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Chinese multinational tech group ByteDance is seeking a virtual banking license in Singapore as a means of entering digital finance.

Crypto pundits believe that central bank digital currencies based on public-private partnerships could see the light of day much sooner, as many solutions under development use the approach.

It’s designed to capture attention from high-profile people that others want to hear from.

Alipay is seeking to lure 44 million merchants with mini programs to expand services for the firm’s 900 million users.

The new Coronavirus outbreak has pushed Chinese officials to track individual citizens by their medicine purchases, which presents major ramifications for crypto.

The world’s largest diamond mining firm, Alrosa, has partnered with Tencent, the operator of Chinese social media giant WeChat, on a new blockchain-powered e-commerce project.

The Weibo accounts of Binance and the Tron Foundation are blocked, while those of Huobi and OKEx are still available.

WeChat Pay stores payment receipts on the blockchain, says Binance CEO.

Facebook’s Libra stablecoin would be a serious threat to WeChat Pay, the payment service’s parent company Tencent admitted in a recent blockchain whitepaper.

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has begun accepting fiat currencies through online payment service Alipay and mobile messaging and payment app WeChat.

BitTorrent, a company known for its file transfer service, is testing its blockchain-based live streaming platform with an intended launch in Q1 2020.

Binance launched its own stablecoin project, but faces stiff competition from Libra and the Chinese government in its quest...

Beijing’s state-issued offering might also help keep funds flowing into bank deposits, mainstream media reports.

In the wake of CCN’s Google saga, CT looks at which centralized companies have been hostile to crypto firms in the past.

Chaum says he believes the real killer app for blockchain and crypto will be privacy-oriented messaging systems integrated with payments.