Chainlink, Microsoft, Banco Inter collaborate on Brazil’s CBDC pilot

The fintech firm hopes to expand financial products for the unbanked. 2284 Total views 12 Total shares Africa-focused but U.S. based unified financial data platform Pngme this week announced its successful seed funding round raised $3 million.The investment was led by Radical Ventures, Raptor Group, Lateral Capital, and EchoVC. It was actually closed in the…

"I think the community should very much be trying to bend the arc of development away from injecting artificial, unnecessary scarcity entirely for the benefit of some investor class," said Edward Snowden. 1547 Total views 25 Total shares National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden said he was concerned with how some privileged individuals or firms…

While the federal government’s proactive approach to minimizing damage was appreciated, many pointed out that taxpayers would ultimately suffer the depositors’ bailout. 451 Total views 4 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTThe overnight collapse of two major traditional banks — Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank —…

The tech billionaire made the announcement during a Fox interview on April 17. 677 Total views 4 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTAccording to an April 17 Fox News report, Elon Musk told Fox anchor Tucker Carlson that he’s developing a ChatGPT rival known as “TruthGPT,” a large…

On March 5, CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs announced the launch of Flow Playground — an interactive interface that lets developers experiment with developing applications on the company’s Flow blockchain.Developers are able to write and run smart contracts, and will be able to explore Dapper Labs “new resource-oriented programming language” Cadence. The language is designed to…

Speakers from Ternio, Monarch, and Utrust weighed in on the future of the industry & the impact of COVID-19. 128 Total views 21 Total shares The current pandemic is far from over and the economic, political, and social ramifications of this crisis remain unclear. Indeed, the nature of the workplace people return to might well…

The Supreme Court of Greece has ruled in support of a decision to extradite the alleged former operator of now-defunct crypto exchange BTC-e Alexander Vinnik to France. A “correspondent at the scene” from major Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported the news Dec. 19.As previously reported, 39-year old Russian national Vinnik, a.k.a “Mr. Bitcoin,” was…

A number of industries are being negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including the United States housing market, which is valued at $33.6 trillion. Recent findings from Zillow, an American online real-estate database company, show that despite low mortgage rates, the coronavirus has slowed down the U.S. housing market considerably. In addition, the number of seriously delinquent…

In what seems to be one of the first major security breaches of 2019, New Zealand-based digital assets exchange Cryptopia was allegedly hacked this week. The platform reported the incident via Twitter on Jan. 15, mentioning “significant losses.” While the incident has been confirmed by the local police, many crucial details — including the amount…