“The sham referenda organized in the territories that Russia occupied are an illegal attempt to grab land and to change international borders by force,” European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told reporters today, following votes held over the last five days in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Source
“We want our 100 million customers to know that we really take their money and their data seriously,” he said in an interview with CoinDesk. Source
The AQUA marketplace will highlight featured games and already has partnerships with three titles, including God’s Unchained and Guild of Guardians. New titles will be added every month. AQUA is built on Immutable X, the game-focused layer 2 blockchain, but plans to expand to additional chains where strong games are being built. Source
Cunliffe highlighted the opportunities of using DLT technology for trade and post-trade settlements, which encapsulates all the processes that follow a trade. For instance, DLT allows both equities and debt instruments to be combined in a single ledger and facilitate instant trades. Smart contracts, which are programmable to execute different functions, offer “the potential to add layers of additional functionality and features,” Cunliffe said. Source
“Fue terrible cuando todo colapsó”, comentó. “Cuando un token pasa de 20 centavos a US$100 y no se aprovechan las ganancias, es una locura”. El problema fue la falta de una “metodología de gestión de riesgo” para muchos de los inversores minoristas que compraron con entusiasmo el token mientras iba subiendo. Source
Backpack, a forthcoming project from Solana developer Coral, will give users ownership of application code. Source
“Integrating the Ecosystem into the Delphia asset management platform will enable us to further incentivize people to share their data and increase the overall value of the data for those investing with Delphia,” said company CEO Andrew Peek. “The Ecosystem, as well as PHI, provide our investors with what we think is the best way to leverage their proprietary data and increase their returns,” he added. Source
Amazon, which will look into the use of CBDC’s in e-commerce, is the only non-EU company included in the selection, which also comprises payment companies Nexi and Worldline, Spain’s CaixaBank (CABK), and the European Payments Initiative, a consortium of euro area banks. Source
Regarding criticism around corruptible judges, Daniel Goldman, an engineer at Ethereum scaling company Offchain Labs, noted, “Those outcrying against this seem unaware of how many widely used ERC-20 tokens today have centralized admins with *complete* power to arbitrarily rug its holders (mint, burn, freeze, etc.) and get little-to-no pushback for it.” Source
The exchange joins other crypto platforms like Binance and Luno that recently obtained similar approvals in France. Source