In an announcement on Wednesday, VersaBank said it plans to launch a digital currency called VCAD, which will reportedly be backed by Canadian dollars deposited
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ETH mining still highly profitable despite upcoming Eth2 upgrade
Ethereum miners continue to enjoy lucrative payouts for their efforts in 2021, while the smart contract blockchain platform edges closer to a move away from
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Sam Bankman-Fried: The crypto whale who wants to give billions away
Like many people in crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried is in it for the money. As the founder of quant trading firm Alameda Research, exchange FTX and
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Chainlink rolls out OCR system upgrade, reducing gas costs tenfold
Chainlink (LINK) has launched a major upgrade for its oracle network, dubbed Off-Chain Reporting, or OCR. The upgrade was announced on Wednesday, though the implementation
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‘Cryptocurrency is not legitimate money,’ says Nigeria’s central bank governor
Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has defended the apex bank’s decision to ban banks from servicing cryptocurrency exchanges in the country.
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Total estimated crypto users worldwide tops 100 million, survey finds
Crypto exchange and debit card provider Crypto.com has published a new report estimating that the total number of crypto users globally rose from 66 million
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DeFi exchange protocol DFX raises $5M in seed funding led by Polychain Capital
Veteran cryptocurrency investor Polychain Capital has joined a funding round in DFX Finance, a new decentralized finance exchange protocol optimized for non-U.S. dollar stablecoins. DFX
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Tokenization of assets is not taking off, but it really should
For years, experts have been talking about how tokenization — the act of creating a digital representation of an asset on a distributed ledger —
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MicroStrategy purchases another $1 billion worth of Bitcoin, now owns 90,000 BTC
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy increased its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings by 27% on Feb. 24, after purchasing an additional 19,452 coins, taking its total BTC haul
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Crypto on-ramp hits Opera browser following Simplex integration
Users of the Opera browser will now be able to purchase cryptocurrencies from directly within the web application following a partnership with Simplex. Founded in
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