Bank of England to experiment with wholesale CBDC, synchronization

What will happen to foreign P2P marketplaces operating in Venezuela? Due to the regulations and sanctions related to the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, Paxful announced that they will no longer provide services in Venezuela, according to an announcement on September 14.In a statement sent to Cointelegraph, Paxful’s CEO, Ray Youssef, commented…

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes began investigating the spread of misinformation during the government of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Waves has launched a macabre campaign to purportedly raise money for COVID-19 relief. The platform has created a tokenized parimutuel betting pool where users can speculate on whether the global number of confirmed coronavirus cases has risen or fallen within a given week.On April 3, Waves announced the ‘charity campaign,’ ostensibly in support of “organizations…

NEAR blockchain protocol integrates Chainlink’s data oracles and considers using its verifiable randomness function for better gaming and DeFi applications. 982 Total views 15 Total shares NEAR, a blockchain protocol similar to what Ethereum 2.0 aspires to be, has become the latest project to integrate Chainlink (LINK) decentralized data oracles. NEAR blockchain is built around…

Cybersecurity firm Mandiant has “graduated” a new group of hackers who finance state goals and their own existence with the help of crypto laundering. 295 Total views 12 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTThe North Korean cybercrime operator APT43 is using cloud computing to launder cryptocurrency, a report…

Bitcoin rises with Asian stocks, while $41,000 resistance gets decisive after a brief but failed breakout overnight. 598 Total views 25 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) returned above $41,000 prior to the Wall Street open on March 16 as good news from Asia and Russia buoyed stocks.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBTC on track to…

WazirX is the second Indian crypto exchange to launch in-app staking. The Binance-backed Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has launched a new in-app staking feature on Sept. 1 that will allow its users to stake cryptocurrencies to earn interests.Staking is the process of holding cryptocurrencies in a wallet to support the operations of a proof-of-stake blockchain…

Multiple decentralized finance (DeFi) projects are moving forward with plans to allow liquidity provider tokens as collateral for stablecoin and lending services — though experts caution that the security considerations associated with using LP tokens in this manner can be complex. LP tokens are distributed to liquidity providers on automated market makers (AMMs) to represent a…

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has led a $5 million funding round for Arweave, a blockchain-startup focused on permanent online data storage.On Nov. 5, the Arweave project reported that it had attracted world-leading funds in a $5 million investment round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Crypto, with the participation of other top investors such as…