2021-3-19 15:00 |
After issuing a warning against a Baht-pegged stablecoin produced by a South Korea-based firm, Thailand plans to introduce a series of regulations for stablecoins in 2021. origin »
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BNY Mellon plans to bring Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies under the same roof as traditional holdings through its platform that is now in prototype, following “heightened interest” and “new demand.” The post America’s Oldest Banking Giant, BNY Mellon, to Hold and Transfer Bitcoin & Other Cryptos Including Stablecoins first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-2-11 18:03 | |
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Mastercard has announced that it plans to start supporting some cryptocurrencies, as well as stablecoins directly on its network this year. The global payments giant says the move is in a bid to create more possibilities for its users especially as the digital currency trend begins to gain traction across the world, according to aRead More
2021-2-11 14:05 | |
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Describing Bitcoin as “digital gold,” Alfred Kelly said they “predominantly held as assets” but sees stablecoins and CBDCs as “emerging payments innovation” that can be used for global commerce. The post Crypto’s Are Becoming Mediums of Exchange as Visa CEO Plans to Add Them to the Network first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-2-2 18:30 | |
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The government of the United Kingdom is making active plans to transform the nation’s financial ecosystem and ultimately make the region a hotbed for innovative businesses. The government says it plans to formulate amenable regulations for stablecoin initiatives and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), according to a statement November 9, 2020.
2020-11-11 22:00 | |
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The UK Treasury Department is working on a draft to regulate privately-owned stablecoins. The department disclosed this news on November 9 through an official announcement, noting that it is also researching how it could use a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as an alternative to cash.
2020-11-10 15:23 | |
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Coinspeaker EU Reveals Its Plans to Regulate Cryptocurrencies and StablecoinsThe EU has realized that the future of finance is digital and Valdis Dombrovskis has indicated that the regulatory push will help to prevent market segmentation within the EU.
2020-9-26 17:05 | |
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David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple, says the company has no plans to issue its own stablecoins, but it encourages third parties to create them on top of the XRP Ledger
2020-6-3 20:28 | |
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At her first press conference as head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde outlined her plans to lead the ECB “ahead of the curve” in the field of digital currency. “There is clearly a demand out there that we have to respond to,” she said, referring to stablecoins.
2019-12-14 15:38 | |
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Douglas Horn, Chief Architect of the Telos blockchain, shares his plans on Telos development, with focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
2019-11-8 18:40 | |
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Ternio startup plans to add XRP to its Visa debit card next to Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and some stablecoins, including USDT and TrueUSD
2019-11-5 12:10 | |
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Social media giant Facebook has certainly rattled the regulatory feathers of global regulators with its grand plans for cryptocurrency world domination. Politicians and citizens alike are right to question Libra and those that will be pulling the strings behind it.
2019-10-18 09:30 | |
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ING’s Chief Economist, Mark Cliffe, responded in the affirmative when enquired about ING’s plans of launching a digital currency during a joint event to discuss the various aspects of central bank-issued stablecoins.
2019-9-27 15:54 | |
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Tether Ltd. is planning to issue two new stablecoins, one pegged to a basket of commodities and another to the Chinese renminbi, according to Zhao Dong, an over-the-counter (OTC) trader in China and a shareholder of Bitfinex.
2019-9-4 09:54 | |
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Coinspeaker Tether Plans to Launch New Stablecoin ‘CNHT’, Pegged to Offshore Chinese YuanAt the wake of an increased patronage for stablecoins, Tether adds yet another stablecoin to its repository, unveiling that this new ‘CNHT’ stablecoin would be tied to the offshore Chinese Yuan.
2019-8-22 00:39 | |
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Binance, the largest Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin trading venue in the world by reported trading volume, has announced plans to launch an open distributed ledger technology (DLT) network called Venus, to make it easier for entities to create localized fiat-backed stablecoins, according to a blog post on August 19, 2019.
2019-8-20 19:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Binance Launching ‘Venus’ as a Direct Competitor to Facebook’s LibraThe Venus project announced by Binance earlier on Monday plans to create stablecoins and other virtual assets backed by fiat currencies around the world.
2019-8-19 15:55 | |
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This year’s run-up in the bitcoin price has been attributed to numerous factors: the US-China trade war, bold monetary easing by central banks, a weakening Chinese Renminbi, Facebook’s plans to launch its cryptocurrency, as well as market manipulation via Tether’s USDT stablecoins.
2019-8-16 17:00 | |
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Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, who has previously advocated for a full ban on cryptocurrency, doesn’t like Facebook’s Libra plans either. Stablecoins might be a friendlier option to someone like Stiglitz, who believes crypto lacks all the properties of sound money.
2019-7-3 18:28 | |
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eToroX, the specialized blockchain division of social trading platform eToro, has announced the launch of the first five of 120 ERC-20 tokens that will be added to its on-chain wallet. ERC-20 tokens are designed and used solely on the Ethereum platform and can be shared, exchanged for other tokens, or transferred to a cryptocurrency wallet.
2019-7-2 14:27 | |
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As the popularity of stablecoins grows, one such token reaping big out of it is Maker’s DAI. Apparently, Liquid, a subsidiary digital assets exchange of Quoine, has listed it and effectively allowed traders to trade, buy and sell the stablecoin.
