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An atmosphere worthy of the "Bull market". Since Thursday evening, and the decision of a New York judge in the lawsuit between the American company Ripple and the American stock market regulator (SEC), the crypto markets have been on a steep rise. This is because the magistrate ruled
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The subjects of agreement between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen are rare enough to be noted. In 2022, Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Nupes) explained that "the collapse of cryptocurrencies undermines the whole edifice of the casino economy". In the same year, Marine Le Pen (RN) responded that
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The Big Whale: You've just announced the launch of Cube3. How did the project come about? Valentin Demé: The idea dates back a little over a year and to discussions we had with the team and members of the ecosystem. We thought it would be a good idea
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After years of instability, the European Parliament last month finalised a set of rules designed to bring greater certainty and visibility to the European crypto market. The Regulation on Markets in Crypto Assets (Markets in Crypto Assets - MiCA) is the world's most comprehensive regulatory framework created to date
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The brainchild of Sam Altman, who also heads up OpenAI, the start-up that develops the ChatGPT conversational robot, the Wordcoin project has been evolving quietly of late (it was initiated in 2020), but it is about to change scale, thanks in part to the notoriety of its co-founder,
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In this context, and to hold out, you need money! For crypto companies, there are no 36 solutions.... While the few banks that were willing to lend to the sector have turned off the tap (we're preparing an investigation into this 🧐 ), only investors, notably funds and business angels,
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The best-known DeFi applications are Maker (decentralised stablecoin), Aave (loans without intermediaries) and Uniswap (digital asset exchange without intermediaries). But how many people are actually using them? "DeFi is still in its infancy. Whether it's the number of applications or the number of users, the figures
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The new Conservative Prime Minister, who started his career at Goldman Sachs (he's only 42), is an outspoken supporter of cryptos. "He's someone who comes from finance, he understands that crypto is not a fad," Nick points out. "These technologies are going to
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No platform offers both complex products and the opportunity to hold assets yourself. This is precisely what dYdX offers 🤓 "The great advantage of decentralised finance, more than its decentralisation, is the transparency of exchanges," explains Pablo Veyrat, co-founder of the Angle protocol. "Unlike traditional finance, where
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Since 2019 and your departure from Ledger's operational management, we've seen a bit less of you. What are you up to? A lot of things! I support entrepreneurs as a business angel and I also have more personal activities. I look after my estate in Vierzon,
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For its part, the regulator justifies these delays by the fact that some files are incomplete. "There are companies that clearly haven't understood the importance of the process," explains a source close to the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF). In its defence, the authority also cites
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The FTX scandal is without doubt the best publicity decentralised finance (DeFi) could have dreamt of. While obviously not everything is perfect, it brings transparency where centralised finance (CeFi) is particularly opaque. Of course, we're thinking of decentralised exchanges like Uniswap, whose monthly volumes regularly hover between 30