Blockchain & crypto news from India
Visa has announced that it will start accepting payments in the crypto USD coin directly at end of the March. USD coin is a stablecoin linked to the U.S. dollar with 1 USD Coin pegged to $1. The company’s crypto.com debit cards once required conversion to a conventional currency from digital currencies that Visa accepts….
Curious investors can now jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon easily all because of Coinbase. The famous crypto firm has signed a deal with PayPal that allows people to purchase digital currency using their bank accounts and debit cards that are linked to PayPal. Announcing the partnership, Coinbase said in a post that buying crypto should…
A tweet from Sandeep Nailwal on Saturday started all this. “Can’t take this sitting down anymore, I am going to run a Covid relief campaign… Need help from the global crypto community. I will take full responsibility for transparency, funds’ usage, and regulatory compliance”. COO and co-founder of Polygon Sandeep Nailwal has asked to donate…
Global ICT services integrator, Getronics has launched a European Blockchain platform, AQQUM, a Blockchain-as-a-Service solution. AQQUM by Getronics aims to provide clients with a framework for execution, deployment and management of fully secured blockchain business applications. It will be done to facilitate and improve the complete automation of their business process. The blockchain is European,…
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, recently posted a link that confirms the transaction to Sandeep Nailwal, an Indian entrepreneur who initiated the campaign. The link is the proof of the transfer of 100 MKR and 100 ETH, which is approx. equal to Rs. 4.5 crore ($606,110). The amount is to be used for COVID-19…
Yesterday, the cryptocurrency market capitalization surged to an all-time peak of $2 trillion. The crypto market cap was at $2.02 trillion by mid-afternoon. According to analysts as long as bitcoin stays beyond the $53,000 mark, a $1 trillion market cap will be maintained. The rise in the crypto market cap was followed by bitcoin. The…
No doubt the entire year 2020 was spent amidst the chaos created by the novel Coronavirus. However, there is still one thing that gained popularity besides this pandemic and that is cryptocurrencies. Delivering a return of over 800% during the financial year 2020-2021, the oldest and biggest cryptocurrency in the world, Bitcoin stole the limelight…
South Korea Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun makes it known that the country will introduce blockchain powered vaccine passports through a smartphone application this month. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said, “the people will be able to experience a sense of return to normality from a vaccine passport or green card systems,” he said during a daily…