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SWIFT Partners With Crypto Data Provider Chainlink on Cross-Chain Protocol in TradFi Play, Bitcoin Could ‘Double in Price’ Under CFTC Regulation, Chairman Behnam Says, & more.
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SWIFT Partners With Crypto Data Provider Chainlink on Cross-Chain Protocol in TradFi Play
Bitcoin Could ‘Double in Price’ Under CFTC Regulation, Chairman Behnam Says
The biggest Bitcoin fund just hit a record -35% discount — A warning for BTC price?
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SWIFT Partners With Crypto Data Provider Chainlink on Cross-Chain Protocol in TradFi Play
SWIFT, the interbank messaging system that allows for cross-border payments, is working with Chainlink, a provider of price feeds and other data to blockchains, on a cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP) in an initial proof-of-concept.
CCIP will enable SWIFT messages to instruct on-chain token transfers, helping the interbank network to be able to communicate across all blockchain environments.
The partnership between Chainlink and SWIFT in cross-chain interoperability will help bridge the gap between traditional and digital assets for TradFi institutions, he added. Chainlink's native token is LINK.
Last year, SWIFT said that it was planning a series of experiments in the first quarter of 2022 around improving the exchange of information between the participants and systems that interact during the lifecycle of tokenized assets.
SWIFT partnering with chainlink is great news for crypto as a whole as well as for Chainlink and its token LINK. SWIFT is one of the core pieces of today’s financial world, so the fact that they are testing integrations with crypto shows that we may be closer than people expect to a merge between traditional and new finance.
Bitcoin Could ‘Double in Price’ Under CFTC Regulation, Chairman Behnam Says
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam said Wednesday that CFTC-led regulation could have significant benefits for the crypto industry, including a potential boost to the price of bitcoin.
“Growth might occur if we have a well-regulated space,” Behnam told attendees during a fireside chat at NYU School of Law. “Bitcoin might double in price if there’s a CFTC-regulated market.”
“Non-bank [crypto] institutions thrive on regulation, they thrive on regulatory certainty, they thrive on a level playing field,” Behnam added. “And they may say otherwise, they might bicker about the type of regulation – but what they love most is regulation because they are the smartest, the fastest and the most well-resourced. With those attributes, they can beat everyone else in the market.”
The CFTC’s battle with the dual issues of jurisdiction over crypto markets and its comparatively small operating budget has impacted its ability to effectively deal with crypto crime, Behnam told the audience on Thursday.
“We’re only touching the tip of the iceberg,” Behnam said. “The 60 or so cases [the CFTC has] brought, we’ve had to solely rely on whistleblowers, on customer complaints and on tips coming to us.
“We don’t have the traditional surveillance tools, the market oversight tools, to monitor trading platforms, to oversee broker-dealers or similarly-situated intermediaries…those are the types of things we fall a little bit short on, not because of lack of effort but because of a lack of jurisdiction,” he added.
Crypto as a whole has been begging for regulations for years as it’s hard to build when the rules are unclear. No one wants to spend years building a project and large amounts of money only for it to all come crashing down due to a weak foundation; lacking regulations are that weak foundation.
There is also the secondary issue of lack of expertise amongst enforcement which I expect to be naturally resolved over time. Enforcement will likely seek out courses on crypto, colleges will likely create courses, and expert talent will be poached from crypto companies into other fields to fill gaps.
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