Following lobbying by the Korean Blockchain Association, crypto exchanges have extra time to implement a new tax infrastructure. The South Korean National Assembly is planning to delay the implementation of new income tax laws on cryptocurrency gains following appeals from industry bodies. According to a Nov. 25 report on Korean-language news site DongA, the 20% […]
Continue Reading
Making digital cash work efficiently for public stimulus payments doesn’t require a detour through blockchain technology, in the view of U.S. progressives. American progressives, particularly the high-profile group of Congresswomen known as “the Squad,” have been highly vocal on questions of economic equity, the corrosive social impact of Big Tech and the need to reimagine […]
Continue Reading
Oki Matsumoto, the head of Japanese financial services giant Monex, has welcomed the Bank of Japan’s recent interest in central bank digital currency. Earlier this fall, the Bank of Japan announced its plans to begin testing a central bank digital currency proof-of-concept in 2021. Further details of the institution’s approach to development and collaborations have […]
Continue Reading
The launch of Stellar’s new protocol was received positively by the crypto market, coinciding in a 100% price rise for XLM across the last 48 hours. The price of Stellar Lumens (XLM) shot up 60% in the past 24 hours and crossed the 20 cent mark for the first time since Sept. 2018. The ‘stellar’ […]
Continue Reading
Libra Association founding member, Bison Trails, has released a QT protocol allowing developers to read and write data to Libra’s pre-mainnet using off-chain systems. Blockchain technology and staking service provider Bison Trail has announced the launch of its Query and Transactions Clusters, or QT, protocol to help developers build on Facebook’s forthcoming Libra network. Libra […]
Continue Reading
Bitcoin topping $19,400, altcoins rallying by triple digits and the Dow setting an all-time high at 30,000 show bulls are running all corners of every market. On Tuesday the bulls showed that they are in full control of the crypto market as Bitcoin (BTC) rallied to $19,418.97 and several top-10 altcoins went on a double-digit […]
Continue Reading
The token-drop for Oasis Network’s ROSE token has amassed a $10.5 million TVL and is now the second-largest offering on the U.S.-headquartered CoinList platform by number of participants. Initial token sale platform CoinList has revealed that more than 6,700 investors participated in Oasis Network’s “ROSE Garden” token drop. The ROSE Garden token drop was designed […]
Continue Reading
Dan Tapiero told Anthony Pompliano that $15 trillion in institutional capital could flow into Bitcoin, pushing prices as high as $500,000. Gold Bullion International co-founder Dan Tapiero believes that it’s only a matter of time before Bitcoin’s price surges into the six-figure threshold. Speaking to Anthony Pompliano on the Pomp Podcast, Tapiero asserted that in […]
Continue Reading
DeFi protocol Yearn has taken Pickle onboard to create new vaults and strategies. Decentralized finance protocol Yearn has announced a partnership with Pickle Finance to bolster yield farming incentives, and compensate victims of the recent Pickle exploit that resulted in the loss of almost $20 million in Dai. According to an announcement from Yearn founder […]
Continue Reading
Trading volume on the world’s most popular crypto exchange has surged following a rally of the top three tokens. With Bitcoin within $1,000 of its all-time high price of $19,891 set in December 2017, trading on major crypto exchange Binance is also hitting new heights with more than $37 billion in volume in the last […]
Continue Reading