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Reshaping finance
Probing the changing outlook for cryptocurrency investing, decentralised assets, blockchain technology and Web 3.0 at the Financial Review’s Crypto & Digital Assets Summit 2024.
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Join investors, leading market players and regulators at the Australian Financial Review Crypto & Digital Assets Summit to probe the changing outlook for cryptocurrency, decentralised assets and Web 3.0.
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Bibles, crypto, clubs: Trump’s new revenue streams
Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure lists more than $1.5 million in crypto holdings as he courts the industry.
- Shane Goldmacher, Russ Buettner and Maggie Haberman
- Exclusive
- Scams
AFP discovers 2000 compromised Australian cryptocurrency wallets
Hundreds of compromised accounts were discovered on crypto exchanges as part of a multi-nation effort dubbed Operation Spincaster.
- Ronald Mizen
Australians welcome Trump’s pro-crypto stand
Crypto traders say Donald Trump’s pledges to end the “persecution” of the industry and sack SEC chairman Gary Gensler are a good start.
- Updated
- Staff reporters
Trump vows to sack top financial regulator in crypto backing
The presidential candidate has told bitcoin enthusiasts he would ensure regulatory rules were written by people ‘who love’ cryptocurrencies if elected.
- Teresa Xie, Stephanie Lai and Alicia Diaz
Inside the $26b journey of this Young Rich Lister’s crypto game
The Warwick brothers’ blockchain-based game Illuvium has finally launched, marking a new chapter in the wild ride of their billion-dollar company.
- Yolanda Redrup
July
US regulators approve ether ETF in latest crypto milestone
The SEC has signed off on a spot ETF that invests directly in the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. The digital asset has already jumped 50 per cent this year.
- Emily Graffeo
How a motley crew of investors won back $14b in bitcoin
For more than a decade, creditors of collapsed crypto exchange Mt Gox pushed back on Japan’s bankruptcy laws. Their efforts have paid off, big time, in bitcoin.
- Jessica Sier
Struggling bitcoin miners seek deals with AI companies
They now hope to benefit from a surge in demand for powerful but scarce chips which are used in both crypto mining and AI processing.
- Nikou Asgari and Tim Bradshaw
The Aussie funds that beat bitcoin and big tech
It was often savvy bets at the smaller end of the market that shot the top-performing fund managers to the top of the leader table in the last financial year.
- Updated
- Joshua Peach
Reshaping finance
Probing the changing outlook for cryptocurrency investing, decentralised assets, blockchain technology and Web 3.0 at the Financial Review’s Crypto & Digital Assets Summit 2024.
Aussie who says he invented bitcoin faces UK crime probe
Australian inventor Craig Wright has claimed for a decade that he created bitcoin but now faces perjury allegations in a UK criminal court.
- Sam Tobin
Haven rush, ‘Trump trades’ on investor minds after shooting
Investors will likely rush into assets like the US dollar, gold and bitcoin after the assassination attempt of the former US president.
- Ruth Carson
Short sellers target Aussie bitcoin miner Iren
Iren’s stunning share price rally has been derailed by a short seller’s report that said the bitcoin miner overstated its AI potential.
- Tess Bennett
Mt Gox repays ‘forced’ bitcoin holders years after its collapse
Japanese bankruptcy lawyers have begun repaying thousands of creditors of collapsed crypto exchange Mt Gox, including some Australians.
- Jessica Sier
June
CoinSpot’s billionaire owner grabs huge dividend payout
But the company, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has reported a near 75 per cent slide in profit in the last financial year.
- Primrose Riordan
The bitcoin ETF wave has arrived in Australia
VanEck is launching a cut-price bitcoin ETF as investors eye cryptocurrency and gold as hedges against geopolitical risk.
- Tom Richardson
NAB kills its stablecoin, bankers decamp to form Ubiquity
The bank canned its digital Australian dollar, known as the AUDN, so Rob Waugh and Drew Bradford left to set up their own product, to be called Ubiquity.
- James Eyers
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Bitcoin on the ASX opens investors to a world of pumpers and spruikers
But Binance’s regional boss Vishal Sacheendran is making a surprise call – in an interview, he says there needs to be more regulation, not less.
- Anthony Macdonald
May
Millennium, Point72 and Elliott are among bitcoin ETF buyers
No matter the reason, and there could be several, Wall Street is clearly dipping its toes into the world’s largest digital asset.
- Isabelle Lee
ATO targets crypto traders’ tax affairs, bank details
The Tax Office is ramping up its surveillance of crypto traders, demanding that exchanges hand over details around clients’ ID, wallet addresses and bank accounts.
- Tom Richardson
February
Being Satoshi: Inside Craig Wright’s decade-long fight to be the inventor of bitcoin
Australian computer scientist Craig Wright has long claimed to be the creator of bitcoin and owner of a $77 billion crypto cache. Now a court must decide whether it’s true or a hoax for the ages.
- Andrew Burke and Max Mason
ASIC gets its first win against the crypto industry
The corporate regulator has notched up a win against crypto start-up Block Earner which had offered an unlicensed financial product to retail investors.
- Jessica Sier
October 2023
- Explainer
- Cryptocurrencies
Why banks are looking at real-world asset tokenisation
Banks spend billions each year on systems to track and finalise millions of trades. Could crypto help to streamline processes?
- James Eyers and Jessica Sier
Tokenisation of real-world assets is the killer app for crypto
What if crypto was not only a speculative asset class but a new technology stack for financial markets?
- James Eyers and Jessica Sier
Traders tip bitcoin to hit $US100,000 within five years
Approval of the first bitcoin ETFs is expected to trigger big demand from institutional investors such as superannuation funds.
- Updated
- Joshua Peach