Manny Pacquiao’s PAC token is set to be listed through an IEO on GCOX on Nov. 12, allowing fans exclusive access to the boxing star. Boxing legend and Phillipino politician Manny Pacquiao’s PAC token will become available for purchase on the Singapore-based GCOX crypto exchange through an initial exchange offering on Nov. 12, according to…
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Chinese regulator State Administration of Foreign Exchange expanded its blockchain cross-border financing pilot program. Chinese regulator State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) expanded its blockchain cross-border financing pilot program. Local news outlet GlobalTimes reported on Nov. 11 that the system now covers 19 provinces and cities, up from nine. The development is unsurprising given that…
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Canadian blockchain research firm Blockchain Venture Capital Inc. has launched CUSD stablecoin that is backed 1:1 to the U.S. dollar. Canadian blockchain research firm Blockchain Venture Capital Inc. (BVCI) has officially launched a United States dollar-pegged stablecoin, the CUSD, according to a press release published on Nov. 11. The new USD-anchored stablecoin comes four months…
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Singapore’s central bank and state investment firm have created a prototype multi-currency blockchain-based payments network together with JPMorgan. Singapore’s central bank and state investment firm have created a prototype multi-currency blockchain-based payments network together with JPMorgan. A Nov. 11 report from The Business Times indicates that the prototype is designed to enable payments denominated in…
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Russia plans new law that would allow police to confiscate BTC, and China scraps plan to ban cryptocurrency mining. Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week…
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From Cointelegraph Japan: This week’s selected cryptocurrency and blockchain news from Japan. In this week’s selected cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related news from Cointelegraph Japan, the Japanese financial regulator solidifies its policy of banning trusts that invest in crypto, more than 20 companies launch a consortium that aims to raise funds with security tokens, and Coincheck starts…
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Turkey’s president asks for completed testing of the digital lira by the end of 2020 as local fraudsters rake in 600 BTC among crypto news from Turkey this week. In this week’s selected cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related news from Cointelegraph Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan directed the government to finish testing a national central bank digital…
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Cointelegraph auf Deutsch presents a weekly digest of selected cryptocurrency and blockchain-related developments from the German-speaking world. The past week has marked a number of crypto- and blockchain-related developments in the German-speaking world. Malta Enterprise partnered with Deutsche Telekom’s IT service subsidiary to offer its blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) marketplace, French IT company Atos and Austrian startup…
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Russian ICO startup Universa will issue and manage Tunisia’s central bank digital currency. Tunisia has become the first country to start moving its national currency to a blockchain platform. Russian ICO startup Universa will help issue and manage Tunisia’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), reported Russian news agency Tass on Nov. 7. E-dinar expected to…
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Emerging technologies have the potential to impact climate change and shift society’s makeup to be more sustainable and accessible to all. The world is slowly, but very surely, turning its attention to climate change, and to the human activities that are having the largest impact. The recent U.N. General Assembly on Climate Change broached these topics in…
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