World Bank Taps Australia’s CommBank to Issue Its First Blockchain Bond

news Data storage giant Seagate has extended its blockchain work intended to gauge the fraud-fighting potential of the tech. According to a piece from Forbes, following on from a proof-of-concept that kicked off in 2018 in partnership with IBM, Seagate is moving a blockchain-based product tracking trial to the pilot stage to asses how scalable a…

The Takeaway: Yearn.Finance aspires to be the gateway to a bevy of yield-generating products in the Ethereum ecosystem.After a rapid ascent in August 2020, there is now $650 million worth of crypto assets staked in Yearn, seeking the best returns in the booming decentralized finance (DeFi) sector.The prospect of what one observer called an "intuitive…

news UPDATE (March 29, 19:45 UTC): The SEC has also delayed the VanEck/SolidX bitcoin ETF proposal. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed making a decision on two bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposals earlier this year. The first ETF proposal, filed by Bitwise Asset Management with NYSE Arca, was published in the Federal Register on Feb. 15,…

Jan 27, 2020 at 02:30 UTCUpdated Jan 27, 2020 at 02:53 UTCALLEGATIONS: A lawsuit claims Justin Sun berated a former employee with derogatory exclamations to pressure him into fast-tracking BitTorrent software releases.Former Employees Sue Justin Sun and TRON Foundation, Alleging Workplace HostilitiesA lawsuit accuses the frontman of the TRON cryptocurrency and his business associate of…

Iceland-based CCP, which was founded in 1997, said in an announcement post that the new game would leverage smart contract technology to create relationships between the virtual worlds and players. Other investors in the round included Makers Fund, BITKRAFT, Kingsway Capital, HASHED, and Nexon, among others.

May 12, 2020 at 17:03 UTCUpdated May 12, 2020 at 17:29 UTCTelegram CEO Pavel Durov (Credit: TechCrunch/Wikimedia Commons)TON is officially dead.Telegram founder Pavel Durov wrote in his public channel Tuesday that the Telegram Open Network (TON) project would be discontinued due to the company's ongoing legal fight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).…

Harvest Global Investments, a major asset-management company in China, applied for a spot-bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) with Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and is in discussions with regulators regarding the city's stablecoin sandbox, according to separate reports by Tencent News and Bloomberg.Harvest Global did not respond to a request for comment. The SFC

Dec 11, 2020 at 5:38 p.m. UTCWomen in Tech Say Proposed STABLE Act Harms Those It Claims to ProtectAlthough the STABLE Act, proposed Dec. 2 by U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), is being portrayed by its supporters as protecting low-income communities, many women from marginalized communities fear…

May 11, 2020 at 12:17 UTCUpdated May 11, 2020 at 14:07 UTCPhoto by davisco on UnsplashWhat to Watch at Consensus: Distributed – Bitcoin HalvingCrypto’s biggest conference of the year, Consensus: Distributed, coincides with bitcoin’s third halving event, perhaps the most anticipated event within crypto this year. While a simple act of arithmetic, when the network will…