Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), has announced the launch of a Euro-pegged stablecoin available starting June 30.
With CBDCs already launched in Nigeria, the Bahamas, and seven Eastern Caribbean nations, it’s a good time to take another look at the status of CBDC rollouts around the world.
Ethereum’s biggest challenge is still scalability, and layer-2 solutions might be the best way to overcome it.
On March 9, the White House announced its new executive order on digital asset, which outlined priorities for regulatory development, assigned frameworks to be delivered in six months and a full report in one year. Inside the industry, the order has been mostly well-received, even causing Bitcoin’s price to spike by 9%.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company Square Inc. announced at the beginning of December that it will soon rebrand under the name Block, with the move widely seen as a declaration of intent for further expansion into the blockchain space.
On November 14th 2021, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated Taproot upgrade was finally activated, bringing with it cheaper transactions, more privacy, and better smart contracts to the world’s leading cryptocurrency.
Central bank digital currencies are coming to most countries in the world before the end of the decade, as their unique benefits, speed of use, cost-effectiveness and compatibility with an increasingly digital global economy leave nations with no real choice in the matter.
This past month seen the first Bitcoin futures ETFs get green-lit by U.S. regulators. This long-awaited decision has finally allowed traditional investors to get exposure to the largest digital asset on earth. And it’s started off to great success so far.
Mega-banks JP Morgan and Wells Fargo are the latest to start offering crypto funds to their ultra-wealthy customers. What does this mean for the crypto industry and are Big Banks ready and prepared to become crypto-asset custodians?
Due to PayPal’s coming acquisition of Curv, the latter will have to cease support for existing customers.