Bitwise launches first Aptos staking ETP

Owner of major social media app TikTok, ByteDance, has launched a joint venture with state-owned Chinese media group and ThePaper.cn operator Shanghai Dongfang Newspaper to develop business models that include blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), Bloomberg reported on Dec. 14. TikTok may use blockchain and AI to fight DeepfakesThe joint venture was launched in the capital…

Multi-billion-dollar mining group BHP announced it has completed a $14 million iron ore trade using a blockchain platform. 1751 Total views 55 Total shares The world’s largest mining company BHP Group announced today that it completed a $14 million iron ore trade using a blockchain platform developed by the Canada-based technology company MineHub Technologies. The transaction…

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Former JPMorgan executive Blythe Masters predicts “tens if not hundreds” of blockchain projects will soon increase the efficiency of commodity markets, Bloomberg reports Tuesday, Oct. 9.Masters, who since leaving the investment banking giant has become CEO of her own software outfit Digital Asset Holdings, said commodity supply chains would greatly benefit from the advent of…

AZ Alkmaar is set to become the first professional football club in the Netherlands to pay player salaries in Bitcoin. AZ Alkmaar is set to become the first professional football club in the Netherlands to pay player salaries in Bitcoin (BTC).In a statement posted on the club website on Thursday, the Eredivisie side, which finished…

Climate change has become one of the most pressing issues in the modern world with mounting pressure on companies to develop and implement climate strategies. Politicians around the globe have also been actively involved, with several nations pledging to go carbon-neutral in the next couple of decades.Amid all the initiatives and conferences led by politicians…

March started off on a low due to a resurrection of inflationary fears. On March 7, hawkish comments from United States Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell amplified the market’s expectation of a 50-basis point hike in the upcoming policy rate meeting on March 22 to March 23. On March 8, the U.S. government’s $1 billion Bitcoin…

Blockchain companies in Malta are reportedly struggling with opening bank accounts, local news outlet the Times of Malta reported on Mar. 1.The Times of Malta allegedly contacted a number of legal firms and financial companies, who confirmed that banks were declining their applications to open bank accounts, saying that it was beyond their “risk appetite.”…

Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, one of the world’s richest people, likes blockchain but thinks that applying it to money is odd.“Someone needs to control currencies”In a Fortune interview on Sept. 17, Schwarzman expressed his negative stance to Bitcoin, explaining that building money using blockchain technology is “pretty odd” and he does not have much interest…