To date, blockchain technology has found its use in small scale elections in the US, but the Associated Press (AP) news agency’s current use of blockchain to publish the US presidential election results, makes this the first time the technology is being used for a much larger election. So far, AP has been publishing the...Read More
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), advisor wants countries like Kenya to adopt blockchain technology which would then make it easier for the nation to trace government corruption and other economic crimes. UNODC’s regional anti-corruption advisor, David Robinson, believed that online trust was necessary while building confidence in governments and preventing fraud and...Read More
Lightning Labs, that developed the Lightning Network, a Layer 2 payment protocol and a proposed solution for the Bitcoin scalability problem, announced the release of Pool, “a non-custodial, peer-to-peer marketplace” which would “transform” Lightning liquidity into a tradable asset. Pool is said to allow node operators to buy or sell access to liquidity on the...Read More
Centre for Science and Security Studies, which is the research wing at King’s College London published a report on 2 November that outlined attributes of blockchain technology and how it could enhance trust between nations fighting to dismantle nuclear warheads, “in a safe” and “reliable” way. According to the arguments set forth in the report,...Read More
The King’s College London’s research arm, the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS), has published a report arguing that blockchain technology can enhance the trust between countries fighting to dismantle nuclear warheads, thus reducing the risks of potential wars. Blockchain To Help With Nuclear Warhead Dismantling? Ever since their emergence during World War II,...Read More
Talks about the Anti-social Media Bill to prevent Nigerian youths from protesting against the government has reminded us about the need for decentralized social networks. Following the recent EndSARS protests against police brutality in Nigeria, the government has returned to a previous bill that intends to criminalize the use of social media to restrict free...Read More
New York-based telecommunications company Verizon has announced the launch of a blockchain-based, “open-source newsroom product designed to raise the bar for corporate accountability,” according to its report released. Verizon’s new initiative, dubbed the ‘Full Transparency,’ platform is meant to immutably document the company’s own news releases and provide a record of changes to communications on...Read More
A British citizen who has reportedly been an ISIS member for over four years has appeared before a local court for allegedly sending money abroad (via BTC) to help captured ISIS militants escape Syrian prison camps. According to a report, the 27-year old citizen named Hisham Chaudhary faces seven terror charges, including membership of a...Read More
A fully owned subsidiary of the private Russia-based Gazprombank (JSC) bank announced that it has received authorization from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to provide cryptocurrency custody services as well as trading between crypto and fiat currencies to its corporate and institutional clients. Gazprombank said it would first provide these crypto-focused services to...Read More
After cryptocurrency exchange Binance said that it would fund 5 DeFi projects, the firm has announced today that it will now be funding the second batch of blockchain projects as part of its $100 million accelerator fund, which was launched in September this year. Altogether, the fund now supports 11 projects that will build on...Read More
Deepak Chopra’s name is synonymous with meditation, mindfulness, and healing through healthy living. And according to the latest update, the world-renowned author and thought-leader is considering buying bitcoin. Mr. Chopra is also about to launch ‘Love in Action,’ his own blockchain-based token. Deepak Chopra Officially Enters The Blockchain Space It is important to note that...Read More
Economist Nouriel Roubini has criticized online payments giant PayPal Holdings Inc for allowing its customers to buy, sell and hold BTC and other altcoins, from next year onwards. In a tweet published on Monday Roubini shared an article titled how PayPal has brought “crypto gambling,” to customers in the U.S. – which is “bad” for...Read More
Toyota Systems, a wholly-owned IT subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation announced today that it is experimenting with a digital currency solution as part of a new pilot project with DeCurret, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange. This new project involves automating payments with its private digital currency to its 2,500 staff at Toyota Systems. The payments made...Read More
Major crypto exchange Binance announced today that its investment and incubation arm, Binance Labs has made a strategic investment in a new blockchain-based decentralized streaming protocol, called Audius. Binance Labs led the extension round for Audius which was worth $1.25 million. The community-owned music sharing protocol is yet to launch on mainnet, and had earlier...Read More
An official from the Russian Central Bank’s National Banking Council, Anatoly Aksakov said that Russia’s CBDC, the digital ruble, would be the “future” of all money circulation in the country, and that the CBDC will start being tested, “possibly” in 2021. This development follows an earlier announcement from the Central Bank regarding the possibility of...Read More
