Blockchain

‘Blockchain Wedding or Metaverse Wedding Reception’: Have you heard about them?

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…

IBM and HSBC develop successful multi-ledger CBDC demo

IBM and HSBC, on Thursday, declared the successful test of an up-to-date token and digital wallet settlement between 2 CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) in a cloud environment. The experiment included transactions between eBonds, CBDCs and forex. Hyperledger Fabric and enterprise technology provider of IBM, R3’s Corda acted as the base of the distributed ledger…

Whatsapp introduces crypto payments pilot in the United States

Whatsapp has introduced a new pilot that allows a ‘limited count’ of individuals in the United States to receive and send money from within a chat using crypto. The feature is powered by Meta’s digital wallet named Novi that introduced as a pilot 6 weeks ago. Also, the payments will be made using Pax Dollars…