U.S blockchain venture capitalist Digital Currency Group (DCG), today announced the acquisition of the U.K-based cryptocurrency exchange and wallet Luno, and that the Group made ‘financial commitments’ to help Luno expand globally. The funds involved in the acquisition, though, were not disclosed according to the release. Luno, which has a customer base of five million...Read More
In a recent announcement today, the widely-used stablecoin tether (USDt) will be launched on Solana, a high-speed blockchain network. This would be the first time a stablecoin has been integrated with Solana and this move will now allow tether holders to exchange their USDt stablecoins at speeds greater than 50,000 transactions per second on the...Read More
Global financial services company, Mastercard launched a Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) virtual and custom ‘testing’ platform, for central banks to evaluate use cases of national digital currencies and even simulate a CBDC ecosystem, a release stated today. Moreover, Mastercard has called for global partnerships with central banks, commercial banks, and tech and advisory firms...Read More
New York-based blockchain investment firm Coinfund has invested an undisclosed amount in Rarible, a platform to trade liquid intellectual properties and any digital content with licensing via Non Fungible Tokens (NFT). Coinfund’s funding is supposed to help Rarible develop a community-governed, blockchain-based NFT marketplace that would enable it to create a direct relationship between digital...Read More
San Francisco-based crypto lending and staking platform, Cred announced today that it has joined Visa’s Fast Track program, which according to the firm would speed-up the process of eventually integrating with Visa, a global payment tech company. According to co-founder and CEO of Cred, Dan Schatt, the firm’s acceptance into Visa’s program would allow Cred...Read More
European cryptocurrency exchange ETERBASE announced in a tweet today that the exchange had been hacked and its hot wallets were compromised, which has lead to the loss of several cryptocurrencies. The crypto exchange said that it has contacted all other centralized exchanges that might be receiving these illicit funds stolen during the hack and were...Read More
The cryptocurrency-backed lending and borrowing platform, Cred, announced today that it had joined Visa’s Fast Track program. The company plans to leverage several Visa features to facilitate lending and borrowing of digital assets globally. Cred Joins Visa’s Fast Track Program The San Francisco-headquartered company announced its latest milestone in a press release shared with CryptoPotato....Read More
Bank of Japan (BoJ), one of Japan’s central banks, has put the development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) on top priority since July, according to a report in Japan Today. As per the report, members of BoJ hoped to see its digital currencies operate seamlessly during times of natural disasters and especially during...Read More
Chilean cryptocurrency exchange, Buda.com has denied allegations that it transferred client funds without authorization, a local news site has said. Per the report Itau bank now known as Itaú Unibanco, a private sector bank based in São Paulo, Brazil filed a lawsuit against the exchange and that both the bank and the exchange were set...Read More
San Francisco-based venture company Blockchain Capital filed a lawsuit against another similarly named Florida based firm on Thursday for infringement on its trademark. The other company which goes by the name Blockchain Capital. Management LLC (BCM) was owned by one Fareed Iftikhar whose company also operated in the financial services sector. According to case papers...Read More
Decentralized network, Chainlink was under attack by a spammer who targeted select few node operators on Sunday, with the intention of disrupting the network through unnecessary on-chain computation. Chainlink nodes are oracles that allow smart contracts that reside on the Ethereum to interact with external software. Chainlink community member further said in the thread that...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced today the launch of its “centralized” Automated Market Maker (AMM) pool called Binance Liquid Swap, which will have different liquidity pools that will allow liquidity providers to earn interest and income from trading fees. Founder and CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao said that he was taking cues from the DeFi trend and...Read More
Brazil Central Bank President, Roberto de Oliveira Campos Neto, announced that plans to have a digital currency by 2022. In an interview with Bloomberg Markets’ Editor, Erik Schatzker, Neto said that Brazil’s central bank digital currency or CBDC will modernize the country’s banking system. According to Neto, Brazil’s central bank leadership in 2019 led to...Read More
Coinbase, the San Francisco based cryptocurrency exchange announced in a blog today that it has now “temporarily” listed Celo under the CGLD ticker symbol, which is also available on the iOS and Android apps of the exchange. Celo (CGLD) is launching at https://t.co/u9kzBrgZWx and in the iOS and Android apps within the next 15 minutes....Read More
Cryptocurrency lending platform, BlockFi announced on twitter today that the startup received its Money Transmitter License (MTL) which now allows BlockFi to enable its users to transfer funds from their bank or crypto wallets. The tweet further said that the platform will make stablecoin trading and wires available to New Jersey residents. We’re excited to...Read More
