Coinbase and Circle joined forces to offer 4.75% APY for USDC holders. This partnership is expected to attract users to Coinbase’s products, while also boosting the usage of USDC.
WalletConnect - more like traditional web2 infrastructure than a blockchain. Season 1 of the airdrop will distribute 50 million $WCT tokens, but the tokens won't be transferable until 2025 due to ongoing tests for the WalletConnect network.
Polymarket correctly predicted the results of the United States elections. Can the blockchain information market be as accurate in predicting other presidential elections around the globe?
With Solana’s staking market booming, centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase are reaping the rewards, leveraging their position to maximize staking and trading revenues.
Gensler declared war on "fraudsters" and "hucklers" — and took celebrities to task when they promoted little-known coins to their millions of followers, without disclosing they had been paid to do so.
Bill to establish strategic Bitcoin reserve introduced in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies.
Trump administration considers CFTC to lead digital asset regulation.
Uniswap launches $15M bug bounty for V4 core contract vulnerabilities.
Kraken to close NFT marketplace.
US court rules Tornado Cash sanctions unlawful.
Morocco to lift 2017 crypto
Riding the memecoin wave to scam inexperienced and busy users, hackers have built “poisoned” repositories of trading bots, from which ChatGTP eventually trained.
For all the key details of new Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, stablecoins, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' weekly has you covered.
CBDC Updates
'Urgency' Required in Digital Euro Rollout
Happy Sunday, Observers!
Good things come to those who wait, and we waited.
Bitcoin was $500 short from $100,000 after the news that the world’s leading anti-crypto crusader, SEC’s chair Gary Gensler, is leaving its post.
Now that we are throwing precautions out the window, wild things
The two-hour downtime was due to a bug in the transaction scheduling logic, which led to validators crashing. The incident resulted in a drop in SUI's price and raised doubts about the network’s ability to compete with Solana.
The zero-knowledge privacy application is gaining momentum on Farcaster, which has been grappling with a 96% decline in monthly revenue since February.
Blockchain and NFTs brought digital art to the fore and caused a systemic shift in its markets. While NFTs are more commonly deployed for other use cases today, artists are using blockchain to explore new art forms, creating exciting pieces never before possible.
Summer has yet to start in Europe, but temperatures are already going up the roof. Last week's European Parliament elections turned the tables on EU politics, even if not as drastically as expected.
French President Emmanuel Macron called for snap elections following his party's defeat to
ECB President Christine Lagarde casts doubt on a digital euro by 2027 — as China silently removes the 'pilot version' markings from its e-CNY application
Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla were excluded from the tax evasion case but remain included in the money-laundering charges. Gambaryan, the only present defendant, is reportedly being held in difficult conditions.
With Solana’s staking market booming, centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase are reaping the rewards, leveraging their position to maximize staking and trading revenues.
Gensler declared war on "fraudsters" and "hucklers" — and took celebrities to task when they promoted little-known coins to their millions of followers, without disclosing they had been paid to do so.
Bill to establish strategic Bitcoin reserve introduced in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies.
Trump administration considers CFTC to lead digital asset regulation.
Uniswap launches $15M bug bounty for V4 core contract vulnerabilities.
Kraken to close NFT marketplace.
US court rules Tornado Cash sanctions unlawful.
Morocco to lift 2017 crypto
Riding the memecoin wave to scam inexperienced and busy users, hackers have built “poisoned” repositories of trading bots, from which ChatGTP eventually trained.
For all the key details of new Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, stablecoins, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' weekly has you covered.
CBDC Updates
'Urgency' Required in Digital Euro Rollout
Happy Sunday, Observers!
Good things come to those who wait, and we waited.
Bitcoin was $500 short from $100,000 after the news that the world’s leading anti-crypto crusader, SEC’s chair Gary Gensler, is leaving its post.
Now that we are throwing precautions out the window, wild things
The two-hour downtime was due to a bug in the transaction scheduling logic, which led to validators crashing. The incident resulted in a drop in SUI's price and raised doubts about the network’s ability to compete with Solana.
