Multiple domestic media outlets are reporting today that China is beginning its first tests for what is set to become the world’s first central bank-issued digital currency, with real-world tests coming in May. Chinese outlets say that the digital yuan, known in China as the DCEP (Digital Currency Electronic Payment), will first see the light…
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The Holocaust Memorial, Berlin, Germany. Reporters have discovered a website build using the SquareSpace platform courted controversy by offering its users Holocaust-themed token in a World War II genocide-themed coin offering. The project appeared to make light of the Holocaust, which saw Nazi German forces kill some 6 million European Jews. In a report from…
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The Maker Foundation, that supports the MakerDAO (MKR) project, is faced with a proposed class-action lawsuit by investors, which may take more than USD 28 million out of it, but the native token appreciated in the past day. Despite the lawsuit news for the Foundation, the 29th coin by market capitalization, MKR, has been on…
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Social media users believe they have captured screenshots of a beta version of China’s much-awaited central bank digital currency (CBDC). (Updated at 10:56 UTC: updates in bold). WeChat users are believed to have gained access to the screenshots on Tuesday this week. Images have since been shared to Twitter in a series of tweets from…
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Decentralized oracle service Chainlink (LINK) is once again seeing strong performance in the market, outperforming all other major cryptoassets over the past week on surging trading volumes across exchanges. With the broader crypto market seeing negative changes over the past seven days the bullish momentum in LINK has now become even more evident as it’s…
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Cross-border payment inefficiencies will be a problem for the post-pandemic economic recovery of certain regions, says Randal K. Quarles, the Chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in a letter to the G20. But when it comes to a possible solution – "global stablecoins" – oversight is required as stated in the recommendations that are…
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A crypto entrepreneur has completed the sale of his personal tokens on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, raising over USD 20,000 to invest in his future business endeavors. Alex Masmej is a startup founder in his 20s who launched a for-profit DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) offering loans against digital items (NFTs) called Rocket, and is a…
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Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by crypto exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. _________________________________________ Bibox Listings: XRP Binance Listings: Solana (SOL) Added new Read more »Pay, Trade,…
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A fragment of the \”We Summon the Darkness\” poster. Source: a screenshot, common-enemy.com Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Exchanges news Binance has launched Bitcoin (BTC) options on the Binance Futures trading platform. Users can purchase BTC…
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Source: iStock/da-kuk The market sentiment, in its fourth week of growth, finally broke the 5 sentscore barrier, but these gains were trimmed on Monday. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins, was below 5 for weeks, and the last time we’ve seen it just above this score –…
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