French Central Banker Advocates For Blockchain-Based Settlements in Europe

Malaysia's Mobile Money and Bangladesh's bKash will leverage RippleNet for wallet-to-wallet transactions.(Morrowind/Shutterstock)Jan 15, 2021 at 10:13 a.m. UTCRipple Tech to Power New Malaysia-Bangladesh Remittance CorridorRipple has inked a deal with a Malaysian money transfer business and Bangladesh’s largest mobile financial services provider to enable a remittance corridor between the two countries.According to an announcement Tuesday,…

BTC, ETH's post-payrolls report price drop is a good opportunity to buy the dip, QCP said.The Fed will find it difficult to ignore G7 interest-rate cuts, the trading firm added.Bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) have lost steam since Friday's hotter-than-expected U.S. jobs data damped hopes for a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut in September.The post-report price

Aug 13, 2020 at 18:37 UTCUpdated Aug 13, 2020 at 18:52 UTCThe Band Protocol team. (CoinDesk archives)Band Protocol (BAND) started trading on Coinbase on Thursday less than two weeks after first appearing on the exchange’s exploratory list. BAND is the native token of the Band Protocol oracle platform, a Sequoia Capital- and Binance-financed project building…

Jul 15, 2020 at 23:48 UTCUpdated Jul 15, 2020 at 23:58 UTCTwitter Breach Reactions: Security Professionals Offer an Early Assessment@jack’s been pwned.  All of Twitter went ablaze Wednesday afternoon as major crypto accounts started tweeting they had partnered with a phony site called “Crypto For Health” on a giveaway of 5,000 BTC. It was a…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Decentralized exchanges had a…

Jun 11, 2020 at 14:54 UTCUpdated Jun 11, 2020 at 15:02 UTCThree Arrows Capital's GBTC stake is worth about $192 million as of press time. (Credit: Shutterstock/RikoBest)Three Arrows Capital Now Holds More Than 6% of Grayscale’s $3.6B Bitcoin TrustThree Arrows Capital, a crypto fund management firm based in Singapore, has acquired a significant stake in…

feature If you’re a fan of bitcoin and the nascent Lightning network, this graph looks disheartening at first glance. Graph of lightning capacity from bitcoinvisuals.com. The orange line is the BTC capacity; the blue line is its dollar value. The lightning network is supposed to be bitcoin’s superhero, taking the cryptocurrency to new heights by…

U.S. Capitol Building (Credit: Shutterstock)U.S. Senate staffers on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, hunting for tech to keep the chamber legislating through crises, floated blockchain voting in an April 30 "continuity of Senate" memo.Coming several days before the Senate’s planned return from its COVID-19 recess, the 29-page memo, which is not a proposal to change…

news Fifteen nations are planning to set up a system to monitor cryptocurrency transactions alongside the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a Friday report indicates. According to Nikkei Asian Review, the aim is to stem the movement of funds for illicit purposes, such as money laundering and funding of terrorism, by collecting and sharing transaction…