Bitcoin News and Finance: What You Need to Know

Rune Christensen, a co-founder of Maker, the Ethereum-based stablecoin protocol, has proposed to reimplement the protocol on a new chain forked from Solana. This move would be the final part of “Endgame,” an update to the protocol that seeks to grow the stablecoin dai by enhancing “efficiency, resilience, and participation.” Maker Proposal Involves Protocol Reimplementation on Solana Fork Rune Christensen, a cofounder of Maker, the stablecoin protocol behind dai, has proposed reimplementing the protocol on top of a fork of Solana, updating it to manage possible problems derived from technical failures or governance attacks. The move would be part of Maker’s roadmap evolution, called “Endgame,” designed to “enhance efficiency, resilience, and participation” around the Maker protocol. He defended the creation of a blockchain used only to run the backend of Maker, stating that it would “deal with the eight years of technical debt in the protocol.” This would imply each component woul...

JPMorgan has provided an analysis of the risks of de-dollarization and the potential for the Chinese yuan to displace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The global investment bank says the renminbi could assume “some of the current functions of the dollar among non-aligned countries and China’s trading partners.” JPMorgan on De-Dollarization and Chinese Yuan JPMorgan’s Global Research published a report on Thursday titled “De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance?” Alexander Wise, who covers Strategic Research at JPMorgan, described: The risk of de-dollarization, which is a periodically recurrent theme throughout post-war history, has returned into focus due to geopolitical and geostrategic shifts. JPMorgan outlined two scenarios that could erode the status of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. “The first includes adverse events that undermine the perceived safety and stability of the greenback — and the U.S.’s overall standing as the ...

Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior commodity strategist, Mike McGlone, has predicted that the price of bitcoin could “follow the path of the Nikkei, which reached a 33-year high in June.” He highlighted that the largest crypto “has had a close directional relationship with the Nikkei 225.” Bitcoin’s ‘Close Directional Relationship’ With Nikkei Index Mike McGlone, a senior commodity strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence (BI), the research arm of Bloomberg, has pointed out similarities between the Nikkei index and the price of bitcoin. In the latest Bloomberg Intelligence report, the commodity strategist explored whether the Nikkei index or the Nikkei Stock Average (Nikkei 225), the premier index of Japanese stocks, is “a guide for bitcoin or vice versa.” McGlone detailed last week: Bitcoin has had a close directional relationship with the Nikkei 225, and recent crypto weakness may portend contagion. That or the benchmark crypto might recover and follow the path of the Nikkei, which r...

The Bank of New York Mellon has provided insights into why the growth of the BRICS economic alliance is unlikely to impact the U.S. dollar’s dominance as the global reserve currency. “We think the most important factor for dollar use into the next decade revolves around technology instead,” said the investment bank’s analyst. BNY Mellon on US Dollar’s Dominance The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon) explained in a note, published Friday, that the U.S. dollar is unlikely to lose its global reserve currency status despite the expansion of the BRICS economic bloc. The leaders of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) recently invited six nations — Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — to join the alliance as new members. Bob Savage, head of market strategy at BNY Mellon, does not believe the expansion of the BRICS group is enough to dethrone the U.S. dollar. Noting that one of the BRICS objectives is t...

Dubai’s Bybit cryptocurrency exchange has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered instrument named Tradegpt. The new chatbot can scrutinize the exchange’s existing market data and offer an in-depth price evaluation by employing bitcoin’s current metrics as an example. Furthermore, the Bybit chatbot can recommend apt trading approaches for that day’s sessions and provide additional crypto market knowledge based on real-time Bybit market data. Bybit’s Unveils New AI Tool for Real-Time Crypto Market Insights As AI frameworks and ideas continue to expand, numerous individuals and organizations have been integrating cryptocurrency and blockchain knowledge with these extensive language models (LLMs) and advanced learning algorithms. On September 4, 2023, the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit disclosed the deployment of an AI tool named Tradegpt , a component of Bybit’s AI suite called Toolsgpt. Bybit explained on Monday that Openai’s Chatgpt only possesses pertinent data up to S...

PRESS RELEASE. [Singapore, September 4th 2023] – The Hourglass Collective is spearheading a new era of Web3 adoption. In a world where technological progress has sprinted from hard industries to consumer-facing revolutions, it’s now in the hands of service-oriented high-tech sectors like robotics, advanced software, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. OpenAI’s ChatGPT recently made headlines, reaching 100 million users in just two months, even outpacing TikTok’s adoption rate record of nine months. Yet, challenges faced by crypto, Web3, and blockchain technologies in 2022 prompted the need for fresh perspectives and strategies to clarify and elevate their value proposition to the real economy. The solution? The Hourglass Collective. About The Hourglass Collective: A New Model for Blockchain Adoption The Hourglass Collective is a Web3 incubator composed of seasoned professionals from fintech, media, mobile apps, retail, real estate, entertainment, and marketing sector...

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Worldcoin reaches record verifications in Argentina, Circle partners with Mercado Pago to bring USDC to Chile, and Binance launches a Latam-focused remittance solution. Worldcoin Reaches Record Verifications in Argentina Worldcoin, the biometric ID and digital wallet project, has recently announced it reached a record in daily verifications in Argentina. In a press release, Worldcoin reported that due to the high demand for the project, they had reached 9.5k verifications in a single day in August. Worldcoin achieved this milestone with only four verification stations located in four different cities of the country. Alex Blania, one of the co-founders of the Worldcoin project, detailed this was possible in Argentina because it was “one of the most crypto-forward countries in the world.” He said he considered it an “explosive building ground” for cr...

The FTX debtors filed a bankruptcy court document detailing lavish cash transfers and purchases by former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and other company insiders. The section titled “Statement of Financial Affairs for Non-Individuals Filing for Bankruptcy” shows that Bankman-Fried reportedly received more than $1 billion in cash transfers in the year before FTX’s collapse. FTX Bankruptcy Filing Details Lavish Cash Transfers and Purchases for Former CEO Bankman-Fried Recent court documents indicate Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly received cash payments of $68.3 million on Aug. 8, 2022, and $200 million on May 26, 2022. The document lists other payments to Bankman-Fried, including $100 million on June 7, 2022, and $10 million on several other dates. The filings also suggest FTX funds were used to purchase a yacht for former Alameda Research co-CEO Samuel Trabucco, valued at more than $2.5 million. The document details other lavish purchases, including multimillion-dollar real estate in the na...