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…
President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele received praises from the crypto world the previous year when he vowed to create a tax-free Bitcoin city on the nation’s coast, complete with geothermal energy for mining digital coins from a volcano in the near vicinity. To finance it, Bukele said a crowd of onlookers, the government would…
The retail giant of the United States, Walmart is the latest firm to step into the crypto bandwagon. Based on trademark documents the retail giant field in December 2021 with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Walmart appears to be set out into the metaverse with schemes to develop its own collection of non-fungible…
According to co-founder, Neeraj Khandelwal, India’s first crypto unicorn, CoinDCX, wishes to work towards an initial public offering as soon as government regulations permit it. Khandelwal said that akin to Coinbase Global Inc.’s U.S. listing earlier this year, the share sale would be a key vote of confidence for the country’s digital asset industry. He…
The famous video games retailer and trade-in outlet, GameStop is serious about its entry into the crypto-world and has posted 8 job listings in the previous week which indicate at a major blockchain and NFT (non-fungible token) expansions. The vision of GameStop for its future was also hinted in one of the listings where the…
On Thursday, the Delhi High Court asked for the reply of the State Bank of India and the Reserve Bank of India on a plea seeking to guide authorities to reverse the ban on the use of UPI platform in dealing and settling funds in the crypto exchange WazirX. A bench of Justice Jyoti Singh…
The government is tracking crypto floating in the market based out of the nation subsequent to a warning that agencies responsible to monitor financial fraud are eyeing a firm called Hyper Fund. According to sources, a DEFI by Hyper Tech Group, Hyper Fund has come under the radar currently. The Group avows to have introduced…
The postponement in the government establishing the regulation on crypto has given rise to intense lobbying, with agencies anxious over the risks emerging from an unregulated section with utmost price unpredictability, posing a threat to investors, the majority of who don’t understand the instrument. In addition to this, there are issues over the instrument being…
The much-anticipated legislation to regulate virtual currency in India, the crypto bill is anticipated to be taken up by the Union Cabinet soon. During a conversation with the reporters, the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the cabinet note is ready on the crypto bill. She added that she is awaiting Cabinet to clear that….
India and China aren’t the only Asian nations struggling with the fate of crypto. Small players like the Vietnam and Philippines are stepping into the arena as well as the fame of virtual currency continues to increase. As per the Philippines Stock Exchange (PSE), crypto is an asset class that they can’t afford to ignore…