Welcome to the eighth article in PYMNTS’ Blockchain in Action Series. Most people at least know that blockchain is the technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built on, but a digital ledger that timestamps and orders transactions in an easily trackable and immutable way...
Welcome to the seventh article in PYMNTS’ Blockchain in Action Series. Most people at least know that blockchain is the technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built on, but a digital ledger that timestamps and orders transactions in an easily trackable and immutable way...
Welcome to the sixth article in PYMNTS’ Blockchain in Action Series. Most people at least know that blockchain is the technology that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built on, but a digital ledger that timestamps and orders transactions in an easily trackable and immutable way...
The point of cryptocurrencies is to allow people to eliminate the use of middlemen in transactions in which they do not trust the other party. Other than the few currency-focused crypto tokens like bitcoin, virtually all cryptocurrency blockchains are “smart contract” platforms that allow users...
Welcome to the fifth article in PYMNTS’ Blockchain in Action Series. Most people at least know that blockchain is the technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built on, but a digital ledger that timestamps and orders transactions in an easily trackable and immutable way...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the so-called central banks’ bank, published a report in May assessing how automated supervision could help regulate and supervise decentralized finance (DeFi) markets. The emergence of DeFi and a shadow financial system of cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers have...
Most people at least know that blockchain is the technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built on, but a digital ledger that timestamps and orders transactions in an easily trackable and immutable way has a lot more uses. In this fourth article in the...
Fidelity Digital Asset Services, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments launched in 2018 so the company could offer institutional investors access to cryptocurrency markets, plans to double its workforce to 220, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (May 31). The Journal noted that Fidelity has disclosed...
Most people at least know that blockchain is the technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built on, but a digital ledger that timestamps and orders transactions in an easily trackable and immutable way has a lot more uses. In this third article in the...
