FEMA Advisory Board Proposes Blockchain to Speed ‘Disaster Dividend’ Payouts

May 11, 2020 at 19:26 UTCUpdated May 11, 2020 at 19:42 UTC(Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum)Bitcoin's third halving, the network's quadrennial landmark and the most anticipated event this year in the cryptocurrency industry, has finally happened.Miners racing on the network to compete for freshly minted bitcoin produced the 630,000th block at 19:23 UTC…

Payments firm Stripe is expanding its crypto products to layer-1 blockchain Aptos (APT) and stablecoin issuer Circle plans to bring its flagship stablecoin, USDC, to the network, ecosystem development organization Aptos Foundation told CoinDesk on Thursday. Until now, USDC has been available on the network only in a bridged version. The stablecoin company will also

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Crypto ETFs beyond bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum's ether (ETH) are unlikely to be approved under a Kamala Harris presidency, two ETF experts say. There are applications for ETFs tracking Ripple's XRP and Solana (SOL), and if Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election, their approval odds could improve significantly, the analysts said. 01:53 North Korea

news The Gemini exchange is launching an institutional-grade crypto custody solution, according to an announcement Tuesday. Through the Gemini Trust Company, a regulated custodian overseen by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), the Winklevoss-backed exchange now offers “Gemini Custody,” a platform which would enable clients to trade assets instantly by offering them credits.…

news The formerly anonymous administrator of the cryptocurrency exchange WEX, which shut down last summer, has made some shocking claims about the fate of “hundreds of millions” of dollars of clients’ cryptocurrency in talks with Russian police. Russian citizen Alexei Bilyuchenko, who confessed to being the tech administrator of the infamous BTC-e exchange and later…

FEATURE Ripple is rolling out a new version of its most popular product, xCurrent. Positioned as a rival to SWIFT – the 45-year-old messaging network at the center of the global payments infrastructure – version 4.0 of xCurrent is being more closely integrated with Ripple’s other major offering, xRapid. xRapid uses the cryptocurrency XRP to…

Dec 10, 2020 at 1:47 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 10, 2020 at 2:07 p.m. UTCKenyans Can Now Buy and Sell Crypto Through Paxful’s P2P MarketplacePeer-to-peer digital asset marketplace Paxful has partnered with remittance network BitLipa to allow Kenyan users to buy and sell bitcoin (BTC) and the tether (USDT) stablecoin.Announced Thursday, the arrangement mean BitLipa's app…

Nebulas raised $60 million in an ICO in December, but in order to help its team focus on completing its tech, it's extending its team's token lockup.