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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Jumps Past $9,400 Despite Weak July Volumes

A short rally popped bitcoin's price to $9.4K during what’s been a month of sluggish volumes.

Source: CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

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Crypto Long & Short: How Oil Going Negative Could Open the Door for Bitcoin ETFs

The economic repercussions of oil going negative are staggering. Also compelling is what it says about biases in the bitcoin market.

Oil rig (Credit: Moritz Kindler / Unsplash)

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LabCFTC Wants to Meet FinTech Startups in New York

LabCFTC, the CFTC's fintech research wing, is visiting New York in April to discuss startups' concerns and projects with their teams.

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Blockchain Oil Trading Platform Backed by Shell and BP Is Now Live

A blockchain platform built by a group of major firms to bring new efficiencies to energy commodities trading has gone live.

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Shell, BP Back Blockchain Platform to Modernize Commodities Trading

Oil giants Shell and BP are among a group of firms planning to launch a blockchain platform to automate post-trade processes in the energy industry.

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Indonesian Regulator Gives Green Light for Crypto Futures Trading

Indonesia's futures watchdog has reportedly ruled that cryptos are commodities that can be traded on the country's futures exchange. 

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Cryptos Are Commodities, Rules US Judge In CFTC Case

A U.S. district judge has backed the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in defining cryptocurrencies as commodities.

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US Commodities Regulator Proposes Definition for Cryptocurrency 'Delivery'

The CFTC has published a proposed interpretation of how it will deem that a cryptocurrency has been "delivered" from a buyer to a seller.

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Markets

CME Explores Logging Trade Transactions on Blockchain System

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has filed for two patents outlining a blockchain system that stores and automatically executes financial transactions.

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Overtaking Banking in the Race to Blockchain

Blockchain progress in the energy industry could give banking applications a run for sector supremacy, CoinDesk's Noelle Acheson argues.

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