There’s a growing divide at the center of the digital asset universe, and it’s one that breaks cleanly over the sector’s fundamental technology: Distributed ledgers, or blockchains. Public blockchains remain the center of gravity for crypto innovation. These networks, like Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, the Ripple...
Bitcoin is on pace for the fourth annual loss in the largest cryptocurrency’s history. As Bloomberg News noted in a report on the downturn Wednesday (Dec. 17), this is the first yearly decline that is not accompanied by an industry meltdown or high-profile scandal. This...
Watch more: Digital Shift: Conduit’s Kirill Gertman Six months is an eternity in crypto. It’s also becoming one in stablecoins, where the last half-year has pushed the market from a single, dominant question of “Do stablecoins work?” Toward a more operational and thornier one: How...
Blockchain’s founding principles centered on being “trustless”: A system where cryptography and consensus replaced intermediaries, regulators and centralized control. While that framing resonated in crypto-native circles, it rang alarm bells elsewhere. Trust is the fundamental force that underpins money movement, global commerce, and the broader...
Money movement and financial services are underpinned by a timeless question: who is trusted to keep the books, and at what cost? Digital assets and blockchain have for years tried to muscle and build their way into this conversation. To their proponents, the tokenization of...
J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly deepening its blockchain efforts with its first tokenized money market fund. The bank’s asset management unit is deploying the fund on the Ethereum blockchain, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday (Dec. 15), adding that J.P. Morgan will seed the...
JPMorgan has successfully arranged a U.S. commercial paper issuance on the Solana blockchain. The issuance, performed for Galaxy Digital Holdings and purchased by Coinbase and Franklin Templeton, marks one of the earliest debt issuances ever executed on a public blockchain, the banking giant said in...
Stripe and cryptocurrency venture firm Paradigm have reportedly begun a public trial for their blockchain project, Tempo. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Dec. 9) from Bloomberg News, which says the partners have opened the network to any company that wants to develop real-world stablecoin payments applications. As Bloomberg...
JPMorganChase said BMW has achieved a landmark using its Kinexys payments system. The carmaker has become the first corporation to carry out a fully preprogrammed foreign exchange (FX) transaction using programmable payments on Kinexys, the banking giant said in a Tuesday (Dec. 9) news release....