Bank fees are easily avoidable by using blockchain instead of usual currency transfers, and international organizations are discovering that now, as the World Food Programme is expanding its blockchain-payments system. The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security. […]
Source: Adobe/Oleksii Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Crime news A Russian website alleges that data on an undisclosed number of Russian and Iranian Telegram users is circulating on the dark web. Per Kod.ru, dark web sites […]
Source: iStock/stockcam The Telegram chat app – the popular communication tool of choice for the crypto community – could be forced to monetize thanks to a regulatory intervention from the American Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) that scuppered its tokenization and blockchainization plans. In a frank post on his own channel on the platform Pavel […]
Source: Adobe/prima91 The state-controlled commercial bank Sberbank has expressed fears that the Russian Central Bank’s “digital ruble” plans will have a negative effect on liquidity in the nation. The Central Bank has accelerated its plans to roll out a central bank digital currency (CBDC) with a pilot slated for next year – likely in a […]
Blockchain Centre Vilnius launched on Saturday, January 27, to become Europe’s first Blockchain Centre and connect with partners in Australia and Asia. Lithuania was selected to host the first European Blockchain Centre by the Australian and Asian blockchain community due to its political and economic stability, EU and eurozone membership, and favourable business and regulatory […]