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CBDCs will have to be internationally interoperable to become globally adopted, says a Hong Kong University expert. 2402 Total views 27 Total shares International interoperability will become the cornerstone of the CBDC race as it goes forward, according to Douglas Arner, director at Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong. Speaking…

The figure is more than double recorded in the first half of 2022 and a massive 1,800% increase from the same period in 2020, according to Dunamu. 304 Total views 15 Total shares South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has been targeted by hackers on more than 159,000 occasions in the first half of 2023, according

Bitcoin (BTC) came back to life later on July 9 after a whale-induced price dip failed to hold the market down for much more than 24 hours.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin price action returns $33,000 supportData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD jumping 2% in an hour on Friday, hitting local highs…

Recently Hiromi Yamaoka, the former head of payments and settlements at the Bank of Japan, said that Facebook’s Libra has forced central banks to research and consider issuing central bank digital currencies (CBDC). Currently China is leading the race in developing a CBDC but it appears that other nations are now attempting to play catch…

The Waves-backed project will share a portion of protocol fees with NSBT holders. 1544 Total views 11 Total shares The Neutrino Protocol, a project building algorithmic cross-platform stablecoins, announced Tuesday the launch of staking rewards for its governance and utility token, the Neutrino System Base Token (NSBT).Neutrino uses an innovative mix of collateral backing and…

Filecoin revs up test net, hosting a competition prior to its mainnet unveiling. 486 Total views 13 Total shares Blockchain-based decentralized data storage solution Filecoin unveiled its testnet recently, complete with a competition. In an act of network experimentation, Filecoin's test network will host a three week mining contest worldwide, with 4 million of the project's…

XMRWallet.com, an open-source, client-side Monero wallet provider, has released a new web-based wallet for the Tor web browser, the company announced in a Reddit post on Aug. 28. The post notes that there had been a high demand for such a wallet from XMR users. Now they can send and receive the private and untraceable cryptocurrency…

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Central bank digital currencies — digital currencies backed by a central bank — have received renewed interest with the United States President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets. Proponents of CBDCs argue that widespread adoption will promote financial inclusion, expand public access to safe money, improve the efficiency of payments…