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Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the bitcoin warehouse’s parent company, announced Wednesday it had agreed to acquire Bridge2 Solutions, a loyalty solution provider for both merchants and consumers. Bakkt, in turn, will use its funds from its ongoing Series B fundraising round to acquire Bridge2 and apply its tools to its consumer
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A former MakerDAO contributor and Carnegie Mellon alumnus has committed 10,000 MKR — valued at just under $4.3 million at press time — to his alma mater to develop a research program for decentralized applications.Who is giving what for what?Nikolai Mushegian announced the donation in a Jan. 1 post
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Lu Lei, China’s deputy head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), recently engaged with stakeholders at a conference in Beijing where he said that the state agency is currently considering expanding the blockchain pilot to facilitate an enhanced integration of fintech and foreign exchange markets.Lei said that in
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Japanese retail giant Rakuten now lets its customers convert its Rakuten Group loyalty points to major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC).According to an official announcement on Dec. 24, this capability is immediately available for Rakuten users in Japan who have an account with Rakuten Wallet, a crypto exchange subsidiary of
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Block.One, the firm behind EOS, the seventh-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, has launched a new $1.5 million grant program to support the EOSIO development.EOS VC, the Block.One’s venture capital arm, plans to award grants worth $50,000 to each qualified project within its new funding initiative, the EOS VC Grants
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Hyperledger green-lit a Beijing-based firm that serves the Chinese army to join its new certification program, as military blockchain use expands. Source
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Swiss-based Velas, a smart contract platform enabled by Artificial Intuition, has confirmed the official launch of its master nodes staking program. Operating on an AI delegated proof-of-stake consensus (AIDPoS), anyone with the minimum Velas (VLX) coin stake can now participate as a masternode. The launch is part of the project’s
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The Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) has introduced a new program to attract more startups to the country.According to a press release on Oct. 29, the investment promotion agency for the Kingdom of Bahrain has introduced a fast-track setup program for startups looking to do business there.The new initiative
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Bitcoin Cash has been around for quite some time, but lots of individuals are still learning about the innovative technology each and every day. One particular way people can be
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MakerDAO, the decentralized organization that runs on Ethereum, has fixed a critical bug that could have resulted in a complete loss of funds for all Dai users.$50,000 bountyOn Oct. 1 HackerOne user lucash-dev disclosed a report that revealed a critical bug in MakerDAO’s planned Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) upgrade. The
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