Skyfire launches blockchain payment network that lets AI spend your money

Interest in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has surged to almost the level of searches for the term 'ICO' during the 2017 bull market mania, according to data from Google Trends. With eight days left in March, the current spike in interest could even surpass interest in ICOs back then, which would be an impressive feat…

DePIN networks can eat infrastructure the way software consumed most commerce. Akash, Helium and Filecoin are at the forefront of that movement.

On this week’s episode of The Market Report, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss the impact of the Silvergate collapse on crypto. 717 Total views 24 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTThis week on The Market Report, the resident experts at Cointelegraph discuss all the details regarding Silvergate and its…

State-owned commercial banks in China are reportedly testing a wallet for the country's forthcoming digital yuan. A group of state-run commercial banks in China are reportedly conducting a large-scale internal testing of a digital wallet designed for China’s national digital currency, the digital yuan.According to an Aug. 5 report by Reuters, the banks are testing…

Spain’s multinational banking giant Banco Santander has just redeemed a $20 million bond using the Ethereum blockchain.The firm has performed an early repayment of the blockchain-based bond that was issued on Sept.10, 2019, which purportedly shows that the public Ethereum blockchain can be applied to securities issuance across the full lifecycle of a security.“Debt security…

The Erik Voorhees-led company is making strides to fully decentralize its corporate structure. In July, ShapeShift announced the largest airdrop in history as part of its decentralization pledge. 256 Total views 8 Total shares As part of its ongoing decentralization efforts, non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift announced Thursday that it has open-sourced the code of its…

Led by Belgian financial services firm Euroclear, the latest French CBDC trial involved a system by tech giant IBM. 647 Total views 43 Total shares The central bank of France continues actively exploring a central bank digital currency (CBDC), completing a significant trial of a blockchain-based CBDC in the country’s debt market.Over 500 institutions in…

Newly-launched cryptocurrency exchange Beaxy has suspended trading after some users deliberately crashed the price of altcoin Ripple (XRP). XRP/BTC dips 40%According to a blog post and social media messages, beginning on Aug. 12, Beaxy experienced a sudden surge in XRP trading volumes, with a huge sell-off reducing XRP/BTC to 40% of its price on other exchanges.“As…