Blockchain & crypto news from India
Meta, social media giant Facebook’s parent company, is hinting to launch a payments platform with support for crypto. As per records, Meta filed 5 applications for its namesake to be utilized in a platform named Meta Pay. The filings included Meta’s name for use in an ‘online social networking service for investors enabling financial exchange…
Fidelity to enable investors to put a bitcoin account in their 401(k)s, the first major retirement-plan provider to do so. Employees won’t be able to begin adding cryptos to their nest eggs directly, but later in 2022, the 23,000 firms that utilize Fidelity to administer their retirement plans will have the alternative to put bitcoin…
EU member states agreed Friday to prohibit the services of high-value crypto assets to Russia as part of the fifth package of sanctions imposed in response to the Ukraine war. The European Commission said that the stance will lead to closing potential loopholes in existing restrictions and was declared next to bans on four Russian…
On Monday, the United Kingdom government declared plans to mint its non-fungible tokens, as part of a push towards emerging as a ‘world leader’ in the crypto world. Rishi Sunak, the Finance Minister asked the Royal Mint – the government-owned firm responsible for minting coins for the U.K. – to create and launch the NFT…
Colorado will become the first state in the US to acknowledge cryptos for state tax and fee payments. Citizens of the state will be able to pay their income taxes in Ethereum and Bitcoin beginning from as early as June. Governor Jared Polis declared the same a few days ago. To reduce difficulties with volatility…
When the US prohibited its citizens from conducting business with Russian banks, gas and oil developers, and other firms in 2014, after the nation invaded Crimea, the hit to Russia’s economy was immense and swift. Economists calculated that sanctions imposed by Western nations cost Russia around $50 billion per year. Since that day, the global…
According to the administration official aware of the issue, the US administration is about to issue an executive order on crypto this week. On February 18, Yahoo Finance reported that the executive order will direct a wide range of government agencies to study CBDC and crypto and come up with a government-wide strategy to regulate…
Piyush Gupta, the CEO of DBS Bank announced during the bank’s fourth-quarter earnings call that the bank intends to launch cryptocurrency trading for retail investors this year. Gupta said that in the first half of this year DBS will work on making digital assets very effortlessly accessible. DBS Bank Limited is a Singaporean multinational financial…
The New York Stock Exchange is stepping into the NFTs market with schemes to do for digital assets what it does for stocks. In a regulatory filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office, the NYSE said that it intends to be a financial exchange for cryptos and NFTs that would compete with the likes…
The Russian government has accepted a system for laws regulating cryptos. A said goal of the new policy is to integrate digital tokens into Russia’s financial system while guaranteeing the rights of private investors and preventing digital assets from being used to finance crime. On Tuesday, Moscow’s official press service said in a statement that…