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Visa working on blockchain interoperability hub for crypto payments

Global payments giant Visa has introduced a project that aims to be a “universal adapter” of blockchains that can connect multiple cryptocurrencies, stablecoins as well as central bank digital currencies (CBDC).According to an official announcement on Thursday, Visa’s research team is working on a “Universal Payment Channel” (UPC) initiative, a blockchain

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Terra Blockchain, Home of LUNA and UST, Upgrades for Cross-Chain Interoperability — CoinDesk

Technically, “Wormhole V2 is already live for Solana, ETH, and Terra,” Curran explained. Wormhole’s node operators, known as guardians, “support Terra for V2, but the front-end interface support that allows users to transfer assets in and out of Terra to Solana and Ethereum is not live yet. The Wormhole team

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Ukraine’s central bank seeks to hire a blockchain developer, job posting reveals

The National Bank of Ukraine, the country’s chief monetary authority, has recently taken to professional social network LinkedIn to promote its blockchain developer job opening. The ad was published by the director of NBU’s IT department, Vladimir Nagornyuk. The ad goes on to list “development, implementation and modification of infrastructure

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4K NFT Marketplace Goes Live, Bringing Physical Goods to the Blockchain — CoinDesk

According to Li, most sales of luxury artworks occur only “on paper” with no physical transferring of goods. “The ownership changes, but the pieces don’t move,” Li explained. NFTs therefore make ownership of non-fungible, real-world items easy to trade and gift, potentially disrupting traditional marketplaces or auction houses such as

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R3, Once Banking’s Blockchain Bet, Is Spinning Up a DeFi Token — CoinDesk

“Our team is working on a proof-of-concept project for a private, permission-less DeFi network, with a corresponding token,” R3 representative Nick Murray-Leslie said via email. (“Private” and “permission-less” sounds confusing, but refers to R3′s work with Intel SGX to create a closed setting for transactions while holding onto the open

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