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After four years of research, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will finally roll out a pilot program for its own digital currency on October 1st, 2021. The CBDC project, named “GIANT,” will run on the modular blockchain framework Hyperledger Fabric. Nigeria Does Not Want to Fall Behind During a recent webinar, the Central Bank of Nigeria revealed that it had set a clear date for launching a pilot for its CBDC – October 1st. The information technology director of the CBN –...

Bitcoin is in a very dark place at the time of writing. After trading for a new all-time high of $64,000 per unit in mid-April of this year, the currency has once again (for the second time in the past few months) dropped below the $30,000 range and is now trading for just over $29,000. This means that in just three months alone, the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has lost more than $35,000 off its price and more than 50 percent from its value. Bitcoin...

Despite its recently rocky relationship with global regulators, leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has revealed that its U.S.-based division, Binance US, is considering going public. Binance US Considers IPO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder and CEO of Binance, made this known at the ReDeFiNE Tomorrow 2021 blockchain virtual conference. Speaking on the future plans and the regulatory issues that his exchange has been facing, CZ hinted that Binance US is looking to go public...

A panel of crypto experts alleges that bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market cap – will potentially remove fiat currency from circulation by the year 2050. This basically gives bitcoin approximately 29 years to become the primary financial product of the world. Bitcoin Is Rising to the Top On the one hand, this certainly seems possible. 29 years is a long time, and a lot can be accomplished within that period. On the other hand, is it really all...

The New Jersey Attorney General’s office has issued a cease-and-desist letter to blockchain company Block Fi to get the firm to end all marketing for its interest-bearing accounts. Block Fi Is at the Center of Some Unwanted Attention According to the letter, Block Fi has been busy selling unregistered securities and violating present securities laws. The company provides interest rates of anywhere between .25 percent and 8.5 percent depending on the amount of money...

It’s safe to say that this was a rather intense week in the cryptocurrency market, despite Bitcoin being only about 2% up throughout the period. Things started off rather calmly, and the market was pretty flat until Monday. Bears took control and brought the price down to slightly above $30K before landing the final blow on Tuesday and pushing BTC below $30,000. It was on Wednesday, though, when the highly-anticipated B Word event took place, which saw Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey,...

The cross-chain DeFi protocol THORChain suffered another major hack for $8 million. Last week the protocol was drained with a further $8.3 million in a separate attack. THORChain Got Hit Again The decentralized cross-chain exchange THORChain experienced a “sophisticated attack” on its ETH Router. The protocol announced on Twitter that this time the perpetrators drained around $8 million worth of Ether: “THORChain has suffered a sophisticated attack on the ETH Router, around...

[PR – Lugano, Switzerland, 22nd July, 2021] Valuart, a startup that mints licensed NFTs derived from original artworks, has launched its first drop. The auction for ‘Spike,’ a digital artwork based on the iconic Banksy installation that first surfaced in Palestine, commenced on July 22. 50% of the proceeds raised from the sale will go to charity. Created by infamous street artist Banksy, ‘Spike’ is now in the possession of Vittorio Grigòlo. The world famous tenor and Valuart...

[PR – Tallinn, Estonia, 22nd July, 2021] CoinSwap Space, a decentralized exchange on the Binance Smart Chain, this week announced the option to stake their native CSS token and earn rewards in ADA. This new feature, along with the ability to earn rewards in ETH and LINK, is one of a trio of staking options for CSS that have recently been launched. These new staking offer users rewards in major crypto tokens to allow them to minimise risk through the volatility the market is...

The Acala Foundation has recently announced the launch of its decentralized exchange (DEX), Karura Swap on the Kusama and Polkadot ecosystem, with its so-called “first trustless trading pair” KSM/KAR already available for trading. Over $3.4M in TLV In a Friday announcement, Acala noted that the KSM/KAR pair currently has over $3 million in Total Value Locked (TVL) and will now be traded on the Karura Swap platform. KSM and KAR are the native tokens of Kusama and Karura...