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Crypto Daily | Strategy Buys $109M Worth of Bitcoin During Holiday Week; Standard Chartered and Ant Launch 24-Hour Tokenized Deposits

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The commercial rollout enables value transfers in Hong Kong dollars, Chinese yuan, and US dollars across Ant International’s global entities without waiting for traditional banking hours.The launch follows a Hong Kong dollar test settlement completed last year and makes Ant International the first client to use the solution commercially. The project sits within the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Project Ensemble and its Supervisory Incubator for Distributed Ledger Technology, which supports the experimentation of regulated blockchain. Crypto Firm Tied to Trumps Axes Auditor in Latest Sign of StrifeA small financial-technology company tied to a Trump family crypto project has fired its auditor, the latest sign of turmoil at the Las Vegas-based firm.Alt5 Sigma Corp. dismissed the auditor, called Victor Mokuolu CPA PLLC, on Christmas Day — less than three weeks after hiring it, according to a regulatory filing on Monday. 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