IBM and FX Giant CLS Team Up to Launch Blockchain App Store for Banks

This week, as the criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried continues to unfold, there has been an emerging chorus of people willing to state, quite bluntly, that the founder of crypto exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research is psychopathic. The former “golden boy” of crypto, aka SBF, is accused of multiple counts of fraud related

It turns out that the cannabis publication High Times is accepting cryptocurrency for its ongoing initial public offering (IPO) after all. The publication announced at the beginning of August that it would accept bitcoin and ethereum for its IPO, but later walked back that announcement in an August 13 filing submitted to the U.S. Securities…

news Yves Mersch, executive board member at the European Central Bank (ECB), has warned of the threat posed by Facebook’s Libra to monetary policy and consumers of the cryptocurrency in the EU. Speaking on Monday, Reuters reports, Mersch said: “[Libra] could reduce the ECB’s control over the euro, impair the monetary policy transmission mechanism by affecting the…

Jan 27, 2020 at 22:30 UTCCredit: 360b / ShutterstockA digital currency could see widespread adoption within the next few years, a new report by Deutsche Bank suggests.Published Monday, the Deutsche Bank report said digital currencies, while only a decade old, have already been shown to have the "potential to radically change payments, banking, central banking…

Reddit has released its latest NFT avatar collection aimed at inspiring "warm, fuzzy feelings of nostalgia” among collectors, while Amazon added new blockchain tools to its Amazon Web Services cloud platform as it continues its Web3 expansion.Also, we chatted with Web3 influencers to suss out if the crypto degens are ready to migrate from Twitter…

Jan 31, 2020 at 19:05 UTCFerrari F12tdf supercar image via ShutterstockSeychelles’ Stock Exchange Will List Ethereum Tokens Representing SupercarsHankering for a Ferrari? Well, the only licensed stock exchange in Seychelles, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, is listing tokenized collectible cars worth over $200 million for retail and institutional investors.MERJ said Friday it is…

news Payments giant Mastercard is to develop a blockchain-powered cross-border payments platform in partnership with enterprise-focused blockchain firm R3. In an announcement on Wednesday, Mastercard said the two firms have inked a deal to “develop and pilot” the payments solution. It will initially be aimed at connecting faster payments schemes and banks backed by Mastercard’s clearing…

news Japan is putting in place new, stricter rules for cryptocurrency margin trading from next year. According to a report from Nikkei Asian Review on Tuesday, the Japanese Cabinet, the executive agency of the country’s government, has approved draft amendments related to financial instruments and payment services laws that include two notable changes related to cryptocurrencies.…

Bitcoin's widening trading range and a move above the August high suggests more gains ahead. The six-month corrective trend in altcoins seems to have ended. Earlier this week, analysts at the Bitfinex crypto exchange said August's $65,200 high is the level to beat for bitcoin (BTC) bulls. The breakout happened Thursday and how. Bitcoin jumped