The Miami Mayor is creating his own cryptocurrency team, revealing a few details on the city’s plans with major announcements coming next week so let’s find out more in today’s cryptocurrency news. The Miami Mayor Is creating his own crypto team and he has been open to cryptocurrency while aiming to make the city the […]

Deltec Deputy CEO says that Tether is fully backed by US dollars and that this “is not a secret” so let’s read more in today’s Tether news. The Deltec Deputy CEO Gregory Pepin stated that Tether’s reserve is actually fully backed and more than what is in circulation” saying that neither Tether of Bitfinex own […]

Bitcoin’s all-time price highs in 2021 have crushed records set in 2017. But that’s not the only way in which this bull run is different.

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It may seem way too early to predict which cryptocurrency will upstage Bitcoin. However, change is constant, and upstaging Bitcoin could also be the beginning of the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies and their underlying technologies. Here are industry experts’ thoughts on the issue. Edmund McCormack, Founder, and CEO of DChained predicts OCEAN Protocol (OCEAN) as […]

Here’s how to invest and profit on their growth via Blockchain.comStablecoins, cryptocurrency tokens that use various mechanisms to keep their price “stably” pegged...

One of the holy grails of blockchain technology has always been the potential for it to support the tokenization of real-world assets, allowing users to send, receive, and exchange the ownership rights to physical goods just as easily as making a Bitcoin transaction.  But in the more than a decade that blockchain-based platforms have been […]

Cointelegraph Brasil invited some of the country’s top crypto and blockchain experts to chart the next steps for the market.

The post Crypto and blockchain: What the Brazilian market can expect for 2021 first appeared on Blockchain Consultants.

Why there are still much fewer crypto card users than cryptocurrency holders, who need cryptocurrency cards, and what are their benefits, shared СEO of the virtual bank TTM Bank Vladislav Utushkin. – The first crypto cards, analogs of bank cards that can be replenished with cryptocurrencies, appeared more than five years ago, but even among the crypto assets holders, not everyone can boast of having one. Why does the popularity of crypto cards lag behind […]

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Banque de France (the French central bank) has announced the successful testing of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) in collaboration with multiple financial and tech groups. The experiment was considered to be successful on December 17th of 2020 but wasn’t announced until January 19th of this year via a press release. It was completed [...]

The post Banque de France Successfully Completes First CBDC Transactions appeared first on Blockonomi.

The Enterprise blockchain platform Concorduim has announced that its Testnet 4 is here, and it is expected to be the last testnet before the launch of the mainnet in Q2 2021. Testnet 4 will reward its users with 15 million GTU tokens in exchange for helping the company to troubleshoot and stress test the platform. [...]

The post Concordium Launches Testnet 4 With Rewards: Mainnet Coming Soon appeared first on Blockonomi.

CBDC research has been announced as a top priority for the Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub, or BISIH, in 2021. According to its annual work program, BISIH plans to “explore the feasibility of faster and cheaper cross-border payments” using central bank digital currencies. BISIH also stated it would explore prototypes of “tiered retail CBDC distribution architectures” […]