Blockchain & crypto news from India
A small handful of countries consistently rank among the top when it comes to rankings for being crypto-friendly to businesses. As 2022 nears its close, Singapore has emerged on top on various metrics, such as the number of crypto businesses, funds raised and activity of venture firms. Singapore was followed by the UK, Cayman Islands,…
Thailand has integrated its national trade blockchain with Japanese blockchain TradeWaltz and Singapore’s Networked Trade Platform (NTP). The pilots for NDTP, created with public-private partnership will begin soon in an effort to minimize paperwork and increase ease of doing business. As a test, two pilot but rea transactions between Thailand and Singapore were made, along…
The fallout of FTX debacle has sent out red alerts in the crypto trading world, and the stress now is on holding one’s own digital assets in wallets rather than keeping them on exchanges. Trading exchanges have gone a knee-jerk reaction, revealing their owned assets in what are called proof of reserves. Holding one’s crypto…
Georgia has made itself an attractive destination for cryptocurrency businesses by adopting a crypto legalization bill. Back in 2018, the crypto industry in Georgia was reported to be around 200,000. The recently adopted bill – to go into the parliament for the final nod – makes crypto businesses legal. The inclusion of regulations for digital…
WonderFi Technologies, a crypto platform, plans to acquire Canadian crypto trading platform Coinberry for $30.6 million as the Kevin O’Leary-backed company continues to consolidate its presence in Canada. The Vancouver-based WonderFi recently made its $162 million acquisition of BitBuy, a crypto trading platform in Canada with over 400,000 users. Coinberry currently services around 220,000 registered…
Weddings are indeed special occasions. A Tamil couple made it even more special by holding a ‘blockchain wedding’. Belonging from Pune, Shruti Nair and Anil Narasipuram have just conducted their wedding via blockchain. The duo decided to conduct their wedding reception digitally in the metaverse. In a Twitter thread, the couple said they had a…
Today digital skills have become significant especially to stay redundant at a time when tech is dominating most industries. Millions of workers worldwide also got displaced due to the novel Coronavirus. According to a report, emerging subjects like artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and computer programming have become the top online courses preferred by…
Tweet Bitcoins! Bottlepay brings real-time bitcoin payments The firm said, “Users can tweet bitcoin and fiat currency to other users instantly”. The U.K based payments platform Bottlepay brings real-time bitcoin payments to Twitter. Bottlepay is aiming to disrupt the payments space by enabling real-time cross-broader transfers of both fiat money and cryptocurrencies. The beta version…