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The Bank of Montreal and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan have tested a Canadian-dollar debt deal using blockchain, Bloomberg reports August 15. In the pilot transaction, the bank is said to have sold $250 million Canadian dollars (around $190 million) of one-year floating rate deposit notes to the teachers’ pension fund, implementing blockchain tech to mirror…

Social media users are leaving traditional providers in droves in favor of more independent platforms over fears of unwarranted data collection, censorship, and refusal of service. A change to WhatsApp’s terms of service has triggered a mass exodus from the messaging platform to more private and independent rivals like Telegram and Signal, which have registered…

US authorities have sanctioned the operator of a shuttered online darknet marketplace, including his crypto addresses, which recently profited from Bitcoin price fluctuations.  Iran-based Behrouz Parsarad established the darknet marketplace Nemesis in 2021 and used it to facilitate the sale of drugs, false identification documents, professional hacking resources, and a variety of other illicit services

An army of small Bitcoin (BTC) investors has been fighting with their larger counterparts for months to keep the price above $18,000.Bitcoin accumulation strong among fishesNotably, there has been some on-chain divergence between so-called whales (entities that hold more than 1,000 BTC) and fishes (entities that hold relatively smaller amounts of BTC) as Bitcoin continues to…

United States derivative market CME Group has reported a 17% fall in net income for the first quarter, according to a news release on May 1.Despite revenues rising over the three-month period, earnings stood at $497 million, compared with $599 million this time a year ago.CME Group chairman and chief executive Terry Duffy said the results amounted…

Polkadot parachains can now choose to add Chainlink price feeds to their runtime. 1868 Total views 15 Total shares Polkadot and Chainlink have announced the release of Chainlink’s Price Feeds as a module, or “pallet” in Polkadot terminology, for the Substrate blockchain framework.The release means that any project building on the Substrate framework — which…

Multinational retail giant Carrefour will use IBM's blockchain tech to track two major food categories as part of a growing reorganization of global supply lines. 1622 Total views 22 Total shares IBM’s food-tracking blockchain technology will be used by the Carrefour multinational retail firm to track food supply lines from the farm to the store.…

Turkey's Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST) has developed a blockchain-powered customer database, Daily Sabah reported September 6.Founded in 2013, BIST is the result of the merger of the Istanbul Stock Exchange, the Istanbul Gold Exchange, and the Turkish Derivatives Exchange (TurkDex). Per the exchange’s annual report for 2017, it has 399 listed companies, a market…

Could Bitcoin's blockchain handle full mainstream adoption? 738 Total views 6 Total shares Can Bitcoin’s (BTC) blockchain handle full mainstream adoption as a store of value, without needing layer-two scaling solutions? Konstantin Richter, founder and CEO of blockchain infrastructure company Blockdaemon, seems to think so.“Bitcoin is the best cryptocurrency suited for store of value,” Richter told…