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The job listing follows comments made by Fed Chair Jerome Powell in recent weeks where he said the central bank needed “better regulatory answers” for global stablecoins. Source
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The monetary revolution will be digitized … but for the vast majority of earthlings likely not anytime soon, according to central bank digital currency (CBDC) research published Wednesday by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).To get there, though, 86% of the central banks surveyed in BIS’ third annual CBDC questionnaire
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An offline mobile map for travelers has raised $50 million in a seed-funding round led by Alameda Research.Announced Monday, the funding will go toward the launch of a multi-currency wallet on Maps.me and enable a decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem on the offline mobile map platform.Cryptocurrency lender Genesis Capital and institutional
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A critical phase in Elrond’s evolution over the coming year will be the launch of Maiar, the first app to debut on the network.An independent report on Elrond’s blockchain network has concluded that the native asset EGLD could be undervalued by 212%. Using a range of metrics to compare the
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New research from the cryptocurrency wallet ZenGo has shed additional light on front-running attacks happening on the Ethereum blockchain. First outlined in “Ethereum Is a Dark Forest,” DeFi investors Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos called attention to a variety of attacks by bots that were roving the Ethereum blockchain in search
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Welcome to Forkast Forecasts 2021. In this series, leaders, innovators and visionaries in blockchain-related fields tell Forkast.News what they see as the most noteworthy developments for this industry in 2020 and their predictions for the year ahead. Alex Tapscott Alex Tapscott is co-founder of the think tank Blockchain Research Institute and co-author
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Square Crypto is bankrolling its 8th designer grant to focus on Bitcoin’s user experience. This marks the Square offshoot’s 20th grant in support of Bitcoin development since it launched in the summer of 2019.Portuguese software designer Patrícia Estevão is Square Crypto’s most recent grant recipient. Per her grant proposal, the
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A Singapore government research department has launched a new program intended to advance commercial applications of blockchain within the city-state.According to a report by The Strait Times on Monday, the S$12 million (US$8.99 million) program from the National Research Foundation (NRF) will support research and development of real-world use cases
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The IOTA Foundation, the non-profit organization behind IOTA, IOTA Tangle and MIOTA, announced they will be joining Austria’s newest Christian Doppler Laboratory, or CDL, as an industrial partner. The first of its kind, the laboratory is housed at the Vienna University of Technology and named the CDL Blockchain Technologies for the
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research has invested $3 million in trading platform 3Commas.“We had offers from other bigger names in the space as well,” founder and CEO Yuriy Sorokin told CryptoX in an interview, “but I love Sam because he talks straight to the point compared to these other Western negotiators.”Sorokin’s
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