Source: Adobe/vitpluz A little more than a week after blockchain platform Flare Network took a snapshot of the XRP blockchain, it has completed its calculations and found out how many spark (FLR) tokens the eligible XRP holders will get. According to Flare’s blog post, "after a week of analysis with Flare’s partners, XRPLORER and Towo […]
Source: Adobe/Alexandr Blinov Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. ______ Regulation news Russia’s Prosecutor-General Igor Krasnov has claimed that the government is preparing new legislation that will allow the state to seize cryptoassets. According to the news agency Tass, […]
Source: Adobe/MaciejBledowski Singapore’s central bank says its prototype blockchain-powered cross-border payments network is now ready for commercial rollout. As previously reported, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) began “industry testing" for its new solution with JPMorgan and the state-operated Singaporean holding company and investor Temasek late last year. And it seems the pilots have proven […]
Source: Adobe/jivimages Russian officials have indicated that they are happy with the use of blockchain-powered smartphone and PC voting – and intend to expand blockchain-based voting in next year’s parliamentary elections. As previously reported, some 1.14 million Russians voted on a blockchain platform in the country’s recent referendum on constitutional reform at two testbed locations: […]
Israel-based Coindash, a social trading platform, recently announced via its blog that 20,000 Ethereum tokens had been transferred to the company’s wallet from the same address that stole ETH 37,000 (USD 32 million) from them in July last year. The transaction constitutes the second instance in which the hacker has returned funds to Coindash. Out […]