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23.05 / 13:29

business Ripple XRP security WEF 2022: Ripple CEO reveals he visited SEC several times before lawsuit struck

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of cross-border payments company Ripple, spoke during a panel discussion Monday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

20.05 / 19:15

Target Rate Cut China’s Central Bank Makes Unexpected Rate Cut as Growth Crumbles

SINGAPORE—China’s central bank cut a key interest rate while keeping another unchanged, an unexpected policy shift that economists said would likely help the country’s moribund housing market but bring only limited relief to its struggling economy.

20.05 / 04:33

Provident Williams CEO Tesla NOT Chinese electric car start-up Nio says supply chain disruption, not demand, is their biggest problem

BEIJING — Nio's biggest challenge right now is making sure that supply chains are stable, CEO William Li told CNBC.

19.05 / 19:37

Blockchain coinbase Gaming Chainalysis Terra Honeypot Scam, Blocked Bored Ape NFT Sale, FTX Offers Stocks + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.

19.05 / 11:47

regulation Terra tax evasion South Korean watchdog reportedly fines Terraform Labs $78M for tax evasion

Terraform Labs and co-founder Do Kwon continue to attract more legal trouble in the wake of the collapse of the Terra ecosystem. After early reports of a possible congressional hearing and an investigation from 'Grim Reapers' financial crimes unit, the crypto firm has now come under the radar of the national tax agency.

19.05 / 10:31

cryptocurrency CryptoExplainer Cross-border Costs South Africa Eyes Digital Rand To Cut High Cross-Border Payment Costs

South African central bank eyes digital rand to cut cross-border payment costs

18.05 / 19:41

Altcoins Investing Legal Terra Legal Storm Brewing for Terra's Do Kwon & Co as ‘Hundreds’ of Investors Ready Complaints

Another headache appears to be incoming for Do Kwon (full name Kwon Do-hyeong) and his company Terraform Labs – with investors in South Korea ready to wage a legal battle against the CEO.

18.05 / 18:53

cryptocurrency NFT NFTS BinaryX Unveils CyberArena - A New P2E Experience

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18.05 / 18:53

cryptocurrency DAO CRYPTONEWS DoraHacks Raises USD 20M Led by FTX Ventures and Liberty City Ventures To Scale Its Global Web3 Startup Platform

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18.05 / 12:43

Digital Racing Align Aventis to Become Asia's 1st Graduate School to Enter Metaverse

Aventis Graduate School unveiled its metaverse roadmap and become Asia's first graduate school to enter the metaverse.

18.05 / 12:43

Provident Digital Mobile Future E-HKD’s Development in Hong Kong- The Future Way of Currency?

A study shows that 90% of surveyed central banks worldwide are exploring the future issuance of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Blockchain.News interviewed industry experts to find out the outlook of Hong Kong’s digital currency and its potential adoption.

18.05 / 11:03

Digital CEO Platform Horizon to expand into digital assets on Sagard NewGen buy out

Horizon will also seek to better serve clients through new trading services, such as DMA and DSA order routing, enhancing its capabilities to handle high-volume order flows from clients to the market. The firm also intends to grow its current hubs in Europe, the Middle East and Asia and expand into new geographies.

17.05 / 16:51

Tether stablecoins Cryptoverse: Stablecoins wend wobbly way into the unknown

Tether, USDC and others lost their prized pegs to the dollar last week in a bout of market mayhem that shook faith in these coins that were designed to sidestep crypto volatility. But was it an isolated outburst, or are they losing their soul? Major stablecoins swung between roughly $0.95 and $1.02 last week, according to data provider Coinmarketcap, after having maintained their peg to within a cent previously in 2022.

17.05 / 12:25

Stablecoin Altcoins regulation Terra hearing politician Financial South Korean Financial Regulators Begin Terra Probes, Politician Calls for Kwon to Face Parliamentary Hearing

The Terraform Labs mastermind Do Kwon (real name Kwon Do-hyeong) could be facing trouble from financial and law enforcement authorities in South Korea and Singapore as a torrid month for the Terra (LUNA) platform just keeps getting worse.

17.05 / 11:03

cryptocurrency CryptoExplainer Stablecoins Looking Distinctly Dicey, Wend Wobbly Way Into The Unknown

Cryptoverse: Stablecoins wend wobbly way into the unknown

17.05 / 10:45

cryptocurrency CryptoExplainer TerraUSD reserves TerraUSD Backer Spent Reserves Trying To Salvage Dollar Peg; Regulators Eye Crypto

Backer of stricken TerraUSD says spent reserves trying to salvage dollar peg

16.05 / 08:09

Blockchain Stablecoin Terra Usd Terra NOT Vitalik: Terra should protect the smallholders, not the whales

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin thinks that the beleaguered Terra (LUNA) project should prioritize small hodlers as part of any proposed reimbursement plan.

13.05 / 14:15

Blockchain Ethereum CEO Platform Fine World's 1st Fine-Dining NFT Concept Auction to Conduct in May

The world’s first fine-dining non-fungible token (NFT) concept has announced its NFT dining auction schedules.

13.05 / 07:47

business Blockchain Adoption education TZ APAC’s Colin Miles: Blockchain will be taught in classrooms in 3-5 years

Colin Miles, the newly-appointed CEO of TZ APAC expects blockchain and web 3.0 curricula to start becoming an integral part of secondary and tertiary education within the next three to five years.

13.05 / 03:27

Sport Football UK marketing Sky News Deal Chelsea Secures First Crypto Shirt Sponsor in USD 24M Deal

Shortly after the UK seized the club from sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and a group of investors paid GBP 2.5bn (USD 3.1bn) for his shares, Chelsea FC is teaming up with digital asset investing platform WhaleFin under a shirt sponsorship deal for the next season.

12.05 / 17:47

Blockchain security Funding data Chainalysis announces $170M funding round, platform now valued at $8.6 billion

Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics provider, has announced its $170 million Series F funding round. The fresh funding succeeded its $100 million raise back in June 2021 and more than doubly exceeded its valuation of $4.2 billion at the same time.

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