The Bank of England, the central bank of the United Kingdom, has begun advertising job openings for a team dedicated to the exploration of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

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More taxes may cause short-term volatility, “but long term, you may see more demand for DeFi applications and other collateralized use cases.”

Ethereum made headlines this week after touching new highs on Wednesday and later on…

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Coinbase will now allow users to buy cryptocurrency with their PayPal accounts. This move, which was announced on Thursday, is a major signal of crypto’s increasing mainstream acceptance. It’s also a major expansion in Coinbase’s funding rails. Buying Crypto Should Be Easy “Buying crypto should be simple and easy,” Coinbase said in a blog post […]

The price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency remained unchanged in the last 24 hours.

According to many accounts, Bitcoin has supplanted Gold as the primary means to invest in a store of value as a defense against...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has signalled their intent to get involved in NFTs.

According to the Reuters report, China has shut roughly 6,000 peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms in a purge of an industry that still owed victimized investors over $100 billion as of last August. According to China’s banking regulator, financial frauds are mutating in their complexity and widening, which last week called for tougher crackdowns. China shut over […]

In a recently published report, Australia’s Senate committee on Technology and Finance laid down several recommendations for the government on the question of smart contracts, data standards, and th

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Quick Take

• This research report is part of a new series produced by The Block Research to provide insights and due diligence on some of the leading companies in the digital asset ecosystem. 
• Circle is one of the oldest cryptocurrency firms with a rich history of large scale acquisitions, pivots, and shut downs
• All data presented in this report has been updated as of April 27, 2021

European financial institutions are using pilots to make a case for the digital euro.