Exclusive: inabit and Google Cloud team up to strengthen crypto transaction security

Tel Aviv-based crypto security firm inabit has partnered with Google Cloud for better crypto protection using Google’s Confidential Computing technology.  The collaboration aims to prevent private key breaches and ensure secure cryptocurrency transactions, addressing rising threats from insider access and…

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AgriDex executes first on-chain farmland deal on Solana network

AgriDex annnounced the first on-chain farmland transaction on the Solana network was successfully completed. The deal consists of a $165,000 land purchase in Zambia. The purchase was settled immediately at no cost using AgriDex’s digital settlement system. AgriDex is a…

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Russia uses Crypto to Trade Oil with China and India, Develops BRICS Technology with Tether Stablecoin

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Circle Unveils Paymaster to Allow USDC to Be Used for Transaction Fees

The product allows users to interact with decentralized applications using USDC only, ditching the need for native tokens.

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Zeus Network validates first Bitcoin transaction on Solana

Zeus Network has validated the first Bitcoin transaction on the Solana blockchain. On Dec. 12, Zeus Network achieved a historic milestone by successfully validating the first Bitcoin transaction on Solana using its infrastructure. According to a release by Zeus, this…

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Binance HODLer Airdrop launches Movement: Here’s How to Participate

Key Takeaways: High performance and security: Move Network is a Layer-2 on Ethereum using the Move programming language to achieve high transaction speed at 30k+ TPS and best security compared to other solutions.

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PayPal settles invoice with EY in PYUSD first business payment

PayPal completed its first business payment on Sept. 23, using its stablecoin PYUSD to settle an invoice with Ernst & Young LLP, Bloomberg News reported on Oct. 3. The transaction was facilitated using software company SAP’s digital currency hub, a platform that allows businesses to send and receive digital payments instantly.

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Devs demonstrate AI to AI crypto transactions on Coinbase Developer Platform

Coinbase saw its first AI-to-AI crypto transaction using AI tokens on its developer platform. The AI agents used crypto wallets to transact with AI tokens, bypassing traditional finance. This marks a step toward autonomous AI-driven economies and AI-enabled checkouts.

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MetaMask partners with Mastercard for a self-custody debit card pilot program

MetaMask and Mastercard launches a self-custody debit card pilot program in the UK and EU. The card converts crypto to fiat at the point of transaction using a smart contract. The card aims at increasing financial inclusion and will expand to other regions over time.

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Mastercard Expands Crypto Reach With P2P Platform Launch Across 13 Countries

Mastercard has announced the launch of a peer-to-peer (P2P) platform for cryptocurrency users in Europe and Latin America. This initiative allows users on supported exchanges to send and receive cryptocurrencies using Mastercard Crypto Credential aliases, streamlining the transaction process.

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Fourteen years ago, someone bought pizza with Bitcoin

Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrated on May 22, marks the first commercial transaction using cryptocurrency. Learn about its history and how it's being celebrated in 2021. The post Fourteen years ago, someone bought pizza with Bitcoin appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Espresso and Polygon Labs partner to address rollup interoperability

Espresso partners with Polygon Labs to develop AggLayer, an interoperability solution across rollups using proof aggregation and transaction ordering guarantees. The post Espresso and Polygon Labs partner to address rollup interoperability appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Paypal's Green Mining Initiative Makes Zero Sense

A look at Paypal's recent proposal to implement Bitcoin wallets that pay mining fees using a scheme ensuring that only authorized miners powered by renewable energy can collect the user's transaction fee.

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Bitcoin Price Fluctuates Amid Predictions And Transaction Fee Surge

Bitcoin experienced a volatile trading session today, with its price fluctuating between highs of $65,000 and lows of $62,000. Analysts are closely monitoring these fluctuations and making predictions about future price movements using advanced models.

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EU bans anonymous crypto wallet to combat money laundering

The EU has introduced a new directive that outlaws transactions using anonymous, privately managed crypto wallets for any transaction value.

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Arbitrum slashes gas fee by 90%: Surge in demand to follow?

The cost of using Arbitrum One has fallen to a new low. This is due to the rollout of phase 2 of the ArbOS Atlas upgrade. Transaction fees on leading Layer 2 (L2) platform Arbitrum [ARB] havThe post Arbitrum slashes gas fee by 90%: Surge in demand to follow? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Ethereum Plans For Dencun Upgrade: Is This The End Of Roll-Ups?

Ye Zhang, the co-founder of Scroll, a layer-2 project using zero-knowledge proof, is cautiously optimistic about the upcoming Dencun upgrade. In a post on X, Zhang pointed out Dencun’s potential benefits, particularly the low transaction fees.

