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  • May 19, 2024

South African Crypto Exchange VALR Raises $3.45M Led by BitMex Parent 100x Group

VALR, one of the top crypto exchanges in South Africa, raised 57 million rands equivalent to $3.45 million in Series A funding round.

PBoC Bank Adds The Capital of China's Sichuan Province To Its Fintech Initiative

People's Bank of China (PBoC) has added a new city to its official list for fintech supervision pilots

South Asia Gateway Terminals, First Private Srilankan Terminal Joins Blockchain Platform TradeLens

South Asia Gateway Terminals(SAGT) has become the first private Sri Lankan container terminal to join hands with a blockchain trade platform TradeLens, which is run jointly by IBM and Maersk.

US DoE Awards $1M Grant to Firm Studying Potential Blockchain Use Cases in Energy Sector

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded more than $1 million in grant for InfoBeyond Technology LLC, a blockchain-focused software company.

Digital Asset’s Series C Funding Round Draw Investments from VM Ware and Samsung

The creators of DAML, an open-source smart contract language, Digital Assets announced that its Series C funding round.

Binance.US Partners With Sovos To Automate Tax Reporting For Crypto Traders

Binance crypto exchange’s American venture - Binance.US - has partnered with global tax software leader Sovos. The partnership would see Sovos help Binance.US with its 1099 crypto tax information reporting needs by automating the...

The Fate of Crypto Markets in the Time of COVID-19

For many weeks now, countries have been put on lockdown to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, which causes fatal disease CoViD-19. With strict social distancing measures in place as well as other restrictions, markets acr...

FATF Releases New Recommendations On Stablecoins And Cryptocurrency Service Providers Regulation

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released a new report to G20 member states and other countries laying out recommendations on creating a more reliable regulatory web across the globe to govern cryptocurrencies, the service p...

Bluzelle Discovers Critical Bug in the Cosmos' Tendermint Consensus; A Fix Implemented

Bluzelle, a blockchain firm offering decentralized database services for Web3, has discovered a bug in the Tendermint consensus. This is the algorithm used by the Cosmos protocol to run its interchain ecosystem. Though not a Cosmo...

Dfinity Opens Up Its Decentralized ‘Internet Computer’ to Third-Party Developers

The long-awaited Dfinity’s ‘Internet Computer’ platform has been released and is now open to third-party developers.