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Report: Nearly 13,000 Chinese Social Media Accounts Promoting Virtual Currency Closed

10.8.2022
Nearly 13,000 Chinese social media accounts that allegedly promoted virtual currency investments were closed, the Cyberspace Administration of China recently revealed. In addition, some 51,000 social media posts with content relating to the marketing or promotion of investments in virtual...

Chinese Tech Giant Tencent to Shut Down NFT Platform Amid Trading Restrictions

22.7.2022
China’s Tencent Holdings plans to shut down its non-fungible token (NFT) platform Huanhe only a year after its launch. The social media giant has reportedly made the decision because of the strict ban on the resale of NFTs imposed by the authorities in Beijing. Huanhe to Close Down a Year...

Wechat to Prohibit Accounts From Providing Some NFT and Crypto Services

22.6.2022
Tencent’s Wechat intends to impose penalties on public accounts facilitating secondary trading of NFTs, a press report has revealed. Accounts offering transaction channels and guidance for cryptocurrencies have also been targeted by the new rule. Popular Chinese App to Impose Restrictions...

China’s WeChat bans crypto and NFT-related accounts

21.6.2022
The policy also covers secondary NFT trading as the firm notes that “accounts that provide services or content related to the secondary transaction of digital collections shall also be dealt with.”

New Tencent Digital Yuan Wallet Preparing to Launch

16.4.2022
First images have emerged of specialized digital yuan wallets provided by the Tencent-run e-pay platform WeChat Pay. Although the wallets are still in what appears to be beta testing and are not yet fully functional, some media outlets – such as Sina – appear to have been able to open wallets...

WeChat Pay to Offer Digital Yuan Payment Options as China’s CBDC Pilot Expands

8.4.2022
The Chinese e-pay platform WeChat Pay has unveiled a digital yuan interoperability solution that will allow users of the service to make payments in the central bank-issued token. As reported, the central People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has recently expanded the number of cities included in...

Chinese Messaging App Wechat Reportedly Suspends Accounts Linked to NFTs

4.4.2022
Wechat, the Chinese messaging app, has reportedly suspended accounts that are linked to non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The objective of the crackdown is to stop the use of the affected accounts in promoting NFTs. The Widening Crackdown on Digital Assets The Chinese messaging app Wechat recently...

Social Media Giant Wechat to Support China’s CBDC, Platform Expected to Boost Adoption Rate

9.1.2022
China’s social media giant, Wechat has said it will support the digital yuan in a move that is expected to increase the of Chinese residents that use the central bank’s digital currency (CBDC). Wechat’s support of the digital yuan potentially avails the digital currency to...

WeChat Pay Interoperability is Another Key Breakthrough for Digital Yuan Pilot

6.1.2022
Payment platform WeChat Pay began its own digital yuan journey, at the time when millions of Chinese citizens are getting their first taste of what life is like with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) – as citizens in some of the country's biggest cities began using a pilot version of a CBDC...

Major payments app WeChat to add support for China's digital yuan

6.1.2022
While WeChat isn't as popular outside of China as WhatsApp, it is ubiquitous on the mainland

Shanghai Man: Blockchain Week with Vitalik still happening, ‘Bitcoin’ searches on WeChat hit 26M in a day

22.10.2021

Tencent Buys Sumo Group For $1.3 Billion

19.7.2021
British company Sumo Group, whose various studios have worked on everything from Hitman to Forza to Disney Infinity, has been bought by Chinese giant Tencent for a whopping $1.3 billion, Reuters report.Read more

Chinese Bank Employees Told to Entice 300 Customers to Use the Digital Yuan

7.7.2021
In mid-May, a report stemming from residents in Shenzhen, China explained that the digital yuan wasn’t seeing widespread participation, which the Chinese government has alluded to in many press releases. Now a handful of China’s state-owned banks have asked staff to recruit 200 to...

Chinese banks tell staff to recruit up to 300 new digital yuan users each

7.7.2021
Six of China’s top banks have tasked their employees with promoting digital yuan wallets to between 200 to 300 people a year

Shanghai to Hand Out $3 Million in Digital Yuan Lottery

6.6.2021
As part of government efforts to get the digital yuan going, authorities in Shanghai will distribute $3 million worth of the central bank-issued currency among residents of Shanghai. The digital money will be dispersed through a lottery, a method that has already been implemented elsewhere...

Chinese Investors File Lawsuit Against US-Based Alleged Crypto Fraudster Who Promised $200,000 Profits per Day

15.5.2021
A group of Chinese investors has filed a lawsuit against an alleged crypto fraudster based in New York, United States, who ran a Wechat group where he handled the scheme. The scammer reportedly promoted the bogus investment opportunity by promising earnings of “$200,000 in one day.”...

[článek] Digitální Yuan ukazuje první zoubky. Míří i proti službám jako Alipay či WeChat Pay

28.4.2021
[7 minut čtení] V Šanghaji, centru čínského obchodu, tento měsíc šest velkých státních bank v rámci obřího nákupního Festivalu 5. května v tichosti spustilo velkou kampaň za používání digitálního jüanu. Začněme pro pořádek rychlou rekapitulací. Čínská lidová banka, která v zemi plní roli centrální...