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Fantom’s 18% Spike May Only Be the Beginning as FTM Bulls Target Massive Breakout at This Price

Fantom (FTM), a leading smart contract platform, has seen a surge of 18% over the past week. As bullish momentum builds, analysts are predicting a major breakout is on the horizon. Fantom aims to solve scalability issues holding back other blockchains, using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure to achieve sub-two second transaction speeds.

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Bitcoin Miner AntPool to Refund Record $3M BTC Transaction Fee

AntPool said it would verify the identity of the sender if they sign an on-chain message via another bitcoin transaction using the same message – which will prove ownership.

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Singapore MAS tokenization standards require overhaul to realize innovation potential – Ralf Kubli Interview

The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Guardian has been making waves in recent months for its progressive approach to digital assets. For instance, MAS recently launched the world’s first live repurchase transaction using a digitally native bond on a public blockchain.

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Bitcoin miners hit annual high with over $44m in revenue

Bitcoin miners recorded their annual all-time high, earning over $44 million in block rewards and transaction fees. Miners’ income primarily comes from rewards for confirming BTC transactions and creating new blocks using high-tech computer equipment known as mining rigs. Miners…

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Analyst: Using This Metric In Ethereum Is Flawed, What’s The Alternative?

Going by the handle “@bkiepuszewski,” one X user contends that the transaction processing speed (TPS) metric analysts rely on to measure how fast a blockchain network like Ethereum or the BNB Chain processes transactions is flawed.

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Transaction Costs Deter ‘Regular People’ From Using Crypto, Says Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin shares his thoughts on the state of cryptocurrency adoption in a wide-ranging new interview. The post Transaction Costs Deter ‘Regular People’ From Using Crypto, Says Vitalik Buterin appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Shop Till You Drop Using USDC: Solana Pay Integrates with Shopify

Shopify integrates Solana Labs' payment protocol, Solana Pay, optimizing e-commerce transaction avenues via USDC payments.

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Australia marks first FX transaction using a CBDC as eAUD pilot continues

The Australian digital dollar was used in a trade for a U.S. dollar stablecoin using an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain.

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Frogs, Fevers and Fees: Bitcoin’s New Governance Challenge

The creation of Bitcoin-based meme coins using the new BRC-20 standard has driven up Bitcoin fees as they use more data than a basic Bitcoin transaction. But while some developers in the Bitcoin community are proposing a filter to block Bitcoin NFT projects, such censorship could run counter to Bitcoin's open-source characteristics, CoinDesk's chief content officer Michael Casey argues.

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BNB Chain L2 Boba Network Achieves Record Transaction Volume in April

Coinspeaker BNB Chain L2 Boba Network Achieves Record Transaction Volume in April Boba said its users on BNB Chain are saving around 80% on transaction fees by using its network. BNB Chain L2 Boba Network Achieves Record Transaction Volume in April

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Africa Moves to Lightning, Stablecoins as Bitcoin Transaction Fees Soar

Those already using stablecoins and lightning transactions are not affected, but for many in Africa, higher bitcoin fees are a problem.

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Mastercard has introduced a new service that will allow users to make cross-border transfers using cryptocurrency.

Mastercard has introduced a new service that will allow users to make cross-border transfers using cryptocurrency. The service, called Crypto Credentials, enables banks and other financial institutions to securely store and verify a user’s cryptocurrency information, such as their wallet address and transaction history.

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How Traceable Are Monero Transactions Compared To Bitcoin? Cybersecurity Expert Reveals

Bitcoin has always been known to be anonymous with its transactions, therefore, making it difficult to trace. But how difficult is it to trace a Bitcoin transaction compared to a Monero transaction? Cybersecurity author Andy Greenberg reveals this in an interview with prominent crypto journalist, Laura Shin.

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Trustlessly Purchasing An NFT On Flare Using The Token Of A Different Blockchain

Dubai, Feb 23: The layer-1 for data, Flare, just completed a live demonstration of new interoperability functionality now available in beta on the network. Using two core interoperability protocols, State Connector and Flare Time Series Oracle (FTSO), an NFT was trustlessly purchased with the transaction taking place on a different chain using a different token.

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Trustlessly purchasing an NFT on Flare using the token of a different blockchain.

Dubai, UAE, 23rd February, 2023, Chainwire The layer-1 for data, Flare, just completed a live demonstration of new interoperability functionality now available in beta on the network. Using two core interoperability protocols, State Connector and Flare Time Series Oracle (FTSO), an NFT was trustlessly purchased with the transaction taking place on a different chain using […] The post Trustlessly purchasing an NFT on Flare using the token of a different blockchain. appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.

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Trustlessly purchasing an NFT on Flare using the token of a different blockchain.

