Thailand’s oldest bank announces stablecoin remittance services

Despite the recent mini price crash, DeFi users have injected more than 20,000 Bitcoin into DeFi projects in the last week, suggesting the DeFi bull run isn’t over. The amount of BTC locked in decentralized finance projects increased by more than 30% in the past week, despite falls in the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and…

The founders of the Vega Protocol believe that the concept of order book-based decentralized exchanges is not quite dead yet.A key component of their quest to reinvigorate the concept was announced on Wednesday as a research paper. Titled “Market-Based Mechanisms for Incentivising Exchange Liquidity Provision,” the paper devises a method to overhaul the market making…

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Bitcoin (BTC) attempted to claw back losses on July 27 as a macro day of reckoning arrived for risk assets.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewAnalysis: $24,300 resistance “not a good sign”Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView confirmed a 24-hour high for BTC/USD prior to the Wall Street open on July 27.The pair had…

IBM, CSIRO’s Data61 and law firm Herbert Smith Freehills have partnered on a new Australian consortium to build a cross-industry blockchain-based smart contracts platform for enterprises, according to a press release published August 29.Data61 is a digital innovation center that forms part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) – an Australian government…

Blockchain games developer Lucid Sight has raised $6 million to expand its digital scarcity-powered games to traditional game platforms, tech news website VentureBeat reports April 2.Los Angeles-based Lucid Sight now has $11 million in funding to expand offerings of its digital ownership games company by bridging the gap between blockchain and traditional gaming.Leading investment bank…

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has announced it is examining Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) to determine how they should be regulated, Reuters reported Oct. 8.The ESMA was established in 2011 in Paris, France, with an objective to develop a common rulebook for European Union (E.U.) financial markets and supervise them. The ESMA also…

BlackRock updated its Form S-1 for its spot Ether ETF, which analysts say is a “good sign” that issuers and the SEC are working on ETF launches.

Crypto-powered Esports streaming app Theta continues to rally ahead of its mainnet 2.0 launch, gaining 150% in the past two weeks.All told, the Theta Token, is up nearly 1,300% since the ‘Black Thursday’ crash of mid-March.In addition to its forthcoming technical upgrades, Theta’s rally appears to have also been fuelled by a series of partnerships…