Owner of the Bitfinex crypto exchange, iFinex announced today integration with cross-chain system pNetwork (pTokens network) which would enable BTC, ETH and LTC to automatically be tokenized, and moved on to DeFi blockchains directly from the Bitfinex platform. pNetwork is the decentralized governance layer operating the pTokens bridges. pTokens makes cryptocurrencies “compatible” with blockchains, such...Read More
With several blockchains integrating the USDC stablecoin last week, crypto payments tech firm Circle announced today that it would now make the dollar-backed stablecoin available for the Solana blockchain, after partnering with the firm. According to Circle, Solana, the blockchain behind decentralized exchange Serum, supports up to 50,000 transactions per second (tps). This surpasses Ethereum’s...Read More
Blockchain research and development startup IOHK, and Ethereum Classic Cooperative today announced a collaboration to provide ETC community with solutions that aimed to improve security of the network, especially after ETC had been 51% attacked three times already. In a release shared with AMBCrypto on Tuesday, the two entities analyzed the vulnerability of the ETC...Read More
A new consultation process on blockchain laws is set to begin in Switzerland. Initiated by the country’s Federal Department of Finance, the operation is focused on initiating a blanket ordinance in the local blockchain and distributed ledger technology environment. For Better Laws In Blockchain Industry A number of parties, individuals, and other interested groups are...Read More
Sadyr Japarov, Acting President of the central Asian nation Kyrgyzstan, offered the nation’s election commission to use blockchain technology to streamline elections in the country. In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Japarov believed that only blockchain tech would make way for “fair” presidential and parliamentary elections. Until recently, the newly appointed President and Prime Minister was...Read More
Amid talks of forking Filecoin because of miner unrest, Juan Benet, the entrepreneur behind the decentralized storage network, dismissed the claims and said their storage network was “just fine.” In a tweet, Benet called the miner strike “nonsense” and that there has been no “power loss” as such on the network. Benet said in a...Read More
Filecoin’s history has been turbulent since its creation in the early days of the crypto-verse. But investors can probably agree that nothing resembles what happened last week. Filecoin Traders Had a Hard Week… Speculators are having a rough time. The token initially had a brief and sudden rise of more than 100% immediately after its...Read More
The Central Bank of Spain published its Strategic Plan for 2020-2024, describing the objectives and strategies it will follow to boost its economy and adapt the country’s finances to the requirements of the modern era, and a CBDC is one of its priorities. The digital world is stealing the attention of the Spaniards. In its...Read More
To improve its base protocol, developers of Monero (XMR), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, announced a network ‘Oxygen Orion’ upgrade, which will implement a new software- the linkable ring signature protocol- called ‘CLSAG,’ to make transactions “lighter and faster.” CLSAG (or compact linkable spontaneous anonymous group) feature is said to reduce average transaction “size” by approximately 25%...Read More
Cryptocurrency trading platform Bitfinex announced today that it has made staking rewards available for Polkadot (DOT), the native token of Polkadot blockchain, which would allow DOT token holders on the Bitfinex platform to earn rewards of up to 14 percent per year, according to a release shared with AMBCrypto. The staked DOT tokens will be...Read More
Polkadot announced that a new trustless wrapped Bitcoin – PolkaBTC- will be released on its blockchain in early 2021. This will be Polkadot’s first trustless wrapped Bitcoin which the platform deemed as a critical step toward an interoperable ecosystem. The tokenized bitcoin, which will enable users to mint 1:1 bitcoin-backed assets onto Polkadot, is being...Read More
Hollywood has been known to be illiquid, a fact that first resonated with film producer and businessman Christopher Woodrow who launched the MovieCoin token. Following this, the trend, it seems, has only grown. The Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange, or LCX, announced today that the platform would provide issuance of a new movie token dubbed RVW, which...Read More
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has collaborated with the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) to launch a new initiative assessing the state of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Dubbed the Global Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI), it will determine the industry landscape by examining a few distinctive areas. WEF Launches GSMI To Examine Blockchain State According to the...Read More
After European Central Bank announced that the central bank wanted to “hear the views of the public and interested stakeholders,” with regard to the Digital Euro, ECB launched a “public consultation” survey on its central bank digital currency. As mentioned earlier, the bank hoped that this “consultation” would help them understand whether European people at...Read More
The adoption of traditional financial tools to crypto-currencies is not new and when it comes to gauging crypto prices, several trackers have come and gone that especially allows investors to estimate volatility of each crypto. On that note, the fintech platform which enables cross-chain interoperability, COTI (Currency of the Internet) has developed a Market Fear...Read More
