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Speaking at BlockShow Asia 2019, aBey Foundation co-founder Dr. Ciprian Pungila announced aPay, a payment system that lets the cryptocurrency community use its assets for daily payments via credit card integrations.aPay users can send their cryptocurrencies to the platform and gain access to three different credit cards that operate
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Electric Coin Company (ECC) has donated the Zcash trademark to the Zcash Foundation. ECC created and launched the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) in 2016, and will now own the trademark bilaterally with the corresponding foundation.ECC and the Zcash Foundation have been in negotiations since AugustUpon an agreement signed on
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New England-based blockchain firm SimplyVital Health, Inc. has received a $225,000 grant from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) to research integration of its protocol Nexus with the Graphene protocol.The NSF awarded the grant as part of its Small Business Programs, which contributes $200 million annually to innovative
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UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, has launched a cryptocurrency fund to support open source technology “benefiting children and young people around the world.”According to the official announcement published on Oct. 8, UNICEF thus became the first U.N. organization “to hold and make transactions in cryptocurrency,” namely Bitcoin (BTC)
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The Tezos Foundation has issued grants to projects submitted in response to its latest request for proposals.Per a Sept. 10 announcement, the foundation has released 14 new grants to projects targeting the advancement of the Tezos project. Recipient projects prioritized developments such as applications built using Tezos smart contracts,
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The Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit founded to support the development of the open-source Stellar network, is launching a $120 million airdrop in collaboration with encrypted messenger Keybase.According to a Sept. 9 blog post, Keybase will be giving 100 million Stellar (XLM) each month over the next 20 months
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Rainforest Foundation US is a New York-based, non-profit NGO working in Central and South America, which is now hoping to support anti-deforestation efforts with crypto and blockchain tech.Deforestation and fires in the Brazilian AmazonOn Sept. 4, the Rainforest Foundation reached out to the crypto and blockchain community to ask
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