<h2>A well-known platform focused on digital currencies has to settle accounts with US regulators.</h2>Cryptocurrency lender Nexo Capital has been accused of selling unregistered securities through its Earn Interest product. The company entered into a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreeing to discontinue the service and pay a fine of $45 million. Moreover, Bulgarian authorities have accused this platform of enabling illegal activities such as money laundering and terrorist financing.<h3>Cryptocurrency lender settles with SEC</h3>The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Nexo Capital on Thursday, January 19, with selling unregistered securities through its "Earn Interest" product. This platform offered to earn interest on loans granted in crypto assets.The aforementioned platform decided not to take up the fight with the SEC. Representatives of Nexo Capital went to a settlement under which the company must pay a fine of $ 22.5 million and additionally pay another $ 22.5 million. In total, therefore, the fined company must pay as much as 45 million dollars.But that's not all. As part of the settlement, Nexo agreed to stop offering its "Earn Interest" product. SEC Enforcement Director Gurbir S. Grewal emphasized that cryptocurrency assets are not exempt from compliance with federal securities laws.This matter was also commented on by SEC Chairman Gary Gensler. He noted that Nexo was accused “of failing to register its retail cryptocurrency product before offering it to the public, circumventing basic disclosure requirements designed to protect investor interests.”Earn Interest ran from June 2020 to September 2022. Several US states have advocated for Nexo to cease this activity, claiming that the platform sells unregistered securities.<h4>Bulgarian authorities attack Nexo</h4>It looks like Nexo Capital has had a rough week. Last Sunday, Bulgarian authorities released information saying that they had evidence that this platform was used for illegal activities, including money laundering and terrorist financing. However, the cryptocurrency lender strongly denies these accusations.

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<h2>Известная платформа, специализирующаяся на цифровых валютах, вынуждена рассчитаться с американскими регуляторами.</h2>Криптовалютный кредитор Nexo Capital был обвинен в продаже незарегистрированных ценных бумаг через свой продукт Earn Interest. Компания заключила мировое соглашение с Комиссией по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC), согласившись прекратить работу сервиса и выплатить штраф в размере 45 миллионов долларов. Кроме того, власти Болгарии обвинили эту платформу в том, что она способствует незаконной деятельности, такой как отмывание денег и финансирование терроризма.<h3>Криптовалютный кредитор заключил соглашение с SEC</h3>В четверг, 19 января, Комиссия по ценным бумагам и биржам США предъявила компании Nexo Capital обвинение в продаже незарегистрированных ценных бумаг через ее продукт "Earn Interest". Эта платформа предлагала зарабатывать проценты на кредитах, выданных в криптоактивах.Вышеупомянутая платформа решила не вступать в борьбу с SEC. Представители Nexo Capital пошли на мировое соглашение, по которому компания должна выплатить штраф в размере 22,5 млн долларов и дополнительно заплатить еще 22,5 млн долларов. В общей сложности, таким образом, оштрафованная компания должна выплатить целых 45 миллионов долларов.Но это еще не все. В рамках урегулирования Nexo согласилась прекратить предложение своего продукта "Earn Interest". Директор по правоприменению SEC Гурбир С. Грюал подчеркнул, что криптовалютные активы не освобождаются от соблюдения федеральных законов о ценных бумагах.Этот вопрос также прокомментировал председатель SEC Гэри Генслер. Он отметил, что компания Nexo обвиняется в том, что "не зарегистрировала свой розничный криптовалютный продукт перед тем, как предложить его публике, обойдя основные требования к раскрытию информации, призванные защитить интересы инвесторов".Earn Interest действовал с июня 2020 года по сентябрь 2022 года. Несколько штатов США выступили за то, чтобы Nexo прекратила эту деятельность, утверждая, что платформа продает незарегистрированные ценные бумаги.<h4>Болгарские власти атакуют Nexo</h4>Похоже, что у компании Nexo Capital выдалась тяжелая неделя. В минувшее воскресенье власти Болгарии опубликовали информацию о том, что у них есть доказательства того, что эта платформа использовалась для незаконной деятельности, включая отмывание денег и финансирование терроризма. Однако криптовалютный кредитор решительно отрицает эти обвинения.

