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iPhone Currently Not Compatible with Digital Euro: ECB Board Member
24.4.2024
An ECB executive board member wants Apple to change how iPhone payments work to support a potential digital euro. He claims the tech giant's current system may not support offline payments for any European Central Bank digital currency.
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Venezuelan State Oil Company to Accelerate USDT Adoption for Settlements; Tether Vows to Uphold OFAC Sanctions
23.4.2024
PDVSA, the state-owned Venezuelan oil company, would be preparing to migrate more of its payments portfolio to USDT, a dollar stablecoin, to avoid being affected by the restitution of U.S. sanctions. Reuters reported that the company started receiving payments in USDT last year and will accelerate...
BlockDAG’s $19.8M Presale With The Stellar Moonshot Keynote, Shadowing Cardano Price Surge, And Dogecoin Value Increase
23.4.2024
BlockDAG, alongside giants like Cardano and Dogecoin, is making significant waves in the cryptocurrency industry thanks to its superior technology and successful presale event that garnered $19.8 million. The recent moonshot teaser and the impending Cardano transactions and Dogecoin payments...
Smog Token Begins Airdrop Payments After 11,000,000 Quests Completed
23.4.2024
Monday, April 22, 2024 – Solana’s incendiary new community-focused meme coin Smog (SMOG) has just paid out rewards for over 11 million quests successfully completed across its first two airdrop seasons, according to an announcement on...
Telegram to Introduce USDT Payments With Telegram Wallet and the Open Network
19.4.2024
Telegram and Tether are joining forces to bring users the ability to send USDT payments through The Open Network (TON) and Telegram wallet, the founders of each organization said at Token2049 in Dubai on Friday. The announcement could signal increased use of USDT amidst rising efforts by U.S....
Crypto Payments Firm Triple-A Includes PayPal’s Stablecoin in Payment Options for Customers
19.4.2024
Singapore-based payments company Triple-A has announced plans to integrate PayPal's stablecoin into its list of supported tokens for customer payments.
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Russian Duma Financial Market Chairman States Digital Financial Assets Might Replace Fiat for International Payments
19.4.2024
Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov stated that digital financial assets, issued by institutions regulated by the central bank, could replace fiat channels for international settlements. Aksakov also acknowledged that while not being controlled...
Bitcoin Cash Enthusiasts Shift Funds to New Gambling ICO, Aiming for 1000% Returns
18.4.2024
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) faces dimming enthusiasm as the price of the popular payments-focused Bitcoin fork dipped 20% over the last seven days to trade at $484 as of this writing. Like the rest of the market, BCH appears to be tracking market leader Bitcoin, which fell 9% over the last week to trade...
PayPal Says NFT Purchases No Longer Backed By Its Protection Program
17.4.2024
Payments giant PayPal plans to remove non-fungible token (NFT) purchases from its purchase protection program from May 20.
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Stablecoins Are Seeing Adoption as a Cross-Border Settlement Mechanism: Bernstein
9.4.2024
Solana is leading the field in blockchain payments, but the network has scalability issues, the report said
BCB Group Moves Custody of Digital Asset Operations to Metaco’s Platform
9.4.2024
The move will allow the crypto payments firm to consolidate its custody technology
Crypto.com unlocks crypto payments at Adelaide Oval!
4.4.2024
Crypto.com, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency platform with nearly 80 million members and a reputation for regulatory compliance, data privacy, and security, has recently launched the most innovative program at the renowned Adelaide Oval, home of the Adelaide Crows. With the help...
Central Banks to Explore Tokenization of Cross-Border Payments With Project Agora
3.4.2024
A consortium of central banks worldwide, led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), announced a new initiative "Project Agora" to explore the potential of tokenization to enhance existing financial systems.
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Telegram's Pivot to TON Payments for Ads Boosts Toncoin
2.4.2024
The messaging app's switch to TON creates a circular economy for the closely-linked crypto
The Future of Cryptocurrency in Daily Payments: Lessons from Lugano
2.4.2024
Cryptocurrencies have sparked a global debate on the future of financial transactions, with a focus on their integration into daily payments.
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Telegram provide option for payments in Toncoin
1.4.2024
Telegram offers users the option to make payments in Toncoin, a cryptocurrency boosted by Ton blockchain, for buying in-platform advertisements. Out of the total revenue generated, it will be sharing 50% of the amount with the founders of the public channels. This is the newest user monetization...
China Expands Digital Yuan Accessibility Through Hardware Wallet Integration
1.4.2024
Bank of China’s Qingdao Branch, in collaboration with telecom and digital finance partners, introduces digital yuan hardware wallet and "deferred payment" model to simplify transit payments.
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Russia to Clarify Cryptocurrency Mining Gray Areas, Including Payments
27.3.2024
Anton Siluanov, the finance minister of Russia, is prepared to discuss the gray areas surrounding cryptocurrency mining and the use of its proceeding for payments. In a recent lecture, Siluanov stated that the government needed to agree “on what can be done with cryptocurrency,”...
Russia Discusses Testing Digital Ruble for Budget Payments
27.3.2024
The Central Bank of Russia and the Russian treasury are considering testing using the Russian CBDC, the digital ruble, to complete budget settlements. The tests would involve using this CBDC to make payments to businesses and citizens and receiving payments from these in CBDC, to ensure...
Reports: Crypto Is at the Forefront of the Side Job Economy for Argentines
23.3.2024
Argentines are increasingly turning to online side jobs to have an additional crypto-based income. According to the local press, students who have lower incomes and are affected by the adverse conditions of the national economy, are the ones who are commonly getting into these jobs with foreign...