Starbucks and McDonald’s are among the many retail companies that will allegedly support digital yuan payments in Xiong’an, one of four pilot program locations. Rumors are surfacing of an upcoming real-world test of the proposed Chinese digital yuan currency. According to Chinese publication Interchain Pulse, a promotion conference was held on April 22 in the […]
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A behind-the-scenes look at the impact to and recovery from China’s blockchain industry following the initial coronavirus outbreak. The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to plunge the world into the deepest crisis since the Great Depression and could deprive global economies of $5.5 trillion over the next two years. China’s economy shrank for the first time […]
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Leading Chinese DeFi protocol has lost 99.95% of locked funds in a nearly $25 million hack. Chinese decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol dForce has been exploited in a $24.95 million hack that has resulted in its Lendf.Me lending platform going offline. According to DeFi data aggregator DeFi Pulse, the total value of funds locked in […]
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Ant Financial launched a new consortium blockchain platform for SMEs and developers. Ant Financial — the Chinese fintech company formerly known as Alipay— has launched a new consortium blockchain platform called OpenChain. According to an announcement on April 16, the platform would allow developers and small and micro enterprises to utilize innovative blockchain tools. They […]
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Fresh details have emerged about ongoing trials of China’s digital yuan, specifically its current implementation in Suzhou — a major city in Jiangsu Province. Fresh details have emerged about ongoing trials of China’s digital yuan, specifically its current implementation in Suzhou — a major city in Jiangsu Province. On April 16, reporters for ChinSci-Tech — […]
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Multicoin Capital has lead a $1.5 million fundraising round in top Chinese DeFi “super-app” platform dForce. Blockchain and cryptocurrency venture capital firm Multicoin Capital has led a $1.5 million seed round for Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol dForce. Mable Jiang, the principal of crypto venture capital firm Multicoin Capital, told Cointelegraph that dForce’s plan to […]
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Blockchain-based proposals from around the world are helping to quell the outbreak of COVID-19. A number of international blockchain-based solutions have taken up the challenge of preventing further outbreaks in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the most recent country to propose solutions reliant on a distributed database. As […]
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The Bank of China has completed the basic function development of a digital Yuan and it has moved one step closer to launch its CBDC during a middle of global recession. As central banks around the world are cutting interest rates to zero and taking aggressive action against the economic recession due to the coronavirus […]
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Chinese payments platform Alipay has revealed more details of its role in China’s upcoming CBDC ecosystem through a series of patents released over the past month. In the past month, Chinese payments platform Alipay has disclosed a number of patents relating to and revealing more details of China’s planned central bank digital currency (CBDC), the […]
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security named “blockchain managers” as “essential critical infrastructure” amid the coronavirus lockdown. A memorandum published by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has named “blockchain managers” among the nation’s “essential critical infrastructure” workers. On March 19, the DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a memo emphasizing […]
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