[ad_2][ad_1] Alchemy Pay, a provider of digital and fiat hybrid payment solutions, recently announced it will launch its own hybrid fiat and cryptocurrency payment services for e-commerce merchants on Shopify through its new partnership with QFPay, a fiat payments provider with over 1.2 million merchants. “Shopify users from countries such …

[ad_2][ad_1] Grayscale Investments states that the registration statement on Form 10 that it filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on behalf of the Ethereum Trust has become effective. This means that Ethereum Trust is now an official SEC reporting company and the second digital currency investment …

[ad_2][ad_1] One of the leading enterprise blockchain companies has launched a new line of credit that will benefit emerging fintechs. Ripple, which has 500 employees and nine offices around the world, specializes in commercial products that are currently used by customers in more than 55 countries. Line of Credit is …

[ad_2][ad_1] The Chinese city of Shenzhen will become a test bed for a new sovereign cryptocurrency with residents issuing millions in the digital currency for free. As reported by the South China Morning Post, citizens were able to participate in a lottery to receive digital funds, of which coins worth …

[ad_2][ad_1] It is time for the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain to be launched. We’ve spent the past nine months testing this thing for life. The year started with huge and long-lived single client testnets: Sapphire, Topaz and Onyx networks operated by Prysmatic Labs. In April, there were small multi-client networks: …

[ad_2][ad_1] Last weekend, on block 11380000, a solution for the prevention of 51% of attacks was presented to the Ethereum Classic (ETC) community. Many of these attacks have recently placed ETC at a crossroads, leaving the chain’s very survival uncertain. In the weeks following these attacks, the community worked to …

[ad_2][ad_1] Connecting the worlds of security tokens and decentralized finance (DeFi) is the logical next step for Securitize, a kind of regulatory compliant fixer when it comes to tracking and trading blockchain-based securities. Announced Monday, Securitize is partnering with a protocol called Centrifuge’s Tinlake, which uses an intelligent non-fungible token …

[ad_2][ad_1] Aztec, a privacy protocol that builds on Ethereum, announced on Monday the launch of its second iteration, promising private transactions and smart contracts while being cheaper than standard transfers. The layer two solution adopted by Aztec is based on zkRollups, similar to Loopring or ZkSync. All of these protocols …

[ad_2][ad_1] Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the co-founder of a major American cryptocurrency exchange now a billionaire, thanks to the surge in Bitcoin prices. The brothers had previously bought $ 11 million worth of Bitcoin in 2013, according to the New York Times, and soon became crypto-evangelists, building the cryptocurrency exchange …

[ad_2][ad_1] David Schwartz, CTO of Ripple, spoke with Information Age about the challenges he faces in his role and how blockchain companies can reduce environmental impact. Ripple’s CTO has asked cryptocurrency companies to help cut carbon emissions. Blockchain finance company Ripple recently revealed its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by …