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“# Visa-backed Bitcoin startup to launch Lightning-based global payments app ” Zap, a Lightning Network payments startup backed by Visa through its Fintech Fast Track program, announced on Jan. 6 the rollout of Strike Global, a payments and remittances app using the Bitcoin (BTC) layer-two technology. An announcement by CEO Jack Mallers goes in-depth into…
“# Was 2020 a ‘DeFi year,’ and what is expected from the sector in 2021? Experts answer ” Figuring out the point at which decentralized finance began almost always ends up in a rhetorical debate. Some argue that Bitcoin’s (BTC) invention a decade ago marked the start of it, as the major cryptocurrency was the…
“# For whom the benefits toll: Enterprise blockchain is the evolution of economic architectures ” In my two-decade career at Microsoft, leading .NET platform architecture, visual studio .NET development, application platform, enterprise strategy and Microsoft Digital, I have been part of building technologies for multiple waves of platforms: the early web, service-oriented architectures, the so-called…
“# IMF leader on digital payments for skilled trades workers ” The continuing transition to digital finance is likely to affect sectors across the board. Artisans, or skilled craftsmen and women, are no exception. According to Kristalina Georgieva, managing director for the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, digital money for these skilled workers hinges on…
“# Hundreds of millions of consumers will use digital currencies soon: Circle CEO ” Speaking at Singapore Fintech Festival, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said that “third-generation blockchain technology” would see digital currency “in the hands of hundreds of millions, if not billions of users.” Allaire featured on a panel alongside the CEO of Facebook’s ‘Diem’…
“# Russia’s Alfa-Bank offers blockchain platform for freelancers ” Alfa-Bank, one of the largest private commercial banks in Russia, is exploring blockchain technology in its services for freelancers. According to a Dec. 1 announcement, Alfa-Bank will use blockchain-based applications to automate services for freelancers and self-employed workers. Based on Waves Enterprise’s blockchain platform, Alfa-Bank’s new…
“# Yield farming is a fad, but DeFi promises to change the way we interact with money ” As the COVID-19 outbreak wreaks havoc on the United States’ economy and abroad, investors grapple with a second economic downturn in just over a decade. While the 2008 financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic are very different,…
“# Big banks think new furniture is innovation, but they are wrong ” When banks finally come to improve their technology experience, they go no deeper than changing the front end. They’ll make a button blue instead of green or create rounded edges on buttons instead of square ones. They think in terms of their…
“# Singapore ready to launch wholesale CBDC, local exec says ” Singapore is ready to launch it’s own central bank digital currency, or CBDC, said Sopnendu Mohanty, chief FinTech officer at Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator, Monetary Authority of Singapore. Speaking on the subject during an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Mohanty pointed out that…
“# World Economic Forum calls blockchain key to sustainable digital finance ” The World Economic Forum (WEF) believes blockchain represents a core element of sustainable digital finance — a new paradigm that combines emerging technology with environmentally-conscious business models. In a new report published Wednesday, UBS executive Karin Oertli lists blockchain technology along with artificial…