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Web3 This Week: BlackRock CEO Calls Bitcoin ‘Legitimate,’ Mainstream Off-Ramps Grow
Web3 This Week: BlackRock CEO Calls Bitcoin ‘Legitimate,’ Mainstream Off-Ramps Grow
July 17, 2024  |  Blockchain

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...

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Visa and Wirex Partner on Digital Currency Use in Europe, UK
Visa and Wirex Partner on Digital Currency Use in Europe, UK
July 15, 2024  |  Connected Economy

 Visa has teamed with WireX to promote the use of digital currencies in Europe and the UK. “This collaboration will explore new opportunities to leverage...

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Instant Payments Versus Stablecoins: The Race to Rule Real-Time Transactions
Instant Payments Versus Stablecoins: The Race to Rule Real-Time Transactions
July 11, 2024  |  Payment Methods

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...

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Payments, Penalties and TradFi Adoption Define This Week in Web3
Payments, Penalties and TradFi Adoption Define This Week in Web3
July 10, 2024  |  Blockchain

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)...

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Safle Gains New Leadership, Funding to Grow Cross-Chain Identity Solution
Safle Gains New Leadership, Funding to Grow Cross-Chain Identity Solution
July 07, 2024  |  Personnel

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...

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Crypto’s Three Priorities for 2024: Interoperability, Acceptance, Regulation
Crypto’s Three Priorities for 2024: Interoperability, Acceptance, Regulation
July 04, 2024  |  Cryptocurrency

Halfway through 2024, and the cryptocurrency and blockchain space finds itself at a critical juncture.  It is the same critical juncture, or at least one...

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SEC Charges Web3 Firm Consensys With Unregistered Sale of Securities
SEC Charges Web3 Firm Consensys With Unregistered Sale of Securities
June 28, 2024  |  Legal

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Consensys Friday (June 28), charging the blockchain and Web3 software company with engaging in the unregistered offer and sale of...

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This Week in Web3: Mt Gox Bitcoin and Crypto’s Future
This Week in Web3: Mt Gox Bitcoin and Crypto’s Future
June 28, 2024  |  Cryptocurrency

The 2014 collapse of Mt. Gox served as one of the first, big crypto scandals. Over 100,000 creditors of the digital asset exchange lost over...

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Algorand Debuts LiquidAuth for More Secure Crypto Communications
Algorand Debuts LiquidAuth for More Secure Crypto Communications
June 26, 2024  |  Blockchain

Blockchain builder Algorand has debuted a tool for decentralized authentication and communication called LiquidAuth.  As the company said in a news release Wednesday (June 26),...

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