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Fully-electric Volvo XC40 Recharge

Volvo will use blockchain tech to avoid unethical cobalt

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Volvo plans to adopt blockchain to track the genesis of cobalt it uses in its batteries to bypass stocks dug by children and under immoral circumstances. Head of Procurement at the corporation Martina Buchhauser told that they're regularly bound to a civilised supply chain for their raw materials...

Tokenized securities

Asian financials group sets tokenized securities’ roadmap

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Asia’s largest asset managers and financial services corporations have formed a representing group, which has published a document analysing the future of tokenized securities as a part of the average institutional toolkit, as well as calling on extra regulatory clarity to open the path....

Microsoft Ignite conference

Microsoft presents enterprise token mining platform

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Marley Gray, a chief engineer at ‌Microsoft, says that the corporation aims to make the construction of crypto tokens in the cloud as simple as using a printer. Gray mentioned this after the announcement of the Azure Blockchain Tokens platform on Monday. Gray is sure that just like printers were...

Wright's trial

Trial resumes. Wright breaks Bitcoin settlement agreement

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Craig Wright, an Australian technologist, stated that he can’t pay the amount that was mentioned in the agreement contracted with the Kleiman estate. As to a court paper listed in the Southern District of Florida October 30, Wright broke the contract arrangement according to which he must abandon...

Telegram Open Network wallet

Despite SEC lawsuit, Telegram released test crypto wallet

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Telegram, a popular messenger which decided to turn a blockchain corporation, has issued a test version of a desktop crypto wallet for its “gram” token. From the official website users of Windows, Mac OS and Linux can download the wallet and get their keys on TON testnet. The wallet...

Binance exchange

Binance is going to open an office in Beijing

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Binance decided to start an office in Beijing after Xi Jinping said he wants the country to become the number one in the blockchain sphere. This new outpost is going to join the other one that's in Shanghai. Actually, the corporation didn’t announce what this office plans to do and when exactly...

Ripple invests in Keyless

Ripple invests in biometric cybersecurity startup

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Keyless, a startup which is focused on cybersecurity progress, has gathered over $2 million investments to create new security software that gives info about private keys of users with encrypted biometric data. This organisation intends to be preeminent in the world to mix defended multi-party...

The People’s Bank of China

China will accredit digital payments and blockchain products

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The People’s Bank of China (Central bank) is going to certify eleven types of business technology hardware and software that are mostly used for blockchain and digital payment services with new Chinese accreditation system known as the Certification of Fintech Products. The bank published the...

Paxos' permission

Paxos got a green light to settle assets on a blockchain

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Paxos Trust Co., a blockchain firm that works with economic organisations, received permission to settle stock trades in real-time, which can become a real menace to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s half-century investment market dominance. The US Securities and Exchange Commission...

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange

Chinese official began pushing blockchain after Xi’s speech

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On October 24 Xi Jinping, president of China, spoke about the significance of using blockchain technology and encouraged everyone in China to make the country leading in this sphere. After this speech, a senior Chinese foreign-exchange governing official called for “special attention” to be...

President of China

Xi Jinping wants China to be a leader in the blockchain

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President of China Xi Jinping said that the communist party of his country should consider blockchain as a centre technology for essential innovative inventions, also it should perpetrate to stimulating the improvement of this technology. This announcement was made during the meeting with the...

Stacks on Binance

Stacks tokens are available on Binance and Hashkey Pro

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It is the first time when Stacks tokens are being listed on a non-US platform. Blockstack PBC started a partnership with Binance and Hashkey Pro exchange for the listing of STX token. Hashkey Pro is a digital asset exchange for institutional investors, which is based in Hong Kong, and Binance is...

Zuckerberg during hearings over Libra

How it was: Congress hearings over Libra cryptocurrency

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Hearings of Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday lasted six hours and supposed to be over Libra currency, but very soon they converted into a broad indictment of Facebook. Maxine Waters, the committee chairwoman said at the beginning of the hearings that she has studied numerous difficulties that the...

Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg says Libra won’t launch until the US approves it

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The CEO of Facebook is going to protect the Libra project before a congressional committee on October 23. He states that coin won’t issue until the US government confirms the project. Zuckerberg made remarks before the hearing in the House Financial Services Committee, where he mentions that the...

Opera browser adds BTC payments

Opera browser adds BTC payments to Android version

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Opera company announced that Bitcoin e-commerce and TRON integration were added to the browser’s Android version. The freshly added features will let Android users make direct payments from the implemented wallet and efficiently use the decentralized application on the Tron blockchain. As...

The Group of 20 nations

G20 says stablecoin regulations are needed to control risks

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During the meeting of the Group of 20 nations in Osaka, major economies said that stablecoins should be managed to have control over the risks that can arise before any digital currency issues. Haruhiko Kuroda head of Japan’s Bank said during the briefing: “We must consider appropriate...

Facebook Libra

Facebook warns Washington: Beijing will win if Libra fails

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Facebook Inc. warns Washington that if the corporation’s plans for launching a cryptocurrency fail, it will be a huge win for China. David Marcus said in an interview that China is going ahead and trying to create a digital payment system with a worldwide reach and, at the same time, the US is...

Banque de France

The world needs to make standards for crypto regulations

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A banker from a French Central Bank says that the world needs a regulatory framework for crypto assets. Denis Beau, an executive chief of Banque De France said during the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in London that there is a necessity for overall consistency to prevent...

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