Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Today in FinTech: Bamba Snags $3.2M; Block Shifts Focus to Blockchain

Today in FinTech: Bamba Snags $3.2M; Block Shifts Focus to Blockchain
Today in FinTech: Bamba Snags $3.2M; Block Shifts Focus to Blockchain
May 18, 2022  |  Investments

In today’s FinTech news, Block, formerly known as Square, wants people to stop thinking of them as a payments-only company and will now be emphasizing...

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Dorsey Says Block Is Not Just a Payments Company, It’s a Blockchain Company
Dorsey Says Block Is Not Just a Payments Company, It’s a Blockchain Company
May 18, 2022  |  Connected Economy

Block is stepping away from its identity as a payment-only platform and will increase its focus on cryptocurrency and music streaming as part of a...

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EU Regulator Launches PSD3, Open Finance Consultations
EU Regulator Launches PSD3, Open Finance Consultations
May 18, 2022  |  Legal & Regulation

The European Commission has launched a public consultation to gather information for its review of the second EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The same day,...

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SEC’s Gensler Asks Congress to Fund Crypto and AI Enforcement
SEC’s Gensler Asks Congress to Fund Crypto and AI Enforcement
May 18, 2022  |  Legal & Regulation

For the last few months, Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has been calling for more regulation and promised to step...

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Small Investors Cool to Crypto in Wake of Sell-Off
Small Investors Cool to Crypto in Wake of Sell-Off
May 18, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The crypto market is creating victims of many small-scale investors as values keep falling in the aftermath of a severe downturn last week, Reuters reported...

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Today in Crypto: Coinbase Streamlines Crypto Checkout in Merchant Tool; Despite Ban, China has 21% of Global Bitcoin Mining
Today in Crypto: Coinbase Streamlines Crypto Checkout in Merchant Tool; Despite Ban, China has 21%...
May 17, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Coinbase will integrate with Primer, which will make a more seamless crypto checkout experience, leveraging Coinbase Commerce, a company blog said Tuesday (May 17). Get...

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BoE Official Warns of Crypto’s Dire Future
BoE Official Warns of Crypto’s Dire Future
May 17, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Jon Cunliffe, Bank of England deputy governor, said investors in crypto should expect harder times, Reuters wrote Tuesday (May 17). Get the Full Story Complete...

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Data Platform Nansen Buys DeFi Portfolio Tracker Ape Board
Data Platform Nansen Buys DeFi Portfolio Tracker Ape Board
May 17, 2022  |  Partnerships

Nansen, the on-chain data platform, has bought decentralized finance (DeFi) portfolio tracker Ape Board, for what a report said is an eight-figure sum, Yahoo wrote...

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