Crypto Biz: Solana’s rise, BlackRock’s growing BTC exposure, and more

A seven-hour Sequencer outage prevented transactions from being processed for the period, but all is operational again at the time of publication. 143 Total views 17 Total shares The Ethereum layer 2 network Arbitrum has suffered its second outage in less than five months following a hardware failure.Arbitrum is back online at the time of…

Every four years (usually), the world comes together in a celebration of sport and competition at the Olympic Games. In the spirit of Tokyo 2020, let’s look at countries that are deserving of gold medals across different spheres of the cryptocurrency and blockchain space.The variety of sports featured at the Olympics have changed over the…

Fresh-faced memecoin, Dogecoin 2.0, has ruffled the feathers of the Dogecoin Foundation with its name. 1050 Total views 4 Total shares The Dogecoin Foundation has issued a statement distancing itself from a new copycat project called Dogecoin 2.0 (DOGE2), firing off legal demands that the new memecoin change its name.In a letter published Aug. 31st,…

Nearly every segment of the crypto sector underwent explosive growth in 2021. The steady inflow of institutional funds could possibly be interpreted as a signal that the best is yet to come.For new users, figuring out how to obtain cryptocurrency can be a tedious task, and the challenge of securing the assets off exchanges is…

Brits can now withdraw physical cash for GBPT, a one-for-one pound sterling stablecoin, as well as other cryptos at ATMs in the United Kingdom. 1494 Total views 5 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTA partnership between Poundtoken and BitcoinPoint will make the country's first 100% backed GBP stablecoin…

Despite seeing substantial growth in popularity, topping Google search trends amid the recent halving, the coronavirus pandemic and mainstream coverage, the cryptocurrency industry has somewhat been left out of the advertising world by online ad networks, social media platforms and even national governments. In 2018, Facebook banned cryptocurrency advertising amid the initial coin offering hype. Later…

The Australian digital dollar was used in a trade for a U.S. dollar stablecoin using an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain. 380 Total views 2 Total shares Australia has successfully made its first foreign exchange transaction using eAUD as part of a live pilot for the country’s potential central bank digital currency (CBDC). It comes amid…

Brazilian banks will be implementing a new standardized blockchain identity solution powered by the Hyperledger Fabric-platform, Cointelegraph Brazil reported on June 2.The identity solution — co-developed by IBM and the country’s central bank, CIP — is reportedly to be integrated into the Brazilian Payment System (SPB) — a system used by all banks and financial…