The United States-based crypto industry advocacy group the Blockchain Association has said it will stand with Ripple Labs amid its ongoing legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), claiming the case could be very important for the future of the industry. United States-based crypto advocacy group Blockchain Association has come out in support...Continue Reading

The company changed its name on Oct. 28, 2021, reflecting growing ambitions to transcend beyond social media and into Web3 and the Metaverse. It’s been just over a year since social media giant Facebook rebranded as Meta at the Facebook Connect conference on Oct. 28, 2021. The name change reflected the company’s growing ambitions to...Continue Reading

From one Candian coffee shop to a worldwide network of nearly 39,000, crypto ATMs have turned nine years old and are only expected to continue growing. On Oct. 29, 2013, a coffee shop in downtown Vancouver, Canada opened what is understood to be the world’s first publicly available Bitcoin (BTC) automatic teller machine (ATM) operated...Continue Reading

Cash and hawala remain the “predominant methods of terror financing,” according to a UN official, however, “advanced” terror organizations are turning to cryptocurrencies. Terrorist groups who have been excluded from the “formal financial system” have turned to crypto to fund their heinous activities, according to Svetlana Martynova, the Countering Financing of Terrorism Coordinator at the...Continue Reading

The pact between the two nations’ financial technology associations will see cooperation on technology, including blockchain, to power their respective financial industries. The financial technology associations for Thailand and Hungary have signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support the introduction of blockchain technology to their respective financial sectors. The MOU, signed by the...Continue Reading

DOGE price rallied 98.5% in the last seven days following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, pushing the crypto into the eighth position in global crypto rankings. Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has tipped 62% of Dogecoin (DOGE) investors into profit, amid speculation that Musk’s Twitter-buy will be positive for the meme...Continue Reading

After last year’s hype over nonfungible tokens, people have been speculating about their potential. It created a bubble of unfounded expectations. Over the last year, venture capitalists poured more than $4.6 billion into infrastructure and projects related to nonfungible tokens (NFTs). This infrastructure now needs users. They will come when people understand that they can apply...Continue Reading