Daily Crypto News | 18.12.2020
1- US Department of Treasury proposes a rule that requires KYC verification for users who will be transferring their crypto holdings from exchanges to their private wallets.
2- Coinbase’s IPO could result in SEC choosing which coins to be listed on the exchange.
3- Coinbase chooses Goldman Sachs to lead their IPO.
4- FTX CEO Samuel Bankman-Fried announced that they are planning to launch tokenized stock listing of Coinbase before their IPO.
5- Uni of Glasgow partners with Everledger to fight fake Scottish whisky.
6- FC Barcelona’s Gerard Piqué invests $4.3M in NFT platform Sorare.
7- Jonathan Atkins of Ruffer Investment has disclosed that the $745M investment was executed on Coinbase.
8- 20 year old rapper Gazzy Garcia aka Lil Pump is launching his social token $PumpCoin on Fyooz.
9- FinCen is looking to hire two experts in the crypto industry as high-profile advisors.
10- Messari values Coinbase at $28B.
11- $USDT market cap surpasses $20B.
12- Guggenheim Partners Chief Investment Officer Scott Minerd said: “[..] our fundamental work shows that bitcoin should be worth about $400,000.”
13- OSL Digital Securities Ltd becomes first company to be a licensed and regulated cryptocurrency trading platform by Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.
14- Bitcoin is up 1.8% at $23,055.
15- The Graph (GRT) is the highest gainer in top 100 list with a 95.8% daily profit.
16- {ess}(ESD) is the highest loser in top 100 list with a 25.6% daily loss.
