Six of the biggest banks in China’s megapolis Shanghai are supporting the digital yuan ahead of a May 5th shopping festival. The move represents a direct threat to the country’s top two payment providers – Alipay and WeChat Pay. The Digital Yuan vs. Alipay and WeChat Pay According to a Reuters report, some of the...Read More
The University of Zurich has announced that they are adding Cardano to their “Deep Dive into Blockchain 2021” curriculum. It will be taught to students studying in the UZH Blockchain Center modules and is being posited as a ‘blockchain platform for changemakers, innovators, and visionaries’ to ‘bring about positive global change.’ Blockchain Education The course...Read More
The New York wine seller Acker, Merrall & Condit, or simply known as Acker, announced it now accepts digital currencies as a form of payment at its auctions and retail store. The company supports some of the most popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Dogecoin. Acker Catches the Crypto Wave After the...Read More
A few weeks after launching its latest product – tradable stock tokens – Binance has decided to expand the portfolio with the shares of MicroStrategy, Apple, and Microsoft. The three new additions will be live by the end of April. Binance to Add MSTR, AAPL, and MSFT As CryptoPotato reported a few weeks back, the...Read More
We’re always looking to unlock more value for traders. Today, we’re pleased to announce an increase in the risk limits on our ETHUSD swap – a small but mighty change that will make it even more capital efficient to maintain positions of 50 XBT or more on the product. The increase in the ETHUSD swap...Read More
Chapter 6 of the book The Blocksize War is published below. The full book is available on Amazon. As a reminder, 50% of any profits from physical book sales will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières, a charity that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. The Blocksize...Read More
Maintaining a fair and orderly trading environment for our users is very important to us, and we’re always thinking about how we can improve further. As part of this effort we’ve decided to make two technical but important updates to the Impact Notional and % Fair Basis update methodology, which are two factors related to...Read More
