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Digital yuan transactions beat out Visa at Winter Olympics venue: report

On the day of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, there were reportedly more transactions made in China’s central bank digital currency than those through Visa.In a Wednesday report from the Wall Street Journal, a person familiar with the matter said transactions in digital yuan significantly outnumbered

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US lawmakers issue warnings about digital yuan as Winter Olympics kicks off

With the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics completed and all competing athletes currently in China, two members of Congress are warning of the potential dangers of using digital yuan at the events.According to a Friday report from Reuters, Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey sent a letter to Secretary

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Who takes gold in the crypto and blockchain Olympics? – Cointelegraph Magazine

Every four years (usually), the world comes together in a celebration of sport and competition at the Olympic Games. In the spirit of Tokyo 2020, let’s look at countries that are deserving of gold medals across different spheres of the cryptocurrency and blockchain space.The variety of sports featured at the

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Synthetix turns on layer-two alpha, launches Olympics betting on options platform

Decentralized derivatives and synthetic asset trading protocol, Synthetix, has launched trading on the Optimistic Ethereum layer two scaling platform.The long-awaited launch was announced by the Synthetix protocol exchange Kwenta on July 30. It enables the exchange to offer faster transactions and lower fees using optimistic rollup technology.Initially, there will be

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Coca-Cola to Create Custom NFT Collection to Raise Money for Special Olympics International

Coca-Cola will be offering these special NFTs in a three-day OpenSea Marketplace auction.Coca-Cola as the leading world beverage brand will be entering the NFT domain by creating a special collection of non-fungible tokens to celebrate International friendship day. The NFTs will be available for an auction on the NFT marketplace

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