Swiss National Bank (SNB) deputy head Thomas Muser talked to Cointelegraph editor Aaron Wood and discussed the ongoing trends in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, and regulations, during the recently concluded European Blockchain Convention (EBC) 2022. Talking about the innovation and adoption of private stablecoins and plans of central banks regarding the CBDC launch, Moser said both could co-exist.…
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Less than 1% of all holders have 90% of the voting power in DAOs: report
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have become a rage in the ever-expanding crypto ecosystem and are often seen as the future of decentralized corporate governance. DAOs are organizations without a centralized hierarchy, intended to work in a bottom-up manner, where the community collectively owns and contributes to an organization’s decision-making process. However, recent research data suggests that these DAOs are not…
Educating regulators will help mitigate risks, says Figment exec
Cointelegraph’s managing editor Alex Cohen interviewed Figment’s staking marketing director Robert Ellison at the European Blockchain Convention (EBC) 2022. The duo discussed topics like educating regulators on blockchain and crypto, how businesses navigate uncertain regulatory landscapes and regulating staking. According to Ellision, it’s very important to educate regulators in the space to mitigate the risks of them going overboard without…
Pocket Network Advances Its Multichain Strategy With Latest Milestone – Press release Bitcoin News
press release PRESS RELEASE. TAMPA, Fla., June 27, 2022 / — Pocket Network, an infrastructure middleware protocol which facilitates decentralized multichain blockchain access to developer applications in Web3, including Ethereum, Polygon, Gnosis Chain, Avalanche, Solana, Fuse, Fantom and Near, recently marked a significant milestone in its multichain strategy with 50 supported blockchains on its network after integrating Moonbeam and Moonriver…
Mercury Wallet Statechain Scaling Bitcoin
Mercury Wallet, a Layer 2 application built for Bitcoin, is currently developing infrastructure to integrate with the Lightning Network. Applications like Mercury are a way of scaling the use of Bitcoin by temporarily performing transactions off chain before returning to the main chain, making it easier and more cost-effective to make payments to other users. But what is Mercury Wallet,…
Meta Launches Meta Pay, a Metaverse Dedicated Digital Wallet – Metaverse Bitcoin News
Meta, the metaverse-based platform, has announced the launch of a new wallet directed to support value interaction in the metaverse. Meta Pay, a rebrand of the former Facebook Pay service, will keep fulfilling the same functions that Facebook Pay did in the past, but will be developed as a universal way of paying for goods and services using digital identities…
Metaverse fractional ownership to form similarly to property loans: Casper exec
As metaverse land assets become more expensive, ownership becomes harder for normal users. Because of this, Ralf Kubli, Board Member at the Casper Association, argues that fractional ownership, similar to property loans in the real world, may gain traction within the virtual space through nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Kubli told Cointelegraph that understanding fractional ownership within the metaverse is very similar…
Australian Crypto Firm Banxa to Cut Staff by 30% Citing ‘Another Crypto Winter’
Banxa, a crypto payments operator, announced that it would lay off 30% of its staff to reduce operating costs amid the ongoing bear market. “Banxa must take decisive actions to reduce costs now, or else our company won’t be able to succeed over the long run,” wrote Holger Arians, Banxa’s CEO, in a letter to employees as reported by The…
Catalonia is building its own metaverse, says innovation minister
Catalonian director-general of innovation Daniel Macro discussed some of the key efforts that the government has taken and worked on to make the region a digital hub in an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph’s managing editor Alex Cohen. Macro’s comments came during the European Blockchain Convention (EBC) 2022. Macro said the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years has really helped in…
China’s BSN chair calls Bitcoin Ponzi, stablecoins 'fine if regulated'
Stablecoins like USDT and USDC would be doing just fine if properly regulated, while Bitcoin is a “Ponzi scheme” in any case, China’s BSN chair told Cointelegraph. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/china-s-bsn-chair-calls-bitcoin-ponzi-stablecoins-fine-if-regulated