Crypto firms contributed 48% of all corporate political donations in 2024: Report

August 22, 2024
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Splits in the US House and Senate coupled with many expected tight elections could allow crypto interest groups to potentially “tip control of Congress one way or the other.”

Some winners purchased additional digital yuan during the pilot. 767 Total views 13 Total shares The vast majority of China’s $1.5 million digital yuan lottery winners have received and spent their “red packets” of digital yuan.As of Oct. 18, a total of 47,573 out of 50,000 lottery winners in China have received their prizes, Shenzhen…

G7 antitrust watchdogs signal possible action on AI sector competition

The G7 nations want to ensure AI isn’t used to facilitate "collusion” between AI firms that could lead to the sharing of sensitive information or forming a monopoly.

China-based Rangers Protocol raises $63M via private equity round

Rocket Protocol has been rebranded to Rangers Protocol after completing a major investment round. Pantera, Huobi Ventures Blockchain Fund and Alameda Research are among the backers. 1869 Total views 3 Total shares The newly rebranded Rangers Protocol has raised $63 million via private equity to expand its high-performance blockchain protocol, potentially signaling that Chinese blockchain…

Twitter chases Citadel’s founder, Binance in a race of subpoenas

The company is gathering all the possible information on Elon Musk's private claims about its number of fake accounts. 126 Total views 3 Total shares As the failed acquisition of social platform Twitter by one of the world's richest men, Elon Musk, turned into a protracted court conflict, both sides are filing subpoenas to gather…

SWIFT says it has reached a ‘breakthrough’ in recent CBDC experiments

"For CBDCs, our solution will enable central banks to connect their own networks simply and directly to all the other payments systems in the world through a single gateway," said chief information officer Tom Zschach. 174 Total views 2 Total shares On Wednesday, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, announced that it…

Blockchain Firm Helps Congo Mine Fight Against Blood Diamonds

Berlin-based blockchain company RCS Global is delivering mine-to-market technology solutions to help fight against conflict minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Not part of a blood-stained supply chainOn Oct.1, Reuters reported that government officials in the Societe Miniere de Bisunzu (SMB) mine in Congo are using blockchain technology to assure its clients that the minerals they purchase…

E-commerce Giant Overstock Opens Blockchain R&D Center in Ireland

E-commerce giant Overstock has opened a blockchain Research and Development (R&D) center in Ireland.According to a press release published on Oct. 9, the firm’s new R&D center is located in “IDA’s flagship North West business park in Sligo” and is expected to make its 100th Irish hire before the end of 2019. Currently it employs…

DeFi exec breaks down what it takes to attract institutions to staking

In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Alluvial chief product officer Matt Leisinger discusses the impact of liquid staking on the crypto ecosystem. 112 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTIn episode 18 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, Elisha Owusu Akyaw sits down with Matt Leisinger,…

Portal partner with Polygon to advance DeFi on Bitcoin

Polygon’s scaling solution hosts in excess of 400 decentralized applications across a 1.5 million user base. 507 Total views 12 Total shares Decentralized exchange, or DEX, and self-custody wallet platform, Portal, has announced a strategic partnership agreement with layer-2 blockchain network, Polygon to advance Bitcoin functionality in the decentralized finance, or DeFi, market.Portal currently offers…

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