In a panel discussion with the Brooking Institution, Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey said that stablecoins, Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies are difficult and unsuitable for the public to use for traditional payments as he believed that the majority of the retail public still does not understand the usage of digital currencies. According...Read More
Companies and individuals in Switzerland can now pay taxes up to 100,000 Swiss francs (about $110,000) paid in Bitcoin or Ether. Authorities in Switzerland announced today that it planned to accept premier cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) for tax payments from February 2021 onwards, according to a report from the Associated Press. The decision...Read More
The California based financial services company, Robinhood Markets Inc faces a civil fraud investigation by the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission over its deals with high-speed trading firms, according to a report in the Wall Street Street Journal. Robinhood allegedly failed to fully disclose its practice of selling clients’ orders to high-speed trading firms, the...Read More
BiLira (TRYB), Turkey’s first stablecoin which is backed by the Turkish fiat currency lira announced on twitter that the token has been listed on the Bittrex Global crypto exchange. The announcement detailed that the ERC-20 token will be available for trading starting from today. Global Bittrex, a U.S based cryptocurrency trading platform, also joined the...Read More
Crypto wallet and gateway to blockchain apps, MetaMask has announced in a tweet that it will soon launch its mobile apps on the App Store as well as Google Play. In case you missed @mattleising’s article, #MetaMaskMobile is coming very soon! Register here to get notified when the app is available in the Apple App...Read More
Coro Global, a Florida-based company that allows customers to exchange, send and save gold as well as U.S. dollars announced the launch of its payment app ‘CORO’ that runs on Hashgraph’s distributed ledger technology. With this move, Coro Global which has a large customer base in the U.S became the first company to formally license...Read More
The U.S Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which regulates virtual currency derivatives, today announced that it has approved cryptocurrency exchange LedgerX’s requests to remove the “digital currency” limitation. Under this new amended order, LedgerX is now authorized to clear products not directly connected to cryptocurrencies. According to the release: Under the amended order, LedgerX is...Read More
Akon City, also referred to as the “real-life Wakanda,” will begin construction in early 2021, said the popular singer, producer, and mastermind behind the project – Akon. He even hinted plans of franchising the concept in other nations in Africa. Akon City Construction Starts In Several Months Initially announced in mid-2018, Akon City gained mass...Read More
Roger Ver today announced in his tweet that deadalnix will be forking from Bitcoin Cash on 15 November, 2020. The tweet did not mention the name of the new coin that will be created as a result of the fork, but twitter users were quick to chime in with suggestions like BCASH. Bitcoin ABC and...Read More
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency research development group, Chaincode Labs has hired developer and co-founder of Blockstream, Pieter Wuille, who will now work on protocol improvements to Bitcoin. The coder and engineer posted a tweet in which he said he would continue to collaborate with the research team at Blockstream. Very excited to announce I’m joining Chaincode...Read More
Five months after the project was unveiled, Binance announced the launch of its Binance Smart Chain blockchain today, which enables creation of smart contracts and allows users to stake BNB, Binance’s very own token. The blockchain is compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine, which may increase the utility of both Binance Chain and the BNB token....Read More
The Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency and payment platform Crypto.com hired ex Visa International Asia-Pacific executive, Nobuyuki Nagahama, as General Manager of Japan. According to an official release, the company which serves over 3 million customers worldwide claimed that this move will allow the platform to launch strategic initiatives in the Japanese cryptocurrency market. At Crypto.com Nagahama...Read More
A joint venture between the British multinational investment bank HSBC, Singapore Exchange (SGX), and state-owned investment company Temasek has completed its first digital bond issuance of $300 million worth of corporate bonds on SGX’s digital asset platform by employing blockchain technology. $300M Of Corporate Bonds Replicated Digitally With DLT The collaboration between the three entities,...Read More
Daemon Technologies, a firm based in Hong Kong, will now drive the adoption of Stacks technology to support cryptocurrency mining communities in Asia according to its launch tweet. Excited to announce my next chapter in the @blockstack and #stacks ecosystem! https://t.co/JRdZPeDwhi — Xan Ditkoff (@XanDitkoff) August 31, 2020 The firm stated that Asian mining communities were...Read More
Yes, Tron’s Justin Sun just named a meme coin after himself CEO of Tron Foundation, Justin Sun announced the launch of $SUN, Tron Network’s first meme coin that will be mined to fund Sun Genesis Mining, a community-driven decentralized (DeFi) potential of TRON that runs on open-source smart contracts. (1/5) I am glad to announce...Read More
