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As a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) continue to elude U.S. markets, one startup has secured $17 million that seem earmarked to bring blockchain tech to ETFs.WisdomTree announced investment in a startup called Securrency Inc., one of the top institutional-grade blockchain builders in the financial and regulatory space, per a
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On Jan. 3 Spain-based CaixaBank added the blockchain-powered finance platform We.trade to its list of services. CaixaBank has now become one of the first banks in Europe to provide its customers access to blockchain technology.Launched in 2017, We.trade is a finance platform powered by IBM’s blockchain technology. It was developed
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Financial institutions should be allowed to offer cryptocurrency products, such as derivatives, according to a government advisory body in South Korea.In a new report, the Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (PCFIR) proposed that the government could move to bring cryptocurrencies into the mainstream of finance through a number
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The upcoming Ethereum Classic (ETC) Agharta hard fork will include features of the Ethereum (ETH) Constantinople fork and intends to make ETC fully compatible with Ethereum.In a press release shared with CryptoX on Dec. 26, ETC Labs further confirmed its intention to ensure full compatibility between ETC and ETH,
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Bitcoin tech startup Blockstream said its c-lightning software team is the first to release a working version of "multi-part payments." While the name, c-lightning v0.8.0, is a mouthful, it's a big improvement for the user experience of the lightning network, a new layer that's probably bitcoin's best shot at scaling to
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Watchtowers, a semi-trusted payment channel sheriff, will keep the peace among lightning nodes. The new feature is likely to be implemented in the coming months.Spearheaded by Blockstream’s c-Lightning team, the Watchtowers are part of Eltoo, a proposed enforcement layer for the lightning network.“A Watchtower is basically outsourcing the penalizing of
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The world’s largest diamond mining firm, Russia’s Alrosa, has partnered with Tencent, the operator of Chinese social media app WeChat, on a new blockchain-based e-commerce project.Together with blockchain platform Everledger, Tencent and Alrosa will launch a new diamond-focused retail mini-program targeted at WeChat’s one billion active users, according to
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Developer Ben Woosley was watching the Hong Kong protesters when he saw something interesting: They were using Bluetooth technology to dodge the internet, allowing them to create a mesh network for organizing and messaging while avoiding intrusion.To create their mesh, the protestors used an app and software development kit, or
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Anonymous vouchers, the report states, “are simply a technical tool used to limit the amount of CBDC that can be transferred anonymously. This means that limits on anonymous CBDC transfers can be enforced without recording the amount of CBDC that a user has spent, thereby protecting users’ privacy.” Source
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Uphold, a digital money platform providing access to investments and payments using blockchain technology, has announced a partnership with crypto-backed lending company Salt. Together, the two plan to provide users with cash or stablecoin loans using cryptocurrencies as collateral.Uphold’s 1.7 million users can now secure loans through Salt against
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