China Financial News
26.09 / 22:01
China Reins In Its Belt and Road Program, $1 Trillion Later
China has spent a trillion dollars to expand its influence across Asia, Africa and Latin America through its Belt and Road infrastructure program. Now, Beijing is working on an overhaul of the troubled initiative, according to people involved in policy-making.
26.09 / 21:05
COST
Ethereum
ETH
Bitcoin
Ethereum Merge impacted this sector the most in China
Since graphics cards can no longer be used to mine a cryptocurrency, Ethereum’s long-awaited switch to proof-of-stake has had an even greater impact on the industry.
26.09 / 20:39
26.09 / 19:49
regulation
Pro-centralization Russian president grants citizenship to Edward Snowden: Report
Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly granted citizenship to United States National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, who had been residing in the country since 2013.
26.09 / 18:16
26.09 / 14:13
Blockchain
Digital
Crypto Gaming Developer Animoca Brands Raises $110 Million
The company issued convertible notes in a funding round which values it at around $5.6 billion, it said.
26.09 / 14:09
26.09 / 13:26
Ethereum
Mining
GPU
Drop
China GPU prices drop to new lows after the Ethereum Merge
As the Ethereum network’s move to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism drives adoption from institutional investors, the prices for graphics processing units (GPUs), often used for mining cryptocurrencies like Ether (ETH), have gone down in China.
26.09 / 12:21
Citi
CEO
Platform
Hong Kong Slips Down the Crypto Hub World Rankings - Can it Get Back to Winning Ways?
With cryptocurrency investors increasingly worried about Hong Kong’s regulatory ambiguity on crypto, a number of major crypto-focused businesses and events have decided to move their activities to Singapore and other countries and territories considered as more friendly to their industry, as indicated by local observers.
26.09 / 07:37
CEO
Apple
NetEase
Singapore's Temasek leads a $40 million funding round in a Chinese startup
BEIJING — Singapore state investment firm Temasek is leading a $40 million funding round in a Chinese startup despite a dry spell of deals in the country.
23.09 / 20:27
Blockchain
Ethereum
Digital
Bitcoin
Ethereum Price Prediction - Why ETH Is Ready for the Fightback and You Need to Buckle Up
Disclaimer: The Industry Talk section features insights by crypto industry players and is not a part of the editorial content of Cryptonews.com.
23.09 / 13:25
Blockchain
Adoption
Digital Currency
China accounts for 84% of all blockchain patent applications, but there's a catch
China accounts for 84% of all blockchain applications filed worldwide, according to the latest data shared by the country’s government official.
22.09 / 19:45
markets
Ethereum
Tether
GPU
Reserve
crypto market cap
Total crypto market cap shows strength even after the Merge and Federal Reserve rate hike
Cryptocurrencies have been in a bear trend since mid-August after they failed to break above the $1.2 trillion market capitalization resistance. Even with the current bear trend and a brutal 25% correction, it has not been enough to break the 3-month-long ascending trend.
22.09 / 12:07
21.09 / 23:39
CBDC
Adoption
retail
retail CBDC
Hong Kong Monetary Authority provides update on retail CBDC that may become DeFi onramp
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) published a paper outlining the state of research on its proposed retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC) and plans for its further development. This is the third paper the HKMA has published on the e-HKD, as the proposed CBDC is called.
21.09 / 19:11
Blockchain
Law
regulation
Reserve
Tether says new court order to produce USDT reserve backing is a 'routine discovery matter'
On Wednesday, Tether (USDT), the issuer of the U.S. dollar-pegged USDT stablecoin, said that a recent order by a U.S. judge to provide evidence of USDT backing is part of routine discovery in court cases. The firm said that the decision did not substantiate any of the claims listed in an ongoing lawsuit:
21.09 / 15:29
UPS
FIVE
NVIDIA
Xpeng says its next SUV could become the company's new best-selling car
BEIJING — Chinese electric car start-up Xpeng's newest model will likely sell better than its most popular car to date, according to Brian Gu, the company's president and honorary vice chairman.
21.09 / 13:25
Digital
Could Hong Kong Monetary Authority Launching CBDC Help Digital Yuan Go Global?
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the territory’s de facto central bank, is aiming to launch trials of the e-HKD, its central bank digital currency (CBDC), in the fourth quarter of this year. If successful, the initiative could facilitate the global rollout of the digital yuan, China’s CBDC project which continues its adoption drive across the nation.
21.09 / 06:39
Adoption
NFT
Indian Government
Totality Corp CEO explains why India is still largely untapped for NFTs
Despite ranking as one of the highest adopters of cryptocurrency among emerging markets, the majority of the Indian market is yet to embrace nonfungible tokens (NFTs).
21.09 / 05:57
Citi
Target
businesses
European businesses are rethinking their plans for a 'closed' China
BEIJING — European businesses in China are revaluating their market plans after this year's Covid controls further isolated the country from the rest of the world, said Joerg Wuttke, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.
21.09 / 01:29
Payments
Citizens
regulation
National
hearing
Threat
Hearing: Alternative payments’ threat to national security goes far beyond crypto
Non-crypto alternative payment systems pose a serious threat to United States security, according to testimony presented at a U.S. House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy hearing Tuesday. The alternative payments ecosystem should be seen as a whole, and crypto can enhance national security, speakers said.
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