I know everything I am looking for is here, watch movies, watch series, education, games, exams, news, current events and many more.
“# CBDCs could cut cross border remittance costs by half: BIS report ” The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has published a report touting the benefits of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), especially in reducing the cost of cross-border payments. According to the report titled: “Inthanon-LionRock to mBridge: Building a multi CBDC platform for international…
“# Facebook announces $50M investment fund tasked with developing its virtual metaverse ” Facebook has announced it will allocate $50 million to a two-year fund tasked with beginning work on realizing the firm’s vision for a virtual metaverse. A Sept. 27 announcement articulates Facebook’s roadmap for building its metaverse, with the funding slated to back…
“# Bitfinex paid a colossal $23M fee to send $100K of USDT ” Crypto exchange Bitfinex completed a highly consequential transaction today when sending $100,000 of the stablecoin Tether (USDT) to the layer-2 subsidiary platform DeversiFi. For reasons unknown, the exchange paid 7,676 ETH, equivalent to $23.7 million, marking quite possibly the largest gas fee ever-recorded…
“# JPMorgan CEO says Bitcoin price could rise 10x but still won’t buy it ” In an online interview with Times of India, Jamie Dimon, CEO of investment banking behemoth JPMorgan Chase, slandered Bitcoin’s popular appeal, despite stating that the leading digital asset could increase 10x in a matter of five years. A historically staunch…
“# Cardano to enable new DeFi stablecoin with Coti ” A new stablecoin is arriving on the Cardano blockchain to provide a tool for decentralized finance (DeFi) operations and avoid transaction fees. Cardano’s payment gateway provider Coti will be the official issuer of Djed, a new DeFi-focused stablecoin for the Cardano network, Cardano founder Charles…
“# The next generation of data-driven healthcare is here ” In the past 60 years, the life expectancy of the average newborn has increased by nearly 20 years — from 52.5 to 72, as of 2018. We’ve seen an incredible wave of technological innovation in this time: The introduction of the internet, medical breakthroughs and…
“# DeFi and Web 3.0: Unleashing creative juices with decentralized finance ” Decentralized technologies are starting to revolutionize the world of finance, with cryptocurrencies applied in different ways to recreate traditional financial instruments. However, since cryptocurrencies aren’t backed by anything but people’s faith in them, they are extremely volatile. That means, when it comes to…
“# Blockchain will transform government services, and that’s just the beginning ” Governments are tasked with bringing fair and efficient services to the public. Unfortunately, providing transparency and accountability often results in a reduction in efficiency and effectiveness or vice versa. Governments are usually forced to choose to improve one at the cost of the…
“# Charitable sustainable NFTs for the United Nations’ 17 SDGs ” In her monthly Expert Take column, Selva Ozelli, an international tax attorney and CPA, covers the intersection between emerging technologies and sustainability, and provides the latest developments around taxes, AML/CFT regulations and legal issues affecting crypto and blockchain. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)…
“# DeFi: Who, what and how to regulate in a borderless, code-governed world? ” Hold onto your hats, boys and girls! It’s a new world — a financial system without intermediaries, that anyone can access 24 hours a day with only a mobile phone and a wallet! As Julien Bouteloup said to me: “In DeFi,…