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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has replaced Binance as the world’s biggest bitcoin futures platform, thanks to the strong investor appetite for the recently launched ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF.As of writing, the CME accounts for 22% or $5.68 billion of the total global futures open interest of $25.7 billion, while Binance is contributing $5.66 billion…

South Africa's Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group will look into the use cases of stablecoins as well as their regulatory implications.The group is also exploring the effect of tokenization on markets and will publish a discussion paper by December on tokenization policy.South Africa's Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group will conduct analytical work on use cases for stablecoins

news Telegram Open Network, or TON, the ambitious blockchain project announced last year by the Telegram messaging app, is expected to release the code needed to run a TON node on Sept. 1, according to two individuals familiar with the project. One of these individuals is affiliated with TON Labs, a tech startup founded by…

news *_Update* (12:30 UTC, April 29, 2019): This article has been updated after new information was received from LBX CEO Benjamin Dives A creditor has taken the London Block Exchange (LBX) to court in a bid to wind up the cryptocurrency exchange, but the startup’s CEO has denied it is going out of business. Law…

Bitcoin NFT collections traded the most volumes in the past 24 hours at $35 million compared to Ethereum-based assets, indicating a surge in demand for Bitcoin-based assets.NodeMonkes artwork was imprinted on Bitcoin in February 2023, but launched in December last year.Digital pictures of pixellated comic monkeys on the Bitcoin blockchain became the most-traded Ordinals collection

By any measure, the Bitcoin network is still in its infancy. While the concept of digital money is decades old – most dollars today only exist on individual account holder’s computer screens and in centralized ledgers at banks – the idea of holding one’s wealth in self-custody without a third-party validator is new. Bitcoin is

news Public blockchain platform provider ThunderCore has just released proof-of-concept code for a new consensus protocol, dubbed Pala, on GitHub. According to Elaine Shi, chief scientist for ThunderCore, the work represents “a dream consensus protocol.” As stated on the newly released GitHub page: “Pala is a byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocol…It can achieve low latency…

Solana Pay, the payment protocol built on the Solana blockchain, is now plugged into e-commerce giant Shopify, allowing users to pay in USD Coin (USDC), the companies announced Wednesday.With the integration, users will be able to connect Solana-centric crypto wallets, like Phantom or Slope, and settle payments on-chain with merchants using USDC.While USDC, one of…

Aug 28, 2020 at 19:00 UTC(solarseven/Getty Images)The Anxiety Index: 4 Fear Factors Shaping the EconomyFrom COVID-19 relapses to election insecurity, these factors drive defensiveness up and demand down. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, iHeartRadio or RSS. This episode is…