Visa completes digital Hong Kong dollar pilot test with local banks
The e-HKD CBDC Pilot Programme will enter phase 2 following praise from the city's monetary authority. Payment processor Visa has...
Year: 2023
SafeMoon executive team charged with multiple fraud counts, arrests made
According to charges, the men misappropriated $200 million in investor funds to spend on a luxurious lifestyle. The United States...
Worldcoin claims 4 million app downloads and 1 million active users
The ‘World App’ for iOS and Android has now been downloaded 4 million times, according to data collected by its...
100%+ BTC price gains? Bitcoin faces ‘massively overvalued’ stocks
Bitcoin posted a classic "Uptober," but risk assets across the board risk a serious contraction, forecasts warn. Bitcoin (BTC) will...
Uniswap founder burns $650B in HayCoin against speculation
Uniswap’s Hayden Adams burned 99% of the HayCoin supply on Oct. 20 over concerns about price speculation.
Bitcoin crash pre-halving? Stablecoin metric that marked 2019 top flashes warning
Two key BTC supply metrics show conflicting signals on whether a retracement will occur before the Bitcoin halving. Bitcoin (BTC) is...
UK AI Safety Summit begins with global leaders in attendance, remarks from China and Musk
The U.K. AI Safety Summit concluded its first day with a common declaration, the U.S. announcing an AI safety institute,...
PayPal scores UK crypto license after brief local Bitcoin buy halt
Licensed by the FCA on Oct. 31, 2023, PayPal has requirements or restrictions placed on the financial services activities that...
AI and real-world assets gain prominence in investor discussions
Discussions concerning cryptocurrency prices have waned due to a prolonged period of sideways market performance. As nations progress toward promoting the...
Crypto’s ‘pro-rioter’ glitch artist stirs controversy — Patrick Amadon, NFT Creator
NFT artist Patrick Amadon is proudly “pro-rioter,” as Hong Kong Art Week discovered, and he’s at home in crypto, where...
‘AI’ takes Collins dictionary word of the year, ‘debanking’ makes shortlist
The Collins dictionary named ‘AI’ word of the year, describing AI-powered language models as “bursting into the public consciousness” and...
Turkey aims to shed FATF ‘grey list’ status with new crypto regulations
The Turkish finance minister reportedly stated that crypto assets are the sole outstanding technical compliance matter. Turkey is reportedly drafting...
FTX and Alameda Research wallets send $13.1M in crypto to exchanges overnight
A court-ordered liquidation process allows FTX to sell nearly $3.4 billion worth of crypto assets in weekly batches starting from...
Survey: 65% of Spaniards aren’t interested in using digital euro
The country’s population doesn’t demonstrate as high a confidence level in the European Central Bank’s digital currency project as the...
Near taps Nym for metadata privacy, encryption services
Layer-1 blockchain Near will integrate Nym Technologies’ data privacy and encryption services for users and DApps operating across its ecosystem....
