Circle, a payments company and principal operator of the USD coin (USDC), is now being supported on the Flow network, a Web3 platform originally created by Dapper Labs. Circle partnered with Dapper in 2020. A global internet finance firm, Circle offers internet-based payments and infrastructure....
Throughout this series of articles, we’re looking at the top blockchains in crypto to help you make sense of the alphabet soup of so-called “altcoins” that exists beyond that of Bitcoin’s BTC and Ethereum’s ETH. We will look at what they are, how they work,...
TikTok is partnering with its top creators and jumping into the nonfungible tokens (NFT) pool, with rapper Lil Nas X launching the social media site’s first series of limited-edition tokens this month, according to an announcement. Lil Nas X will be joined by Rudy Willingham...
WallStreetBets, whose community became famous by short squeezing GameStop stock by working together on social media platforms like Reddit, has launched a blockchain powered application to “decentralize indices,” according to an announcement. “Prominent figures” inside of the WallStreetBets community have been interfacing with FinTech and...
Figure Securities Inc., a subsidiary of Figure Technologies Inc., has become a FINRA-approved broker-dealer in addition to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registered Alternative Trading System (ATS) for digital securities held on the Provenance Blockchain, according to a Wednesday (May 12) announcement emailed...
Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is said to be seeking use cases to harness non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for his NBA team, CNBC reported. NFTs are digital assets like video clips and images that are represented by programming language on the blockchain. They...
Anytime a written piece about the financial services space begins with “as of this writing,” it’s usually about one of two things: GameStop’s stock price or the price of bitcoin. In this case, it’s the latter – and the price in question is $55,026. But...
Blockchain-based global payments provider Ripple announced it has entered into an arrangement under which Malaysian mobile wallet provider Mobile Money, and bKash, a provider of mobile financial services to more than 45 million people in Bangladesh, will conduct transactions through the RippleNet network. “bKash and...
At the highest level blockchain proponents say that distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the ability to safely, and immutably, transfer data, payments and … well , seemingly any exchange of value and information that one might envision. In recent months we have seen DLT deployed,...
