CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act passes US House in partisan vote

The cumulative transactions in e-CNY have reached 87.57 billion yuan ($13.68 billion) until now. 488 Total views 50 Total shares China’s food delivery giant Meituan has become the latest tech firm to integrate central bank digital currency (CBDC) payments for its services.Meituan users can link the digital yuan wallet to their service app and use…

The metaverse is the future, or so is the claim of many interacting with the industry — a claim that can be backed up by the amount of activity pouring into the Web3-metaverse domain. Engagement in the metaverse of 2022 is looking less like a Sims-esque video game and more like government agencies creating virtual offices…

Crypto compliance provider and research firm Chainalysis announced it had partnered with exchange Binance in a press release Wednesday, Oct. 17, in order to improve its detection of suspicious transactions.Binance, currently the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, continues to expand into various international markets, being required to comply with each jurisdiction’s anti-money laundering (AML)…

The new corporate entity could signal an upcoming SEC filing. 2047 Total views 11 Total shares BlackRock has apparently registered an Ethereum trust in the state of Delaware, which is possibly a first step toward an Ether (ETH) spot exchange-traded fund (ETF). BlackRock registered an analogical Bitcoin (BTC) trust in June, shortly before filing with the

Forensic analysis suggests the recent Ethereum Classic blockchain reorganization was a carefully orchestrated malicious attack. A recent 51% attack that impacted Ethereum Classic (ETC) is believed to have resulted in approximately $5.6 million worth of the cryptocurrency being double-spent.A report published by Aleksey Studnev of blockchain forensics firm Bitquery on August 5 has revealed the…

The Ministry of Economy of the partially-recognized Republic of Abkhazia has developed a law draft on the settlement of cryptocurrency mining activities in the country, local news outlet Sputnik Abkhazia reported on June 24.The press service of the Ministry told Sputnik that the drafted bill was approved and sent to the Cabinet of Ministers of…

The crypto ecosystem tends to see regulations as “the big bad wolf.” In this narrative, government and regulators set rules that slow down innovation and damage growth for the crypto industry. That might have been the case a few years ago, but not anymore, according to BitPanda CEO Eric Demuth: “Depending on the regulation, it…

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New NFT marketplaces may even leave Ethereum altogether to deal with high gas fees. 1102 Total views 17 Total shares High gas prices have become a problem for non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces, especially as they look to mint at scale, the founder of a start-up said. Sean Papanikolas, founder of NFT marketplace Cargo, told Cointelegraph in…