant of the Cointelegraph Accelerator program.

Decentralized finance (DeFi) might hold immense potential to solve the problems faced by traditional finance (TradFi). However, DeFi still struggles with onboarding new users -both retail and institutional- due to its limitations on the user experience side. 

Despite all the innovation and development happening on the infrastructure level, the “DeFi revolution” is presented to users with unnecessarily complicated screens that would require expert-level technical knowledge. 

To reach the mainstream, blockchain protocols need a robust infrastructure on the back while delivering a smooth, clean and user-friendly experience on the front. The easiest way to achieve this is to take a cue from what has worked in TradFi and fintech all these years in terms of user experience.

MC2 Finance, a decentralized crypto asset management platform, aims to onboard both TradFi users and crypto newcomers by simplifying the investment experience in DeFi. It offers an infrastructure for creating KYC-free digital asset funds that are aligned with regulatory requirements. 

Asset managers can instantly create non-custodial portfolio structures across multiple blockchains using MC2 Finance and trade a strategy as a token. Users can then follow experts’ strategies with their own cross-chain portfolios automatically. Once a user connects to MC2 Finance with a Web3 wallet, they’re free to explore different token strategies and review risks and ratings to make informed decisions based on their goals.

DeFi needs simple screens

The simplistic design of the platform allows DeFi newcomers to easily mix their strategies through an uncluttered interface while learning from the expert community by joining exclusive traders’ clubs.

The platform features a white-label marketplace that is integrated into popular decentralized exchanges (DEXs). The integration means increased trading volume and total value locked (TVL) for some of the biggest DEXs in the space. MC2 Finance also offers automated auditing and strategy verification to ensure the safety and reliability of investments. What’s more, by implementing trading competitions, the platform will allow users to have access to tested out investment strategies.

“The digitization and decentralization of all asset classes is a clear trend in the financial sector,” an MC2 Finance spokesperson commented, adding that MC2 Finance is bridging traditional finance and DeFi by bringing TradFi standards to DeFi and introducing decentralization to traditional funds.

“By creating a compliant, non-custodial, and decentralized fund management infrastructure, we're addressing key challenges in both sectors and facilitating the transition to on-chain financial systems.” 

MC2 Finance joins Cointelegraph Accelerator

MC2 Finance joined the Cointelegraph Accelerator, a program designed to help up-and-coming Web3 projects benefit from Cointelegraph’s established media presence and marketing opportunities. Cointelegraph Accelerator picked MC2 Finance due to its team expertise and vision of the potential to disrupt the traditional investment industry using the blockchain technilogy . 

Having 14 employees across Europe, the project already has partnerships with several blockchains and DEXs. The platform hosted over a thousand users during its testnet phase, and a full launch is slated for early 2024. 

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Decentralized finance yet to pose ‘meaningful risk’ to stability — EU regulator

The European Securities and Markets Authority argued that DeFi was still too small to pose any sizeable risks to overall financial stability, but should be monitored.

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is yet to pose a meaningful risk to overall financial stability but does require monitoring, according to the European Union’s financial markets and securities regulator.

On Oct. 11, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) released a report titled Decentralized Finance in the EU: Developments and Risks. Aside from discussing the nascent ecosystem's benefits and risks, the regulator concluded it is yet to pose a sizeable risk to financial stability.

“Crypto-assets markets, including DeFi, do not represent meaningful risks to financial stability at this point, mainly because of their relatively small size and limited contagion channels between crypto and traditional financial markets.”

The total crypto market capitalization is just over $1 trillion, and DeFi total value locked is a mere $40 billion, according to DefiLlama. Comparatively, the total assets of financial institutions in the EU amounted to around $90 trillion in 2021, according to the European Commission.

DeFi TVL by protocol type. Source: ESMA

The report said that the total crypto market is about the same size as the EU’s twelfth largest bank or 3.2% of the total assets held by EU banks.

The ESMA also looked into several crypto contagions of 2022, including the collapse of the Terra ecosystem and FTX, noting that this crypto “Lehman moment” still had “no meaningful impact on traditional markets.”

Nevertheless, the regulator observed that DeFi has similar traits and vulnerabilities to traditional finance, such as liquidity and maturity mismatches, leverage, and interconnectedness.

It also highlighted that although investors’ exposure to DeFi remains small, there are still serious risks to investor protection due to the "highly speculative nature of many DeFi arrangements, important operational and security vulnerabilities, and the lack of a clearly identified responsible party."

It cautioned that this could “translate into systemic risks if the phenomenon were to gain significant traction and/or if interconnections with traditional financial markets were to become material.”

Related: EU’s new crypto law: How MiCA can make Europe a digital asset hub

Furthermore, the report identified a “concentration risk” associated with DeFi activities.

“DeFi activities are concentrated in a small number of protocols,” it noted adding that the three largest ones represent 30% of the TVL.

Top ten DeFi protocols by TVL. Source: ESMA

“The failure of any of these large protocols or blockchains could reverberate across the whole system,” it said.

The regulator is paying much closer attention to DeFi and crypto markets following the publication of its second consultative paper on the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulations earlier this month.

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ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood Says There’s a Convergence Between Bitcoin and Artificial Intelligence

ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood Says There’s a Convergence Between Bitcoin and Artificial Intelligence

The chief executive and founder of ARK Invest says that artificial intelligence (AI) and Bitcoin (BTC) could converge to heavily reduce costs and boost productivity. Cathie Wood says on the social media platform X that the merging of AI and digital assets could fundamentally change the way that companies run. “The convergence between Bitcoin and […]

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Arthur Hayes Says Larry Fink and BlackRock Coming for Bitcoin and Crypto Industry – Here’s How

Arthur Hayes Says Larry Fink and BlackRock Coming for Bitcoin and Crypto Industry – Here’s How

BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes says that the giants of traditional finance (TradFi) are planning a subtle takeover of the Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto industries. In a new blog post, Hayes says that there is now a battle as to who “owns” crypto, with legacy financial institutions circling the industry in the depths of the bear […]

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Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Crypto a Better Option for Many Financial Activities – Here’s Why

Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Crypto a Better Option for Many Financial Activities – Here’s Why

Billionaire celebrity investor Mark Cuban thinks blockchain technology is a better option for traditional finance (TradFi) activities. The Dallas Mavericks owner tells his 8.8 million Twitter followers that crypto beats the traditional banking systems in a number of areas including security and efficiency. “Now let’s discuss traditional lending vs. crypto lending. It’s simply a matter […]

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