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Joint Coinbase-Circle Stablecoin Project USDC Listed on Competitor Kraken
8.1.2020
Kraken lists stablecoin USDC
Crypto Lending Firm BlockFi Adds Support for Litecoin and USD Coin
8.1.2020
BlockFi crypto lending firm has added two new assets to its platform: Litecoin and USD Coin
Stablecoins Are Crypto’s Version of Fractional Reserve Banking
6.1.2020
Stablecoins provide much sought after stability in the volatile crypto markets. They are sometimes even said to affect the price of bitcoin in drastic fashion. Tether (USDT) in particular continues to be widely scrutinized for this, with recent lawsuits about conflicts of interest and price...
SLP Devs Publish Code Bounties With $2,500+ in Crypto Rewards
5.1.2020
While a number of software developers work on the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework, SLP devs are still looking for other contributors to help foster the protocol’s ecosystem. In order to help bolster SLP development, the simpleledger.cash website has published requests for bounties...
Stanford Prof Darrell Duffie on Our Big Stablecoin Future
3.1.2020
A distinguished Stanford professor breaks down the year in stablecoins: Libra, Tether and Central Bank Digital Currencies, like China's
Tron-Based Tether Has Ballooned to Over 900 Million Tokens, Almost 22% of Total Supply
2.1.2020
Since Tether’s (USDT) migration to other networks beside the BTC-based Omni protocol, significant shifts have taken place seeing the heavily-printed stablecoin rise to prominence also via Ethereum’s ERC20 standard and Tron’s TRC20 implementation. Ethereum-based USDT supply...
Euro-Pegged Stablecoin: The Ultimate Growth Driver for Crypto-Lending
29.12.2019
The crypto lending market could possibly disrupt the traditional finance sector
Facebook’s Libra Has Failed in Current Form, Says Swiss President
28.12.2019
According to Switzerland’s president the assets backing Libra need to change for the stablecoin to be approved
Twitch Users Can Now Tip Streamers With MenaPay Stablecoin
27.12.2019
Mobile payments app MenaPay now supports QR code Twitch tipping
Tokyo Wants 50% of Transactions to Be Made in its Stablecoin by 2025
27.12.2019
Tokyo’s new stablecoin could be one of the world’s most ambitious yet – after city authorities revealed plans to ensure that 50% of all payments made in the capital are made using the token by 2025.
Per Nikkei, the city is banking on the fact that it already has a large range of infrastructure...
Russia’s Central Bank Is Now Testing Real Asset-Pegged Stablecoins
26.12.2019
Russia’s central bank starts testing stablecoins and doesn’t assume that they will act as a payment method and become a substitute of money
Binance Expands Trading for Turkish Lira Trading Pairs
25.12.2019
Binance users can now trade Turkish liras and Russian rubles against major stablecoin Tether
Tencent Reportedly Building Digital Currency Business Unit + More News
24.12.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Chinese internet giant and WeChat operator Tencent is reportedly putting together a digital currency research team....
PBOC Official: China’s Digital Yuan Won’t Be a Speculative Currency Like Bitcoin
23.12.2019
According to recent statements by People’s Bank of China (PBOC) official Mu Changchun, the country’s digital yuan is ready for trials. The central bank digital currency (CBDC) will decidedly not be a speculative asset like bitcoin or stablecoins, and will not need a currency basket...
Circle Sells OTC Desk to Kraken to Focus On Stablecoin
18.12.2019
Circle sells over-the-counter desk Circle Trading to Kraken in continued reductions at the firm, which says it is all part of honing in on stablecoin work
Circle Pivots to Stablecoin Platform as More Execs, Teams Depart
17.12.2019
Circle will focus on its stablecoin business next year, following the sale of its OTC desk to Kraken and the departure of its chief financial and legal officers
OKEx Debuts Dai Stablecoin Staking Bonus as Tether Dwarfs Volumes
17.12.2019
Dai support from OKEx seems destined to have little impact in a market dominated by Tether
Regulatory Roundup: Crypto ‘Inevitable’ in India, China Rankings, NY Streamlines Policy
16.12.2019
In this regulatory roundup, we cover a positive crypto story in India, China’s year-end rankings, and the European Central Bank entering the stablecoin race. We also cover the New York regulator’s proposed Bitlicense revision — the first in five years — and several other...
Darknet ICO, Bitmain Infighting, Calls for Cotten to Be Exhumed: Hodler’s Digest, Dec. 9–15
15.12.2019
In this week’s Hodler’s Digest, bitter infighting at Bitmain, Libra’s white paper quietly updated, and the $146 million ICO that’s almost certainly illegal
Tether Sponsors New Version of Bitcoin Tokenization Layer Omni
15.12.2019
Tether funded the development of the latest version of Bitcoin tokenization layer Omni