Crypto ready for next phase of adoption: Winning over financial advisers

Bitcoin Heartbeat by BVM offers a unique, real-time glimpse into Bitcoin’s L2 and L3 rollup projects, enhancing transparency and verifiability.

Several Taiwanese residents were reportedly using the decentralized betting platform Polymarket, the same platform that saw record-breaking trading volumes during the 2020 United States election. 149 Total views 2 Total shares With the Taiwan presidential election looming within a month, residents of Taiwan have been reportedly warned against using cryptocurrency betting platforms to wager on

Nonfungible tokens give major brands new ways of interacting with their consumers spanning art, fashion and gaming. 160 Total views 12 Total shares The hype surrounding nonfungible tokens (NFTs) has allowed some of the world’s most iconic brands to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue, underscoring the mass consumer appeal of…

Samsung Pay, the mobile payments service of South Korean tech giant Samsung, has partnered with payments platform Finablr, Ripple’s RippleNet member, to offer cross-border payments feature Money Transfer to its app’s users.Finablr announced the partnership on Oct. 3, claiming that the new feature “offers users seamless and secure cross-border payments to 47 countries through a…

Canadian messenger firm Kik is seeking pre-trial summary judgment in its legal dispute with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the company’s $100 million initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017.On March 20, Kik submitted a memorandum of law requesting the summary judgment from the court, asserting that the SEC had failed to…

State Bank of Pakistan governor Reza Baqir says the country is “waiting to burst as far as digitization is concerned.” 2966 Total views 21 Total shares The governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Reza Baqir, has indicated that the institution is carefully studying the possibilities opened by central bank digital currencies.In an interview with…

Mainstream outlets are starting to pick up on the significance of next week’s Ethereum Merge, describing it as a “major overhaul” that could either accelerate crypto adoption or send disastrous shockwaves across the market should it fail. The Merge has been in the making since the original Ethereum white paper and involves moving from an electricity-intensive…

This is the second article in our series on integrating payment channels on Telegram Open Network. In the first part, we introduced the network, detailed our experience of the contest, and explained how synchronous and asynchronous smart contracts work. As the next addition to the series, this article details how we built a synchronous payment…

While the state is eager to become the global hub for Bitcoin mining operations, residents are concerned that the power grid will not be able to handle the load. 455 Total views 14 Total shares As the state of Texas faces a rapid influx of Bitcoin mining operations, its electrical infrastructure will have to support…