Kategorie: Crypto Markets

• Coinbase’s partnership with Bitkey, Block’s self-custody bitcoin wallet, will span six continents.
• The platforms will integrate Coinbase Pay to allow users buy/sell or transfer Bitcoin to their Bitkey self-custody wallet.
• Coinbase said the collaboration will allow customers to easily buy, store and manage their BTC.

Coinbase and Bitkey, the self-custody Bitcoin (BTC) wallet built by the Block, Inc., have announced a global partnership that will see the two companies promote self-custody usage.

The partnership, which will span six continents, will see Bitkey users buy and sell BTC on Coinbase, as well as transfer their holdings to their self-custody Bitkey wallets. The wallet includes a mobile app, hardware device and set of recovery tools, the companies said in a blog announcement on Thursday.

According to the announcement, Coinbase and Bitkey will leverage Coinbase Pay to allow customers easy access to fiat-to-crypto onramps, the US-based crypto exchange noted in the blog post. It is a key component to powering the next adoption phase of the Bitcoin economy.

“At Bitkey, we’re building a self-custody bitcoin wallet designed to empower the next 100 million people to truly own and manage their Bitcoin – safely and easily,” Lindsey Grossman, Business Lead at Bitkey said.

“Partners play a key role in bringing self-custody to a wider group of people around the world, and we are incredibly proud to have partnered with leading companies like Coinbase to make self-custody both secure and easy to use.”

Bitkey launches global beta program

The collaboration between Coinbase and Bitkey is kicking off as the self-custody wallet launches its global beta program. 

Customers in the beta program will be able to transfer their Bitcoin from centralized exchanges to Bitkey’s self-custody wallet. Buying and selling as well as direct transfers between Coinbase and Bitkey will be enabled when the wallet launches to the public later this year.

As noted above, Bitkey and Coinbase will offer the service to customers in six continents. Some of the countries include the US, Canada, the UK, Brazil, and Australia.

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• Delio’s move comes amid a heightened crackdown in the US by the SEC.
• The move follows the recent suspension of deposit and withdrawal of digital assets at Haru Invest.
• There have also been a sharp increase in market volatility and increased confusion among investors.

Due to increased market volatility, Delio, a Korea-owned cryptocurrency lending and savings company, has temporarily suspended fund withdrawals.

Founded in 2018, Delio offers its customers an annual percentage rate (APR) of up to 10.7% on their Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Tether (USDT) holdings.

The company said in a statement that it made the decision to halt deposits and withdrawals to protect its customers, who are currently perplexed as a result of the sharp decline in the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The translated version of the statement read:

“In the aftermath of the recent suspension of deposit and withdrawal of digital assets at Haru Invest., situations such as a sharp increase in market volatility and increased confusion among investors are causing.  In this situation, in order to safely protect the assets of customers currently in custody, Delio will inevitably suspend withdrawals temporarily as of June 14, 2023, 18:30, until the above situation and its aftermath are resolved.”

Crypto market decline

Since reaching an all-time high (ATH) of $69,000 in 2021, the price of Bitcoin has significantly decreased. The price of the leading cryptocurrency has decreased by more than 5% this week, and most altcoin prices have also undergone significant declines.

Without strong capital controls and reserves, the protracted bear market has made it inevitable for centralized cryptocurrency businesses to cease fund withdrawals or go out of business. Only a few of the numerous crypto lending platforms have managed to continue their regular business operations.

The bear market has seen industry heavyweights like Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, Vauld, and a host of others go under.

One of the very few digital asset lenders that have not suspended fund withdrawal services during these difficult times is Nexo, which reached a $45 million settlement with the US SEC last January.

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• OpenAI CEO is touring Asian capital cities.
• The CEO is currently touring Tokyo and is also expected to visit Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia.
• The CEO says he is optimistic about global AI coordination, which is a good thing for AI-based crypto projects.

The CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, Sam Altman, on Monday, stated that he was “quite optimistic” about the prospects for international cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) following a tour of Asian capital cities.

OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft Corp, has been making an effort to take advantage of the surge of interest in generative AI. It also wants to influence regulations for the field.

