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This Week in Web3: Blockchain Looks to Create, Not Just Store, Real-World Value
This Week in Web3: Blockchain Looks to Create, Not Just Store, Real-World Value
August 14, 2024  |  Blockchain

Blockchain, at this point a significant industry, perpetually appears to be on the verge of mainstream acceptance. Its promise of delivering benefits such as easier...

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Mastercard and MetaMask Team to Launch Crypto-to-Fiat Card
Mastercard and MetaMask Team to Launch Crypto-to-Fiat Card
August 14, 2024  |  Cryptocurrency

Mastercard has launched a crypto-to-fiat card with Web3/blockchain platform MetaMask and cryptocurrency payments firm Baanx. The MetaMask Card, announced Wednesday (Aug. 14), lets MetaMask wallet...

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Fed Action Against Customers Bank Underscores Crypto’s Challenges
Fed Action Against Customers Bank Underscores Crypto’s Challenges
August 12, 2024  |  Cryptocurrency

Despite the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, Web3 businesses need banking partners. But on Thursday (Aug. 8), news broke that Pennsylvania-based Customers...

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OwlTing Integrates Digital Wallet With Stellar Blockchain
OwlTing Integrates Digital Wallet With Stellar Blockchain
August 02, 2024  |  Mobile Wallets

OwlTing Group integrated its digital wallet, OwlPay Wallet Pro, with the Stellar blockchain to support the USDC stablecoin on Stellar. The integration will expand the...

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California Puts Car Titles On-Chain in Push for Blockchain Usability
California Puts Car Titles On-Chain in Push for Blockchain Usability
July 31, 2024  |  Blockchain

Fraud detection and prevention are among the many promises blockchain technology holds. But unlike certain other far-from-realized promises, the security of on-chain digitization is finding...

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Web3 This Week: BlackRock CEO Calls Bitcoin ‘Legitimate,’ Mainstream Off-Ramps Grow
Web3 This Week: BlackRock CEO Calls Bitcoin ‘Legitimate,’ Mainstream Off-Ramps Grow
July 17, 2024  |  Blockchain

Traditional financial operations are centralized, regulated and audited. Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are, well, pretty much the opposite, relying instead on cryptographic algorithms and decentralized...

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Visa and Wirex Partner on Digital Currency Use in Europe, UK
Visa and Wirex Partner on Digital Currency Use in Europe, UK
July 15, 2024  |  Connected Economy

 Visa has teamed with WireX to promote the use of digital currencies in Europe and the UK. “This collaboration will explore new opportunities to leverage...

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Instant Payments Versus Stablecoins: The Race to Rule Real-Time Transactions
Instant Payments Versus Stablecoins: The Race to Rule Real-Time Transactions
July 11, 2024  |  Payment Methods

The future of money movement is accelerating globally. With real-time payments on the U.S. RTP® Network and in Europe setting new usage records, and awareness...

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Payments, Penalties and TradFi Adoption Define This Week in Web3
Payments, Penalties and TradFi Adoption Define This Week in Web3
July 10, 2024  |  Blockchain

Crypto is as crypto does. And crypto is, by all appearances, trying to do better. The European Union’s (EU) landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets Act (MiCA)...

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