WeChat Financial News

21.06 / 06:39

NFT regulation WeChat China’s WeChat bans crypto and NFT-related accounts

The top social media platform in China, WeChat, has updated its policies to ban accounts that provide access to crypto or NFT-related services.

07.09 / 19:03

business Microsoft Tencent WeChat OpenAI Tencent unveils ChatGPT rival in China amid continuing US AI chip ban

Chinese technology corporation Tencent unveiled its “Hunyuan” artificial intelligence (AI) system, a multimodal large language model (LLM) similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, at the Global Digital Ecosystem Summit in Shenzhen on Sept. 7.

02.08 / 14:11

Blockchain Ethereum Web3 Communications community WeChat Telecommunications ICP-based blockchain chat app launches ‘Communities’ to compete with Discord

Blockchain chat app OpenChat has enabled users to create Discord-like servers called “Communities,” according to an Aug. 2 announcement.

26.07 / 09:53

business Adoption WeChat ChatGPT Support Alibaba to support Meta’s AI model Llama - report

E-commerce group Alibaba will become the first Chinese company to make use of Meta’s open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model Llama to power zero-cost development of programs.

24.04 / 14:53

business WeChat OKX OKX staff issues clarification amid 'shell token' purchase inquiries

According to a post on Apr. 24, cryptocurrency exchange OKX does not support the buying and selling of "shell tokens" listed on the exchange.

07.03 / 16:17

CBDC Adoption regulation WeChat Yuan WeChat integrates digital yuan into its payment platform

WeChat, China’s leading social networking and payment app, has added the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), to its payment services, according to reports in local media. The move aims to help broaden the appeal of the digital yuan.

05.03 / 06:01

Twitter Binance regulation WeChat FBI CZ denounces false rumor 'widely' spread on China's WeChat

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has denied a rumor that he had been “shot” by the U.S. federal law enforcement agency, which was “spread widely” across a Chinese messaging platform, in a recent tweet.

16.04 / 03:11

Adoption Tencent WeChat New Tencent Digital Yuan Wallet Preparing to Launch

First images have emerged of specialized digital yuan wallets provided by the Tencent-run e-pay platform WeChat Pay.

08.04 / 10:41

CBDC Adoption WeChat WeChat Pay to Offer Digital Yuan Payment Options as China’s CBDC Pilot Expands

The Chinese e-pay platform WeChat Pay has unveiled a digital yuan interoperability solution that will allow users of the service to make payments in the central bank-issued token.

06.01 / 18:41

Adoption Central Bank WeChat Winter Olympics WeChat Pay Interoperability is Another Key Breakthrough for Digital Yuan Pilot

Payment platform WeChat Pay began its own digital yuan journey, at the time when millions of Chinese citizens are getting their first taste of what life is like with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) – as citizens in some of the country's biggest cities began using a pilot version of a CBDC app.

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