Rupee settles at 79.98 against US dollar; briefly touches 80/USD mark The rupee slid to the psychologically low level of 80 in intra day trade before settling down by 15 paise at 79.97 (provisional) against the US currency on Monday due to a surge in crude oil prices and unrelenting foreign fund outflows. At the…
India’s only lobby for blockchain and crypto exchanges will be dismantled, said a media report on Friday quoting a source in a group representing the wider mobile technology sector. The Blockchain and Crypto Assets Council (BACC) speaks for an industry already sell-off pressure. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, was trading at $20,798.02 on…
Cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the latest casualty of a $2 trillion crash that has wiped out some of the industry’s biggest names and exposed hundreds of thousands of individual investors to steep losses. Celsius, which has more than 100,000 creditors, said it took the step to stabilise its business and…
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday called on the G-20 nations to examine the feasibility of bringing non-financial assets such as crypto and immovable properties under the purview of automatic exchange of information among countries. The move is meant to enhance tax transparency. “Our investigations have shown that numerous layers of entities are often set…
US crypto lender Celsius Network said on Wednesday it had filed for bankruptcy in New York, becoming the latest victim in the cryptocurrency sector of a dramatic plunge in token prices. New Jersey-based Celsius froze withdrawals last month, citing “extreme” market conditions, cutting off access to savings for individual investors and sending tremors through the…
5G spectrum auction may fetch over Rs 1 trillion, say analysts The country’s two leading telecom operators, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, are expected to spend between Rs 62,000-Rs 80,000 crore collectively in the upcoming auction to buy predominantly 5G spectrum in the 3.5 GHz and millimetre bands, depending on the formula for bidding that…
India’s top cryptocurrency (crypto) exchanges have facilitated transactions from other countries, including the US, Brazil, and Germany, on their platform without complying with know-your-customer (KYC) regulations and anti-money laundering (AML) norms as prescribed under the foreign exchange (forex) rules, reveals the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED’s) latest probe findings.
Major stablecoins must comply with the same safeguards as traditional forms of payments, global regulators said on Wednesday, tightening controls over a battered crypto sector. Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to have a stable value relative to traditional currencies, or to a commodity, to avoid the volatility that makes bitcoin and other digital tokens impractical for…
Bitcoin bulls beware: Wall Street expects the cryptocurrency’s crash to get a whole lot worse. The token is more likely to tumble to $10,000, cutting its value roughly in half, than it is to rally back to $30,000, according to 60% of the 950 investors who responded to the latest MLIV Pulse survey. Forty percent…
Crypto investing app CoinSwitch has appointed Sudheer Tumuluru as its head of crypto engineering. His role includes leading the company’s efforts to build the technology stack that drives crypto trading, exchange, and emerging crypto products. Tumuluru joins CoinSwitch from Myntra where he was vice president of engineering. With over two decades of experience, he has…
