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…
WhatsApp rival Signal’s payment feature is now available globally. This implies that, akin to WhatsApp, users of Signal can now also use the encrypted messages app to receive and send payments. But, the platform facilitates transactions via MobileCoin crypto. According to the support page of Signal, MobileCoin is crypto developed to be utilized as digital…
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…
Indian crypto investors now prefer peer-to-peer transfers, Telegram or WhatsApp groups and spot trading to trade currencies because of volatile banking services being offered by the banks to exchanges. Currently, SBI blocked receiving of funds by the crypto exchange on its UPI platform. Though most top-notch exchanges witnessed a rise in buying activity in the…
Reckoned as a WhatsApp rival, Signal has started testing a new peer-to-peer payments system in its beta version of the app. The fast-growing encrypted messaging app Signal informs that it wants payments on its app to be private, quick and also mobile-friendly. It further revealed that an add-on called MobileCoin is also being introduced to…