Криптовалютный кредитор Nexo заплатит штраф в размере 45 миллионов долларов

<h2>Znana platforma skupiająca się na walutach cyfrowych musi rozliczyć się z amerykańskimi organami regulacyjnymi.</h2>Pożyczkodawca kryptowalut Nexo Capital został oskarżony o sprzedaż niezarejestrowanych papierów wartościowych za pośrednictwem swojego produktu Earn Interest. Firma zawarła ugodę z amerykańską Komisją Papierów Wartościowych i Giełd (SEC), zgadzając się na zaprzestanie świadczenia usługi i zapłacenie grzywny w wysokości 45 milionów dolarów. Ponadto bułgarskie władze oskarżyły tę platformę o umożliwienie nielegalnych działań, takich jak pranie pieniędzy i finansowanie terroryzmu.<h3>Pożyczkodawca kryptowalut rozlicza się z SEC</h3>Amerykańska Komisja Papierów Wartościowych i Giełd oskarżyła Nexo Capital w czwartek, 19 stycznia, o sprzedaż niezarejestrowanych papierów wartościowych za pośrednictwem produktu "Earn Interest". Platforma ta oferowała zarabianie odsetek od pożyczek udzielonych w aktywach kryptograficznych.Wspomniana platforma zdecydowała się nie podejmować walki z SEC. Przedstawiciele Nexo Capital poszli na ugodę, na mocy której firma musi zapłacić grzywnę w wysokości 22,5 mln USD oraz dodatkowo zapłacić kolejne 22,5 mln USD. Łącznie więc ukarana spółka musi zapłacić aż 45 milionów dolarów.To jednak nie wszystko. W ramach ugody Nexo zgodziło się zaprzestać oferowania swojego produktu "Earn Interest". Dyrektor ds. egzekwowania przepisów SEC Gurbir S. Grewal podkreślił, że aktywa kryptowalutowe nie są zwolnione z przestrzegania federalnych przepisów dotyczących papierów wartościowych.Sprawę tę skomentował również przewodniczący SEC Gary Gensler. Zauważył, że Nexo zostało oskarżone o "niezarejestrowanie swojego detalicznego produktu kryptowalutowego przed zaoferowaniem go publicznie, obchodząc podstawowe wymogi dotyczące ujawniania informacji mające na celu ochronę interesów inwestorów".Earn Interest obowiązywał od czerwca 2020 r. do września 2022 r. Kilka stanów USA wezwało Nexo do zaprzestania tej działalności, twierdząc, że platforma sprzedaje niezarejestrowane papiery wartościowe.<h4>Bułgarskie władze atakują Nexo</h4>Wygląda na to, że Nexo Capital ma za sobą ciężki tydzień. W ubiegłą niedzielę bułgarskie władze opublikowały informacje, w których stwierdziły, że mają dowody na to, że platforma ta była wykorzystywana do nielegalnych działań, w tym prania pieniędzy i finansowania terroryzmu. Jednak pożyczkodawca kryptowalut zdecydowanie zaprzecza tym oskarżeniom.