2019-6-29 19:41 | |
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BabelFinance, a bank offering service to crypto-investors, crypto-miners and institutions related to crypto, is in the news after it announced that it had issued crypto-backed loans worth $110 million, out of which $88 million were outstanding loans.
2019-6-13 14:30 | |
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After plans to launch on the TRON (TRX) network, Tether will create a supply of stablecoins with EOS.
2019-6-3 10:58 | |
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Crypto lender BlockFi is rolling out support for the gemini dollar (GUSD) stablecoin, claiming an expected initial annual percentage yield (APY) of 6. 2 percent for non-U.
2019-5-30 19:44 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Crypto exchange Wirex listed Stellar Lumens (XLM), making it the ninth cryptocurrency to be integrated on the trading platform. In the Apr. 24th announcement, the exchange revealed the listing was part of a broader partnership with Stellar.
2019-4-27 06:49 | |
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26 stablecoins will be launched by United Kingdom-based cryptocurrency payment processor Wirex as part of a partnership with Stellar
2019-4-26 17:22 | |
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Iran is the latest to join the stablecoins trend with its plans to launch a rial-backed crypto according to Al Jazeera. Details are to be revealed on Tuesday, they say,... The post Iran to Launch a Rial Stablecoin appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-1-28 19:41 | |
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The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority has proposed guidance for how various crypto assets should be regulated in the country.
2019-1-23 18:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao’s Dai and Tether’s USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).
2018-12-4 21:02 | |
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Bitcoin payment platform BitPay is now going to allow payments with the Paxos Standard token (PAX), which it calls “the fastest growing stablecoin and the highest trading volume of any U.
2018-11-22 00:25 | |
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Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has added the Vietnamese Dong (VND) on its Customer-to-Customer (C2C) trading system, enabling Vietnamese customers to exchange their fiat currency for tokens on the platform.
2018-11-14 21:54 | |
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A Japanese bank has taken advantage of the ruling that stablecoins are not cryptocurrencies. The First Bank of Toyama has launched a pilot project to test its own stablecoin, the First Bank Coin (FBC), and plans to commercialize the token in October 2019.
2018-11-5 16:59 | |
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This past week saw a flurry of reports and analyses released by various agencies and companies, speculating on the roles — past and present — of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.
2018-9-29 20:00 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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Grandshores Technology Group, a Hong Kong–listed investment holding company, is seeking to raise around $12. 7 million through a digital token fund, according to reports from the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
2018-9-19 00:42 | |
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Based on the Ethereum network, the Carbon team plans to shift the stablecoin protocol on scalable algorithmic model Hedera Hashgraph, once it reaches sufficient liquidity. The post It’s Raining StableCoins! Cryptocurrency Startup Carbon Announces Dollar-Pegged CarbonUSD appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-9-13 08:01 | |
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Last month, The White Company and FinTech Ltd. announced a partnership to bring White Company’s stablecoins to FinTech’s Interstellar decentralized exchange. Initially, The USD-backed White Standard Stablecoin (WSD) will be integrated into the dex, with plans to incorporate stablecoins pegged to the British Pound and Euro.
2018-9-12 16:00 | |
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Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring.
2018-7-31 15:58 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Malta-based tokenization platform STASIS has launched EURS, a stablecoin backed by the Euro. EURS, aiming to be the biggest "fully verified and collateralized stablecoin" in the world, launched with a $100 million pre-launch order book which is expected to hit $500 million by year’s end.
2018-7-16 19:46 | |
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Руководитель отдела Европейского центрального банка (ЕЦБ) по развитию цифровому евро Эвелин Уитлокс (Evelien Witlox) призвала ускорить внедрение стейблкоина ЕЦБ, чтобы не остаться позади Китая и Великобритании.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has launched a consultation on Project Acacia, exploring wholesale central bank digital currency and tokenized asset markets. Australia‘s central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia, alongside the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centr is seeking public…
Председатель Швейцарского национального банка (SNB) Мартин Шлегель (Martin Schlegel) заявил, что центробанк с осторожностью относится к криптовалютам. Регулятор считает их «нишевым явлением», поскольку из-за высокой волатильности цифровые активы не подходят для ежедневных платежей и расчетов.
The State Bank of Pakistan has proposed a legal framework to recognize digital assets, including cryptocurrency, as official forms of currency. If approved, the plan would allow the SBP to issue a digital currency, potentially leading to a central bank…
Гендиректор компании Circle, эмитента стейблкоинов USDC, заявил, что у частных стабильных монет гораздо больше преимуществ в сравнении с государственными стейблкоинами центральных банков.
Регуляторы Индии рассматривают возможность существенно ограничить или ввести полный за запрет на оборот частных криптоактивов, поскольку они не соответствует требованиям финансовой инклюзивности и безопасности, в отличие от CBDC.
Сенатор-республиканец от штата Юта Майк Ли назвал три фактора, угрожающие развитию криптоиндустрии: цифровые валюты центробанков, разный подход штатов к регулированию и жесткий надзор за цифровыми активами на федеральном уровне.