Investment platforms will take some time to establish the necessary compliance framework to sell bitcoin ETF products, the report said… https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/04/29/bitcoin-etf-slowdown-is-a-short-term-pause-not-the-beginning-of-a-negative-trend-bernstein/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

X users should eventually be able to use the app’s anticipated payment features to send money to other users, buy things in stores, and even earn interest on their account holdings… https://cointelegraph.com/news/x-payments-details-released-app-become-bank-account

David Lawant, Head of Research at FalconX, a digital assets prime brokerage with trading, financing, and custody for leading financial institutions, recently offered an analysis on X (formerly Twitter) regarding the evolving role of Bitcoin halvings in market dynamics… https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin/why-bitcoin-halving-matters-not-the-way-you-think/

It is a “likely foregone conclusion” that high Bitcoin ETF activity will continue leading up to the halving, said Santiment… https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-etf-trading-activity-robust-until-halving-santiment

BlackRock to start a new real-world asset (RWA) tokenization fund on the Ethereum network. The asset management giant also made strategic investments in asset tokenization company Securitize… https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/03/20/blackrock-enters-asset-tokenization-race-with-new-fund-on-the-ethereum-network/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=feedly&utm_campaign=headlines

The Anti-Money Laundering Authority is part of a broader effort by the European Union to combat illicit fund flows, and is ready to begin work as early as Friday, officials said Thursday… https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/02/22/frankfurt-to-host-new-eu-money-laundering-watchdog-tasked-with-monitoring-crypto/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Jupiter Asset Management (JUN), the London-listed firm with assets under management of over $65.8 billion, had to scrap an investment in one of the crypto exchange-traded products (ETP) due to a compliance issue, the FT reported on Friday… https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/02/16/asset-manager-jupiters-crypto-investment-scrapped-by-compliance-team-ft/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=feedly&utm_campaign=headlines

The liquidity provider is expanding to Luxembourg in a bid to widen its EU presence six months after gaining a license to operate in France… https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/02/07/b2c2-gains-luxembourg-virtual-asset-license-as-eus-crypto-rules-set-to-kick-in/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=feedly&utm_campaign=headlines

e Energy Information Administration (EIA), a statistics agency under the DOE, will survey the electricity use of selected U.S.-based miners over the coming six months starting next week, after putting out an “emergency collection of data request.”… https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/02/02/the-us-government-seems-to-be-closing-in-on-bitcoin-mining/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=feedly&utm_campaign=headlines