Category: TRENDS IN CRYPTOS

The Treasury Department has put forward definitions of “digital assets” and “mass adoption,” that would be used in any coming federal crypto regulations. The Department’s issuance in the Federal Register follows a Biden executive order early this year on an all-government approach to investigating and reporting back on cryptocurrencies and a possible CBDC (Central Bank...

Workforce disruptions, supply chain woes, international conflict, energy sector chaos, food shortages—how are businesses responding to the challenges of the current moment? A new report points to automation. Put together by Futurum Research and Automation Anywhere, a leading company in the field, the report found that businesses are rapidly increasing their moves to automate business...

The European Union (EU) has settled on a coherent set of regulations to govern digital assets throughout the 19-country bloc, relieving concerns of patchwork rules that change from nation to nation.  Exchanges and other crypto-related services would need to be authorized by an EU regulating agency before operating in any single country.  The new set...

COINS OF WAR? What cryptos have performed best during the Russia-Ukraine conflict? That’s the subject of a new study, which examined the reaction of cryptocurrency markets to the war, which has reverberated the world over with economic and geopolitical ramifications.  A group of French university researchers say their empirical findings show that Binance Coin, associated...

They’re not permissionless of course, and not public. But rest assured, China is otherwise innovating like crazy with blockchain technology. So reports the Communist government-tied newspaper, the South China Morning Post. According to theBlockcrypto.com, blockchain based immutable distributed ledgers run by entities authorized by the Chinese government’s internet regulator are offering smart contract based software...