Crypto

Beijing is getting bullish about the cross-border use of the digital yuan – with Chinese experts now talking about BRI/“new Silk Road” CBDC integration.Per the Chinese Securities Journal, Li Jianjun, the Vice President of the Central University of Finance and Economics, spoke about the e-CNY’s role in BRI “financial cooperation”…

Binance US, the American subsidiary of the well-known cryptocurrency exchange, is experiencing a series of high-profile departures. Today, Sidney Majalya, the Chief Risk Officer, and Krishna Juvvadi, the head of legal, resigned according to a report by Wall Street Journal. Their exits followed the recent resignation of Brian Shroder, the firm’s…

The new Ethereum scaling network Layer N has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and investment collective dao5.The funding round, announced by Layer N on Wednesday this week, also saw participation from several other notable crypto investment firms, including Kraken…

The company behind Stoner Cats non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has to pay a $1 million fine and destroy all its NFTs per a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).According to the Wednesday press release, the SEC charged Stoner Cats 2 LLC (SC2) with conducting an unregistered offering of…

Circle Internet Financial, global payments firm behind the USDC stablecoin, has announced a partnership with ride-hailing giant Grab to pilot a Web3 blockchain-based wallet in Singapore. Grab’s Singapore-based users can create a blockchain-enabled wallet named the “Grab Web3 Wallet” to earn rewards and collect non-fungible token (NFT) vouchers, ushering them into…

The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony will develop a blockchain network, making it the latest company from the nation to move into the Web3 space.The company’s IT subsidiary Sony Network Communications will work on the project, alongside a Singapore-based firm named Startale Labs.Per Nikkei and an official Startale Labs…

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