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Global professional services firm Accenture is working with major global firms including Mastercard to introduce a blockchain-based circular supply chain, according to a press release published on Feb. 25.An active user of blockchain and digital ledger technology, Accenture now intends to employ the tech as a key component to boost the circular supply chain. The…

Germany plans to introduce draft regulations allowing blockchain bonds as soon as this summer, local daily business news outlet Handelsblatt reported May 9.Citing Thomas Heilmann, the ruling coalition government’s dedicated blockchain correspondent, the publication revealed the new legislation has already gained mainstream momentum, with a summary paper already in existence.According to Heilmann, it is both…

A drop in Bitcoin trading resulted in a six-month low of Bitcoin’s annualized volatility. 1126 Total views 19 Total shares Though Bitcoin’s (BTC) correlation with gold has diminished, the asset’s correlation with the S&P 500 stock market index is on the rise, researchers from Kraken exchange found.Kraken Intelligence, a research arm of major United States…

Members of the crypto community are seemingly outraged over the recent charges laid against crypto exchange Kraken in relation to its staking-as-a-service program in the United States. On Feb. 9, the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it had settled charges with Kraken over “failing to register the offer and sale of their crypto asset…

xToken has been exploited for around $4.5 million following the latest attack targeting the DeFi protocol’s smart contracts. The decentralized finance project xToken has suffered another exploit over the weekend after hackers discovered a vulnerability in the smart contracts for its xSNX product.On Aug. 29, the xToken team reported that the attack had resulted in…

ICP’s DecaHack event highlighted the transformative potential of blockchain and the importance of nurturing talent in the sector.

The study found that banks mostly held volatile cryptocurrencies and had little exposure to stablecoins. 121 Total views 3 Total shares According to a new study published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, a supranational organization responsible for setting standards on bank capital, liquidity, and funding, 19 out of 182 global banks supervised by…

In late July 2019, Sony Financial Ventures joined a $14.5 million funding round for Bitcoin (BTC) bank Bitwala. Back in 2017 and 2018, such a figure might not have made many headlines, as crypto startups were raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in initial coin offerings (ICOs).The ICO boom has, however, stalled significantly, with…

Last week, the crypto community spotted transaction fees of up to $2.6 million featured in several transactions on the Ether (ETH) network. Vitalik Buterin has since suggested that the abnormous fees “may actually be blackmail," but some researchers have now challenged that claim. Blackmail theoryThe first suspicious transfer took place on June 10, when $2.6 million…