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The National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI), an initiative led by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and 247 Indian banking companies, is on the look out for a seasoned blockchain technologist to head and investigate opportunities for blockchain in current-day payment systems.NPCI owns and operates the Unified Payments Interface
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Web3 gaming platform Immutable has commenced public testing of its Immutable zkEVM in collaboration with Polygon Labs.Work on the zero-knowledge Ethereum virtual machine (zkEVM) network began in March after Immutable announced a partnership with Polygon Labs. Polygon's own 'holy grail' Ethereum-scaling zkEVM hit mainnet on March 27. In an Aug. 14 announcement,
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will begin buying back up to $150 million of its 2031 senior notes for 64.5 cents on the dollar, a discount of 35.5%.According to the Aug. 7 announcement, the tender offer will last until Sept. 1, with an early premium of three cents on the dollar on
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The original attacker for the $61 million Curve, Metronome, and Alchemix exploit began returning funds that were drained in the attack. The Alchemix Finance developer wallet received approximately 4,821 Ether ($8,891,578) in a series of three transactions from the attacker.Curve Finance was exploited via a reentrancy bug on July 30.
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced the launch of a Japan-based arm roughly two years after receiving a warning from the country’s financial regulator.In an Aug. 1 announcement, Binance said local crypto exchange Sakura Exchange Bitcoin has launched as Binance Japan in an effort to operate within the country’s regulatory
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Crypto markets have been curiously resistant to the latest macroeconomic utterances. With a few blips, bitcoin has been trading in a range between $29,000 and $31,500 for much of the past two months. It was recently changing hands at $29,100, down more than 3% over the past 24 hours. "It
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Polygon Labs has begun work on an expansion intended to include all blockchains and applications running on the Polygon network, and seeks to democratize the upgrade process and encourage community participation. On July 19, the company’s developers presented a proposal to revamp the governance mechanism for the forthcoming Polygon 2.0
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New York-headquartered investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. has launched euro-denominated transactions on its blockchain-based payment system, JPM Coin, Bloomberg reported on Friday. See related article: JPMorgan teams up with Indian banks for blockchain-based settlements: BloombergFast factsGermany’s engineering and manufacturing company Siemens AG was the first to use JPM Coin for
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Bitcoin and the broad cryptocurrency market sold off for the second consecutive day on Thursday with fears over inflation and continued rate hikes resurfacing. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the debt ceiling deal Wednesday night and the bill now moves to the Senate for its approval. Bitcoin was down
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Facebook parent Meta has embarked on another round of layoffs that could affect thousands more amid the company’s ‘Year of Efficiency.’ Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) is conducting yet another round of layoffs for the third time in less than three months. The Facebook parent has already cut more than 20,000 jobs
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