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Consulting firm KPMG has added Bitcoin and Ethereum to its corporate treasury, marking the firm’s first direct investment in cryptoassets

From ETF and CBDC launches to impending changes in taxation and regulation, there’s never a dull moment in crypto. Here are our top picks from the news last week.

To help curb the rising cost of living, the Bank of England has raised interest rates to 0.5% as inflation hits a 30-year high.

Grayscale has launched an ETF that will track Bitcoin-exposed companies.

India’s Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, revealed the country’s plans for a developing a CBDC, along with regulatory announcements relating to the taxation of cryptocurrency

Japan’s Virtual and Crypto assets Exchange Association (JVCEA) is considering a streamlined process for listing new digital tokens.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the US has given the go-ahead for Boston Security Token Exchange (BSTX) to launch the nation’s first regulated blockchain-enabled securities exchange

In a Reddit post on the Ethereum subreddit Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s Founder, has outlined some security considerations for Ethereum and layer 2 protocols. Layer 2s are designed to reduce network congestion for Ethereum (which is a layer 1), allowing some transactions to be settled separately that runs on top of Ethereum’s

Financial services company Fidelity has filed two more ETFs with the SEC to track crypto firms.

Visa’s crypto-linked cards have reached $2.5 billion in the first financial quarter of 2022

Google Cloud is headhunting the best in blockchain as it explores opportunities in blockchain-based services

The markets may have been quiet as Bitcoin teased the $38,000 mark, but last week was still a busy one for crypto. Here’s our weekly retrospective.