Strategic partnership for a trusted digital asset ecosystem
Deutsche Börse, Swisscom and Sygnum enter into strategic partnership to build a trusted digital asset ecosystem. Core elements of new ecosystem to provide issuance, custody, access to liquidity and banking services leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology. The partnership is strengthened through cross-shareholdings in key components of the ecosystem.
Russia: “Cryptoassets are not a threat to financial stability”
President of Russia's Central Bank doesn't want to call cryptocurrencies by their names. Elvira Nabiullina prefers the nickname "Cryptos-Things". Last month, Elvira Nabiullina was...
Iran: in the footsteps of the Venezuelan Petro
Penalties, hardening and bilateral relations between the United States and Iran have been steadily worsening over the last two years. The economic sanctions now...
United States: 80% decrease in criminal activity via Bitcoin
The United States Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) says criminal activity via cryptocurrencies has fallen sharply in the last five years. While bitcoin transactions...
Decentralized digital identity solution: NEO & Swisscom Blockchain
The project that will bring SSI to reality: Swisscom Blockchain presented its Self Sovereign Identity solution at the 2019 NEO DevCon
Malta: New set of regulatory framework for Blockchain
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), the local Financial Services Authority, has recently released three blockchain and cryptocurrency bills. However, their implementation has been...
Bithumb: US$ 35 million revenue for Q1 2018
The mastodon Bithumb victim of a hack last June of $ 17 million sees its revenues approaching close to US$ 300 million with an...
Ukraine: 1st attempt at E-Voting
NEM announced that The Central Election Commission of Ukraine (CEC - Центральна виборча комісія) had made a first experiment concerning the possible uses of its own blockchain for regional...
Three ways Blockchain could contribute to social good
Bitcoin and crypto in general, have seen a lot of bad press. In particular related to extreme energy consumption from mining. Some articles have...
Bitmain: investment of US $ 500 million
The mastodonte Bitmain has announced its intention via a press release to create a blockchain data processing center and a Texas-based bitcoin mining site...