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Enterprise-grade blockchain platform Nuls and cross-blockchain layer-2 network Aleph have jointly completed testing of a new staking service dubbed staked coin output (SCO), which applies a new type of reward model.Per a press release published on Aug. 13, the new service allows community members to stake tokens to receive
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The Congressional Research Service has released a report that examines, among other things, the potential advantages and disadvantages of pursuing blockchain-based solutions for the energy sector.The Congressional Research Service released their findings in a report on Aug. 9, entitled “Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Energy Sector.”In its report, the research
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The U.S. Federal Reserve Board announced a plan for the Federal Reserve Banks to develop a new round-the-clock real-time payment and settlement service to support faster payments in the U.S. The plan called the FedNow Service, is expected to be available in 2023 or 2024. The development of an innovative faster
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Celsius Network has become the largest crypto-lending company as it completed over $2 billion in digital coin loans with more than $300 million in digital coin deposits in its first year of operation, the company announced.Celsius Network is an industry-leading crypto platform that allows users to get a loan against
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Cryptocurrency exchange CEX.io now operates in 31 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Since launching a U.S. office early in July, the London, U.K.-based firm says its compliance team has been working with regulators to satisfy the required checks and audits and be granted money transmitter licenses in the new states. Following that
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The blockchain-based decentralized internet browser Brave now allows Twitter users to tip content creators with its native Basic Attention Tokens (BAT).Brave discussed the public launch of its token tipping service in an announcement on Aug. 1, wherein users can reportedly specify the amount they wish to tip a given
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The European arm of Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer has launched a bitcoin buying and selling service aimed to be easier to use than spot trading exchanges. BitFlyer Europe announced the news on Tuesday, saying the new trading platform targets
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While post offices sometimes offer banking services, Croatian Post is looking at launching a nationwide cryptocurrency exchange service. For a pilot effort, Croatian Post, or Hrvatska Pošta, is now offering crypto-to-fiat exchanges in three post offices in the coastal
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Lolli Bags Big Partnership, Helps to Drive Bitcoin AdoptionTo most consumers, getting their hands on Bitcoin (BTC) is an arduous task. For those that aren’t so-called “crypto natives”, onboarding onto an exchange that doesn’t carry that same brand name as, say, E*Trade or TD Ameritrade’s Think or Swim may seem
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The cryptocurrency banking startup FairX has announced its shutdown on July 19 in a long (very long) Twitter thread.The Twitter thread posted by the FairX founder Michael Dowling – who was also the former CTO of IBM Blockchain Financial Solutions – revealed the reasons behind this decision in thorough details.
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