Payments Giant Stripe Rolls Out Pilot to Test Crypto Payouts With Twitter

Post Views: 188 On April 22, the payments giant Stripe announced that it is expanding global payouts with crypto assets via a new pilot. Stripe’s crypto executive Karan Sharma revealed crypto payouts for the firm’s Connect service to a select group of Twitter users as the social media platform is Stripe’s first partner. Stripe revealed…

Report: South African University to Issue Blockchain-Based Certificates to Graduating Students

Post Views: 202 A South African university has said starting this year it will issue blockchain-based certificates to students graduating from the learning institution. University administrators argued that a blockchain-based certification system will help prevent fraud and end the production of fake documents. A South African learning institution, the University of Johannesburg (UJ), has said…

MetaRace Horse Racing, the First “Play to Earn” DApp on the Caduceus Blockchain

Post Views: 176 PRESS RELEASE. On April 18th, MetaRace Horse Racing was officially launched on the decentralized edge rendering Metaverse protocol – Caduceus. It is the first “Play to Earn ” game launched on Caduceus, co-built by MetaverseGraph Labs. The high gas cost of Ethereum and the slow transaction speed cannot support the large-scale interactive…

IMF Official: Regulating Crypto Assets Is High on the Agenda for India

Post Views: 189 A director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that crypto regulation is “certainly high on the agenda” for India. “We are trying to come up with global standards for #crypto asset regulations. I think that’s important for India to also adopt,” said the IMF official. Tobias Adrian, Financial Counselor and Director…

Blockbank Joins Coach K’s Conference in Donating to Charities Focusing on Social Impact

Post Views: 179 PRESS RELEASE. Blockbank announced plans to join Coach K’s Conference Experience in donating to charities focusing on social impact. The conference will be held at Le Meridien Beach Resort, Phuket, Thailand, from May 9th to May 13th, 2022. Blockbank, an all-in-one mobile banking solution with crypto integration, will partner with Coach K,…

Moonbirds NFT Sales Skyrocket Capturing $364 Million in 5 Days

Post Views: 178 A non-fungible token (NFT) collection called Moonbirds has been a topical conversation within the NFT community as the compilation’s sales have been enormous. The Moonbirds NFT project started selling five days ago on April 16, and since then statistics show the collection has seen $364.83 million in sales. Moonbirds is currently the…

Tesla Hodls Bitcoin: Balance Sheet Shows $1.26B in Digital Assets

Post Views: 214 Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, is hodling bitcoin. The company’s balance sheet shows $1.261 billion in digital assets. Tesla has neither purchased nor sold any crypto assets since the first quarter of last year. The company’s revenue rose 81% to $18.76 billion from $10.39 billion a year ago. Its earnings jumped…

Binance Limits Services to Russian Users to Comply With EU Sanctions

Post Views: 200 Following the latest round of EU restrictions against Russia, digital asset exchange Binance is limiting services to Russian clients. The company pledged to lead the industry in implementing the sanctions and urged all major trading platforms to follow. Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, is restricting services for Russian nationals or natural…

Broxus CEO Vlad Ponomarev on Everscale and Developing a Universal Bridge Mechanism

Post Views: 204 Vlad Ponomarev is the CEO of Broxus. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the technology they are developing: Vlad Ponomarev is the CEO of Broxus – one of the core developer teams of the Everscale network and architects of a cross-chain bridge platform, network-native DEX and much more….

Metrics Show Decentralized Exchange Volumes Continue to Slide This Year

Post Views: 188 Decentralized exchange (dex) volumes have been dropping since December 2021 according to current statistics. However, last month dex trade volumes spiked 2.37% higher than the volumes recorded in February. Despite the brief spike and with only eight days left in April, metrics show this month’s dex volumes will likely be much lower…