2020-7-27 12:11 |
Craig DeWitt has unveiled the beta release of a personal peer-to-peer payments project that will work in popular web browsers.
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2020-7-27 12:11 |
Craig DeWitt has unveiled the beta release of a personal peer-to-peer payments project that will work in popular web browsers.
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Blockchain payments project Ubin can lay the financial blueprint for countries looking to explore crypto tech in a fully regulated manner.
2020-7-16 12:45 | |
Singapore’s central bank has successfully completed the fifth phase of a blockchain payments project, soon to be ready for live adoption. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that it has developed a blockchain-based payments prototype for faster and efficient cross-border payments.
2020-7-14 21:13 | |
On June 28, 2020, the team behind Ghost Coin revealed a partnership with the digital currency payment processor Ivendpay. Ghost is a project led by the notorious John McAfee and according to the recent announcement, 60 vending machines in Hong Kong will support the privacy-centric coin for payments.
2020-7-1 18:10 | |
After three years of development, the Cambodian national digital currency may be out later this month, according to a recently released whitepaper. The permissioned blockchain-based payments system differs from the central bank digital currencies, also known as CBDCs, being offered by several states, including China and Russia, the paper states.
2020-6-22 21:04 | |
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) recently announced that it is developing a prototype payments system that would rely on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to facilitate payments. This new project extends the BOT proofs-of-concept using Corda and Hyperledger.
2020-6-23 18:00 | |
The Bank of Thailand is integrating a CBDC payments system into the financials of the country’s oldest cement company in an extension of its Inthanon project.
2020-6-20 19:30 | |
According to a Coindesk report published on June 19, 2020, the National Bank of Cambodia is poised to go ahead with its blockchain-based payments system dubbed ‘Project Bakong’ to disrupt the dollar’s hegemony in the country.
2020-6-20 17:00 | |
Cambodia's central bankers are riding their hopes of de-dollarization on a national payments blockchain: Project Bakong.
2020-6-20 00:50 | |
Thailand's Central Bank (BoT) has announced that it will roll out a prototype for digital currency payments within the country's business ecosystems. The initiative will be based on an ongoing CBDC project dubbed ‘Inthanon, ‘ which kicked off two years ago in collaboration with Thai's leading financial institutions.
2020-6-20 19:54 | |
Stellar (XLM) the truly decentralized blockchain project that claims to be focused on revolutionizing the world of payments by facilitating seamless, cost-efficient, and superfast cross-border transactions between any pair of currencies, has successfully rolled out its much-anticipated Protocol 13 upgrade after several months of hard work.
2020-6-20 19:00 | |
According to Bitpay’s Chief Marketing Officer, Bill Zielke, onchain bitcoin payments still rule the roost as far as payments are concerned. Zielke detailed that at least in the near future, Bitpay won’t be supporting the Lightning Network or Blockstream’s Liquid project.
2020-5-30 21:04 | |
China’s planned digital currency electronic payment (DCEP) project may be accelerated to have the central bank digital currency (CBDC) available for COVID-19 stimulus package payments. The news is the latest in a string of government-led actions aimed at advancing the adoption of blockchain technology in the country.
2020-5-27 23:00 | |
Halsey Minor’s VideoCoin platform launches Wednesday with fiat payment rails that aim to move the project beyond the limited sphere of crypto.
2020-5-27 14:00 | |
Thailand’s oldest bank – Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) – has unveiled its global strategy for cross-border payments with the launch of Outward Remittance Service via SCB EASY developed in conjunction with blockchain project Ripple Inc.
2020-4-29 15:07 | |
Digital payments processor Checkout.com has become the latest high-profile company to join the Libra Association. Announced on Tuesday, the London-headquartered firm is now part of the digital currency project as it believes Libra is capable of bringing financial inclusion to the billions of unbanked people all over the world. The Libra Association Onboards A New […]
2020-4-29 21:16 | |
Metal Pay (MTL) a United States-based peer-to-peer (P2P) platform that enables users to easily send fiat or cryptocurrency payments between one another has inked a partnership deal with Justin Sun’s TRON, the blockchain project in charge of the TRX altcoin.
