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Today's must-reads Top Shelf RISKS TO STABILITY? The U.S. Treasury Department is preparing a report on stablecoins and their potential risks to the financial system for a presidential working group. A team of top financial regulators, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler, last met in July to discuss stablecoins and the issuance process. PUBLIC TENDERIZES: El Salvador’s public management watchdog will investigate the government’s use of the country’s public treasury for bitcoin purchases. Regional human rights and transparency organization Cristosal filed the complaint. Meanwhile, credit rating agency S&P Global said El Salvador’s decision to adopt bitcoin as legal tender had “immediate, negative implications.” MART THEFT: An NFT auction on the MISO token launchpad built on SushiSwap appears to have been exploited. The attacker made off with roughly $3 million in ETH, SushiSwap CTO Joseph Delong tweeted Thursday. Sushi representatives allege that Github user “AristoK3″ replaced JayPegsAutoMart’s wallet address with their own on Sushi’s frontend – it was the only project attacked. The funds have reportedly been returned. Something of a breakout success, Jay Pegs is a farcical NFT project that draws inspiration from used car dealerships. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Shanghai will use Conflux’s blockchain infrastructure for a test of the digital yuan in offshore markets in the city’s Lin-gang Pilot Free Trade Zone, home to Tesla’s Gigafactory, Siemens and General Electric. The experiment will be conducted by the new Shanghai ShuTu Blockchain Research Institute established by Conflux and the state-owned Shanghai Maritime University, according to the statement. RIPPLE BUILDS: Ripple, the global payments company currently sparring with the SEC, is looking to build a crypto market-making platform. The firm is looking to recruit as many as 10 people in total to be split between three hubs: London, New York and Singapore.
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Putting the news in perspective The Takeaway The Risk in Evergrande’s Stablecoin Sandwich The stablecoin issuer Tether this week declared that it doesn’t hold short-term debt issued by troubled Chinese real estate developer Evergrande. Since Tether doesn’t disclose specifics about the commercial paper that substantially backs its “stablecoin,” this is a bit like serving a houseguest a sandwich and loudly assuring them that the meat is NOT from a diseased horse.
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BTCS: Nasdaq Listing Brings BTCS to Mainstream Markets
The crypto markets are becoming increasingly mainstream as new institutional investors and traditional financial services companies enter the markets daily. Just last week financial services giant Citigroup announced that due to the intensity of client requests, it was setting up a crypto derivatives team. Citi’s move reinforces the revelation the previous week that 90% of Fidelity’s institutional clients had shown an interest in bitcoin. The move of mainstream financial firms into crypto is in full swing.
But the trend is also working the other way, as more crypto firms are going mainstream. Some are adding traditional financial services products, such as FX or options trading, to their product suites. Others are applying to be regulated by the traditional market regulators. A third way this trend is playing out is by crypto firms seeking the ultimate market recognition: a listing on the U.S. public equity markets.
One such firm is BTCS Inc., which began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol BTCS on Tuesday.
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