Pożyczkodawca kryptowalut Nexo zapłaci 45 milionów dolarów grzywny

<h2>Eine bekannte Plattform, die sich auf digitale Währungen spezialisiert hat, muss mit US-Regulierungsbehörden abrechnen.</h2>Der Kryptowährungsverleiher Nexo Capital wurde beschuldigt, über sein Produkt Earn Interest nicht registrierte Wertpapiere zu verkaufen. Das Unternehmen schloss einen Vergleich mit der US-Börsenaufsicht (SEC) und erklärte sich bereit, den Dienst einzustellen und eine Geldstrafe in Höhe von 45 Millionen US-Dollar zu zahlen. Darüber hinaus haben die bulgarischen Behörden diese Plattform beschuldigt, illegale Aktivitäten wie Geldwäsche und Terrorismusfinanzierung zu ermöglichen.<h3>Kryptowährungskreditgeber einigt sich mit SEC</h3>Die US-Börsenaufsichtsbehörde SEC hat Nexo Capital am Donnerstag, den 19. Januar, wegen des Verkaufs von nicht registrierten Wertpapieren durch sein Produkt "Earn Interest" angeklagt. Diese Plattform bot an, Zinsen auf Darlehen zu verdienen, die in Krypto-Assets gewährt wurden.Die besagte Plattform entschied sich, den Kampf mit der SEC nicht aufzunehmen. Vertreter von Nexo Capital haben sich auf einen Vergleich eingelassen, wonach das Unternehmen eine Geldstrafe in Höhe von 22,5 Millionen Dollar und zusätzlich weitere 22,5 Millionen Dollar zahlen muss. Insgesamt muss das bestrafte Unternehmen also bis zu 45 Millionen Dollar zahlen.Aber das ist noch nicht alles. Als Teil des Vergleichs hat Nexo zugestimmt, sein "Earn Interest"-Produkt nicht mehr anzubieten. SEC Enforcement Director Gurbir S. Grewal betonte, dass Kryptowährungsanlagen nicht von der Einhaltung der Bundeswertpapiergesetze ausgenommen sind.Diese Angelegenheit wurde auch vom SEC-Vorsitzenden Gary Gensler kommentiert. Er merkte an, dass Nexo beschuldigt wurde, "sein Kryptowährungsprodukt für den Einzelhandel nicht zu registrieren, bevor es der Öffentlichkeit angeboten wurde, wodurch grundlegende Offenlegungsanforderungen zum Schutz der Anlegerinteressen umgangen wurden."Earn Interest lief von Juni 2020 bis September 2022. Mehrere US-Bundesstaaten haben sich dafür eingesetzt, dass Nexo diese Tätigkeit einstellt, da die Plattform angeblich nicht registrierte Wertpapiere verkauft.<h4>Bulgarische Behörden greifen Nexo an</h4>Es sieht so aus, als hätte Nexo Capital eine harte Woche hinter sich. Am vergangenen Sonntag veröffentlichten die bulgarischen Behörden Informationen, die besagen, dass sie Beweise dafür haben, dass diese Plattform für illegale Aktivitäten, einschließlich Geldwäsche und Terrorismusfinanzierung, verwendet wurde. Der Kryptowährungskreditgeber streitet diese Anschuldigungen jedoch entschieden ab.

Kryptowährungskreditgeber Nexo muss 45 Millionen Dollar Strafe zahlen

Cryptocurrency lender Nexo will pay a $45 million fine

<h2>Considerable interest in non-fungible token technology has led to significant changes in the cryptocurrency sector.</h2>The broadly understood NFT market has been sending us subtle signals for some time that it is periodically trying to recover from the impact of the strong bear market that inevitably reached this sector. It is not difficult to quickly come to the conclusion that the prices of top tokens from key collections are still significantly away from the levels of the glory days, which ended around the first quarter of 2022. Despite this pessimistic fact, a certain change in the balance of power in this innovative sphere can be noticed. It is worth adding that so far, the Ethereum blockchain has been the network where non-fungible tokens were traded most frequently. In the end, however, Ethereum had to hand over the leadership position to its long-time competitor, Bitcoin.<h3>NFT trade is booming, but on a different blockchain</h3>Built, among others, by the popular programmer Vitalik Buterin, the Ethereum blockchain has for a long time been associated primarily with the fact that it is the cyberspace where by far the most non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are minted and where the highest trade rate in terms of turnover volume takes place.Recently, however, a revolutionary change took place, which led to BTC taking first place in terms of volume in the last 7 days.<h4>Latest data from the NFT market</h4>The latest data from the platform analyzing turnover volumes in the NFT sector shows that during the week Ethereum decreased by 3.72%, while tokens minted using the Ordinals protocol in the BTC network contributed to an increase by as much as 22.47 %, which led to this network ranking in first place.Finally, it is worth adding that the weekly volume here reached USD 101.3 million. In the case of the Ethereum protocol, it is USD 95.1 million. In third place, without any surprise, was Solana, which recorded a strong jump of 55% over the last week, and the trading volume of non-fungible tokens amounted to USD 66 million.

