PIP Labs secures $80M for Story Protocol, valuation hits $2.25B

The Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) has announced a plan to launch a new near-instant payment system during November.The platform, called the Brazilian Instant Payment Scheme (PIX), will facilitate peer-to-peer and business-to-business transactions in 10 seconds or less via mobile phone, internet banking, or select ATMs. According to a press release published Feb. 20, It is…

Coinbase has long been considered an important bellwether of the cryptocurrency market. Last year, when the company was expanding its workforce, adding institutional clients and issuing stock, crypto prices were hitting record highs. Now, in the depths of crypto winter, Coinbase finds itself slashing a fifth of its workforce, losing retail trading volume and contending…

The new unit, Google Deepmind, was formed by merging the Brain team from Google Research and DeepMind, a London-based AI company Google had purchased in 2014. 52 Total views 6 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTGoogle and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced the merger of two entities with…

Russian musician Oleg Kenzov transferred the digital rights to one of his songs through a government-backed blockchain platform. Russian pop singer Oleg Kenzov has completed the first digital rights transfer of a song he wrote using a blockchain platform backed by the government.According to VC.ru, the studio Soyuz reached a licensing agreement deal with music…

One of Spain's busiest ports based in the city of Valencia has announced the creation of a "smart port" which will use blockchain and big data technologies. The news was revealed in a release published Wednesday, Oct. 3, on the port’s official website.Jose Garcia De La Guia, who is responsible for implementing new technologies in…

By far the biggest benefit of blockchain gaming being pushed by developers and publishers is the creation of the non-fungible token, or NFT. This technology allows in-game items, from a mystical sword of plenty to that level-99 mage you've been grinding, to be represented on the blockchain and freely traded with other players.NFTs give players…

Bitcoin (BTC) is in short supply at Tesla, even as its CEO predicts that United States inflation has already peaked.Speaking at Tesla’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Aug. 5, Elon Musk predicted that an upcoming United States recession would only be “mild to moderate.”Musk on costs: "The trend is down"After recently selling almost all of…

Zurich Cantonal Bank will take on the function of securely storing the private keys for its customers, according to exec Alexandra Scriba. 

While the term “fake news” has been floating around for a while, the phrase was given new life and popularity when former United States President Donald Trump turned it into a viral campaign slogan. “Fake news” eventually became a generation-defining meme, and this is likely because there is a certain truth to the phrase that