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Rishi Sunak succeeds Liz Truss to become the next British Prime Minister. The crypto community celebrates Sunak’s pro-crypto stand while serving as the Chancellor in the Boris Johnson government. On Monday, October 24, pro-crypto candidate Rishi Sunak won the race to become the next Prime Minister of the UK. This happened as Boris Johnson and House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race.Sunak’s appointment to the office comes within just 7 weeks of Liz Truss becoming the UK...

The objective of this project is to streamline the processes of transacting with different kinds of property through the platform.Santander, one of the biggest banking institutions in the world, has put out a proposal to broaden the scope of Digital Real’s potential usage as a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Brazil.Santander is leveraging technology from another company, ParFin, to tokenize the ownership rights of the assets in a transaction and handle the exchange of the currency, in...

The latest decision to include crypto in the TASE strategic plan underscores the nation’s attitude towards digital assets and its potential in traditional finance.The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has today announced a new strategic plan that’ll span 2023-2027. The exchange’s previous plan published when CEO, Ittai Ben-Zeev, took office resulted in strong financial gains and TASE will look to build on that.Specifically, it grew its profit margin from 9% in 2017 to about 25% in the first half...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed that the company has most of the compromised funds and is ‘narrowing down’ the identity of the hacker.Crypto exchange Binance is reportedly narrowing down the identity of the hacker behind its $570 million crypto attack. This development comes after the company’s CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed that Binance received a tip from law enforcement. As Zhao put it:“We’re still actually chasing … helping [authorities] to chase the bad players, working with law...

According to recent reports, the US Court has approved Voyager’s entry into a $1.42 billion agreement with FTX to acquire its virtual assets.Crypto Lender  Voyager Digital filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 4 after halting withdrawals a few days earlier. According to the company, the Three Arrows Capital default caused liquidity issues forcing them to take this decision. FTX US, therefore, submitted a bid to acquire the company in a “highly competitive” auction process pending court...

Since the announcement, the Freeway (FWT) token has sunk to approximately eighty percent.Crypto platform Freeway has recently paused a few operations due to unforeseen instability in the foreign exchange and crypto marketplaces.In a post by the company on October 23rd, the platform revealed its plans to pause purchases and deposits. It also disclosed the company’s plans to cancel plans of buying Supercharger simulations until a new strategy is chalked out for the way forward. The...

Asides from creating its digital currency, JCB has been making forays into the world of blockchain, crypto, and Web3.Ahead of Japan’s issuance of CBDC, Japan Credit Bureau (JCB) has launched its digital currency. JCB is projecting that asking older citizens and young children to use a new payment infrastructure may limit the adoption of CBDCs in the future. As such, the firm is looking to test CBDC acceptance with its existing payment infrastructure vis, contactless payment system, merchants,...

1.) A stablecoin’s rise in market share has ignited the ‘Second Great Stablecoin War’Since Binance announced it would auto-convert USDC, USDP and TUSD into BUSD on Sept. 6, BUSD’s share of the total stablecoin market has risen from 10.01% to 15.48%.https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-stablecoin-s-rise-in-market-share-has-ignited-the-second-great-stablecoin-war 2.) Change of Heart: Kraken Closes Accounts for all Russian UsersFollowing the latest package of sanctions that the...

According to Wood, people like him perform best when they don’t always have to show up to work or are confined to a set timeframe.A recent Bloomberg report has announced the resignation of Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood from the position of CEO of blockchain infrastructure firm Parity. The report also notes that the vacancy left by Wood’s action will be filled by his fellow Parity co-founder Björn Wagner.Gavin Wood Aims to Boost Polkadot and Web3.0 AdoptionSpeaking about his decision to step...

Per the announcement, entries to participate in the buildathon will continue until January 9 2023, and the submissions will be judged by a panel of NFT and metaverse veterans.Renovi, a metaverse marketplace, and design studio has launched the first Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Buildathon in partnership with Aftermath Islands Metaverse Limited. As contained in a Press Release shared with Coinspeaker, the buildathon, dubbed the Next Top Metaverse Build will enable artists, architects, and entrants...