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Ethereum is no longer the leader in the NFT market. A surprising change in the balance of power

<h2>A financial company draws a positive forecast for one of the largest cryptocurrency projects</h2>The recent BTC price rally has sparked new enthusiasm in the world of digital currencies, and with it, increased interest in other cryptocurrencies. According to the forecasts of a widely recognized asset management company - VanEck - Solana (SOL) has a good chance of achieving noticeably better results than Ethereum (ETH) by 2024.<h3>Can Solana beat Ethereum?</h3>The spectacular increase in value by as much as 212% in just the last 60 days has resulted in Solana's share on the cryptocurrency market significantly increasing. Digital currency analysts also expect Solana's price oracle platform, Pyth, to likely overtake Chainlink in terms of total value secured (TVS) soon. It is worth adding here that despite Chainlink's current market dominance, analysts deeply believe that the innovative system architecture will make Pyth ultimately defeat its most serious rival.It is worth noting that Solana is currently trading at an average price of $73 per coin, and its price has increased by over 11% in just the last 24 hours. Moreover, there was also an additional increase in 24-hour trading volume to levels exceeding even USD 4.1 billion.Financial firm VanEck additionally forecasts that Ethereum will likely not reach a higher market capitalization than Bitcoin (BTC) until 2024. While Ethereum is likely to outperform other major tech stocks, Bitcoin's regulatory transparency and scale of energy efficiency are widely expected to attract interest from state-owned entities in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.Despite Ethereum's very decent results, according to the most common forecasts, it will probably lose market share to other smart contract platforms, such as Solana, whose main competitive advantage is that it can boast a much more reliable scalability schedule. Finally, it is impossible not to mention that Argentina is expected to join the countries sponsoring BTC mining at the state level. This would mean that Argentina would follow in the footsteps of countries such as the United Arab Emirates, El Salvador, Bhutan and Oman.

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Solana will beat Ethereum in some respects by 2024, according to VanEck

<h2>Cryptocurrency investors who expect the sector to decline suffer significant losses.</h2>According to data provided by the popular firm S3 Partners, short-term investors who focus on companies related to the oldest cryptocurrency suffered significant financial losses exceeding $6 billion in total by trying to short BTC in 2023. These losses were caused by a sudden but consistent reversal of the bearish trend on the Bitcoin chart , as well as the oldest cryptocurrency regaining key price levels.<h3>Traders have lost a fortune shorting Bitcoin-related companies</h3>Based on a report published by the analytical company S3 Partners, traders who at the beginning of 2023 adopted a bearish stance towards listed cryptocurrency companies such as Coinbase, Marathon Digital and MicroStrategy recorded losses of $6.05 billion.Due to the long-term increasing value of digital currencies, many investors taking short positions on shares of companies related to the crypto industry have made significant losses.In just the first three quarters of 2023, some short-term investors reduced their exposure to cryptocurrencies as the sector apparently rebounded. However, since Bitcoin's last low of $25.1K in September 2023, there has been a sustained and sharp increase in short selling totaling approximately $697 million as traders dramatically increased their exposure to what they perceived as an "overbought market." .In a sudden turnaround in the stock market, BTC experienced a significant increase in value and reached a new yearly high of over $44,300 on December 5 this year. This unexpected upward rally resulted in approximately $2.65 billion in losses for short-term investors.<h4>Strong increases in the value of BTC-related enterprises</h4>Undoubtedly, this year's increases in share prices of companies such as Coinbase and MicroStrategy may have been a challenge for many traders who were betting on shorting these shares. For the Brian Armstrong-led company, this year's 290% stock rally has resulted in losses estimated at about $3.5 billion for short-term traders. It is worth adding that this currently constitutes more than half of the total losses incurred in this way throughout 2023.Additionally, MicroStrategy's over 300% growth this year contributed to roughly $1.4 billion in losses for cryptocurrency traders. Despite the current strong growth in the market for digital currencies and related companies, some investors still decide to take short positions, most likely hoping that the upward rally will lose momentum at some point.

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