The slideshow, published for a Wednesday meeting, says other uses such as paying taxes, receiving welfare payments, or even paying in physical stores would only follow in a later, second tranche of developments for the central bank digital currency (CBDC). Source
Meanwhile, Metalpha and Litecoin Foundation added they will work with universities and research institutions to further sustainable blockchain innovation, support public education around the Litecoin network, and improve network awareness, adoption, and scalability. Source
“Half of my life ago, with my head full of computer graphics lore and visions of a satirical cyberpunk future, I sat down to write ‘Snow Crash,’” Stephenson said in the press release. “Covered with hand-written edits and typesetting notes that have since been rendered obsolete by digital codes, it bridges the era during which video games and the Internet became ubiquitous in our lives.” Source
Following the GK8 acquisition, Galaxy Digital plans to integrate the service with its GalaxyOne prime brokerage platform. According to reports, Galaxy Digital has completed the $44 million acquisition of GK8, an institutional self-custody platform. The GK8 acquisition comes more than two months after Galaxy Digital secured the rights to buy the then-Celsius asset. Following the acquisition, GK8 solutions would still be accessible to the market. However, Galaxy Digital plans to integrate the self-custody platform’s tech with its own incoming prime brokerage platform, GalaxyOne. Potential Benefits of Galaxy Digital GK8 Acquisition By building…
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DZ Bank, Germany’s second-largest bank in terms of asset size, will fully integrate digital currencies into its asset management services in collaboration with the digital asset firm Metaco. According to the announcement sent to Cointelegraph, DZ Bank selected Metaco’s custody platform Harmonize to offer digital currencies to its institutional clients. Nils Christopeit, an executive at DZ Bank, said that the Metaco Harmonize platform suits their requirements in terms of security and scalability. “With the offering, we can build by using this technology, we trust to create a durable and fast-growing…
This is the fourth such partnership Metaco has made with major financial institutions in eight months. Source
Minnesota Representative Tom Emmer has introduced legislation in the United States House of Representatives that could limit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. In a Feb. 22 announcement, Representative Emmer said he had introduced the ‘CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act’ in an apparent effort to protect Americans’ right to financial privacy. According to the Minnesota lawmaker, the bill could prohibit the Fed from issuing a digital dollar “directly to anyone”, bar the central bank from implementing monetary policy based on a CBDC, and require transparency…
Chaos Labs said that it will use these funds to boost the security of the DeFi protocols through its services like capital efficiency and risk optimization, streamlined risk assessments, spend optimizations, and much more. Despite these tumultuous times in the market, crypto firms continue to secure fresh funding. On Tuesday, February 21, Chaos Labs announced securing $20 million in funding led by PayPal and Galaxy Digital. Chaos Labs Funding The funding round also saw participation from other market players like Coinbase, Lightspeed, Uniswap, Bessemer, Hashkey and top investors such as…
The Bank of Japan is preparing to launch a pilot test for a digital yen, its central bank digital currency (CBDC), later this year. Shinichi Uchida, executive director of the Bank of Japan, explained that the goals of this new pilot are to test the technical feasibility of the currency and to include private businesses in its design process. Bank of Japan to Continue Digital Yen CBDC Experimentation The Bank of Japan is advancing in its research for the issuance of a hypothetical Japanese central bank digital currency (CBDC), the…