Money Forward Inc., the operator of one of Japan’s most popular personal budgeting apps, has resolved to halt its plans to launch a crypto asset exchange. Money Forward Inc., the operator of one of Japan’s most popular personal budgeting apps, has resolved to halt its plans to launch a crypto asset exchange. The development was […]
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Facebook and Telegram’s launch of coins will be more of a game changer for social media and banking than for crypto. Facebook is controversial, if nothing else. The world’s fifth-biggest company by market cap, it’s also the biggest social network by a comfortable margin. Yet, despite the fact that most of us use it, we’ve become increasingly […]
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Blockchain-powered freelancers marketplace Moonlighting is set to migrate its 700,000 user accounts to Eos developer Block.one’s Eos.io protocol. Blockchain-powered freelancers marketplace Moonlighting is set to migrate its 700,000 user accounts to Eos (EOS) developer Block.one’s Eos.io protocol. The development was announced in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on April 11. Moonlighting’s move comes as […]
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Mike Blandina, who has over 25 years of experience in payments and engineering, joined Bakkt as its new chief product officer. A former engineering executive at PayPal and Google will join the team behind the institutional digital asset platform Bakkt, the firm’s CEO Kelly Loeffler announced in a blog post on Medium on April 11. […]
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Coinbase has launched Coinbase Card, which enables its U.K.-based customers to make purchases with cryptocurrency. Major American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has launched Coinbase Card, that enables its United Kingdom-based customers to pay in-store and online with cryptocurrency. The development was announced in a blog post published on April 10. The Coinbase Card is a Visa […]
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The Bermuda Ministry of Finance has approved an ICO for trading company Velocity Ledger Holdings Limited. The Bermuda Ministry of Finance has approved the initial coin offering (ICO) of trading company Velocity Ledger Holdings Limited (VLHL), according to a press release published on April 10. VLHL’s subsidiary VL Financial is now in the application process […]
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Ripple Xpring and Bain Capital have invested in Robot Ventures, an early-stage blockchain venture capital firm. Ripple’s developer ecosystem project Xpring and Bain Capital Ventures have invested in early-stage blockchain venture capital (VC) firm Robot Ventures, head of the fund Robert Leshner wrote in a blog post on April 10. Leshner, who also founded Ethereum-based […]
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Frank Xiong from software development company Oracle estimates that 50 to 60 percent of companies will use blockchain tech in the next few years. Blockchain technology could possibly be used by 50 percent of all companies within the next three years, the vice president of blockchain product development at software company Oracle said on Monday, […]
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The Mauritius Financial Services Commission has issued a guidance note concerning security token offerings. The Mauritius Financial Services Commission (FSC) has issued a second guidance note concerning security token offering (STO) regulation, dated April 8. In the document, the FSC declared that security tokens are considered digitally represented securities as defined in the Securities Act […]
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Next Big Thing AG, a Berlin-based IoT and blockchain company builder, has completed an investment round led by HDI Global SE. Next Big Thing AG (NBT), a German Internet-of-Things (IoT) and blockchain company builder, has secured 12 million euros ($13.5 million) in a new funding round, according to a press release on April 8. NBT […]
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