Speaking to students in Tokyo, Japan, Altman said:

“I came to the trip sceptical that it would be possible in the short term to get global cooperation to reduce existential risk, but I am now wrapping up the trip feeling quite optimistic we can get it done.”

Also, in a meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his April visit to Japan, Altman expressed his interest in setting up a local office in the country. Despite the fact that its major manufacturing players are investing heavily in automation technology, Japan is viewed as a laggard in AI.

The CEO is due to visit Indonesia, Australia, and Singapore, before returning to the US.

AI regulations around the world

The use of generative AI that can generate text and images has instilled both excitement and fear for its potential to reshape a wide range of industries. As a result, regulators are frantically trying to adapt current rules and create new guidelines for the AI industry.

While the United States is leaning toward adapting existing laws for AI rather than creating new legislation, the European Union lawmakers have already passed a landmark artificial intelligence regulation.

The passed EU artificial intelligence that will be called the AI Act would ban systems that are considered to pose “unacceptable” risks to human lives. The act is expected to put European governments on a collision course with US tech giants who have invested billions in AI technology.

Most of the proposed AI regulations seek to ensure the systems do not interfere with the lives of humans, which is a good thing for AI-based cryptocurrency projects. Most AI-based crypto projects combine blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies to process data to aid in ensuring efficient financial transactions including financial trading; meaning they are less likely to be negatively affected by the proposed regulations.

Popular AI-based crypto projects in 2023

Although AI-based cryptocurrencies were not spared in the recent crypto market decline following the US SEC onslaught on cryptocurrencies, they have been performing quite well since ChatGPT was launched last year. The number of AI-based cryptocurrencies has also exponentially grown following the many new blockchain projects leveraging AI technology to address different challenges.

AltSignals, a trading signals platform, is one of the most recent entrants in the industry with its new AI-based cryptocurrency called ASI, which is currently in the presale stage. The platform’s new AI project has gathered a lot of popularity seeing that the first stage of the ASI presale was 92.43% sold out at press time.

At the moment, the top five largest AI cryptocurrencies by market cap according to Coingecko are Render (RNDR), SingularityNET (AGIX), Fetch.ai (FET), Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), and Akash Network (AKT). The largest, Render, has a market cap of $651,359,605, while the fifth, Akash Network has a market cap of $99,731,536.

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• MakerDAO could soon remove $390M of Gemini’s GUSD stablecoin from its reserves.
• The DAO is currently voting to decrease the maximum amount of GUSD held in Maker’s DAI stablecoin reserve to $110M.
• MakerDAO’s reserve currently holds roughly 88% of total GUSD supply.

MakerDAO, a decentralized lending platform and DAI stablecoin issuer may soon sell $390 million of the Gemini Dollar (GUSD) stablecoin issued by the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange.

The Peg Stability Module (PSM) being voted on by the MakerDAO’s community, would reduce the maximum amount of GUSD from $500 million held in Maker’s DAI stablecoin reserve to just $110 million.

At press time about 94% of those who had cast their ballots, with less than 24 hours until the vote’s conclusion, support the proposal to lower GUSD.

Gemini Dollar (GUSD) future

Given that Maker controls about 88% of the stablecoin’s $568 million circulating supply, the vote will significantly impact the future of GUSD, whose metrics have been relatively stable. Maker supports the $4.5 billion DAI’s value by holding cryptocurrencies like Circle’s USDC and GUSD in its reserve and making investments in physical assets like bonds.

MakerDAO receives a 2% annual reward from Gemini for using the token as a reserve asset. Gemini is the issuer of GUSD. However, the proposal argued that by investing in short-term US Treasuries, which currently offer a yield of around 5%, the platform could benefit from better revenue opportunities.

The proposal states:

“Reducing GUSD exposure could allow for better capital efficiency by deploying funds into higher revenue-generating opportunities.”

The vote to reduce GUSD from DAI’s reserve comes just days after the DAO voted to drop MakerDAO drop Pax Dollar (USDP) stablecoin from its reserves.

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