Mastercard Launches Crypto Credential Service for Cross Border Transfers

MicroStrategy raised its latest convertible note offering by $200 million from an original plan of $500 million.It also offered initial buyers an option to purchase an additional $100 million of the notes.Broker Bernstein set a $2,890 price target for the company's shares.08:42Bitcoin Ecosystem Developments in 2023 as BTC Hits Fresh 2023 High01:10Bitcoin Extends Rally as

Rather than an open network like Ethereum, Citi and JPMorgan use a private version of the blockchain.Franklin Templeton says private blockchains will fade next to fast-innovating public utility chains.Eventually, the biggest market for banks’ tokenized real world assets will be public blockchain protocols, predicts co-founder of decentralized oracle network Chainlink.Banks and blockchains: Together at last?Tokenization

Genesis Global Trading has agreed to pay $8 million and give up its BitLicense to settle anti-money laundering and fraud charges against it, New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris said Friday in a statement.“Genesis Global Trading’s failure to maintain a functional compliance program demonstrated a disregard for the Department’s

Last month, our feature in The Protocol highlighted how the blockchain design principle of "intents" was gaining ascendancy among developers on the industry's cutting edge. This week our Sam Kessler is back with a scoop on how the popular crypto wallet MetaMask, from the Ethereum developer Consensys, has quietly deployed a version of an intents-based

Dec 8, 2020 at 9:23 a.m. UTCUpdated Dec 8, 2020 at 9:25 a.m. UTCCrypto Funds Have Seen Record Investment Inflow in Recent WeeksLast week, as bitcoin broke its all-time price high, institutional investors poured the second highest amount on record into cryptocurrency funds.According to a Reuters report citing data from digital asset manager CoinShares on…

Miners listed in the U.S. have an advantage over private peers as they can raise capital easily, the broker said. Bernstein said it sees the large publicly traded U.S. bitcoin miners as consolidators in the sector. Leading miners should focus on growing market share and increasing their hashrates, the report said. Bitcoin (BTC) miners listed

The cryptocurrency industry thrives on constant, ever-evolving innovation. But when it comes to stablecoin development, “that is not what you want,” according to Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu.In an interview with CoinDesk TV Monday, Hsu, who is the administrator of the U.S. federal banking system and CEO of the Office of the Comptroller…

Jul 20, 2020 at 19:00 UTC(Franki Chamaki/Unsplash)What Is GPT-3 and Should We Be Terrified?The internet is alive with demos of GPT-3, the latest artificial intelligence tool to have you questioning the veracity of what you see online. Should we be nervous? For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe…

feature Blogging platform Cent has launched a new feature that allows users to send each other the cryptocurrency ether via chat. Announced Wednesday, the feature enables such payments even without downloading a crypto wallet like MetaMask. “You can just log on with an email, password and phone number,” Cent CEO Max Brody told CoinDesk. Cent…