Source: Adobe/Alexey Novikov In the midst of rising business shutdowns and unemployment rates in the U.S., which may lead to a nationwide, as well as a global recession, U.S. politicians voiced an idea of a "digital dollar". (Updated at 16:48 UTC: updates in bold). As a response to the growing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Source: iStock/Atypeek European crypto and blockchain players are worried that incoming regulatory frameworks could usher in “excessive requirements” that could “pose significant challenges for crypto-based projects,” particularly in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, with “irreconcilable” obstacles, a survey has found. The survey was commissioned by the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA), a group […]
Source: Adobe/zhu difeng Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Blockchain news More blockchain-related patents were published in the first half of 2020 than in all of 2019, a year that had already seen 3 times more blockchain patents published […]
Source: iStock/Pgiam After EOS developer Block.one said it has settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, another blockchain project announced the same news today. Nebulous, the company building the Sia decentralized cloud storage network, said it has entered into a settlement with the SEC and agreed to pay USD 225,000 without admitting or denying […]
Source: iStock/Robert Daly Japan’s stablecoin race has begun to hot up – with one of the biggest banks in the country and the world announcing it has struck a deal with Alipay, the financial arm of Chinese business giant Alibaba. The Mizuho Financial Group, operator of Japan’s second largest (and one of the top 20 […]