Exclusive: inabit and Google Cloud team up to strengthen crypto transaction security

Tel Aviv-based crypto security firm inabit has partnered with Google Cloud for better crypto protection using Google’s Confidential Computing technology.  The collaboration aims to prevent private key breaches and ensure secure cryptocurrency transactions, addressing rising threats from insider access and…

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AgriDex executes first on-chain farmland deal on Solana network

AgriDex annnounced the first on-chain farmland transaction on the Solana network was successfully completed. The deal consists of a $165,000 land purchase in Zambia. The purchase was settled immediately at no cost using AgriDex’s digital settlement system. AgriDex is a…

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Russia uses Crypto to Trade Oil with China and India, Develops BRICS Technology with Tether Stablecoin

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Circle Unveils Paymaster to Allow USDC to Be Used for Transaction Fees

The product allows users to interact with decentralized applications using USDC only, ditching the need for native tokens.

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Zeus Network validates first Bitcoin transaction on Solana

Zeus Network has validated the first Bitcoin transaction on the Solana blockchain. On Dec. 12, Zeus Network achieved a historic milestone by successfully validating the first Bitcoin transaction on Solana using its infrastructure. According to a release by Zeus, this…

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Binance HODLer Airdrop launches Movement: Here’s How to Participate

Key Takeaways: High performance and security: Move Network is a Layer-2 on Ethereum using the Move programming language to achieve high transaction speed at 30k+ TPS and best security compared to other solutions.

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PayPal settles invoice with EY in PYUSD first business payment

PayPal completed its first business payment on Sept. 23, using its stablecoin PYUSD to settle an invoice with Ernst & Young LLP, Bloomberg News reported on Oct. 3. The transaction was facilitated using software company SAP’s digital currency hub, a platform that allows businesses to send and receive digital payments instantly.

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Devs demonstrate AI to AI crypto transactions on Coinbase Developer Platform

Coinbase saw its first AI-to-AI crypto transaction using AI tokens on its developer platform. The AI agents used crypto wallets to transact with AI tokens, bypassing traditional finance. This marks a step toward autonomous AI-driven economies and AI-enabled checkouts.

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MetaMask partners with Mastercard for a self-custody debit card pilot program

MetaMask and Mastercard launches a self-custody debit card pilot program in the UK and EU. The card converts crypto to fiat at the point of transaction using a smart contract. The card aims at increasing financial inclusion and will expand to other regions over time.

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Mastercard Expands Crypto Reach With P2P Platform Launch Across 13 Countries

Mastercard has announced the launch of a peer-to-peer (P2P) platform for cryptocurrency users in Europe and Latin America. This initiative allows users on supported exchanges to send and receive cryptocurrencies using Mastercard Crypto Credential aliases, streamlining the transaction process.

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Fourteen years ago, someone bought pizza with Bitcoin

Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrated on May 22, marks the first commercial transaction using cryptocurrency. Learn about its history and how it's being celebrated in 2021. The post Fourteen years ago, someone bought pizza with Bitcoin appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Espresso and Polygon Labs partner to address rollup interoperability

Espresso partners with Polygon Labs to develop AggLayer, an interoperability solution across rollups using proof aggregation and transaction ordering guarantees. The post Espresso and Polygon Labs partner to address rollup interoperability appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Paypal's Green Mining Initiative Makes Zero Sense

A look at Paypal's recent proposal to implement Bitcoin wallets that pay mining fees using a scheme ensuring that only authorized miners powered by renewable energy can collect the user's transaction fee.

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Bitcoin Price Fluctuates Amid Predictions And Transaction Fee Surge

Bitcoin experienced a volatile trading session today, with its price fluctuating between highs of $65,000 and lows of $62,000. Analysts are closely monitoring these fluctuations and making predictions about future price movements using advanced models.

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EU bans anonymous crypto wallet to combat money laundering

The EU has introduced a new directive that outlaws transactions using anonymous, privately managed crypto wallets for any transaction value.

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Arbitrum slashes gas fee by 90%: Surge in demand to follow?

The cost of using Arbitrum One has fallen to a new low. This is due to the rollout of phase 2 of the ArbOS Atlas upgrade. Transaction fees on leading Layer 2 (L2) platform Arbitrum [ARB] havThe post Arbitrum slashes gas fee by 90%: Surge in demand to follow? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Ethereum Plans For Dencun Upgrade: Is This The End Of Roll-Ups?

Ye Zhang, the co-founder of Scroll, a layer-2 project using zero-knowledge proof, is cautiously optimistic about the upcoming Dencun upgrade. In a post on X, Zhang pointed out Dencun’s potential benefits, particularly the low transaction fees.

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Obyte Launches Prophet: A Bonding-Curve-Based Prediction Market Platform

October 11th, 2022 / Prophet is a decentralized platform for betting in which users may partake not just by placing bets but also by offering liquidity and benefiting from transaction fees. It relies on a formula using bonding curves, which ensures that both betting and trading may occur at all times and that there will […]

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Coinbase counters WSJ claim its Risk Solutions group engaged in $100M proprietary trade

In a blog post, Coinbase said the WSJ seemed to confuse the nature of a transaction earlier this year made using money raised through a structured note that was later sold.

