Fintech Review

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The alliance aims to drive innovation and growth of the Stablecoin and Real-World Asset (RWA) ecosystem Deep Blue is an issuance platform for Stablecoins bringing best-in-class practices and best partners in both digital assets and traditional finance, enabling users to operate across multiple use cases.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Paxos, a regulated blockchain and digital asset solutions provider, now supports Chainlink’s PayPal USD (PYUSD) price feed on the Ethereum mainnet. This collaboration aims to streamline the adoption of PYUSD, a USD-backed stablecoin issued by Paxos under PayPal’s banner.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 7, 2024

Ripple , the blockchain and crypto solution provider, is partnering with the Dubai International Financial Centre’s (DIFC) Innovation Hub, to accelerate blockchain and digital assets innovation in the UAE. It also plans to provide financial, technical, and business support to developers.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This partnership is set to empower African communities, governments, and businesses, and represents a significant step toward realising the shared goal of financial inclusion and economic advancement across Africa, with blockchain and decentralised finance at the forefront of this transformation.

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The Payments Association

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

At its core, De-Fi is characterised by its use of blockchain technology and smart contracts to facilitate financial transactions without needing intermediaries. Major use cases include liquid staking and money lending, primarily supporting crypto investments. As of June 2024, stablecoins accounted for 6.5%

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The Payments Association

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Web3 is transforming finance with blockchain, digital assets, and smart contracts, paving the way for a decentralised future. The signals of this steadily emerging new reality are all around us. The Web3 future is quickly taking shape, primarily driven by innovative leaps in financial services.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2024

BVNK will integrate USDC more deeply into its payment offerings, enabling businesses to leverage USDC’s speed and stability for a variety of payment use cases. USDC is a fully reserved dollar stablecoin backed 100% by liquid cash and cash-equivalent assets and is redeemable 1:1 for US dollars. trillion in June 2024.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has launched a new tool providing real-time data and educational resources on digital money with an initial focus on stablecoins. The stablecoin market has surged from less than $3billion in 2019 to more than $130billion in 2024.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As more firms look to enter the blockchain and decentralised space, easy integrations and the ability to develop applications are an absolute must. Axelar network’s integration with the XRPL aims to help bolster the XRPL DeFi ecosystem by providing essential liquidity for stablecoins and large-cap assets.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 1, 2024

However, the idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency is slowly falling by the wayside as different use cases are emerging and being rapidly adopted. We will: Explore the biggest innovations over the past year in the cryptocurrency, stablecoin, blockchain and digital assets spheres.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The age of digital currencies might be fully upon us, but key questions swirl about how to issue and regulate cryptos – especially stablecoins. Bitcoin and other offerings have not yet evolved into real alternatives to sovereign monetary activities, but stablecoins present challenges. In a paper that debuted Tuesday (Nov.

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Fintech Finance

AUGUST 21, 2024

Yellow Card , Africa’s leading stablecoin on/off ramp, has announced that it is integrating digital asset infrastructure provider Fireblocks to improve cross-border transactions for both businesses and individuals.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Blockchain companies raised more venture capital and private equity funding in H1’21 than any full year in history. download our best of blockchain research. download our best of blockchain research. But blockchain’s potential extends well beyond crypto and NFTs. First name. Company name. Phone number.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Huawei has created a technology based on the blockchain to help the Beijing government more effectively monitor and supervise citizen information, CoinDesk reported. Moreover, the cloud services arm of Huawei has fueled the project with blockchain innovations like distributed ledgers.

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CoinRemitter

JUNE 26, 2024

The impact of blockchain technology is visible across various industries worldwide. Today, blockchain integration in business is not just a trend but a strategic move. Blockchain’s decentralized nature offers immense opportunities for businesses to streamline their operations and unlock new opportunities to increase their profits.

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The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Bridging the worlds of fiat currencies and blockchain, Visa , the digital payments firm, has launched its new Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP). The new Visa product is designed to help financial institutions issue and manage fiat-backed tokens on blockchain networks.

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Fintech Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Issued through Circle’s regulated entities, USDC is the largest regulated dollar-backed stablecoin in the industry with over a $35 billion market cap, as of September 17, 2024. The presence of multiple native stablecoins on Sui fuels a diverse, secure, and scalable platform for building the future of intelligent assets.