Dubai, UAE, 23rd February, 2023, Chainwire The layer-1 for data, Flare, just completed a live demonstration of new interoperability functionality now available in beta on the network. Using two core interoperability protocols, State Connector and Flare Time Series Oracle (FTSO), an NFT was trustlessly purchased with the transaction taking place on a different chain using […] The post Trustlessly purchasing an NFT on Flare using the token of a different blockchain. appeared first on CoinJournal.

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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Donates $150,000 in ETH to Victims in Turkey and Syria

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donates $150,000 worth of ether to Ahbap Earthquake Support for disaster relief efforts in Turkey and Syria. The donation, confirmed by Etherscan transaction data, is part of the growing trend of using cryptocurrencies for charitable giving.

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Russia closes biggest digital asset deal in Chinese Yuan

Russian authorities have approved the country’s first legal digital asset deal using the Chinese Yuan. The transaction, worth about 58m Chinese yuan ($8. 3m), became the biggest legal deal of its kind in Russia.

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Obyte Launches Prophet: A Bonding-Curve-Based Prediction Market Platform

October 11th, 2022 / Prophet is a decentralized platform for betting in which users may partake not just by placing bets but also by offering liquidity and benefiting from transaction fees. It relies on a formula using bonding curves, which ensures that both betting and trading may occur at all times and that there will […]

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Coinbase counters WSJ claim its Risk Solutions group engaged in $100M proprietary trade

In a blog post, Coinbase said the WSJ seemed to confuse the nature of a transaction earlier this year made using money raised through a structured note that was later sold.

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Iran Announces First Official Import Settled in Cryptocurrency

Iran’s Payman-Pak didnt reveal any details about the imported goods or the specific cryptocurrency used in the transaction. Iran Makes First Import Using Cryptocurrency Iran has revealed its first use...

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Chinese municipal bank issues first-ever digital yuan loan using intellectual property as collateral

The unnamed recipient of the loan said the e-CNY transaction was fast and efficient; they received an equivalent of 500,000 CNY, which was $74,020 at the time of publication.

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JPMorgan Is Using Blockchain for Collateral Settlement

JPMorgan is using blockchain technology for collateral settlements, according to new reports from Bloomberg. Transaction Involved BlackRock Assets In a pilot blockchain transaction, JPMorgan Chase & Co. transferred tokenized money...

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Bitcoin Pizza Day rewind: A homage to weird and wonderful BTC purchases

In recognition of Bitcoin pizza day, the first-ever real-world transaction using Bitcoin, Cointelegraph speaks with the crypto community about their historic BTC purchases.

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BIG3 Fire-Tier editions bought in biggest Dogecoin transaction ever

BIG3 premier global league announced that Bill Lee, co-founder of Craft Ventures, bought 25 Fire-Tier editions of their Aliens using Dogecoin (DOGE/USD), which is the biggest commercial transaction in history for the cryptocurrency, Invezz learned from a press release.

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Stand Against War donating to help war-torn Ukraine

Blockchain technology is an amazing way to send crypto and keep track of every transaction using the ledger, but how does this make donating to causes like war-torn Ukraine easier? Not only will we coThe post Stand Against War donating to help war-torn Ukraine appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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The Internet of Beer: Robotics startup taps Bitcoin to deliver automated beverage

Using their Lightning Network-supporting wallets, participants were able to receive their own beer, poured just seconds after completing the transaction by scanning a QR code.

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Stand Against War releases NFT collection to fund NGOs supporting Ukraine

Blockchain technology is an amazing way to send crypto and keep track of every transaction using the ledger, but how does this make donating to causes like war-torn Ukraine easier? Not only will we coThe post Stand Against War releases NFT collection to fund NGOs supporting Ukraine appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Ethereum Fees Suggest DeFi Is Becoming The Playground Of The Rich

The high fees on the Ethereum network has become a concern after it had risen to the point where using ETH for small transactions became unfeasible. Users of the network realized that they were sometimes having to pay fees higher than the transaction amount, leading to calls for a solution. There have been numerous fixes […]

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ZEC price movement: how will the planned Proof-of-Stake (PoS) switch impact the price of ZEC?

Zcash ZEC/USD is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that takes advantage of cryptography to give its users optional anonymity when they conduct any transaction. It does this by using the zk-SNARK zero-knowledge proof technology, allowing nodes on the network to verify transactions without revealing sensitive information about them.

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Ethereum to AVAX Bridge – How To Transfer Coins From ETH To Avalanche Blockchain

Avalanche blockchain is another one of those Ethereum killers that aim to solve what the Ethereum network is struggling with — scalability, transaction fees, and interoperability. Avalanche is taking a different approach by using three separate chains and claims to be “the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality”.

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How to modify or cancel a pending Ethereum transaction

A stuck or pending Ethereum transaction can be canceled or modified using two methods: in-application cancellation and setting a custom nonce.

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