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The project will “explore if there is a future role for a wholesale CBDC in the Australian payments system,” according to the RBA. 891 Total views 25 Total shares According to a Nov. 2 announcement from The Reserve Bank of Australia, or RBA, the financial institution will be partnering with the Commonwealth Bank, National Australia…

Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights has asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to help extradite the former operator of now-defunct crypto exchange BTC-e, Alexander Vinnik, from Greece to Russia. The news was reported by Russian news outlet TASS on March 5.At a meeting between commissioners Tatyana Moskalkova and Michelle Bachelet on March…

A single day of trade has seen Compound’s COMP emerge as the largest DeFi token by market capitalization. 624 Total views 21 Total shares After a single day of trading, Compound’s COMP token has emerged as the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) token by market capitalization.COMP overtook MakerDAO’s MKR token by market cap as it rallied…

Payments-focused cryptocurrency Dash is starting to release insights into its new platform, which enables data to be stored within the network in the form of decentralized cloud service.The forthcoming Dash Platform has been developed from longstanding ideas to evolve the cryptocurrency’s functionalities — dating back to the announcement of “Dash Evolution” back in 2015.Dash Platform…

Deus Finance had acknowledged the exploit on its lending contract and the CEO of the firm was quick to come up with a reimbursement plan. 598 Total views 31 Total shares Multi-token decentralized finance (DeFi) marketplace Deus Finance has become the latest victim of an exploit resulting in over $3 million losses in DAI and Ether…

Tron and Stellar Development Foundation are part of a new alliance that will provide university students with a working knowledge about blockchain technology.Teach students about blockchainIn a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 10, it was announced that top crypto projects Tron and Stellar will work together to form a new educational alliance that…

The Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem is likely to continue evolving with diverse technological approaches, according to co-founder Vitalik Buterin.The co-founder of the smart contract blockchain unpacked the current landscape of Ethereum’s scaling ecosystem on his personal blog, with several layer-2 protocols differing in their approaches to bring greater scaling capacity, lower costs and increased security.As Buterin

In this week’s selected cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related news from Cointelegraph Japan, Bitflyer adds the Ether (ETH)/yen pair to its trading platform, the official website Ethereum.org adds a Japanese language version, while Monex CEO Oki Matsumoto says that Facebook opened Pandora’s box with its stablecoin project, Libra.Here is the past week of cryptocurrency and blockchain news…

Banks cleared over $2 trillion in "suspicious" transactions. How did crypto fare in comparison? The major banks who were mentioned in the recent FinCen leak were subsequently thrashed by the market today. According to the investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, over the 20-year period from 1997 to 2017, the listed financial institutions…