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Fintech Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Web3 Foundation , in partnership with Scytale Digital , has led the seed funding round for Hyperbridge , a groundbreaking protocol poised to transform blockchain interoperability. Million Seed Investment in Hyperbridge to Build the End-Game for Blockchain Interoperability on Polkadot appeared first on Fintech Review.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

PYMNTS examines the latest initiatives that look to improve upon existing rails, or embrace new ones like blockchain and RTP. In a statement, First Horizon noted that the service addresses the growing demand for accelerated payments across a range of use cases, including payroll and commission payouts.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This massive market, which includes a broad range of financial “plumbing” services, could be poised for a blockchain shake-up. But a growing number of companies want to employ distributed ledger technology (DLT) — which uses tech like blockchain to offer a simpler, streamlined way to verify transactions — to upend this status quo.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) — which uses tech like blockchain to verify transactions without the need for a centralized authority — is gaining traction as a way to revamp capital markets infrastructure by making it more streamlined, improving transparency, and reducing associated fees. Please click to enlarge.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 16, 2024

However, the idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency is slowly falling by the wayside as different use cases are emerging and being rapidly adopted. We’ve seen more and more use cases across many different fields, for example, finance, social media and games.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 26, 2024

However, the idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency is slowly falling by the wayside as different use cases are emerging and being rapidly adopted. The potential use cases and benefits for users are hazy at best. In recent years, digital currencies have been all the rave.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 2, 2019

Walmart has filed a patent application for a digital currency that, like Facebook's Libra, would be a stablecoin backed by traditional currencies. And it envisions a very specific use case where its coin could stand in for cash — or even for a bank account.

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Fintech News

MAY 27, 2024

Trialed Digital Tenge use cases include wholesale cross-border CBDC transactions with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, CBDC vouchers for school meals, smart contracts designed to safeguard public funds allocated for road construction, and Digital Tenge stablecoins on the Binance cryptocurrency exchange.

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Circle, the issuer of the US-dollar-backed stablecoin USDC, has plans to work alongside Fuze to expand the adoption of USDC amongst new customers in the region, such as banks, fintechs, traditional enterprises and Web3 firms.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 29, 2024

The idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency has been slowly dispelled, as new use cases emerge and are rapidly adopted across the globe. The digital currency landscape in the MEA region is diverse, with a vast number of companies offering services to meet a variety of use cases and needs.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Advancements in blockchain analytics and crime prevention technologies have been pivotal in identifying and combating illicit activities. In addition, stablecoins have emerged as the preferred medium for a significant portion of these illicit activities, driven by their perceived stability and ease of use. billion (SG$20.06

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This year’s blockchain craze has pushed a huge amount of new money into cryptocurrencies, private blockchain projects, and companies holding initial coin offerings (ICOs). Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review. Track the blockchain companies in this brief and many more on our platform. Track Blockchain Startups.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 22, 2024

However, the idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency is slowly falling by the wayside as different use cases are emerging and being rapidly adopted. “There’s clear utility and importantly, payments are a critical entry point to many other financial use cases.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It’s a self-proclaimed blockchain city. Dubai is gearing up for payments via digital coin through a concerted effort between the government and blockchain payments provider Pundi X , with hardware rolling out and a state-created cryptocurrency. The crypto itself is billed as a stablecoin equivalent of the UAE dirham.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This speaks more to an investment strategy (asset diversification, for example), we contend, than as a pivot toward using cryptos in the service of commerce. Toward that end, and more mainstream use cases, getting the rails in place to speed and streamline transactions, regardless of the cryptocurrency used, remains key.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

While the prices of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets have fallen from their 2017 peaks, equity investment into blockchain startups is on pace to hit all-time highs in 2018. THE FUTURE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECH. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology. in February.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Crypto boosters have spent the better part of the past decade promoting the idea that great fiat-currency disruptions are coming care of blockchain and literally hundreds of thousands of variations of cryptocurrency circulating in the world today. The Broader Blockchain Horizon. Crypto’s Path To Spendability.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

He said he regretted calling bitcoin a fraud, and that the blockchain was a genuinely interesting technology with potential. However Dimon feels about bitcoin these days, JPMC apparently isn’t feeling quite as dimly about the future of blockchain and crypto as its CEO once did. Yesterday (Feb. 14), it became the first major U.S.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 9, 2024

While the potential is evident, practical applications for digital currencies and blockchain technology are still emerging. Upsurge of Blockchain and DLT Applications Originally brought into the spotlight by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, blockchain technology is now making significant inroads into traditional financial systems.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Building The (Retail) Use Cases. Part of the enthusiasm from investors comes as use cases have proliferated. Blockchain is taking root as the underlying infrastructure of digital currency issuance, and a broad swath of central banks are examining issuing digital fiat. Over the summer, the U.S.

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