Rumors that the bank also plans to block payments used to buy cigarettes, extreme sports equipment, and foreign trips to clinics offering Brazilian butt-lifts and/or euthanasia have so far not been confirmed.
The search giant’s cloud division has added analytics support for 11 additional blockchains, meaning users can now perform queries on chains from Avalanche to Zcash.
The planet Earth is expecting a deposit from space later today, as the robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is due to drop a capsule of soil from the Bennu asteroid over the Utah desert. Despite sounding like an Egyptian dinosaur, the delivery is the culmination of a seven-year NASA mission which may
The stablecoin issuer bought an undisclosed stake in Northern Data Group, which it claims is “set to become the biggest independent AI player in Europe.”
Institutional bank ANZ built on Swift’s Chainlink experiment with a simulated cross-chain purchase of a tokenized asset using its own Australian dollar stablecoin.
Mexican senators were presented supposed evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation this week, in the form of two shrunken 'alien' mummies. Sports journalist turned UFO enthusiast, Jaime Maussan addressed the senate in a bid to have Mexico be the first country to acknowledge the presence of aliens on Earth.
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The German banking giant has announced a global partnership for custody and tokenization services with Swiss infrastructure specialist Taurus. But a discussion on X has questioned whether this is a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Standard Chartered’s digital asset subsidiary has had a busy week, announcing that it will provide institutional support and custody to the Polkadot blockchain, and launching its custodial solutions into the Singapore market for the first time.
