DeFi industry draws in commercial banks? Siam bets with $110M fund
While serious institutional interest in crypto is perhaps becoming more of an established trend than an emerging narrative, the focus...
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The future of art? World-famous artists delve into NFTs
For millennia, the world of art has remained unchanged for the most part. The tradition has always revolved around artists...
Georgian Government Embraces Blockchain to Promote Its Wines Globally – Bitcoin News
As Georgia seeks to bring its millennia-old wine industry into the 21st century, it is collaborating with blockchain platform Wiv...
Study suggests Canadian CBDC could promote digital innovation within the country
A study released by Canada’s central bank, Banque du Canada, has noted a number of favorable reasons that the country...
Candidate for Kenyan Elections Body Says Adopting Blockchain Will Reduce Ballot Costs by 300% – Blockchain Bitcoin News
An aspirant to the post of commissioner with the Kenyan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has urged the elections...
South China Morning Post to tokenize 118-year-old archive with NFTs
Veteran Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post (SCMP) is creating a series of NFTs using a new token standard...
5 years after The DAO crisis and Ethereum hard fork
A vulnerability of a smart contract in one private DAO fund firstly to the leak of cryptocurrency worth tens of...
A decentralized app store might lead crypto toward more centralization
The estimated windfall Apple got from its App Store in 2020 is $67 billion. That’s up from $50 billion in...
Crypto media closes, bad news just repeats, mining laws are beneficial?
This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news,...
Fed Chair says stablecoins need stricter regulation, speaks on CBDC
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told the House of Representatives today that stablecoins should face stricter regulations similar to money market...
Band Protocol upgrades BandChain network to phase 2
Band Protocol, the cross-chain data oracle provider, announced Tuesday that its BandChain oracle blockchain is in the process of upgrading...
OK Group to help China combat money laundering with blockchain
OK Group, a blockchain technology firm formerly behind cryptocurrency exchange OKEx, will start working with Chinese authorities to combat money...
El Salvador Bitcoin move will put pressure on network: JPMorgan
American megabank JPMorgan has continued criticizing El Salvador’s declaration of Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender, warning of the potential risks...
Mastercard Blockchain-Supported Livestock Tracking System Launches in Zimbabwe – Blockchain Bitcoin News
E-Livestock Global, a venture-funded social enterprise, recently launched a blockchain-based livestock traceability system for Zimbabwean cattle farmers. The Mastercard “Provenance...
Biological evolution should inform how humans design markets
If the global COVID-19 pandemic has taught humanity anything, it has hammered home the lesson that the human being is...
Jay-Z’s Entertainment Firm Roc Nation Buys Sensorium’s Metaverse Crypto Tokens – Blockchain Bitcoin News
On Wednesday, the full-service entertainment company founded by influential hip-hop artist Jay-Z, Roc Nation, revealed the firm has purchased tokens...
Young Koreans’ debt soars as they turn to crypto, stocks and real estate
Household debt for younger Koreans — those born from the 1980s onward — has surged to $22.7 billion, up from...
World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Sells NFT for $5.4M — ‘Embarrassing’ Coding Error Spotted in NFT – Blockchain Bitcoin News
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, the English computer scientist who is well known for inventing the world wide web has sold...
CoinShares to acquire ETF index business from Alan Howard’s crypto firm
European digital asset manager CoinShares announced it is acquiring the exchange-traded fund (ETF) index business from crypto firm Elwood Technologies...
NBA Star Spencer Dinwiddie’s Crypto-Fueled Social Media App Raises $7.5 Million – Blockchain Bitcoin News
According to an announcement revealed on Thursday, Spencer Dinwiddie’s token application called Calaxy has raised $7.5 million in funding. The...
To change the art industry, NFTs must be more secure
2021 has already seen a number of eye-catching milestones reached for the nascent nonfungible token (NFT) market, which has seen...
ETH 2.0 Contract Exceeds 6 Million Ether, Data Shows Ethereum Outperformed BTC in Q1 and Q2 – Blockchain Bitcoin News
Statistics show that the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract has exceeded 6 million ether this week as more than $12.4 billion...
