Nirmala Sitharaman’s comments came amid the Reserve Bank of India launching its digital rupee pilot program for the wholesale segment. 139 Total views 2 Total shares India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she would love to show that the country is “moving speedily forward” with digital financial technology as it prepares to assume the presidency […]
China’s digital yuan is one of the earliest CBDCs whose pilot phase has expanded to include millions of users and billions in transaction volume. 311 Total views 2 Total shares Chinese central bank governor Yi Gang, in a recent speech at Hong Kong Fintech Week, talked about the progress of their national digital currency called […]
From El Salvador and Lugano’s collaboration to yet another lawsuit against Do Kwon, this is what the last week in regulation looked like. 577 Total views 6 Total shares The first full week under the leadership of the newly-elected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saw a major landmark for crypto regulation in the United Kingdom. The […]
Cash and hawala remain the “predominant methods of terror financing,” according to a UN official. However, “advanced” terror organizations are turning to cryptocurrencies. 1439 Total views 9 Total shares Terrorist groups who have been excluded from the “formal financial system” have turned to crypto to fund their heinous activities, according to Svetlana Martynova, the Countering […]
Despite the turbulence that broke out in the crypto market this summer, there is an important long-term marker that should be considered in any complex assessment — the combination of adoption and regulation. The latest report by EUBlockchain Observatory, named “EU Blockchain Ecosystem Developments,” tries to measure this combination within the European Union, combining the […]
Sharing his opinion around crypto regulations, Buterin spoke against the regulations that have an impact on the inner workings of a crypto ecosystem. 1803 Total views 42 Total shares The co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), Vitalik Buterin, believes that the crypto ecosystem needs to mature and be in tune with the regulatory policies that allow crypto […]
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Twitter’s top brass gutted as Elon Musk’s takeover begins Elon […]
As part of the agreement, El Salvador will establish a physical government presence in an effort to “foster cooperation with educational and research institutions.” 1817 Total views 20 Total shares Switzerland’s southern city of Lugano and El Salvador have signed an economic cooperation agreement based on crypto and blockchain. According to an Oct. 28 announcement […]
The lawsuit alleges Kwon and others made fraudulent claims on UST “either well knowing that they were false and untrue, or recklessly not caring whether they were true or false.” 521 Total views 14 Total shares Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs who may be facing legal actions in South Korea and the United […]
The commissioner warnes that vulnerabilities seen within the crypto markets are similar to those seen during the global financial crisis and calls for the agency to be given additional authority. 1013 Total views 21 Total shares Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Christy Goldsmith Romero has pointed to the collapse of the Terra ecosystem and its […]
