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View More NewsVirtu Financial, M1X Global and Tradeweb completed an onchain repo transaction using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, with the full transaction settling on the Canton Network.The transaction used USDM1, a US dollar-denominated sovereign bond issued onchain by the Republic of the Marshall Islands and backed 1:1 by short-term US Treasurys. The bond pays a coupon while being used as collateral and is structured under New York law as a fully collateralized sovereign obligation.Both companies said it was the first repo to combine natively issued sovereign collateral with fully onchain atomic settlement. Executed between regulated counterparties on Tradeweb, the full repo…
In brief Binance founder Changpeng Zhao told the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong that Bitcoin will become more important than gold, with the gap now around tenfold. He said large countries have built systems for valuing and holding bullion, and would take years to shift. Zhao separately described his reserve advice to governments as “a little bit self-serving,” since BNB lands in the basket he recommends. Bitcoin will overtake gold, and it could happen as soon as the next bull run, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao told a conference audience in Hong Kong on Thursday.”I think Bitcoin will, for sure,…
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On 15 June 1991, the volcano Mount Pinatubo on the island of Luzon in the Philippines erupted violently, releasing an ash cloud on a scale so vast that seeing a photograph of it boggles the human mind. The eruption spewed out something north of 17 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide. For context, that’s roughly equivalent to 1,700 Eiffel Towers’ worth of material ejected out of the ground and into the sky.The effects were global, albeit quite temporary. As a result of the explosion, NASA estimates that temperatures worldwide fell by about half a degree Celsius on average over the following…
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