September 06, 2024
Mastercard’s Crypto Debit Card Integrates With Apple and Google Pay
More than half a billion people own crypto, primarily as a speculative investment. And now, with the news Thursday (Sept. 5) that Mercuryo has launched a euro-denominated debit card that...
September 06, 2024
AI Startup’s $1B Windfall Signals Potential Shake-up in Global Business...
A three-month-old artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s eye-popping $1 billion funding round could signal a shift in how the technology affects commerce. Safe Superintelligence (SSI), co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist...
September 04, 2024
This Week Web3: Scams, Payments and Stablecoins
A lot can change in five years, particularly when it comes to fast-moving innovations like blockchain technology. Back in 2019, the crypto landscape was marked by several themes and trends...
September 03, 2024
FTC Reports Tenfold Increase in Scams Involving Bitcoin ATMs
As bitcoin ATMs have been installed in more locations, they have become a “payment portal for scammers,” the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a Tuesday (Sept. 3) data spotlight. The...
September 01, 2024
Lawmakers Say Crypto Bill Passage Would Be Long Shot for...
Will this year see a cryptocurrency bill make it through Congress? There’s a chance, according to a Sunday (Sep. 1) report by Coindesk, though it’s a longshot. The report cited...
September 01, 2024
Coinbase Reports First ‘AI to AI’ Token Purchase
Coinbase says it has seen its first-ever “AI to AI” crypto transaction. In a post on X Friday (Aug. 30), CEO Brian Armstrong said the cryptocurrency exchange had overseen its...
August 28, 2024
Crypto Is Minting Millionaires, but Its Payment Utility Remains Uncertain
In 2010, a Florida man bought two pizzas with 10,000 bitcoin. That singular incident served to confirm the promise of cryptocurrencies as a store of value, as well as position...
August 26, 2024
Russia Rethinks Crypto Exchanges to Smooth Payments Obstacles
Russia is reportedly preparing to begin trials of cryptocurrency exchanges and cross-border crypto transactions. That’s according to a report Monday (Aug. 26) by Bloomberg News, which noted that the move...
August 26, 2024
Can Stablecoins Spark Crypto Adoption Across Retail and B2B Markets?
The cryptocurrency sector has long been in search of gateway use cases to accelerate adoption. News broke Friday (Aug. 23) that Wyoming is reportedly developing its own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin...
