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Maritime shipping firms Ocean Network Express and Hapag-Lloyd have joined blockchain tracking platform TradeLens, financial news outlet The Wall Street Journal reports on July 2.The Japan-based Ocean Network Express and Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd will join the TradeLens platform launched by Danish logistics conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk and tech behemoth IBM.As Cointelegraph reported at the time, the world's…

Cryptocurrency News From Japan: June 14 – June 20 in Review
A new report on Japanese crypto regulation, an institutional crypto custody service, and more headlined news from Japan this past week. 367 Total views 22 Total shares This week’s headlines from Japan included research company Xangle releasing a report on Japanese crypto regulation, Binance supporting Japan's language but not its residents, SBI Holdings turning gift…

Trump becomes first US sitting president to speak at a crypto conference
Trump’s comments to the Blockworks Digital Asset Summit are the first time a sitting US president has addressed a crypto conference. US President Donald Trump is steadily aligning his administration with the crypto industry. On March 20, he addressed a community conference for the first time since being elected. Speaking at the Blockworks Digital Asset

Derivatives exchange dYdX to become ‘100% decentralized by EOY’
dYdX said that it is looking at full decentralization to offer its users advantages of DeFi that centralized services can’t. 224 Total views 34 Total shares Ethereum Layer 2-based crypto derivatives trading platform dYdX has vowed to become “100% decentralized by EOY” via the protocol's V4 update. dYdX primarily offers perpetual contracts, which are derivatives…

Visa Makes Its Second Investment into a Crypto Startup
Global payment giant Visa has recorded its second investment in a crypto project by leading a $40 million funding round of Anchorage startup, according to a Fortune report on July 10.Visa has reportedly led the round along with major cryptocurrency venture capital (VC) firm Blockchain Capital to support institutional-grade crypto custody service Anchorage, which previously…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin: ‘Privacy is freedom’
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said privacy should be a top priority for developers, warning that assumptions about transparency and good intentions in global politics are overly optimistic. In an April 14 blog post, Buterin argued that privacy is essential to maintain individual freedom and protect against the growing power of governments and corporations. He criticized

Lightning Labs CTO Confirms LN Vulnerabilities ‘Exploited in the Wild’
Following a recent warning on vulnerabilities on Bitcoin’s (BTC) Lightning Network (LN), a startup claims to have found instances of the vulnerability being exploited.Upgrade advised to avoid loss of fundsOlaoluwa Osuntokun, CTO at LN-focused startups Lightning Labs and ACINQ, revealed the news in a brief statement on Linux Foundation’s domain on Sept. 10, claiming that…

HBAR Foundation launched a $250M metaverse fund to enhance consumer brand adoption
This is the largest fund the HBAR foundation has launched to date, a statement of intent for their aspiration in the tokenized economy and metaverse space. 215 Total views 3 Total shares The HBAR Foundation, a not-for-profit independent organization of distributed ledger firm Hedera Hashgraph, has announced the establishment of a $250 million dollar metaverse fund to…