Blockchain Startup Nets $2.4 Million in Public Funding to Fight Food Slavery

A new blockchain solution focused on ending slave labor in the food industry received $2.4 million in public funding in Australia. Blockchain startup Lumachain has received $2.4 million in public funding from Main Sequence Ventures, a $165.6 million venture capital fund backed by the Australian government and the federal Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.  […]

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Chile-Based Remittance and Payment Firm CurrencyBird Joins RippleNet

CurrencyBird has reportedly become the first Chilean remittances company to the join RippleNet platform. Chile-based peer-to-peer remittance company CurrencyBird has joined RippleNet, Ripple’s global blockchain-based network of payment providers, according to an announcement published on July 25. CurrencyBird has thus ostensibly become the first Chilean payments company to join RippleNet, a network of institutional payment-providers […]

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Circle CEO to Testify Before Senate on Blockchain and Digital Assets

Circle’s CEO will testify before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on blockchain and digital assets. Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire is scheduled to testify before congress tomorrow as a representative of The Blockchain Association — a business organization comprised of blockchain industry advocates.  Allaire will testify before the Senate Committee […]

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Proposed Crypto Tax Cut in Singapore to Help Crypto Business: PwC Expert

Singapore’s proposal to exempt crypto from a goods and services tax would benefit crypto-related businesses, says PwC corporate tax expert. Singapore’s plans to exempt certain digital currencies from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) would benefit cryptocurrency-related businesses, according to a partner in PwC Hong Kong’s corporate tax practice. As reported by Hong Kong’s English […]

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