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China’s central bank adds a new city to its fintech innovation supervision pilot. 623 Total views 13 Total shares The People's Bank of China has officially added Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province, to the list of regions carrying out fintech innovation supervision pilots, according to local news on July 20.Industry insiders believe that…

As the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in Africa, the Central African Republic appears to be struggling with its investor-oriented token, Sango Coin. 443 Total views 5 Total shares Own this piece of crypto history Collect this article as NFTThe Central African Republic has announced it will delay the listing of cryptocurrency,…

A draft report by the G7 group of nations outlined the risks associated with “global stablecoins.” The report said: “No stablecoin project should begin operation until the legal, regulatory and oversight challenges and risks are adequately addressed.” This report is likely to increase the troubles for Facebook’s Libra project.Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Christopher…

On-chain transactions on the bitcoin (BTC) network hit fresh highs not seen since 2017 in April, industry newsletter Diar noted on April 30, quoting blockchain data provider TokenAnalyst.Continuing a trend that had already started at the end of March, on-chain transaction volume hit a 14-month high in April. This, Diar notes, is similar to the…

Trading volumes across various verticals of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have been on a tear this year.Combined sales for collectible and art NFTs have reached $7.4 billion as of Q4 2021. The art NFT market has grown from $17.8 million on January 1 to $1.8 billion in total sales as of Nov. 5, 2021. At the…

Soon after an unknown entity “rescued” $5.7 million worth of STEEM tokens from a “New Steem” hard fork seizure, Bittrex confirmed that the funds reached their account. The crypto exchange now faces a difficult decision of what to do with the 23.6 million STEEM tokens allegedly stolen from Steem witnesses.In a May 21 statement, Bittrex…