Marie Huillet

The city of Shenzhen has launched the third round of its central bank digital currency pilot in the form of a promotional lottery scheme offering residents handouts during local festivities.

A representative for the Jack Ma Foundation confirmed to reporters that the businessman had “participated in the online ceremony of the annual Rural Teacher initiative event on January 20.”

The U.K.'s National Health Service will implement an IoT solution built on the public distributed ledger network Hedera Hashgraph in order to monitor the storage of its COVID-19 vaccine supplies.

A palladium fund founded by Norilsk Nickel will launch exchange-traded commodities for metals custodied using blockchain at the Deutsche Börse and London Stock Exchange.

Beginning in April, the electronics giant and university R&D team will evaluate and tweak the new trading system's performance before commercialization.

The world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel is joining a multi-stakeholder initiative that uses blockchain technology.

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital is launching its own Bitcoin mining operations and creating a new business unit dedicated to providing financial services to miners.

The perils of inaccessible digital wealth — potentially lost forever — are being all the more keenly felt during the 2021 bull market.

In a recent interview, Lagarde said that Bitcoin has been used to conduct "funny business" and "totally reprehensible money laundering activity."

The celebrity was commissioned to record a promotional video for cryptocurrency in which she forecast new all-time price highs for Bitcoin and Ether.

The fund manager had temporarily stopped taking on new investors in late December but has now resumed for almost all crypto trusts.

Ubrich GmbH is providing a solution using Iota to the Frankfurt Airport coronavirus testing center.

Reports last week had claimed that Nexon was poised to acquire the exchange at an evaluated price of roughly $460 million.

Mike Novogratz claims that many people bought Bitcoin after the last round of federal stimulus checks and thinks they're likely to again.

Coinbase Ventures, PayPal Ventures and Winkelvoss Capital have all invested in cryptocurrency tax automation software provider TaxBit.

South Korean media has reported that Nexon, a multi-billion dollar conglomerate led by CEO Kim Seong-Ju, plans to acquire the country's largest cryptocurrency exchange.

Ripple's woes multiply as Blockchain.com becomes the latest exchange to suspend trading of XRP.

Strategists at the American megabank believe the cryptocurrency has a chance to hit $146,000 in future years if it can evolve into a compelling alternative to gold.

Winners of the city's lottery will have 10 days to spend their gifted digital currency at any of 10,000 supported merchants.

After an earlier attempt, China Construction Bank has gone back to the drawing board with new partners and a new proof-of-concept for a blockchain-based bond.

The draft resolution reportedly notes that digital currencies are likely to replace paper currencies in the future.

The Financial Times scorns Nigel Farage for his apparently predictable embrace of libertarian cryptocurrency influencers.

Samson Mow, chief strategy officer at Blockstream, says Bitcoin was never about “transactions per second and coffee,” but about value and a “new financial paradigm.”

The mandatory license will allow Crypto.com to issue crypto debit cards in Australia.

New, small-scale research from Xangle takes a look at investors’ reflections on their initial coin offering investments between 2017 and fall 2020.

Ian Rogers, newly appointed as a chief experience officer at Ledger, says digital assets are moving from “science fiction” to the mainstream.

The new entity is called Huobi Labuan, and its brokerage license allows it to offer crypto spot and derivatives trading for an initial nine-month trial period.

Court filings from Nov. 19 show that a large volume of crypto assets, including Bitcoin and Ether, was seized from seven convicts in the PlusToken case.

The U.S.-based exchange has told users that they may experience some intermittent delays or errors while transacting.

Major cryptocurrency exchange OKEx resumed all withdrawals at 8:00 am UTC on Nov. 26, but users already appear to be pulling out their funds, fast.