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DECEMBER 13, 2024

dollar-pegged stablecoins like USDT and USDC primarily dominate the cryptocurrency topography. Operating on Ethereum and other blockchain networks, XSGD boasts a market cap exceeding $18 million. With a market cap of $4.8 Traditionally, U.S. It serves as a stablecoin for international trade involving Chinese businesses.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Blockchain is now an official word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Of course, the FinTech industry doesn’t have to look it up, but the dictionary now defines blockchain as a technology that enables the keeping of records of financial transactions in a digital database as part of a publicly accessible network.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

New York, NY, September 3rd, 2024, Chainwire Forgd , a token advisory and optimization platform, announced the launch of its free-to-use web platform, which provides blockchain projects unrestricted access to tools for tokenomics design, liquidity monitoring, cap table management, and financial planning.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Blockchain , the crypto wallet provider, plans to have an airdrop worth $125 million, Fortune reported. Through the cryptocurrency giveaway, each recipient would receive around the equivalent of around $25 in Stellar. Stellar has an approximate $5 billion market cap and No. 6 biggest digital currency.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

KuCoin , a digital currency exchange based in Singapore, has rolled out support for the trading of the Ripple XRP cryptocurrency, Cryptovest reported. KuCoin’s rollout comes as XRP and Ethereum are constantly vying for digital currency market cap, with XRP pulling ahead of Ethereum in November to become the number-two most valuable token.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Coverage includes New York lawmakers seeking to put a cap on ridesharing services, states working to embrace blockchain , Hawaii saving money by converting some functions to digital, new data from the Federal Reserve and Starbucks clearing up the confusion over cryptocurrency.

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MARCH 5, 2018

Blockchain supply chain management and cryptocurrency company VeChain is rebranding to VeChain Thor, and has confirmed a partnership with BMW that helped land a strong market capitalization. The news boosted its market capitalization by 2.41 percent to $2.2 billion, reports said on Saturday. According to Stock News Times , about $57.28

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JANUARY 30, 2019

News comes that a number of high-powered bastions of higher learning have banded together to bring cryptocurrencies to the mainstream, in a way that bitcoin seemingly cannot, eyeing scale and processing speed. — might academics succeed where entrepreneurs have not, at least so far?

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 26, 2025

” Within just four months of launching FDUSD, the token achieved a market cap exceeding $1billion, becoming the second most traded stablecoin on centralised exchanges, with the highest single-day trading volume exceeding $23billion.

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MARCH 13, 2018

In the developed world of workers in the United States and Europe, the ability to be paid in cryptocurrency probably would not add all that much to their daily life. Bitwage, as a platform, specializes in paying workers in cryptocurrency – originally bitcoin , but eventually Ethereum as well. A Natural Evolution.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

The conference will take place on September 18-19, 2024, gathering key players from the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors worldwide. Volodymyr Nosov, founder and CEO of WhiteBIT, commented on the partnership: “Collaborating with TOKEN2049 underscores our commitment to driving blockchain innovation forward.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

One year after bitcoin topped $19,400, the popular cryptocurrency rallied on Monday (December 17) and broke through the $3,400 level, CNBC reported. According some reports, the cryptocurrency had its best day since the end of last month. And it noted that ethereum still has a higher price and bigger market cap.

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JUNE 15, 2018

In an effort that could lead to greater efficiency and lower prices, Walmart is looking into a system that would let households manage their electricity bills through cryptocurrency. Such a structure would work over a public blockchain, CoinDesk reported. It would encrypt and divide the payment using blockchain technology.

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JULY 20, 2017

Cryptocurrency Ethereum price has jumped more than 50 percent, recovering from losses over the last several days. According to a report , not only did the cryptocurrency that competes against bitcoin have its biggest percent gain during the past 24 hours, but it also had double the volume of bitcoin.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

The country’s state bank ruled that all cryptocurrency, not just Bitcoin, was an invalid form of payment. The financial authority released a statement last week declaring cryptocurrency an illegal, non-cash payment method. According to a statement from Martowardojo, users of cryptocurrency “would be dealt with.”

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The market capitalization of bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, declined to under $100 billion for the first time since October of 2017 amid a steep sell-off in digital tokens Wednesday (November 14). According to a report in CNBC citing Coinmarketcap.com, the market cap of bitcoin was at $98,194,458,586 overnight.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

Rising up over the last few decades, the latest to possibly join the bubble club has come in the form of cryptocurrencies. In a sense, digital currencies began via online payments, which have then shifted into the creation of cryptocurrency like bitcoin, Ethereum and dogecoin. The supply of a cryptocurrency is fixed in a very hard way.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Diehards, however, are still crying “ hodl ” — the cryptocurrency community’s rallying cry, inspired by an enthusiastic misspelling of “hold” in a 2013 Reddit thread. Hodlers have hodled through a hard fork in the blockchain, which spawned Bitcoin Cash on Aug. percent this week. This week, U.K.’s Like the FCA said: highly speculative.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

The attractiveness of blockchain as a distribution method has been well documented, with the immutability of recording transactions and the relative anonymity of the parties as big selling points. In a report from the bank, blockchain may hold risk if it is misused. But, Kenya’s central bank has sounded a note of caution.

