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South Africa’s Budget Review Signals Embrace of Digital Payments and Crypto Assets
22.2.2024
South Africa has unveiled its 2024 budget, leveraging stablecoins and blockchain technology to promote financial inclusion and act as a critical driver for enhancing digital payments nationwide.
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Roqqu Announces the Inclusion of Bitcoin.com’s VERSE Token on its Wallet Platform, Aiming to Foster DeFi in Africa
21.2.2024
PRESS RELEASE. 21st February, 2024 – Roqqu, a leading African blockchain technology company with over 1.6 million users and a vibrant community of 700,000 active users, is thrilled to announce the listing of VERSE token, the official utility and rewards token of Bitcoin.com, on its robust wallet...
Valentine’s Day in the Metaverse: Fostering Inclusion and Connection
14.2.2024
Valentine’s Day is often viewed as one of the most romantic holidays, yet celebrating love can create a huge amount of stress and pressure for some individuals. Recent statistics from Drive Research found that while 52% of consumers will celebrate Valentine’s Day, 3 in 10 Americans will go into...
Tether adoption in emerging markets: Boon or bane for financial inclusion?
7.2.2024
Released in 2014, Tether is recognized as a notable blockchain-enabled platform, fundamentally designed to make fiat currencies, primarily USD digitally. Tether (USDT) has won spurs in the crypto sector due to its great stability in terms of price and continues to be on the rise universally among...
Vitalik Buterin Debates Over Blockchain Scaling Terminology
18.1.2024
Amid the rapidly evolving Ethereum ecosystem, Vitalik Buterin has rejoined the debate on the classification of layer-two scaling solutions, putting the spotlight on the security and scalability trade-offs between rollups and validiums. Vitalik Buterin Weighs in on Ethereum Layer-Two Inclusion...
Report: Egypt Wants to Have a Functioning CBDC by 2030
16.1.2024
Egypt reportedly aims to launch a central bank digital currency by 2030 to boost the competitiveness of its national currency. According to an Egyptian economic expert, a digital currency issued by the central bank is more secure than privately issued cryptocurrencies. Enhancing Monetary Policy...
Congressman Warren Davidson Rails Against Treasury’s ‘Red Herring Arguments’ On Crypto
12.1.2024
Warren Davidson, Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Inclusion of the House Financial Services Committee, has rejected the policy suggestions made by the U.S. Treasury on crypto assets, stating these seek to ban digital assets in the U.S. using unworkable...
Defi Can Strengthen the United States’ Leadership in Tech and Financial Services, CFTC Report Says
9.1.2024
Decentralized finance projects and their respective ecosystems potentially offer both promising opportunities and risks to the U.S. financial system, a Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) study has found. The CFTC study report recommends conducting a gap analysis against current...
Singapore’s MAS Adds Crypto Wallet imToken to its Investor Alert List
9.1.2024
Source: iStock The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has recently added the non-custodial crypto wallet imToken to its Investor Alert List. The list provides a record of unregulated persons who “may have been wrongly perceived as being licensed or regulated by MAS.” The inclusion of imToken...
41% of Central Banks Expect to Have Operational CBDCs by 2028 — Study
26.12.2023
Some 41% of central banks that participated in the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) study said they expect to have an operational central bank digital currency (CBDC) by 2028. The survey found that the sentiment towards CBDCs is turning positive with 30% of the respondents...
Brazilian Financial Regulator Co-launches Crypto Glossary
7.12.2023
Source: mizar_21984/Adobe The CVM, Brazil’s markets regulator, has co-launched a glossary of crypto-related terms in a bid to “standardize” terminology in the Latin American nation. The glossary was co-compiled and published by the Brazilian Cryptoeconomics Association (ABCripto), a crypto industry...
UNDP and Algorand Foundation to Launch Blockchain Academy in Q1 of 2024
6.12.2023
The United Nations Development Programme together with the Algorand Foundation are set to launch a blockchain academy in the first quarter of 2024. The objective of the academy is to provide the UNDP’s employees “with knowledge and insights into the applications of blockchain...
APEC Meeting: Yellen Acknowledges Digital Assets’ Potential, Announces Regulation Advancements
17.11.2023
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has acknowledged the advantages that the adoption of digital assets might bring to several key economic activities. After the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) finance ministers’ meeting, Yellen stated that while digital assets do pose risks, they...
House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets Tackles Hamas’ Illicit Cryptocurrency
15.11.2023
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology & Inclusion convened the afternoon of Wednesday, November 15th, to discuss illicit activity in regards to cryptocurrency. Bad actors “We know that bad actors prey on vulnerabilities wherever they can find them,”...
IMF Director Urges Institutions to Look Toward CBDCs, Highlights Cross-border Utility
15.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Kristina Blokhin The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva has publicly praised the deployment of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) by more countries. Speaking at the Singapore FinTech Festival, on the theme “Financial Inclusion...
IMF head: CBDCs can replace cash, help financial inclusion
15.11.2023
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva urged the public sector to “keep preparing to deploy” central bank digital currencies
BRC20 Token ORDI Skyrockets Over 40% as Binance Announces Listing
7.11.2023
On Tuesday, the BRC20 token, dubbed ordinals (ORDI), soared over 40% against the U.S. dollar, fueled by news from Binance about its impending inclusion on the exchange’s roster of traded currencies. ORDI rocketed from an early 24-hour low of $7 to a peak of $11.53, settling at $10.48...
Lightspark Open Sources Email-Like Protocol UMA; Raises Debate on Compliance
25.10.2023
Lightspark, a Lightning Network (LN) financial services company, has announced it has open-sourced Universal Money Address (UMA), a protocol similar to email, but for money. The protocol will be interoperable, allowing platforms to exercise due compliance on the transactions facilitated,...
Join the Economic Freedom Nexus — No BS Crypto News in the Context of Permissionless Exchange
23.10.2023
We all know central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are the furthest thing there is from actual cryptocurrency. That “financial inclusion” usually just means more laws preventing poor people from free exchange and survival in broken, state-run fiat madhouses. The Economic Freedom...
IMF director urges ‘financial inclusion’ via digitalization
18.10.2023
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva says digitalization is “the most important way” to scale up financial inclusion