Day: April 17, 2023

Ripple-based MoneyTap adopted by three Japanese banks

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Ripple-based payment system MoneyTap continues growing in Japan, with several local banks opening access to the application for their clients. SBI Remit, the remittance-focused arm of the Japanese financial services conglomerate SBI Holdings, has added support of its mobile MoneyTap application to three local banks, including Yamaguchi Bank, Momiji Bank and Kitakyushu Bank, SBI Remit announced on April 17. Yamaguchi is a major regional bank in Japan, featuring 156 branches and offices in Japan and four overseas locations. Kitakyushu Bank is a subsidiary of Yamaguchi Financial Group and has operated…

Ether (ETH) Price Shoots 11-Month High despite Over 1M Withdrawals

Ethereum has delivered an extremely strong performance by gaining more than 10% since the Shapella upgrade. Ether (ETH) has successfully delivered a very strong performance shooting past $2,100 levels and hitting a new 11-month high. As of press time, ETH is trading at $2,087.83 with a market cap of $249 billion. This strong price performance comes despite more than 1 million ETH being withdrawn from the Ethereum Beacon Chain just within the first four days of the Shanghai hardfork upgrade. Furthermore, all of these withdrawals happened from nearly 477,805 transactions…

Stablecoins Gain Traction as Inflationary Shield in Latin America With Growth in Europe

Meanwhile, central, northern and western Europe are the largest crypto economies worldwide thanks to DeFi, non-fungible tokens and increasing regulatory clarity, with a lower daily usage for stablecoins. “The new regulation affects all players such as service providers, token and stablecoin issuers who need to apply for licenses to operate and a published white paper,” Carrascosa said about the EU’s recently approved MiCA regulation. “Regulatory demands increase for stablecoin issuers that become ‘relevant’ to supervisors,” she added. Source

Recapturing Purpose in Crypto – CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023

What the CryptoX team looked for are innovative ideas, convincing proposals or evidence of success, and talented, committed people. Moreover, the problems the projects were aiming to solve had to be real, and the remedies needed. They could not just be a crypto version of something that is adequately managed in traditional finance, for instance, or purely meant for speculation or fun. Source CoinDesksCryptoProjectspurposeRecapturingWatch CryptoX Portal

Why the collapse of CeFi institutions proves crypto’s core pillars

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The crypto space endured a series of unfortunate events in 2022, beginning with the Terra debacle and ending with FTX’s chaotic death spiral. These events heightened consumer skepticism and hesitancy toward crypto platforms; yet, the industry is holding steady today. The market is even trending upwards at the time of writing. Crypto’s current potential trajectory toward a recovery signals two key takeaways: The space is resilient and here to stay, despite multiple setbacks. Secondly, centralized, or CeFi entities (such as exchanges or trading and lending platforms), have proven they can be a…

What DeFi Must Sacrifice to Appease Regulators

The solution is called the “internet financial system,” or IFS, which combines the best of DeFi and traditional finance (TradFi) in one unified network. An idea championed first by Chris Burniske, IFS is built on open crypto rails and preserves blockchain’s most important attributes such as decentralized settlement, self-custody, transparency and composability. Source

Centralized Stablecoins Are Problematic. Is a Decentralized Alternative on the Way?

An obvious, but so far intractable, solution to this problem would be a decentralized stablecoin. Or ideally stablecoins. Unfortunately, most of the top DeFi-native stablecoins depegged along with USDC, a centralized and censorable asset that makes up a significant portion of supposedly decentralized asset’s backing. LUSD, for instance, tied to the Liquity protocol, has been the most successful, truly decentralized stablecoin – unfortunately, it’s not that stable (it was trading above $1.01 at time of writing). Source

Peer-to-peer crypto exchanges struggle to navigate shifting legal landscape

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A peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency exchange is an online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC). The platform enables them to conduct direct business with one another without the need for intermediaries.  When purchasing cryptocurrency on a P2P exchange, a buyer transfers the agreed-upon amount from their account to the seller. The payment is not made between a consumer and a money services company but between two distinct customers. P2P exchanges were once the lifeline of the crypto ecosystem, owing to the ease of exchange and privacy…

The need for real, viable data in AI

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is undeniably a hot technology at the moment, with the industry projected to be worth $22.6 billion by 2025. Over the past year, everyday people saw AI-generated images and filters across social media as well as Open AI’s tools, ChatGPT and DALL-E, explode seemingly overnight.  While AI shows significant signs of promise, it still has a long way to go before companies and consumers can seriously rely on it for important tasks. For example, ChatGPT is able to formulate text, but it is not advanced enough to…