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Iran Announces First Official Import Settled in Cryptocurrency

Iran’s Payman-Pak didnt reveal any details about the imported goods or the specific cryptocurrency used in the transaction. Iran Makes First Import Using Cryptocurrency Iran has revealed its first use...

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Chinese municipal bank issues first-ever digital yuan loan using intellectual property as collateral

The unnamed recipient of the loan said the e-CNY transaction was fast and efficient; they received an equivalent of 500,000 CNY, which was $74,020 at the time of publication.

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JPMorgan Is Using Blockchain for Collateral Settlement

JPMorgan is using blockchain technology for collateral settlements, according to new reports from Bloomberg. Transaction Involved BlackRock Assets In a pilot blockchain transaction, JPMorgan Chase & Co. transferred tokenized money...

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Bitcoin Pizza Day rewind: A homage to weird and wonderful BTC purchases

In recognition of Bitcoin pizza day, the first-ever real-world transaction using Bitcoin, Cointelegraph speaks with the crypto community about their historic BTC purchases.

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BIG3 Fire-Tier editions bought in biggest Dogecoin transaction ever

BIG3 premier global league announced that Bill Lee, co-founder of Craft Ventures, bought 25 Fire-Tier editions of their Aliens using Dogecoin (DOGE/USD), which is the biggest commercial transaction in history for the cryptocurrency, Invezz learned from a press release.

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Stand Against War donating to help war-torn Ukraine

Blockchain technology is an amazing way to send crypto and keep track of every transaction using the ledger, but how does this make donating to causes like war-torn Ukraine easier? Not only will we coThe post Stand Against War donating to help war-torn Ukraine appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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The Internet of Beer: Robotics startup taps Bitcoin to deliver automated beverage

Using their Lightning Network-supporting wallets, participants were able to receive their own beer, poured just seconds after completing the transaction by scanning a QR code.

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Stand Against War releases NFT collection to fund NGOs supporting Ukraine

Blockchain technology is an amazing way to send crypto and keep track of every transaction using the ledger, but how does this make donating to causes like war-torn Ukraine easier? Not only will we coThe post Stand Against War releases NFT collection to fund NGOs supporting Ukraine appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Ethereum Fees Suggest DeFi Is Becoming The Playground Of The Rich

The high fees on the Ethereum network has become a concern after it had risen to the point where using ETH for small transactions became unfeasible. Users of the network realized that they were sometimes having to pay fees higher than the transaction amount, leading to calls for a solution. There have been numerous fixes […]

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ZEC price movement: how will the planned Proof-of-Stake (PoS) switch impact the price of ZEC?

Zcash ZEC/USD is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that takes advantage of cryptography to give its users optional anonymity when they conduct any transaction. It does this by using the zk-SNARK zero-knowledge proof technology, allowing nodes on the network to verify transactions without revealing sensitive information about them.

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Ethereum to AVAX Bridge – How To Transfer Coins From ETH To Avalanche Blockchain

Avalanche blockchain is another one of those Ethereum killers that aim to solve what the Ethereum network is struggling with — scalability, transaction fees, and interoperability. Avalanche is taking a different approach by using three separate chains and claims to be “the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality”.

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How to modify or cancel a pending Ethereum transaction

A stuck or pending Ethereum transaction can be canceled or modified using two methods: in-application cancellation and setting a custom nonce.

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Bitfinex заплатила $23,5 млн за транзакцию в $100,000

Криптобиржа Bitfinex провела транзакцию с рекордно высокой комиссией на блокчейне Ethereum. В понедельник с кошелька Bitfinex на адрес дочерней DEX DeversiFiра прошла транзакция на $100,000 в Tether (USDT) с комиссией в $23,5 млн (7 676,61 ETH) At 11:10 UTC on the 27th September a deposit transaction was made using a hardware wallet from the main […] Материал Bitfinex заплатила $23,5 млн за транзакцию в $100,000 появился сначала на WHATTONEWS – Новости криптовалют.

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The World’s First Resort NFT Raises $3.65 Million, Giving Holders Perks

LABS Group, an end-to-end blockchain property investment platform, has successfully raised $3,650,000 for Kunang Kunang Resort using NFT. Kunang Kunang Glamping Resort is the world’s first-ever community-owned project fractionalized into Rewarding Timeshare (RTS) NFTs, transforming the way investors build their diversified portfolio, with access to diverse assets, low transaction costs and the ability to trade 24/7.

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Harmony (ONE) Vs. Elrond (EGLD)

Recent years have seen a slew of mainnet launches as platforms seek to find new ways of solving legacy problems. Harmony (ONE) and Elrond (EGLD) are two such projects. They both emerged with the promise of using sharding technology to guarantee fast transaction finality and high throughput.