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MARCH 27, 2018

When it comes to blockchain technology, there’s a lot of hype. Now some public companies are pivoting away from their core products — be that cameras, diagnostic machinery, or even iced tea — to adopt new blockchain strategies. Live briefing: BLOCKCHAIN TRENDS IN 2018. Longfin corp.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 13, 2024

It is a concept written into the cryptocurrency’s algorithm to counteract inflation. When Bitcoin was initially introduced in 2009, each time a miner added a new block to the blockchain, they were rewarded with 50 BTC. BTC per successful addition to the blockchain following the May 2020 halving. Miners now get 6.25

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The Fintech Times

MAY 10, 2024

Its new crypto offering hopes to become the go-to financial app for crypto beginners and pros alike – by providing a safe and accessible place to trade cryptocurrencies. Following the launch of the new crypto platform, Revolut hopes to compete with leading exchanges by offering easy on and off-ramping, and low fees.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

What can you say about a cryptocurrency that shows a meteoric rise, surging more than 80 percent in a day? Beyond that, we’re talking about cryptocurrencies, so the question must be posed, as always, when separating hope from hype: Is it different this time? That maybe … you wished you had some in hand?

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MARCH 16, 2018

The blockchain startup, which describes itself as a supply chain automated distributed autonomous organization (DAO) is gearing up for an ICO slated to begin in July of this year. Those smart contracts based on Ethereum blockchain , said the executive, can be used to satisfy and settle payment terms, liens and to ascertain invoice status.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The partnership will encourage Taringa users to share content and receive cryptocurrency rewards in return. The RIF token, which was introduced in November of last year, has a market cap of $46 million. RSK, a subsidiary of IOVLabs, is self-described as the “first open-source, smart contract platform secured by the bitcoin network.”.

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MAY 14, 2019

Bitcoin, that marquee name in cryptocurrency, has seen its price swell by roughly that 60 percent number through the last few weeks, to about $8,000. Bitcoin got a huge jump on Monday (May 13), up 25 percent on the day, though there was no news specific to the cryptocurrency. As that happens, miners get 12.5

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MAY 26, 2017

Here are some of the numbers behind the cryptocurrency. 10 | Transactions included in one data block of bitcoin’s Satoshi blockchain. Because the miners who validate them can’t start on a new block until the previous one is finished, this cap has been creating a massive backlog. 182% | Increase in bitcoin value in 2017.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Though the cryptocurrency flirted with higher numbers, bitcoin mostly settled just above or below $1,000 for the first half of the month — likely while investors waited to see how the whole Chinese exchange investigation storyline would pan out. The bitcoin market cap was over $18.5 On Thursday (Feb.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Bitcoin was built using a tech called blockchain to create a global, distributed ledger of transactions. What is blockchain technology? Become an expert on blockchain in this live briefing. We’ll provide the definitions and analogies you need to know for bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and more.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

All told, about $9 billion has been wiped off XRP’s market cap in the last few sessions. Consider the fact that Stellar bought blockchain startup Chain in a cash deal, a transaction that has created Interstellar. Notably, WSJ said McCaleb has to have Ripple’s approval to make changes to, and sell above, the cap.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

The Wall Street Journal reports that cryptocurrency firms are laying off employees, a survival tactic in a world where crypto prices have crashed in some instances by more than 85 percent. Similarly, the blockchain venture firm ConsenSys has announced that it will lay off 13 percent of its own roster. The anecdotes abound.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Its resilience and forward-thinking approach have enabled the adoption of cutting-edge technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and quantum computing , reshaping financial services and setting new benchmarks for innovation. As 2025 approaches, this momentum continues to intensify.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 13, 2025

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has granted Ripple , the enterprise blockchain and crypto solution provider, approval to provide regulated crypto payments and services in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).

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MARCH 26, 2025

Due to its high security, scalability, speed and growing ecosystem across Latin America, Arbitrum is the foundational blockchain partner and initial network where MXNB growth will be pursued. It is fully backed by the equivalent value in Mexican pesos, and the reserves are regularly audited by third parties to ensure transparency and trust.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 4, 2025

Jack McDonald, SVP of stablecoins at Ripple We’re seeing the market cap continue to grow, outpacing our internal projections. Provide collateralisation for trading tokenised real-world assets such as commodities, securities, and treasuries onchain.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

The alternative crypto inspired by a dog meme now has a $2 billion market cap, as noted by Business Insider and other sources. Separately, Bloomberg reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission halted transactions in UBI Blockchain Internet Ltd., based in Hong Kong – whose shares were up 900 percent last year.

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MARCH 28, 2018

Bitcoin fell below the $8,000 level on Tuesday (March 27), CCN reported – and the cryptocurrency market as a whole could fall below a market cap of $300 million. The technology would use cryptocurrency – in what has been dubbed a Cooperatively Managed Merge and Pass (CMMP) system – to allow communication between vehicles.

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