Seeds of Wisdom RV and Economic Updates Monday Afternoon 12-02-24
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BRAZIL PROPOSES TO BAN STABLECOIN WITHDRAWALS TO SELF-CUSTODIAL WALLETS
A public consultation notice from the Central Bank of Brazil intends to prohibit stablecoin withdrawals to self-custody wallets.
The Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) has unveiled a regulatory proposal prohibiting centralized exchanges from allowing users to withdraw stablecoins to self-custodial wallets.
According to the public consultation notice, the transfer of stablecoins — called “tokens denominated in foreign currencies” — between residents would be restricted in cases where Brazilian law already allows payments in foreign currencies.
The BCB shared in a statement:
“The initiative reflects our commitment to adapting the financial system to the realities of digital assets while safeguarding the integrity of international capital flows.”
The move is part of the crypto regulation bill approved in Brazil in December 2022, which determined that the BCB is responsible for creating the rules for the crypto industry in the country.
The public consultation will be open until Feb. 28, 2025, and market participants can share their opinions with the regulator. However, the BCB can override the inputs and do as described in the document.
Balancing regulations
According to the Brazilian central bank, the proposed rules aim to enhance legal certainty for businesses and individuals while fostering competition and efficiency in the foreign exchange market.
The proposed regulation outlines three core activities for virtual asset services providers operating in the foreign exchange market: facilitating international payments and transfers via crypto, providing exchange or custody services for tokens denominated in Brazilian reais for non-residents, and managing transactions involving tokens pegged to foreign currencies.
In addition, crypto investments, whether inbound or outbound, would be subject to the same regulatory standards as traditional investments. External credit, direct foreign investment, and Brazilian capital abroad involving crypto would require compliance with existing international capital regulations.
Under the public consultation, centralized exchanges must also get a foreign exchange license to offer stablecoin-related services.
A significant market
According to data from Brazil’s Internal Revenue Service (RFB) published on Nov. 13, nearly 4.4 million Brazilians transferred $4.2 billion in crypto in September.
Stablecoins represented 71.4% of all the value transferred during the month, with roughly $3 billion transacted. Tether USD (USDT) dominated with $2.77 billion moved by Brazilian crypto investors.
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Source: CoinTelegraph
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COINBASE ANNOUNCES APPLE PAY FOR FIAT-TO-CRYPTO PURCHASES
“Coinbase Onramp takes the hassle out of fiat-to-crypto conversions with lightweight KYC for eligible purchases, free USDC on and offramping, and access to the most popular payment methods,” Coinbase said in a statement.
Apple Pay will allow users to get onchain in seconds granting quick access to some of the world’s leading cryptocurrencies. Users can access Moonshot, an app using Onramp to get Onchain quickly.
For eligible purchases, Coinbase provides lightweight KYC to make the process of getting Onchain even simpler while still protected. The addition of Apple Pay also allows users to access free USDC on and offramping on Coinbase.
According to Coinbase, if you’re an existing app using Coinbase Onramp, there’s nothing you need to do. Users will automatically see Apple Pay appear as an option when making an eligible purchase. Eligible users can sign up for Onramp quickstart to get started and access Apple Pay as an option on Coinbase. Users can also use one-click-buy for an even faster experience.
Coinbase investors gained confidence in the company following the announcement, with COIN stock climbing 3% Monday.
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Source: Watcher Guru
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XRP BECOMES THE TOP TRADED TOKEN ON BINANCE AND COINBASE, HITS ALMOST 7-YEAR HIGH
XRP, which saw its fourth ETF filing Monday, also now has the third-largest market cap among all cryptocurrencies, after it shot past Tether’s USDT and Solana’s SOL.
XRP has been the most popular token by trading volume in the last 24 hours on several centralized exchanges, such as Binance and Coinbase
XRP’s virality on centralized exchanges comes as the token climbed on Monday to a nearly seven-year high of $2.77, a 40% jump in the last 24 hours and a 433% increase over the past 30 days.
The token native to the Ripple ledger currently has a market cap of about $158 billion, surpassing both Tether’s USDT and Solana’s SOL, making XRP the third largest cryptocurrency by market cap.
On Binance, the dominant non-U.S. centralized exchange, XRP’s 24-hour volume of $7 billion makes up 13.3% of total trading activity. For the U.S.’s biggest exchange, Coinbase, XRP has a 24-hour volume of $3 billion, comprising almost 30% of the total volume.
XRP tops trading volume on OKX, Kraken, and KuCoin as well, market data from CoinGecko shows. XRP trading on Upbit, a prominent centralized exchange in South Korea, makes up 38.6% of the entire venue’s 24-hour trading volume of $19.8 billion.
Wall Street titans are also preparing to launch spot XRP exchange-traded funds as ETF provider WisdomTree submitted a Monday filing for a spot XRP ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, joining Bitwise, Canary Capital, and 21shares.
Small Retail FOMO
“The 6-year (nearly 7-year) high comes as wallets with 1M-10M XRP have accumulated 679.1M tokens (currently worth $1.66B) in just 3 weeks,” the team behind market intelligence platform Santiment wrote on X early Monday. At current prices, one million XRP tokens are worth almost $2.8 million.
Maksim Tkachuk, who works on product at Santiment, further told Unchained over Telegram that the team is observing high levels of FOMO, short for “fear of missing out,” from small retail holders, defined as addresses with 100 to 10,000 XRP tokens.
“Overall when those retail darlings take the spotlight, the whole market becomes dangerous as the main drivers of the price at this point are greed and FOMO,” Tkachuk wrote.
“Per [Santiment’s] internal agreement – the top is near… at least a very sizeable correction is what we agree on like 20-25 percent in majors.”
Stablecoin, RWA and DeFi Plans
Meanwhile, Ripple is gearing up to roll out a new USD stablecoin on its blockchain, as the New York Department of Financial Services is expected to approve the product, according to Fox Business last week.
Sally Zhu, who is part of the venture capital arm of crypto market-making firm Amber Group, messaged Unchained on Telegram saying, “I think XRP’s recent price surge is about the buzz around tokenizing [real-world assets]…” They’re teaming up with players like Archax to bring things like equities and global debts onto the XRP Ledger.”
Archax, a digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, announced on Nov. 25 that it has provided access to a money market fund in a tokenized form on the XRP Ledger. “With such a huge opportunity to reshape how financial instruments are traded and managed, XRP is riding the wave of optimism now.”
Decentralized finance (DeFi), a subsector of the crypto space that enables users to conduct financial activities without intermediaries, has strong roots in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Some crypto users are now exploring DeFi on the XRP Ledger.
For example, Robert Leshner, the CEO of asset management firm Superstate, said he was in the “trenches,” testing the infrastructure of automated market markets and inspecting the memecoins on the network, per an X post on Sunday.
Despite the recent upward price movement of XRP, people in the crypto space have long criticized the XRP Ledger for its lack of decentralization. Justin Bon, founder and chief investment officer of Cyber Capital, specifically pointed to the consensus mechanism for the XRP Ledger. “XRP’s consensus is based on UNLs (Unique Node Lists), literal centralized lists of trusted nodes released by single parties, including the foundation,” Bons wrote on X.
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Source: Unchained Crypto
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