Digital yuan app adds prepaid Mastercard Visa top-ups for tourists
Tourists planning to visit the People’s Republic of China can now pre-charge their digital yuan wallets using Visa and Mastercard...
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Crypto sees outflows for 6th consecutive week, XRP and SOL gain investor confidence
Crypto investment products registered their sixth consecutive week of outflows for the week ending Sept. 24. According to data from...
Arbitrum DAO takes $56M of unclaimed ARB as airdrop deadline ends
Arbitrum, a major Layer 2 solution for the Ethereum blockchain, has officially added the unclaimed tokens from the Arbitrum airdrop...
Tether reportedly shuts USDT redemption for some Singapore customer groups
Tether, the largest stablecoin issuer behind USDT, has reportedly changed its terms of services (ToS) in Singapore. An email shared by...
Pay-to-use blockchains will never achieve mass adoption
Pay-to-use blockchains are done.Not for us, of course — the nerdy crypto crowd. We’re perfectly happy to open wallets, engrave...
Miss Universe denies link with recently unveiled coin project
The Miss Universe Organization has denied any association with the Miss Universe Coin project announced at the Philippine Blockchain Week...
Couple mistakenly sent $10.5M by Crypto.com to face October plea hearing
The Melbourne couple who accidentally received 10.5 million Australian dollars (AUD), or almost $6.6 million, will be facing a plea...
Google Cloud adds 11 blockchains to data warehouse ‘BigQuery’
Google Cloud’s BigQuery service just added 11 blockchains networks to its data warehouse, according to a September 21 blog post....
Core Scientific seals $77M Bitmain deal for 27K Bitcoin mining rigs
Cryptocurrency mining hardware maker Bitmain and bankrupt crypto mining firm Core Scientific have agreed on a combination of equity and cash...
India to develop dark net monitoring tool to combat crypto fraud: Report
The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is reportedly developing a crypto intelligence tool in response to a rise in...
‘End of an era’ — Consensys sunsets Truffle, Ganache amid shift to Metamask Snaps
Ethereum developers are gathering to salute the teams behind Ganache and Truffle, two toolkits that were once vital in the...
Pancakeswap integrates Transak for fiat onboarding on multiple chains
Decentralized exchange Pancakeswap now offers Transak as a provider in its “buy crypto” tab, giving Pancakeswap users an additional option...
a16z suggests Machiavelli to fix decentralized governance
Principles written almost 500 years ago by Niccolò Machiavelli — author of the controversial political work The Prince — are the...
Farmville co-creator-led company raises $33M to create Web3 games
Proof of Play, a company led by Farmville co-creator Amitt Mahajan, raised $33 million to create Web3 games, according to...
What happens when crypto meets fintech in Africa?
Ahead of the Africa Money and DeFi Summit, Hashing It Out host Elisha Owusu Akyaw (GhCryptoGuy) speaks with Andrew Fassnidge,...
eToro secures crypto registration in Cyprus to expand in EU
Cryptocurrency-friendly brokerage firm eToro is expanding its crypto services worldwide after securing new regulatory approval in Europe.EToro has received a...
UK politicians don metaverse avatars as they share Web3 roadmap
A group of British politicians took to the metaverse to address global leaders in a 51-nation gathering on Sept. 20,...
Friend.tech look-alike ‘Alpha’ emerges on Bitcoin network
The Bitcoin network got its own community-based social token ecosystem after a new project called Alpha emerged overnight. As a decentralized...
Tether 2023 stablecoin loans rise despite size-down announcement in 2022
Tether, the largest stablecoin issuer in the crypto market has seen a rise in its stablecoin lending, aka secured loans,...
Busan is developing an Ethereum-compatible mainnet to become a ‘blockchain city’
South Korea’s second-largest city, Busan, is developing a public blockchain network compatible with mainstream blockchain platforms, such as Ethereum and Cosmos....
Optimism to sell $160M in OP tokens to 7 purchasers via private sale
Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Optimism has disclosed plans to sell 116 million OP tokens to seven private buyers for treasury...
Phishing victim sends eye-watering $4.5M in USDT to scammer
An unwitting cryptocurrency holder has reportedly fallen victim to an eye-watering $4.46 million phishing scam. According to data from Etherscan,...
