Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.
Top Stories This Week
Crypto Exchange Coinbase Retracts Announcement Of Getting Regulatory Approval
Major U.S. crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase has retracted[1] their previous announcement[2] that they had secured approval from U.S. regulators to list digital tokens considered to be securities. According to comments sent to Bloomberg, not only were the SEC and FINRA not involved in Coinbase’s purchase of Keystone —an acquisition intended to make Coinbase into a broker dealer — the SEC’s approval is “not required” anyway.
Stellar Blockchain “First” To Be Declared Sharia Certified For Money Transfers
Open source distributed payment platform Stella has reportedly become[3] the first distributed ledger protocol to receive a Sharia compliance certification in the money transfer and asset tokenization fiend. With the Sharia certification, issued by the Central Bank of Bahrain-licensed Shariyah Review Bureau, Stellar will be able to operate in regions where financial services must comply with Islamic financing principles.
Top Swiss Exchange SIX Group “Open” To Adding Cryptocurrency Trading
The parent company of Switzerland’s principal stock exchange, SIX Group, said[4] this week that it would be open to offering crypto trading services on its digital trading platform. Speaking about the possibility of a crypto trading addition, a SIX Group spokesperson said that there is a “real need” for establishing “transparency and accountability in the crypto-world.” SIX’s digital trading platform, set to be
