April 1, 2021 Eastern Caribbean Central Bank’s DCash digital currency goes live The ECCB has launched a regional central bank digital currency in partnership with Caribbean fintech outfit Bitt. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, the main…
April 1, 2021 To the ‘literal moon’? Elon Musk SpaceX tweet gives Dogecoin a 35% lift-off RIght on cue for April Fool’s Day, Musk promises to “put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon,” but for hodlers, the resulting gains…
April 1, 2021 Hong Kong and China test cross-border digital yuan, says PBoC official The digital yuan continues to develop apace. China has completed its first cross-border pilots of the digital yuan with Hong Kong. Wang Xin, director…
April 1, 2021 Finance Redefined: The slow march forward, March 24–31 DeFi keeps chugging along while everyone is focused on NFTs Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph’s DeFi-centric newsletter contextualizing major events in the previous week. Subscribers…
April 1, 2021 South Korean gov’t makes $10.5M profit from 4-year-old Bitcoin crime haul The coins languished in cold storage for four years after being confiscated by authorities during an arrest. South Korean prosecutors have finally sold a…
April 1, 2021 Total crypto market capitalization posts new all-time high above $1.9T Total crypto market cap briefly surpassed that of Saudi Aramco. Amid another bullish trend on cryptocurrency markets, total crypto market capitalization has broken a…
April 1, 2021 South Korea will use blockchain to prevent counterfeit vaccine passports Blockchain technology is being used to cement confidence in the integrity of new health surveillance measures such as COVID-19 vaccine passports. South Korea, which…
April 1, 2021 April Bulls Day? Bitcoin just closed its best March and Q1 in 8 years No hint of bearish traditions returning to Bitcoin markets this year as 2021 bucks the trend for March to bring serious downside. Will Q2…
April 1, 2021 NFT investment vehicle set to go public in London The newly formed investment firm expects to reach a valuation of just under $35 million. A non-fungible token investment firm is gearing up to…
April 1, 2021 Japan’s FSA asks cryptocurrency industry group to introduce FATF travel rule Japan has been a member of the FATF since 1990. Japan has made another step toward adopting cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering regulations developed by the…