🌍GM! Here are the top news in #Crypto for the past 24 hours🌍
©️ Franklin Templeton plans a new crypto fund targeting institutional investors, investing in various tokens beyond Bitcoin and Ether and offering staking rewards.
©️ Robinhood plans to buy crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200 million, aiming to expand globally and attract institutional clients by 2025.
©️ Kraken aims to raise over $100M in pre-IPO funding by year's end. The exchange remains focused on global crypto adoption.
©️ Standard Chartered predicts Bitcoin could hit $100,000 before the U.S. elections and $150,000 by year-end if Trump wins.
©️ Hong Kong SFC chief Julia Leung says bitcoin has shown "staying power" as an alternative asset despite being speculative, with safeguards in place for investors.
©️A new U.S. law grants the president sweeping power to block access to digital assets, raising concerns about user-level bans and broad implications.
©️ Binance resumes crypto purchases via Visa and Mastercard, potentially signaling the end of its regulatory troubles.
©️ Bybit officially announces Chinese expats allowed to trade crypto on its platform, following reports of enabling registration for users in China.
©️ Taiko enables permissionless sequencing and proving following mainnet rollout, becoming the first rollup to do so, enhancing decentralization.
©️ Ethereum-native privacy protocol Nocturne Labs, backed by Vitalik Buterin, shuts down operations despite raising $6 million in October 2023.