DeFi industry draws in commercial banks? Siam bets with $110M fund
Thailand’s oldest bank sees blockchain and DeFi as the future of global finance and is seeking to invest in the...
Month: July 2021
New York Town Bemoans Roadside ‘Littered’ With Bitcoin Miners — Officials Plan to Impose 90-Day Moratorium
A St. Lawrence county town located in New York near the Canadian border, Massena, is another region in the state...
Abkhazia Holds Talks With Russia to Ensure Electricity Supply for Crypto Miners
The government of Abkhazia is negotiating with Russia to solve a problem that led to a ban on cryptocurrency mining....
Central Bank of Colombia Announces First Blockchain Bond Pilot Program
The Central Bank of Colombia has announced its involvement in the first blockchain bond pilot program in the country, with...
64% of Adults from 10 Different Countries Would Use a Central Bank Digital Currency: Report
As central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) advance in testing, a number of countries have taken the lead in an effort...
Chinese Miners Pivot to Alternative Currencies to Keep Operating
The Chinese mining crackdown forced many miners to stop their operations and relocate. But another group of miners is planning...
Report: Nigeria to Start Piloting Digital Currency in October
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reportedly set October 1 as the commencement date for the trial phase of...
FTX, Circle, BlockFi and More: The Largest Crypto Fundraisers of the Year
Cryptocurrency companies are rapidly turning to large investors to fund their business plans through capital investment. The past year has...
A Simple Guide to Exchanging Cryptocurrencies ETH to BTC
It has long become history that time when trading on stock exchanges was available only to a narrow circle of...
Just HODL! Bitcoin and Ethereum outperform ‘lower risk’ crypto index funds
Data from Delphi Digital shows holding BTC and ETH was more profitable than investing in weighted average market cap crypto...
Altcoin roundup: Crypto credit cards could be the missing link to mass adoption
Hodling is nice, but eventually, everyone wants to buy something. This is why crypto debit and credit cards are key...
French Central Bank Conducts Fifth Experiment on Tunisia CBDC
The French central bank, Banque de France (BOF), recently carried out its fifth experiment on the Central Bank of Tunisia...
Binance Is Hunting for a New CEO — Exchange’s US Venture ‘Looks at Potential IPO Route’
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has explained in a recent interview that the company is looking to launch a U.S.-based...
Reddit Chooses to Leverage Arbitrum’s Layer-2 Tech With Community Point ETH-Based Tokens
On July 22, developers working on the platform Reddit, the social news discussion aggregation forum, revealed that the team was...
Weekly roundup: Ark Invest, Edge Wealth Management, and Rothschild Investment accumulate crypto
Cathie Wood's Ark Invest purchased more than 450,000 GBTC shares in two separate buys this week. As the price of...
