South Korea to Pilot CBDC With 100,000 Citizens in 2024: Report
The Bank of Korea sees a CBDC as a potential answer to problems with existing government-issued grant systems, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic or childcare vouchers
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Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank to Roll Out Crypto Trading for Retail Customers in January
The bank will start its crypto services to customers in Vienna in partnership with Bitpanda.
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BONK’s Market-Beating Price Surge at Risk as Binance Lists Perpetual Futures Tied to the Token
Historically, the exchange’s decision to list perpetual contracts tied to smaller tokens has marked major price tops for the those cryptocurrencies.
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Bitcoin Supply Inactive For a Year Hits Record High of 70%
It appears bitcoin holders are not planning on offloading inventory at these price levels or any time soon, one observer said.
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Binance’s Ex-CEO CZ ‘Poses a Serious Risk of Flight,’ Prosecutors Claim in Asking He Stay in U.S.
Zhao pleaded guilty to one charge of violating the Bank Secrecy Act on Tuesday.
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KyberSwap DEX Hacked for $48 Million, Attacker Teases Negotiations
The decentralized exchange had over $80 million in total value locked before the incident.
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Bitcoin’s Anti-Censorship Ethos Surfaces After Mining Pool F2Pool Acknowledges ‘Filter’
After a blockchain sleuth reported that the Bitcoin mining pool may have censored a transaction from an address blacklisted by U.S. authorities, critics responded, and so did the project’s co-founder.
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Bitcoin and Crypto Markets Shake Off Binance News, Turn Higher for Week
Analysts suggest the Binance deal may have cleared the decks for the long-awaited U.S. spot bitcoin ETF.
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Tokenization and Real-World Assets Take Center Stage
Blue-chip institutions including Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan are trialing digital asset offerings, seeking cost savings and efficiencies.
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Why On-Chain Transaction Is the Key Blockchain Indicator
The metric helps investors and users to understand whether a blockchain is going to merely survive, or thrive, says Todd Groth, head of research at CoinDesk Indices