Blockchain & Crypto Archives - Page 66 of 298

French Central Bank Completes CBDC Pilot on Private Blockchain

January 20, 2021

France’s central bank announced on Tuesday that it has successfully completed a pilot transaction with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) last month that has captured the full settlement cycle. Banque de...

AC Milan To Launch $ACM Fan Token

January 19, 2021

AC Milan to launch $ACM fan token. Italian football giants AC Milan has announced a collaboration with fintech blockchain company Chiliz, to launch an $ACM Fan Token on the fan engagement and rewards platform...

Bitcoin ETP To Be Launched On Swiss Stock Exchange By CoinShares

January 19, 2021

Bitcoin ETP to be launched on Swiss Stock Exchange by CoinShares. According to a Bloomberg report, CoinShares announced Monday that it will be launching an exchange-traded bitcoin product (ETP) on Swiss stock...

Ex Canada Prime Minister Sees Bitcoin As Potential Future Currency Reserve

January 19, 2021

Ex Canada Prime Minister sees bitcoin as potential future currency reserve. Economist and the former prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper shared that bitcoin could possibly be seen as a reserve currency. ...

Europe’s Largest Crypto Asset Manager Launches Bitcoin ETP on SIX

January 19, 2021

Europe’s biggest digital asset management firm, CoinShares announced today that the company has launched a new Bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) on the Swiss Stock Exchange, SIX. The crypto asset manager ...

Ripple To Appoint Director Of Engineering For RippleX Platform

January 18, 2021

Ripple to appoint director of engineering for RippleX platform. The firm shared a job posting seeking for an engineer to expand the infrastructure that supports technologies such as XRPL as well as other deve...

Analyst Predict Bitcoin Business To Rake PayPal $2 Billion In Revenue

January 18, 2021

Analyst predict bitcoin business to rake PayPal $2 billion in revenue. Don Dolev, analyst of Mizuho Securities predicted that Paypal will rake in as much as $2 billion in revenue from its bitcoin business by ...

Russian Crypto Exchange Livecoin Shuts Services after Hack

January 18, 2021

Hacked Russian cryptocurrency exchange, Livecoin has announced that it is going to shut its services and requested its clients to proceed with fund withdrawals. Livecoin servers were compromised last month, ...

IMF Study Finds Only 40 Central Banks Can Issue CBDC Legally

January 17, 2021

IMF study finds only 40 central banks can issue CBDC legally. On Thursday, the IMF published a blog post on their exploration on whether or not digital money is legally real money. Catalina Margulis, a consu...

MetLife Investment Predicts CBDC Not A Passing Fad

January 17, 2021

MetLife Investment predicts CBDC not a 'passing fad. On January 8, institutional investor MetLife Investment Management (MIM) disclosed a blockchain primer explaining the forthcoming role of blockchain-based ...