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Lottery entrants can apply to win 200 digital yuan each.Jan 21, 2021 at 3:38 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 21, 2021 at 3:50 p.m. UTCChinese City Plans Third Digital Yuan Pilot, Giving Away $3M in CurrencyThe Chinese city of Shenzhen will stage another public trial of the central bank’s in-the-works digital currency, giving away 20 million digital…

Europol worked with Spain’s Civil Guard and Catalan police to arrest six suspects aged in connection with the scheme.Europol building in the Hague, Netherlands. (Shutterstock)Jan 28, 2021 at 2:17 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 28, 2021 at 2:23 p.m. UTCEuropol, Spanish Police Bust Alleged Scam Posing as Crypto Investment Training FirmCrime-fighting agency Europol and Spanish law enforcement…

In this episode, Anna Baydakova, Tanzeel Akhtar and Danny Nelson discuss possible crypto restrictions in India, fresh darknet market research from Chainalysis and the newest chapter in Virgil Griffith’s North Korea saga. Will India ban crypto? The move by the government, rumoured for months, may be not as bad as expected. For now, it’s only…

May 5, 2020 at 15:58 UTCUpdated May 5, 2020 at 16:25 UTCBlockFi co-founders Flori Marquez and Zac Prince (Credit: BlockFi)Crypto lender BlockFi is adding two traditional finance executives to help the firm roll out new products and expand into new markets. Former American Express executive Wittney Rachlin will join as chief growth officer and former Credit…

Homium, a real-estate equity mortgage lender and securitization platform, has gone live with its first home equity loans on Avalanche.The offering comes as real-world asset (RWA) tokenization continues to become more popular with some predicting the market will grow to as large as $10 trillion in this decade. Tokenization is a process whereby a digital

SINGAPORE – SG Forge, a subsidiary of Societe Generale, will roll out euro stablecoin EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) on the Solana blockchain, the French financial services firm said Friday. SG Forge launched EURCV on the Ethereum blockchain last year as a highly regulated, euro-centric alternative to top dollar-linked stablecoins from Tether and Circle. 02:07 Are Crypto

Nov 17, 2020 at 12:35 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 17, 2020 at 12:36 p.m. UTC(Willfried Wende/Pixabay )Gold Lags Far Behind Bitcoin as Vaccine Optimism Buoys MarketsBitcoin is outshining gold by a significant margin in price terms as expectations soar of a swift global economic recovery enabled by promising coronavirus vaccines.While the top cryptocurrency by market value…

Open interest, or the number of unsettled and active futures contracts tied to Binance's BNB token, continues to rise, according to data tracked by Coinglass.Total open interest rose to 1.57 million BNB ($360 million) on Monday, the highest since Jan. 1. The tally has increased by over 8% in the past 24 hours and nearly…

news Just like that, the promise of quantum computers overtaking traditional computers is one step closer to reality. According to a recent report by the Financial Times, tech giant Google claims to have achieved “quantum supremacy,” meaning it has built a quantum computer able to solve formerly impossible mathematical calculations. If proven true, this marks…