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American multinational megabank, Wells Fargo, has revealed its plans to launch a digitized platform which will be used for internal settlements. The service, Wells Fargo Digital Cash, as well as the company’s own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, are slated for debut in 2020 and targeted at making USD transfers with a broader plan to accommodate transfers in other currencies within the whole Wells Fargo network.Wells Fargo is an American community-based financial services firm that offers...

To celebrate the sponsorship with all Bitcoiners, Sportsbet.io promised to give away $20 in Bitcoin as a Free Bet to all Sportsbet.io players, if Watford can score a goal against Arsenal. Now it’s interesting to see, whether Sportsbet.io will pay $40 to each of its players, as the match ended with a 2:2 score.This was the first time in history that a top-tier team in English football ever had Bitcoin in any shape or form make a public appearance to a match that was beamed live to millions of...

Photo: Ethereal / TwitterOn Sunday, the Ethereal Summit took place in Tel Aviv. The Summit is a global series of conferences focused on connecting leading companies and influencers shaping the future of blockchain. At the event, Ethereum founders Joseph Lubin and Vitalik Buterin were among the speakers. They commented on the development of the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 update and discussed possible collaboration with Facebook within their nascent cryptocurrency – Libra.Prospects of Ethereum...

One of the largest music companies in the world, Warner Music announced their partnership with Dapper Labs, the company that stands behind CryptoKitties, all in order to create a new blockchain called Flow.The music giant that stands behind Ed Sheeran, Cardi B, Bruno Mars, as well as some other prominent celebrities, eventually decided to go on blockchain, joining an $11.2 million investment in above mentioned Dapper Labs.Just for a reminder, back in 2017, in December, CryptoKitties, the app...

Photo: ShutterstockEthereum Classic has completed its long-awaited hard fork named Atlantis. The network hard forked at block height 8,772,000 and implemented new upgrades to the blockchain.The #EthereumClassic network successfully upgraded today on block 8,772,000. This upgrade, nicknamed “Atlantis”, includes features on #SpuriousDragon and #Byzantium EIPs from the #Ethereum blockchain.https://t.co/lKHgphlNU9 via @MyEtherplan— Ethereum Classic (@eth_classic) September 12, 2019As Coindesk...

Zhou Xiaochuan, former governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), gave a speech related to cryptocurrencies at the 10th-anniversary celebration of Senior Finance at the Shanghai Jiaotong University. During this speech, he mentioned that the Central Bank was about to issue a legal digital currency and more than one month after the announcement of this Digital Currency/Electronics Payment (DC/EP), news spread quite wildly.Recently, Mu Changchun, the Deputy Director of Payments and...

Santander, one of the largest banks in the world based in Spain, has issued a blockchain bond and started using a public blockchain to manage all aspects of debt issuance.According to the Spanish banking giant, they used a token on Ethereum to represent the $20 million debt issuance and what is more, settled it with another set of ERC-20 tokens representing cash held in a custody account. As Coindesk has reported, the transaction conducted was a plain-vanilla bond with a one-year maturity,...

Mastercard and fintech firm R3 have entered a partnership to develop a solution that will enable cross-border payments which include localized payments and interbank settlements and clearing of payment obligations. The solution will have a primary focus on connecting financial payment systems.Mastercard earlier this year has expanded its payment system with its acquisition of Transfast. This greatly improved its ability to clear transactions on a global scale as Transfast has operations and...

One of the core elements to business strategies is name branding, as businesses always want to leave an impression that speaks of their products or services and to stand out among the competition. Gaming infrastructure platform DAO.Casino is one such firm to use this strategy to bring its users the best of blockchain to the gambling industry. The new name, DAObet, is one it believes will help provide more visibility for the platform with regards to their core operation.The responsibility of...

Last week we wrote of how Telegram’s blockchain project, TON, has entered the last preparation stage before going live. The code for running a blockchain node was released on the test network and this (or the next) month is expected for the company to finally launch TON.However, it seems that the go-to marketplace for the new Gram tokens could be an emerging exchange with somewhat of 4,000 users.If it’s to believe Blackmoon Crypto, this small, Cayman Islands-registered exchange might be right...