The Central Bank of Germany announced the successful testing of settlements for securities transactions with Deutsche Börse, which used distributed ledger technology (DLT). According to a statement from the German Federal Bank, the Central Bank has successfully completed testing of settlements for securities transactions using DLT and the real-time gross settlement system TARGET2. An atomic transaction was made, meaning that the Central Bank payment and securities were simultaneously exchanged in a delivery versus payment transaction.

Daniel Buchner, Senior Product Manager for Decentralized Identity Products at Microsoft, has confirmed the launch of ION, a decentralized identifier (DID) network on the Bitcoin blockchain. In an article on the company’s blog, Daniel Buchner said that after four years of development, the ION solution was finally released. It is a second tier solution on the Bitcoin blockchain that stores DID and DPKI (Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure) and is scalable. DIDs can be used to

The developers of the Uniswap decentralized exchange have unveiled a new version of the Uniswap v3 protocol, which will launch on May 5 on Ethereum, and then integrated with the second level solution Optimism. According to a developer blog post, the goal of the new protocol version is to make the application “the most flexible and efficient automated market maker ever created.” The developers plan to launch Uniswap v3 on the Ethereum mainnet on May

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) should solve social problems, and not be seen as a casino that brings money to celebrities. Buterin is convinced that collectible tokens should be created for charity, funding public goods and other socially significant goals. However, today NFTs are created to tokenize in-game items, paintings or music. According to Buterin, the NFT in the form of a tweet, which was recently put up for sale by

Indian billionaire and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has opposed the ban on cryptocurrencies in India, believing they should be seen as a new asset class. Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been actively discussing the possibility of another ban on digital assets in the country. Last week, there was information from an Indian official that the government is preparing a bill to criminalize the circulation, storage, mining and transfer of crypto assets. Nandan

A ‘RelistXRP’ user movement has emerged on social media, in which users are asking various cryptocurrency exchanges to add XRP back to their platforms. The hashtag #RelistXRP is trending on Twitter for users in the Netherlands, and the movement is gaining momentum in Australia, the US and the UK. For example, in the Netherlands, more than 35,000 tweets with this hashtag were published, approximately 30,000 tweets in the United States and 24,000 in Australia. Many

The NFT MoonCats project community is concerned that the last 160 Genesis MoonCats tokens will be purchased by bots. Over 70% of participants vote to destroy the private key to the latest NFTs. Long-dormant tokenized collectibles platform MoonCats re-launched this month. The project was launched on August 9, 2017 by the developer Ponderware with a limit of 25,500 MoonCats. MoonCats collectibles include Moon-dwelling 8-bit cats that users can trade with each other. However, the community

Blockcap Mining Company Acquires 12,000 More Antminer S19 Blockcap, one of the largest Bitcoin mining firms in North America, has purchased 12,000 more Antminer S19 devices from Bitmain to boost its hash rate. According to Blockcap’s management, by Q4 the company will have more than 40,000 mining devices at its disposal, which will increase the company’s hashrate to 3.5 Eh / s. This will represent about 2% of the current total Bitcoin hash rate of

The Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) has approved the launch of the first Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) in Latin America. The fund, called QBTC11, will be launched by QR Capital. The value of ETF units (shares) is calculated based on a basket of specific assets, following their market value. In the case of Bitcoin ETFs, the exchange-traded fund is tied to that cryptocurrency. Bitcoin ETFs are traded on traditional exchanges, allowing institutional investors

According to researchers at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), compatible government cryptocurrencies will open up opportunities for countries to improve the system of cross-border payments. In a research note, BIS researchers Raphael Auer, Philipp Haene and Henry Holden presented potential cross-border payment mechanisms for several central bank digital currencies. The researchers say that the greatest efficiency will only be achieved if countries work together to remove banking barriers to a new, compatible form of