In the story of blockchain, the initial emphasis on currency still maintains a firm grip on the public imagination of the technology. Yet proponents of non-monetary use cases have long talked up the potential of smart contracts and tokenization to transform a wide variety of...
Does the United States have jurisdiction over the Ethereum blockchain? A lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could be suggesting that, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 20). The suit — filed Monday (Sept. 19) in federal court in Austin — is against the founder...
The new, greener, and eventually far faster Ethereum 2.0 is here. At 2:43 a.m. on Thursday (Sept. 15), the second-largest crypto blockchain, and arguably the most important, switched to a vastly more energy-efficient and scalable system of securing, validating and adding transactions called “proof-of-stake” or...
Before stablecoins, cryptocurrencies or even the blockchain technology on which these are based, eMoney emerged as a concept that promised to revolutionize commerce. Instead of cash, checks or cards, eMoney advocates envisioned a world in which transactions were made easily and with little friction over...
Digital assets software company Ownera has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round and will use it to accelerate the deployment of its global interoperability network for trading tokenized securities. Ownera’s network is based on the open-source FINP2P protocol and seamlessly connects securities...
According to the new "Blockchain Payments Tracker®," Republic Crypto's Jon Knipper tells PYMNTS that cryptos hold other advantages, including resistance to censorship as well as a regulatory edge when it comes to balancing security and innovation.
Using bitcoin for payments may not get as much chatter as it did at the beginning of the year, but under the hood, a lot’s been happening in 2022. Payments tech firms like Stripe, Block and PayPal have been expanding their crypto offerings and capabilities....
Financial messaging services provider SWIFT is running a pilot project that is testing the use of Symbiont’s enterprise blockchain platform to more efficiently communicate corporate actions. In this project, the smart contracts and blockchain capabilities of Symbiont’s Assembly platform are being used to further automate...
Since the very start of the concept of digital payments, humans have pursued a dream of simplified transactions between individuals that mix the ease and personal control of cash payments with the speed and interconnectivity of electronic payments. The earliest iterations of eMoney were all...
