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VanEck strategy advisor Gabor Gurbacs expects a wave of new investment capital and immigration will push El Salvador’s economic growth in the coming years. El Salvador can follow Singapore’s lead and become a financial center in the Americas, according to  Gabor Gurbacs, strategy advisor of investment management firm VanEck. “I say often to portfolio managers and asset allocators that El Salvador has the potential to become the Singapore of the Americas,” Gurbacs explained in an Oct. 28 X post. Similar to what Singapore achieved in the late 1900s, Gurbacs expects new capital investment and immigration will be the main drivers behind El Salvador’s increased economic growth over the next few years. His comments follow an Oct. 28 post by United States broadcaster and Bitcoiner Max Keiser, which was captioned “Move to #ElSalvador, The New Land of the Free.” Keiser, who now lives in El Salvador, listed Bitcoin (BTC) and the U.S. dollar's legal tender status, a clean up in El Salvador...

A Singapore court permitted the use of NFTs to attach legal court orders tokenized as an NFT to issue a freeze order. ​​Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s Nifty Newsletter. Keep reading to stay up-to-date with the latest stories on nonfungible tokens. Every Wednesday, the Nifty Newsletter informs and inspires you to dig deeper into the latest NFT trends and insights. In this week’s newsletter, read about how a nonfungible token (NFT) became a focus point in a Singapore court battle, learn about the importance of decentralized random ness in the Web3 gaming sector and find out why Universal Music Group is suing Anthropic over copyright infringement. Singapore court authorizes freeze order attached to wallets as soulbound NFT The Singapore High Court has allowed financial investigation firm Intelligent Sanctuary to attach NFTs containing a legal document to cold wallets associated with a hack, according to United Kingdom-based iSanctuary and local press accounts. A court-...

Tether ’s chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to defend his company against accusations that it has recently cut off Singapore from redemptions. He highlighted the fact that the firm’s terms of service point out that it cut off redemptions in the country in May 2020. Julian Hosp, the current CEO of Cake DeFi, the founder of the failed ICO TenX, and a former participant in the alleged Ponzi scheme Lyoness, has taken to X to express his displeasure that his company is unable to use Tether because it was ultimately under the control of a Singapore an entity.  Ardoino also claimed that those who rushed to cover the years-old changes were ‘spreading FUD.’  Before spreading FUD it would be great if you guys did take a look at webarchive… This is Jan 2022…. And if you open the link below: Last updated: May 12, 2020… Again, take a moment to search and verify information before YOLO posting.https://t.co/dMbDCxw...

Singapore's Crypto.com expands its regulatory achievements by securing MPI license for DPT services from MAS. The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, Crypto.com, announced on June 1 that it has been granted a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license for Digital Payment Token (DPT) services by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).  The announcement comes after Crypto.com received its in-principle approval from MAS in June 2022. With the MPI licence, Crypto.com is now authorized to offer its DPT services to customers in Singapore. The Monetary Authority of Singapore serves as the central bank and primary financial regulatory authority in Singapore. It is responsible for overseeing and implementing legislation related to money, banking, insurance, securities, and the overall financial industry, including the issuance of currency. This latest announcement adds to Crypto.com's track record of securing regulatory license s. Crypto.com has also achieved registration as a Di...