July 22, 2024
Bitcoin Depot Surpasses 8,000 Bitcoin ATMs in Operation
Bitcoin Depot said Monday (July 22) that the number of Bitcoin ATMs it has in operation now totals 8,180, up from 7,400 on April 1. The company added that it...
July 18, 2024
Physical Cards: The Unexpected Frontier in Digital Security
Adam Lowe, Ph.D, chief product and innovation officer at CompoSecure, hears it all the time from banking executives when the topic is securing payments: “We cannot introduce friction.” But the...
July 17, 2024
Web3 This Week: BlackRock CEO Calls Bitcoin ‘Legitimate,’ Mainstream Off-Ramps...
Traditional financial operations are centralized, regulated and audited. Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are, well, pretty much the opposite, relying instead on cryptographic algorithms and decentralized consensus mechanisms to secure transactions....
July 17, 2024
Floundering Crypto Miners Look For AI Company Lifelines
Cryptocurrency miners are reportedly scrambling to boost their revenues by forging deals with AI developers. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (July 17), these miners operate vast, powerful computing...
July 16, 2024
Trump Running Mate J.D. Vance’s Antitrust Views Divide Business Leaders
It is an election year — and political uncertainty is top of mind for businesses. With the news Monday (July 15) that presidential candidate Donald Trump has picked Senator J.D....
July 11, 2024
Instant Payments Versus Stablecoins: The Race to Rule Real-Time Transactions
The future of money movement is accelerating globally. With real-time payments on the U.S. RTP® Network and in Europe setting new usage records, and awareness of instant payments growing in...
July 10, 2024
Payments, Penalties and TradFi Adoption Define This Week in Web3
Crypto is as crypto does. And crypto is, by all appearances, trying to do better. The European Union’s (EU) landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets Act (MiCA) framework is now live, and...
July 09, 2024
B2Broker Launches Turnkey Solution for Creating Proprietary Trading Firms
B2Broker has launched a turnkey solution designed to help enterprises create and develop their proprietary trading (“prop trading”) firms. The new solution, B2Prop, is designed to help prop trading firms, crypto...
July 07, 2024
Safle Gains New Leadership, Funding to Grow Cross-Chain Identity Solution
Safle, a self-sovereign identity protocol and non-custodial wallet, has overhauled its leadership and raised funds at a valuation of $77 million. Apoorv Shankar, who has been building related products since...
