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12.04 / 12:27

Payments regulation coinbase Indian Indian crypto exchanges’ volume plunges as 30% tax goes into effect

Fresh data on Indian crypto exchanges’ trading volume reveals a significant decline in trading practices among Indians just ten days after the tax rule implementation. India’s new 30% crypto tax rule came into effect on April 1, despite many stakeholders and exchange operators warning against its ill effects.

11.04 / 14:49

Dogecoin Twitter Payments NOT Musk Not Joining Twitter’s Board But Wants 'Significant Improvements', Teases DOGE Payments Integration

Shortly after purchasing a 9.2% stake in Twitter, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has announced that he is hoping to pave the way for “significant improvements” to the social media platform “in the coming months,” and possibly for the integration of dogecoin (DOGE) payments for premium services.

11.04 / 11:09

Payments regulation coinbase Support regulatory Coinbase Halts India's UPI Support After Regulatory Uncertainty

Major crypto exchange Coinbase has halted support for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India's payment system, following a statement by the country watchdog that claimed it was not aware of "any crypto exchange using UPI."

08.04 / 13:55

cryptocurrency Adoption Payments Survey ecommerce Surging Consumer Interest in Crypto is Accelerating eCommerce Adoption - Survey

The global adoption of cryptoassets for eCommerce is gaining speed -- as 40% of 18-35-year-olds plan to pay for goods and/or services with crypto in 2022, according to a recent report released by global payments provider Checkout.com.

08.04 / 12:29

cryptocurrency Adoption Payments MasterCard Crypto-Powered Ukrainian Charity Launches Debit Card for War Victims

The crypto community-backed charitable venture that earlier received a USD 2.5m fund boost from the Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has announced it has launched a charity crypto debit card that will allow Ukrainian users to access funds and humanitarian aid.

08.04 / 08:15

business Adoption Payments Lightning Network Shopify Lightning to strike Shopify merchants with addition of BTC payments

Chicago-based payment app Strike has integrated with global e-commerce giant Shopify so merchants can accept Bitcoin payments via the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

07.04 / 17:04

Adoption Payments Lightning Network Bitcoin Cash App Launches ‘Paid in Bitcoin’ Function, Adds Lightning Transfers

Cash App, the mobile payments app developed by the Jack Dorsey-led payments firm Block, Inc., announced three new bitcoin functions today, including a new way to receive bitcoin (BTC) payments via the Lightning Network.

06.04 / 18:39

Blockchain Stablecoin Payments Cross-border Forex exchange layer demonstrates the possibility of DeFi cross-border payment use case

Remittance payments are at an all-time high due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To paint the picture, Mexico’s payments alone have amounted to more than $50 billion, surpassing all other sources of foreign income. This value represents only a subset of the estimated $540 billion reported in 2021.

04.04 / 20:11

Stablecoin Payments regulation Framework regulatory UK government moves forward with regulatory framework on stablecoins for payments

The United Kingdom's Economic and Finance Ministry has said it intends to amend its existing regulatory framework to incorporate stablecoins used as a means of payment.

19.03 / 02:51

Payments Exchange exchanges ChangeNOW: The Easy Way to Buy ApeCoin (APE)

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18.03 / 21:13

Adoption Payments banking Russia Tries to Replace Apple Pay and Google Pay with Gazprom Pay

Russian banks are continuing to ramp up the range of services they provide in a bid to continue providing their services outside the global banking networks they have been frozen out of after Russia invaded Ukraine.

18.03 / 04:27

business Blockchain Payments Supply Chain tracking Blockchain tracking sweetens the pay of Ghana's cocoa farmers

Cocoa product startup Koa launched a blockchain-based program this week that improves the transparency of its cocoa supply chain and ensures its Ghanaian farmers are being paid properly.

08.03 / 04:05

cryptocurrency Payments regulation crypto law Japanese Regulator Wants to Amend the Nation’s Crypto Law

A batch of new crypto regulations is incoming in Japan – where the nation’s top financial and crypto regulator has put forward legal amendments to payments-related legislation.

28.02 / 14:55

business Payments VISA South America businesses Tribal partners with Visa to expand credit options for businesses

Crypto-focused enterprise payment platform Tribal Credit has partnered with Visa to expand credit and financing options for small- and medium-sized enterprises across Latin America, highlighting the growing synergies between traditional payment providers and the blockchain industry.

25.02 / 14:47

Payments coinbase Square Bitcoin Q4 Block, Coinbase Release Positive Q4 Results Amid Growing Market Uncertainty

Payments giant Block has reported positive results for the fourth quarter of 2021, signaling an unexpectedly robust outlook for this year. At the same time, major crypto exchange Coinbasealso posted quarterly results that exceeded analyst expectations, but its expectations of a lower trading volume and monthly transacting users in the first quarter of 2022 brought its shares value down.

17.02 / 12:11

Ethereum Twitter Adoption Payments Post-Dorsey Twitter Adds Tipping in Ethereum

Twitter, which is now spearheaded by Parag Agrawal, has expanded its tipping feature to include ethereum (ETH) and several other options.

16.02 / 15:09

business Stablecoin Payments acquires Fireblocks acquires stablecoin payments platform First Digital

Blockchain infrastructure company Fireblocks has finalized the acquisition of First Digital, a stablecoin and digital asset payment platform, as part of a broader effort to expand its payment capabilities for the cryptocurrency sector.

09.02 / 20:09

business Payments Altcoin Report Cointelegraph Research: Valuing a crypto payment token

For payment tokens such as Alchemy Pay’s ACH, there may not necessarily be a world where cryptocurrencies are widely accepted as a medium of exchange for everyday transactions, such as buying a gallon of milk in the grocery store, without fiat. This is because two parallel economies exist, and bridges between fiat and cryptocurrency are needed for the time being.

01.02 / 17:13

Blockchain Payments solana Solana Pay launches to expand crypto e-commerce market

Solana Pay is a peer-to-peer payments infrastructure designed to enable the global market of online merchants and point-of-sale providers the ability to accept and settle payment transactions in a panoply of digital assets.

01.02 / 11:41

Stablecoin Payments banking Meta Says Adios to Diem – But Its Buyer Wants to Launch a Token of its Own

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is set to wash its hands of its ill-fated Diem stablecoin plans once and for all – but there may yet be a twist in the tale as the firm that will buy the coin’s assets and intellectual property (IP) could yet launch a token of its own.

28.01 / 16:11

business Blockchain Payments Google Google Cloud Google Cloud ramps up blockchain efforts by launching digital assets team

Blockchain, cryptocurrency and decentralized technology are all fascinating topics that have been heating up for almost a decade. Nowadays, everyone wants to be part of cutting-edge innovations.

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