Blockchain

Ordinal inscriptions are on fire. Users are continuously flooding the Bitcoin network with images, video games, and other content. There are now more than 5 million inscriptions. Over the past seven days, the total inscription count has more than doubled from 2.5 million. Ordinals Skyrocket According to data from Dune Analytics, text-based inscriptions, also known as the BRC-20 token standard, accounted for a vast majority of the Bitcoin ordinal inscription. At the time of...

The stablecoins market is expected to significantly grow amid the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin and other digital assets globally. The rise of the Tether (USDT) stablecoin has been undisputed for several years. The Tether (USDT) stablecoin runs on more than 10 blockchains including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, and Tron, among others. On the Ethereum network, Tether (USDT) has more than $36 billion in supply with about 4.3 million holders. The Tron network holds a vast amount of...

Binance has been aggressively growing its NFT marketplace in a variety of ways in order to become a top platform for buying, selling, and trading NFTs. Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange has expressed interest in adding Bitcoin Ordinals to its Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace by the end of May. According to the announcement, Binance will also offer royalty support and additional revenue-generating opportunities for Bitcoin NFT creators. Bitcoin Ordinals are becoming popular...

The network combines applications designed with Daml, Digital Asset’s smart contract language. Digital Asset, which is a financial technology firm, plans to introduce a global privacy-enabled interoperable blockchain network curated to offer a decentralized infrastructure for institutional clients, the announcement for which was made on Tuesday. Participants of the network, which is also called the Canton Network, include companies like BNP Paribas, Deloitte, Cboe Global Markets, Goldman...

Visa is working with its partners to launch programmable CBDCs thereby optimizing capital flows to SMEs. Although blockchain technology has shown its prowess in multiple business verticals, its adoption hasn’t been fast enough. However, payments giant Visa Inc (NYSE: V) is now working towards pushing innovative blockchain use-cases towards real-world use cases. As part of its most recent LIFT Challenge, Visa is exploring blockchain-based use cases for Brazil’s central bank digital...

Meanwhile, the defunct FTX continues to pursue various options to recover customer funds. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has on Monday filed an ex parte motion before a Federal Court. The motion, as filed through the office, seeks to dismiss 10 out of 13 US charges against the former CEO. The remaining charges include conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Interestingly, the former CEO previously pled ‘Not...

The partnership between Wakweli and the Blockchain Lawyers Group will offer a number of notable advantages that include but are not limited to boosting the liquidity of the entire Wakweli ecosystem. Wakweli, a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) certification protocol, has announced its latest partnership with the Blockchain Lawyers Group (BLG) as it seeks to establish its outfit as one of the most legitimate for certifying tokenized assets. As contained in the Press Release shared with Coinspeaker,...

Bitcoin’s blockchain was flooded with volume over the weekend by transactions involving so-called “BRC-20” Ordinals – an emergent standard for issuing fungible tokens on Bitcoin.   The surge caused network fees to skyrocket to the point where transaction fee revenue for miners briefly surpassed the natural block subsidy for the first time since 2017.  Meme Tokens on Bitcoin According to data from Dune Analytics, over 3.7 million BRC-20 Ordinals transactions have already...

Ripple is opening an office in the heart of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and acquiring Swell Global 2023. Ripple, one of the most popular cryptocurrency firms, has announced its expansion in other countries. The company is all set to expand to Dubai, according to Chief Executive Officer Brad Garlinghouse. Garlinghouse also disclosed the development at the Dubai Fintech Summit that is happening today and talked passionately about the customer base in the Middle East....

Immutable Checkout boasts a one-stop-shop payment solution for digital products like in-game items and NFTs.  Immutable has introduced a new payment solution for decentralized games and the Web3 marketplace. Reports state that the blockchain gaming firm’s new scheme promises to make payments more seamless and straightforward. The consensus is that the solution, called Immutable Checkout, will also revolutionize online transactions involving digital goods. This will happen because the...