Tools of Humanity delays unlock of 80% of WDL tokens

London-headquartered multinational banking and financial services firm Standard Chartered has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tencent-backed Chinese fintech firm Linklogis. The agreement, reported by financial technology news site Finextra on Feb. 12, will allow Standard Chartered to use Linklogis’ blockchain-powered supply chain financing platform.Linklogis, based in Shenzhen, China, is a business to business…

Binance exchange will include all future businesses and products into the scope of each quarterly burn of its native token Binance Coin (BNB).Decision made based on community feedbackAccording to a blog post on Sept. 12, Binance has decided to include all its products into quarterly BNB burns in accordance with community feedback.The new BNB burning…

Kings of Leon returns after a four-year break with an exclusive album NFT sale. 1555 Total views 10 Total shares American rock band Kings of Leon is the latest music project to jump on the bandwagon on the non-fungible token, or NFT, industry.After a four-year break, including a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the…

“Money should not be programmable by a central authority,” argues Republican Representative Warren Davidson. 150 Total views 2 Total shares United States Republican Representative Warren Davidson has spoken out against Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), urging Congress to ban them and criminalize its development.In a July 23 Twitter post, Congressman Davidson accused the Federal Reserve…

The decentralized trading blockchain Vega Protocol says it expects its alpha mainnet chain to stop within the next three months. 

The New York county clerk office employee allegedly used over 40 devices to mine crypto unlawfully. An information technology operations supervisor at the Suffolk County clerk’s office in New York, Christopher Naples allegedly harnessed his position to place crypto mining equipment in various spots at the Riverhead Center in the New York county in which…

Joseph Lubin’s firm ConsenSys is entering the compliance market with the launch of a service for DeFi projects on the Ethereum network. 1204 Total views 34 Total shares Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin’s firm ConsenSys is releasing a compliance service to keep an eye out on transactions conducted by DeFi companies and exchanges trading tokens issued…

Former presidential candidate and known cryptocurrency proponent Andrew Yang has announced a new initiative to protect privacy online.After ending his presidential bid last month, Yang has announced the creation of new nonprofit organization called Humanity Forward. It aims to “rewrite the rules” of economy and society with a focus on data privacy.Announcing the news in…

The U.S. dollar index (DXY) retreated broadly from its prevailing bull run in the past two weeks, dropping by up to 3.20% after hitting its two-decade high of 105.Overvaluation risks grip dollar marketDollar's correction in the last two weeks preceded twelve months of relentless buying. To recap, the greenback's weight against the basket of top…