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Report: Jump Trading Cuts Ties With Wormhole Amid Staff Reductions
19.11.2023
Based on a recent report, Jump Trading Group, known for its focus on algorithmic and high-frequency trading techniques, has reportedly severed ties with the Wormhole crypto initiative, known for its cross-chain communication services. Last year saw Wormhole suffer a significant loss of 120,000...
People’s Bank of China Tests Digital Yuan Payment Integration in Hong Kong
18.11.2023
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) are in the second phase of the integration tests of the digital yuan for payments and cross-border transactions in Hong Kong. This new phase includes more banks and the ability to use the Fast Payment System to...
IMF Chief Says Central Bank Digital Currencies Can Replace Cash — Urges Public Sector to Prepare for CBDC Deployment
18.11.2023
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva says central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can replace cash. She has urged the public sector to “keep preparing to deploy CBDCs and related payment platforms,” emphasizing that these platforms “should...
Crypto Platform Strike and Checkout.com Partner to Bring Bitcoin Buying to 65+ Countries
17.11.2023
Source: Pixabay / WorldSpectrum Bitcoin (BTC) wallet and payment platform Strike has partnered with Checkout.com to enable debit-card-based Bitcoin purchases in over 65 countries. Strike leverages Bitcoin’s lightning network to let users make instant and free cross-border fiat currency payments...
Wormhole to Become Separate Entity From Jump Trading
17.11.2023
Source: Pixabay Chicago-based trading firm Jump Trading has decoupled Wormhole, its cross-chain protocol. Bloomberg reported on Friday that Wormhole would be run as an independent entity by senior Wormhole employees. Citing people with knowledge of the matter, Bloomberg said that senior Wormhole...
Asia-based Crypto Exchange XREX Secures In-Principle Approval for Major Payment Institution License in Singapore
17.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Richie Chan On November 16, XREX, an Asia-based cryptocurrency exchange specializing in cross-border payments, achieved a significant milestone by receiving in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license. This...
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...
The Epic Vs. Google Courtroom Battle Sounds Bonkers
14.11.2023
We are now six days into the Epic v. Google legal showdown over whether the Google Play Store is an illegal monopoly with high fees and strict rules designed to control Android app developers. Things are getting wild as Google employees—including the company’s CEO—might have deleted evidence...
Circle to Enable Cross-Chain USDC Transfers With Cosmos's Noble Later This Month
14.11.2023
Decentralized exchange dYdX will be the a user of CCTP, as the project expands beyond Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum and Optimism
Ripple exec reiterates need for tech-neutral crypto regulations
14.11.2023
Navin Gupta, managing director of South Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Ripple, told Cointelegraph that education and introducing non-speculative use cases can help crypto companies navigate through varying regulations
Ripple Partners With Onafriq to Enable Faster Cross Border Payments to Africa
14.11.2023
Ripple and the Africa-focused payment fintech startup Onafriq recently said they are collaborating to enable crypto-based cross-border payments between Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the U.K., and Australia. Using Ripple’s platform helps Onafriq achieve its goal of making...
Inflows Into Digital Asset Investment Products Cross the $1 Billion Mark — Study
14.11.2023
The U.S. dollar value of funds flowing into digital asset investment products or exchange-traded products (ETP) in 2023 now exceeds $1 billion. In the week ending Nov. 10, approximately $293 million flowed into ETPs. Bitcoin ETP trading volumes in the week under review constituted nearly 20%...
Ondo and Axelar Join Forces for Ondo Bridge
13.11.2023
Tokenized secure note issuer Ondo Finance and Web3 cross-chain platform Axelar came together Monday, November 13th to unveil Ondo Bridge, a cross-chain mechanism designed to facilitate easy transfers of Ondo tokens across blockchains. “A superior and safer yield-generating stablecoin”...
Under New Leadership, Terraform Labs Acquires Cross-Chain Analytics Firm Pulsar Finance
13.11.2023
In a recent development, Terraform Labs has completed the acquisition of Pulsar Finance, a firm specializing in cross-chain analytics and portfolio management. The acquisition occurs as Terraform’s former CEO Do Kwon remains incarcerated in Montenegro and a U.S. Securities and Exchange...
THORChain’s 7-Day Trading Volume Hits $1.32 Billion, Third to Uniswap and PancakeSwap
13.11.2023
Source / Sam Cooling THORChain, a decentralized crypto trading protocol capable of cross-chain swaps, has become the third-largest decentralized exchange (DEX) in terms of trading volume over the past seven days. Over the past week, THORChain recorded a trading volume of $1.32 billion, third...
Roblox CEO “Dreams” of Adding Cross-platform NFTs As Part of Open Ecosystem
10.11.2023
Source: Pixabay Popular gaming platform Roblox could look to add cross-platform NFTs in-game, founder and CEO David Baszucki said. In an interview with CNBC, Baszucki said that adding cross-platform NFTs in Roblox was “a bit of a dream here.” “I want to highlight there’s a bit of a dream here about...
Roblox CEO 'dreams' of in-game cross-platform NFTs and digital objects
10.11.2023
Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki expects top brands and celebrities to take charge and play a key role in making the "dream" of cross-platform NFT come true
Ripple Expands Payments Network to 70+ Crypto and Traditional Payout Markets
10.11.2023
Ripple has expanded its payments network to more than 70 crypto and traditional payout markets. “Accumulatively this adds up to 90% of the global foreign exchange market,” the company explained, highlighting that the Ripple network has facilitated over $30 billion in payment volume...
Ripple Collaborates to Power Payments Corridors Between Africa and Rest of the World
8.11.2023
Source: Adobe Crypto payments giant Ripple has partnered with fintech Onafriq for cross-border payments between Africa and the rest of the world. The deal would facilitate crypto-enabled cross-border payments between 27 African countries and markets including the UK, Australia, and the Gulf....
China Mulls Digital Yuan Settlements for Commodities
7.11.2023
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is considering using the digital yuan to settle services and commodities trades with Hong Kong. According to Di Gang, deputy director-general of the Digital Currency Institute of the PBOC, this would help companies avoid the difficulties of using a single...