2020-3-26 14:00 | |
The blockchain project Celo and the Silicon Valley mobile payments team behind it, cLabs, have formed an alliance with over 50 heavy hitters. Rivaling that of the Facebook-led Libra Association. Many investors and blockchain firms, including Anchorage, Coinbase Ventures, Bison Trails, Andreessen Horowitz, and just announced, cold storage crypto wallet Ledger are committed to promoting […]
2020-3-12 20:28 | |
Facebook and the Libra Association are making plans to redesign project Libra in a bid to scale the ending regulatory hurdles that have plagued the global crypto project. Sources say the proposed Libra network may function as a payments network, supporting other cryptocurrencies including central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), reports Bloomberg on March 4, 2020.
2020-3-4 18:00 | |
The Singapore-registered crypto exchange has partnered with Nervos in this project as its technical development partner. Together, the two provide a regulatory friendly ecosystem for DeFi’s offering financial services like lending, decentralized exchange, payments and asset tokenization based on blockchain networks.
2020-3-3 01:29 | |
Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, the cross-border payments and remittance-focused distributed ledger technology (DLT) project in charge of XRP (XRP), has stated categorically that the firm will continue to sell large chunks of the altcoin, as dumping the altcoin on the market from time to time helps Ripple to remain profitable, according to reportsRead MoreRead More.
2020-3-3 16:00 | |
Azimo, a London-based online remittance platform has joined forces with Ripple blockchain project, in a bid to leverage the latter’s XRP-powered on-demand liquidity (ODL) solution for faster, cheaper cross-border payments to the Philippines, according to a press release on February 26, 2020.
2020-2-28 18:00 | |
E-commerce platform Shopify has announced that it has joined the Libra Association. This means that the online shopping firm is the latest entrant of the Facebook-led stablecoin project. The entry of Shopify into the association comes barely a month following Vodafone’s pull out with the aim of developing its solo virtual payments platform. This marks […]
2020-2-22 20:48 | |
National Bank of Egypt (NBE), the country’s oldest and largest bank in terms of assets, has inked a strategic partnership deal with Ripple, the San Francisco-based blockchain project in charge of XRP.
2020-2-13 02:00 | |
The Phnom Penh Post reports that within the next couple or more months, Cambodia’s central bank is going to launch its own blockchain-based peer-to-peer money platform. The system is called Project Bakong and it will be a central bank digital currency (CBDC) – backed payments app.
2020-1-31 22:03 | |
Hong Kong and Thailand’s central banks have piloted a Corda-based CBDC project for cross-border payments
2020-1-22 16:39 | |
Sablier, a payment protocol, allows anyone to send continuously streamed payments around the world by leveraging the functionality of Ethereum. In the latest, users can now stream interest-bearing tokens, like CHAI.
2020-1-16 13:19 | |
While Venezuela’s government remains committed to its Petro digital currency project, a leading fast-food restaurant in the country has announced to now start accepting cryptocurrency payments. In a recent twitter announcement, Burger King Venezuela has partnered with Cryptobuyer – payment platform – to enable customers to pay using Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash, BNB, Tether, and Bitcoin. […]
2020-1-6 21:50 | |
Electra (ECA), an open-source Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain project focused on digital payments, announced today it is now seeking merchants to beta test its flagship product, ElectraPay. ElectraPay is a complete financial management system, that will allow merchants to easily adopt an alternative payment method that is not dependent upon payment service providers, banks, […] CryptoNinjas: Electra opens pilot testing for new crypto payment system
2019-12-30 17:25 | |
People who reside in the Exuma island will be able to enroll in the Project Sand Dollar initiated by the Central Bank of the Bahamas. The Bahamian government thinks that giving residents mobile wallets will facilitate future payments on the island chain.
2019-12-28 18:43 | |
Dash is a fork of Bitcoin born in 2014 that aims to improve its scalability and privacy. Dash is the abbreviation for Digital Cash, in fact, the goal of the project is precisely to become the most widely used form of digital payment in the world.
2019-12-14 20:00 | |
Software engineer Tobias Ruck has revealed a project he’s been working on that allows a smart card to produce valid BCH signatures. Ruck tweeted about his experiment to the crypto community and Bitcoin Cash proponents showed their excitement about the future of offline payments.
2019-11-14 01:15 | |
Singapore’s financial regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has entered into a partnership with Wall Street titan JP Morgan Chase and Temasek to develop a distributed ledger technology-powered (DLT) multi-currency payments network.
