Crypto adoption has increased 23-fold globally over the past year with India, Pakistan and Ukraine driving the surge.
“Central banks are considering a variety of [multi-CBDC] arrangements,” BIS researchers wrote.
Big Chinese miners are likely to survive the crackdown.
China’s reiterated crypto ban sharpens the focus on the financial sector.
Tightening regulations have unnerved some crypto miners in China.
The four funds will buy bitcoin, ether and equity in crypto or mining firms.
Iran has been clamping down on mining farms, but it also wants to use crypto mining to boost the sanctioned nation's revenue stream.
Russian government officials must dispose of any digital asset holdings before April 1.
The Chinese police appear to have intensified their crackdown on crypto exchanges’ OTC trading services in the last year.
Russia's largest retail bank has applied to become a licensed digital assets issuer.
The U.K.-registered EXMO exchange is one of the many crypto startups to go through the FCA approval process. Execs detailed the work it took to get there.
Un cóctel de alta inflación, devaluaciones y falta de acceso a dólares los ha llevado a encontrar en esa moneda descentralizada una manera de proteger sus castigados ingresos.
India’s state-led payments system, United Payments Interface (UPI), was first rolled out in 2016 and is currently used by 175 million people.
More money, more participants, more participating banks and merchants – a look inside the latest DC/EP trial in Suzhou.
China’s state-sanctioned blockchain infrastructure provider BSN is adding cross-chain protocol Polkadot, decentralized cloud data startup Oasis and China-based project Bityuan to its network.