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Ripple invests in Money Tap

[ad_2][ad_1] Ripple has invested in Money Tap, the P2P money transfer app run by a consortium of Japanese financial institutions. Developed by SBI and Ripple, Money Tap is a smartphone application that allows consumers to make instant domestic payments via bank account, phone number or QR code. The service bypasses …

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Reserve Bank of Australia to explore wholesale CBDC using Ethereum technology – Ledger Insights

[ad_2][ad_1] Today the Reserve Bank of Australia announced its planning for a proof of concept (PoC) for a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), or more specifically, blockchain technology Ethereum. It involves collaboration with Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, Perpetual and the US blockchain …

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CV30. Powerful antibody that fights the virus discovered

[ad_1] C.it’s called CV30, has a Y shape and is 530 times more powerful in the fight SARS–CoV-2 compared to the antibodies identified so far. The discovery, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, was made by scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, USA. United States …

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Large crop of black holes in the new gravitational wave map

[ad_1] Just a few years ago, scientists around the world celebrated when the first gravitational waves were detected, confirming a long-standing scientific theory and opening a whole new field of research. Now, the international research team responsible for detecting gravitational waves has announced another 39 gravitational wave events, bringing the …

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The Chinese city seeks to enhance urban governance and more by using blockchain technology

[ad_2][ad_1] Authorities in Chengdu, China plan to adopt blockchain for multiple use cases across the city, including urban governance, cross-border trade, smart manufacturing and agriculture. During the Chengdu Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair 2020, the city’s first international blockchain industry fair, Lu Tiecheng, party group secretary of the Chengdu New …

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Asteroid 16 Psyche worth $ 10,000,000,000,000,000,000, NASA says

[ad_1] An extremely rare asteroid made primarily of metal is worth approximately $ 10,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s 10,000 quadrillion dollars or one followed by 19 zeros. While most asteroids are made of rock or ice, the mysterious asteroid 16 Psyche is nearly 27,200,000,000,000,000 (27 quadrillion and two hundred trillion) tons of iron …

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