The Prime Minister of Thailand was sworn in on Tuesday along with his cabinet. During the election his Pheu Thai party’s signature policy was a 10,000 baht payout to citizens via a new blockchain platform. So now comes the logistical challenge of actually keeping that promise.
The payments giant has been accepting USDC payments on Ethereum from card-issuer Crypto.com in Australia since 2021, and will now use the cheaper Solana network to settle cross-border transactions with Merchant Acquirers, Worldpay and Nuvei, which collect payments on behalf of global retailers.
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.
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.
The Prime Minister of Thailand was sworn in on Tuesday along with his cabinet. During the election his Pheu Thai party’s signature policy was a 10,000 baht payout to citizens via a new blockchain platform. So now comes the logistical challenge of actually keeping that promise.
The payments giant has been accepting USDC payments on Ethereum from card-issuer Crypto.com in Australia since 2021, and will now use the cheaper Solana network to settle cross-border transactions with Merchant Acquirers, Worldpay and Nuvei, which collect payments on behalf of global retailers.
Swift, which has long been international banking’s preferred cross-border payments messaging system of choice, has published the results of an investigation into connecting traditional banks to the myriad of blockchain choices in order to leverage tokenized assets.
Google Cloud enters a strategic partnership with the government of El Salvador and will help to digitalize the country amid its bond rally and growing investor interest.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is gearing up for the territory’s October FinTech week with a 12-month roadmap to promote adoption, and updates on CBDC and tokenized bonds projects.
Institutional crypto exchange EDX Markets adds Anchorage Digital as its clearinghouse custody provider, but fears of Wall Street swallowing crypto whole are premature.
The stablecoin issuer has reaffirmed its commitment to the Swiss city of Lugano’s Plan ₿ initiative, by hosting and managing a validator node on the project’s 3Achain blockchain.