2019-11-12 02:00 | |
According to FTC Commissioner, the impending Facebook led Libra project should be reason enough for the US Federal Reserve to develop its own instantaneous payments system, CoinDesk reports. Rohit Chopra, a sitting commissioner of the US Federal Trade Commission, in a letter to the Federal Reserve’s board, expressed his support for the recently mooted FedNow […]
2019-11-9 22:22 | |
A cryptocurrency startup named Knabu, has recently started a new banking pilot using Factom in the United Kingdom. According to reports, Factom is one of the earliest blockchains to be created for enterprises.
2019-11-1 02:35 | |
Let’s face it; no lawmaker was prepared for Libra. Facebook’s digital currency project was unveiled in June 2019 and took the regulatory world by storm, confirming to Silicon Valley that politicians do not understand how the world of digital payments really works.
2019-10-30 18:00 | |
A senior Chinese regulator, Sun Tianqi recently spoke about the Facebook’s Libra project. According to the Chief Accountant of China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Libra needs to abide by the same kind of law that other foreign currencies do or it will be banned from the country. According to Sun, countries that asses Libra […]
2019-10-29 01:44 | |
Jack Dorsey, CEO of two multi-billion dollar companies, microblogging network Twitter and payments technology firm Square, has said that Twitter will never join the Facebook-led Libra stablecoin project. On October 24, a Twitter thread by...
2019-10-25 10:29 | |
At the recent Fintech Abu Dhabi event, CNBC‘s Hadley Gamble interviewed Transferwise CEO Matt Briers on the issue of Libra, the proposed cryptocurrency project by Facebook. During the interview, Briers said that if Transferwise had been asked about it a few months ago, it would be as interested as the firm is today.
2019-10-24 20:00 | |
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the House Financial Services Committee, supporting the Libra initiative and reasoning out previous allegations in relation to breaking the users’ trust.
2019-10-23 18:38 | |
Under pressure from regulators, the Libra project may consider a fundamental change to the way its planned crypto payments system will operate.
2019-10-21 12:30 | |
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has thrown his weight behind Facebook’s global cryptocurrency project dubbed Libra. The has opined that blockchain-based virtual currencies have the power tix the challenges associated with traditional payments systems, reports The Star on October 15, 2019.
2019-10-17 01:00 | |
Following PayPal’s departure earlier this month and then eBay, Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard, payments company Mercado Pago followed soon after and today Booking Holdings, an online travel company has also announced that it is withdrawing the participation in the Libra Association.
2019-10-14 19:37 | |
Alpha-Bank and Commerzbank launch a pilot project of Russia-Germany payments via Marco Polo Network
2019-10-13 03:11 | |
Emurgo, the official commercial arm of the Cardano (ADA) distributed ledger technology (DLT) project, which claims to be focused on accelerating mass adoption of ADA, has announced that new merchants across the globe are now accepting payments in the altcoin, according to a blog post on October 2, 2019.
2019-10-9 21:00 | |
Finastra, a company that claims to be the third-largest financial technology (fintech) company in the world, has joined forces with Ripple, the distributed ledger technology (DLT) project behind the XRP altcoin, to offer clients faster and more cost-efficient cross-border payments powered by blockchain technology, according to a blog post on October 8, 2019.
2019-10-9 20:00 | |
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project has been put on notice by the Bank of England, with the central bank declaring that the global payments platform will be subject to rigorous scrutiny in the UK.
2019-10-9 13:17 | |
Hydro Labs partners with OmiseGo to scale Ethereum (ETH) payments - CryptoNinjas Hydro Labs, a decentralized, and open-source project for blockchain applications, today announced a new partnership with plasma infrastructure provider OmiseGO.
2019-10-8 13:51 | |
Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra is reportedly on the verge of losing another one of its partners after Paypal pulled out of a key meeting in Washington on Thursday. According to the Financial Times, all 28 supporters of Facebook’s digital currency project were set to meet and discuss the ways in which Libra could overcome scrutiny from regulators.
2019-10-4 11:10 | |
In the recent KeiserReport, Kim Dotcom was interviewed on his viewpoint on the crypto sphere, mainly in the form of his anticipating project, K.IM. As per Dotcom, his project is a peer-to-peer commerce in which consumers will be able to upload their content into containers, which then require crypto payments to unveil the contents. He […]
2019-9-29 18:35 | |