The first 100,000 Jamaican citizens to use the country’s new central bank digital currency (CBDC) known as Jam-Dex, will be given a free $16 payment ...
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Chainalysis launches free sanctions screening tools
Blockchain-data analysis firm Chainalysis has announced the fast-tracked launch of two primary ‘sanctions screening’ tools that it will provide free of charge to the cryptocurrency ...
Ethereum’s ‘consensus layer’ contract hits 10M ETH staked
Quantitative analysis conducted on popular blockchain site Etherscan, indicates that 184,441 transactions have been responsible for 10.2 million ETH staked into the Eth2 (consensus layer) deposit ...
Axie Infinity accounted for nearly two-thirds of blockchain-game NFT transactions in 2021
According to a recent report curated by NonFungible, players of the monster-battle nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, game Axie Infinity transacted nearly $3.5 billion worth of ...
HBAR Foundation launches $100M climate-focused impact fund, declaring DOVU as inaugural grantee
The HBAR Foundation, a philanthropic and independent subsidiary of distributed ledger firm Hedera Hashgraph, has announced the launch of the environmentally-conscious Sustainable Impact Fund, SIF, ...
Romanian central bank approves blockchain firm Elrond to buy Twispay
The National Bank of Romania has greenlighted an acquisition in the blockchain industry, authorizing the blockchain startup Elrond to acquire a payment processing platform. Elrond, ...
CBDCs will not impact private stablecoin market, says Tether CTO
Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer at Tether, believes that the growing developments around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) globally wouldn’t really impact the role ...
THORChain spikes by 34% after activating synthetic assets
The price of the native asset for cross-chain decentralized exchange THORChain (RUNE) has spiked by 34% in a day following the activating of synthetic assets ...
Neutrino, Vires Finance and Waves bag 100%+ gain after pivot toward interoperability
Ongoing developments on the global stage continue to cause havoc in traditional markets and in the cryptocurrency sector. Despite these headwinds, projects in the Waves ...
Web3 platform integrates social commerce app into Circle’s payment infrastructure
Web3 infrastructure platform Our Happy Company has announced their inaugural product, OurSong — a social commerce mobile application designed to enable digital creators to monetize ...