Day: 26 April 2023

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published a white paper discussing the potential benefits of blockchain technology in the global fight against climate change. The paper highlighted the four key areas where blockchain could be particularly valuable to the experts and enthusiasts working on climate change.  We've just published a World ...

The United Kingdom has announced an initial investment of £100 million ($124.8 million) to create a joint task force between the government and industry focused on artificial intelligence (AI) development.  The task force's objective is to create safe and reliable foundation models that will secure the UK's sovereign capabilities and ...

On April 26, 2023, Austrian crypto company Bitpanda announced its partnership with Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien (RLB NÖ-Wien), an Austrian cooperative banking firm, to offer cryptocurrency investment services to the bank's customers.  RLB NÖ-Wien will leverage Bitpanda's Investment as a Service (IaaS) offering to provide a range of cryptocurrency services, including exchange-traded ...

The free-to-play online game Storybook Brawl has announced that it will be shutting down its servers on May 1, 2023. The developers stated this via the game's official Twitter handle. They thanked the game’s fans for their support and added that they have 'exhausted all available options' to ensure that ...

Source: Coinmarketcap   In the past few days, the price of XRP, Ripple's native token, has experienced significant fluctuations, much like other cryptocurrencies. In the last 24 hours, XRP has dropped by 2% and is currently trading at $0.4589. This decline is part of a broader market correction that affected ...

On April 25, 2023, the New York Federal Reserve published a revised edition of the guidelines for its reverse repurchase agreements (RRP) program that could potentially limit stablecoin issuer Circle's ability to participate in the program. The changes could impact counterparties looking to use the Fed's money market balancer, and ...

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, has stated that the value of stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) has been declining due to the crackdown by US regulators on cryptocurrencies. Allaire made this comment during an interview with Bloomberg TV.  During the interview, Allaire stated that there is "a huge amount of concern globally ...

Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States, has been accused of hypocrisy by the cryptocurrency community after a video of a lecture he gave at MIT in 2018 surfaced online on April 26, 2023.  During the "Blockchain and Money" class, Gensler suggested ...