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E-money adoption may be extremely rapid, but that it may raise significant risks. Policies to counter these risks yield a synthetic version of central bank digital currency with various advantages relative to the full-service version.
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For this article, we asked two questions. One question was about the benefits for a central bank from issuing a stablecoin and another was about the benefits for users and the economy from a stablecoin issued by a central bank.
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World Bank and Commonwealth Bank have enabled secondary market trading recorded on blockchain for bond-i making this the first bond whose issuance and trading are recorded using distributed ledger technologies.
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Stellar, whose lumens token is currently the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, went down entirely for around 110 minutes on May 15.
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Just 376 people hold a third of all Ether according to new research by Chainalysis Inc. However these whales have little effect on price because they don’t move their Ether often.
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Coinbase launched its custody service 12 months ago, and the AUM has now crossed $1 billion with 70 institutions signed up.
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For the first time in five months, MakerDAO token holders have voted to decrease fees on all DAI loans. DAI is a dollar-pegged stablecoin operating on the ethereum blockchain backed by nearly 2 million ether tokens.
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Neutral Dollar is a metastable basket of stablecoins. The result is a digital dollar designed to have lower volatility than individual stablecoins by combining fragmented pools of liquidity.
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Crypto industry veterans say Chinese investors are behind the recent bitcoin spike, as they try to exchange out of the falling weak yuan, as Trump raises tariffs.
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Lost among the current bout of cryptocurrency euphoria is the fact that capital outflows are exceeding inflows on some of the biggest digital-asset exchanges
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Perhaps the chaos in Venezuela will be remembered for fusing—if only in theory—the technological and financial ideas that could someday allow us to link volatile resource prices with risky development to promote the economy’s general welfare.
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Self-sovereign identity promises to return personal data to the people providing it rather than letting it sit precariously in the hands of businesses that have repeatedly failed to secure it.
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Finastra has signed three global banks on its Corda Enterprise-based Fusion LenderComm platform as part of a coordinated campaign.
