Advertisment Keeping the focus on blockchain development, banking authorities in China have issued a set of rules pertaining to the secure application of crypto-related technologies in the financial sphere. The new standards, the first of…
Advertisment In 2017 and 2018, the cryptocurrency world was convinced that blockchain technology and digital currencies would disrupt just about every industry. Today, Bitcoin’s price sits at less than half of its peak. Many of…
The U.S. may soon get its first dedicated bank for digital assets. A Wyoming corporation founded by blockchain legislative champion Caitlin Long is preparing to apply for a special purpose depository institution (SPDI) charter with…
Advertisment ISTANBUL, — OKEx (www.okex.com), the world’s largest cryptocurrency spot and derivatives exchange, attended the Blockchain Economy, the most-anticipated blockchain summit in MENA and Eurasia last week in Istanbul. Lennix Lai, Financial Markets Director of…
Distributed ledger tech provider R3 says it’s providing pension firms with the technology to build new blockchain-based identity solutions that could help savers reclaim some of the $48 billion in lost U.K. pension pots. According…
Byrne Hobart, a CoinDesk columnist, is an investor, consultant and writer in New York. His newsletter, The Diff (diff.substack.com) covers inflection points in finance and technology. In October, China’s President Xi Jinping said China should…
Donating to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) may turn out to be the Ethereum Foundation’s shrewdest move yet. “We are still discussing the details on what we can do together, but we have decided…
KYIV, UKRAINE — Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have been a hot topic in blockchain circles recently, but central banks are lukewarm about blockchains. Representatives of a number of the world’s central banks discussed their…
Buying votes is a big no-no in traditional democracies, but on the world’s eighth-largest blockchain it’s become an accepted way of doing business. A new service makes it easier for EOS block producers, the nodes…
JPMorgan released a report last Friday, detailing the global enthusiasm for blockchain technology in the financial sector. In the 74-page report, JPMorgan described several projects that have developed the ‘real world’ financial application and as…
