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The Central Bank of Russia has added another entity to its register of authorized issuers of digital financial assets. The platform, called ‘Masterchain,’ becomes the fifth ‘information system operator’ in the country that can legally tokenize traditional assets and organize their trade. Number of Licensed Digital Asset Issuers in Russia Grows to Five The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has included the company Distributed Registry Systems, with its Masterchain platform, to the register of operators of information systems which can be used to issue digital financial assets ( DFAs ), the business news portal RBC reported. Four other issuers have been registered so far. These are the tokenization service Atomyze , the fintech company Lighthouse , as well as Sberbank and Alfa-Bank , the largest state-owned and private bank in the Russian Federation, respectively. Established in April, 2021, Distributed Registry Systems is an IT company specialized in developing blockchain-based solutio

The stablecoin USDC has nearly regained parity with the U.S. dollar after rising just above $0.99 on March 12, 2023, at 7:20 p.m. Eastern Time. The stablecoin jumped back to the $0.99 range after the U.S. Federal Reserve revealed it would bail out depositors of California’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and New York’s Signature Bank. Following the Fed announcement, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said on Twitter that the company would rely on BNY Mellon to settle the process of minting and redemption. Signature Bank Closure Forces Circle to Rely on BNY Mellon for USDC Minting and Redemption Settlements At 8:45 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, March 12, 2023, the stablecoin usd coin (USDC) is trading at $0.998 per unit after jumping above the $0.99 range at around 7:20 p.m. Three minutes after the stablecoin returned to the $0.99 region, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire tweeted that USDC operations would resume on Monday. The announcement follows the U.S. Federal Reserve’s disclosure that it establis