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Exclusive: RAILGUN, Game Changer for Privacy on Ethereum Set to Launch Their Token RAIL on June 30th

Highly anticipated addition to the DeFi space Railgun set to release their token “RAIL” on June 30th. Railgun is a groundbreaking smart contract system that gives zk-snark privacy to any transaction or smart contract interaction on Ethereum, making its users untraceable when trading, using leverage platforms, or adding liquidity, with any dApp on ETH. Users […]

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The first blockchain achievements in MMA — to all fans of hard sports

Cryptocurrencies have forced us to look at the world of business, technology, and entertainment from a different angle, transferring many traditional processes to the blockchain base. Experimenting with building networks and platforms using the blockchain can provide benefits in security, transaction costs, reduced intermediaries, and privacy, which in turn appeals to any business and government. […]

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10,000 BTC Pizza Deal: Why Phemex Wants to Give Back to Laszlo Hanyecz

Laszlo Hanyecz is sort of a hero in the world of Bitcoin. For those uninitiated, he is the Florida-based developer who made the first-ever transaction using Bitcoin – two pizzas for the price of 10,000 BTC on 22nd May 2010.

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Tether Reaches 30 Billion USDT Issued on Tron

Tether, the largest stablecoin by market cap, has reached a milestone by issuing 30 billion USDT on top of the Tron blockchain. While the stablecoin is now present on several chains, including BSC (Binance Smart Chain) most of it is now on Tron due to the blockchain’s low transaction fees, which make using it easy […]

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Nerve Finance Launches on Solana, NRV Surges 40%

Nerve Finance has already launched a stableswap automated market maker on Binance Smart Chain and is now going multi-chain with a version on Solana. In an announcement on April 29, Nerve Finance stated that it has been evaluating Layer 2 blockchains using four criteria: low transaction costs, decentralized and trustless, fast and easy user experience, … Continued The post Nerve Finance Launches on Solana, NRV Surges 40% appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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PayPal to start letting US customers pay in Bitcoin at global merchants

A checkout service will be implemented which waives transaction fees for purchases made using crypto, PayPal's president and CEO confirmed.

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How To Use Stonewallx2, A Privacy-Enhancing Bitcoin Transaction Tool From Samourai Wallet

This guide will walk you through using the privacy-enhancing bitcoin transaction tool Stonewallx2, developed by Samourai Wallet.

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Ethereum Layer 2 Solution, Hermez Network, Mainnet is Live; Using ZK-Rollup’s For Cheap Payments

Hermez Network, a layer 2 blockchain scaling solution on the Ethereum network, is now live on the mainnet. Hermez's launch on Ethereum hopes to solve some of the transaction bottlenecks that have plagued the network.

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Cryptos and NFTs Take Their Foot off the Gas – How Using POS Chains Can Save Huge Amounts of Energy

Cryptos are rarely out of the news these days, but no more so than Ethereum, which is burning up the news headlines, as quickly as it can burn up the gas (mostly for NFTs, which are having a moment, and for its exorbitant transaction fees), and then, of course, there’s the king of crypto, Bitcoin […]

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DBS Becomes First Asian Bank To Process Transactions Using Trusple Blockchain Solution

Singapore-based Bank, DBS announced today that it had processed its first financial transaction using the Trusple Blockchain. This makes DBS the first bank to use Trusple blockchain solution to perform a transaction.

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Браузер Brave запустит криптовалютную биржу

Ориентированный на приватность браузер Brave начал разработку собственной децентрализованной криптовалютной биржи (DEX). Дата запуска пока неизвестна. BAT Roadmap 2. 0 — Brave Decentralized Exchange (DEX) announced: Discounts when using BAT for transaction fees, discounts for BAT holders, BAT utility for search engines; new Brave Wallet, and more https://t.

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Cardano Price Analysis - On-chain metrics hitting all-time highs

A quick comparison between coins using a staking mechanism shows Cardano first in market cap, total daily transaction volume, total fees, and GitHub commits on all repos over the past year.

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FastBitcoins Gifting Customers 50 Percent Of On-Chain Transaction Fees For Using Lightning

FastBitcoins, which sells BTC via the Lightning Network, will give users half of the on-chain fees they would have incurred for transactions. The post FastBitcoins Gifting Customers 50 Percent Of On-Chain Transaction Fees For Using Lightning appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Average Ethereum Fees in USD Hits New Highs; ETH Price & DeFi Tokens Launch into the Sky

It’s not just the price of Ether that hit a new all-time high at $1,700. The cost of using the network has skyrocketed as well, with the average transaction fee making yet another peak at $20. 63, as per Blockchair.

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SETL completes first CBDC fund transaction on live market infrastructure

SETL, a London-based settlement and payments Infrastructure provider, today announced that Banque de France (BDF) has successfully completed a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) transaction, using the SETL blockchain that powers the IZNES fund platform.

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