China's digital fiat currency, or the e-CNY, is being used at restaurants, booths and vending machines for the first time at the China International Import Expo (CIIE).
A person claiming to be the hacker says they wanted to expose the platform's vulnerability and it was "always the plan" to return the tokens.
HappyFresh, the on-demand grocery app based in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $65 million Series D. The round was led by Naver Financial Corporation and Gafina B.V., with participation fro
Voyager Innovations, the Manila-based owner of PayMaya, one of the Philippines’ most popular payment and financial services apps, announced today it has raised $167 million in new funding to launch mo
The pipeline was hacked in May and forced to shut down, causing fuel shortages on the US east coast.
The pipeline was hacked in May and forced to shut down, causing fuel shortages on the US east coast.
China’s plan to introduce its digital currency is getting a lot of help from its tech conglomerates. JD.com, a major Chinese online retailer that competes with Alibaba, said Monday that it has s
PayPal plans to launch a local wallet in China. /CFP Paypal is looking to launch a local wallet in China focusing on cross-border payments, instead of competing with dominant domestic players,
imToken, the blockchain tech startup and crypto wallet developer, announced today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Qiming Venture Partners. Participants included returning investor
Payment card network Visa has announced that transactions can be settled using USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Crypto.com is the first company to test the new capabil
As Coinbase is about to go public in the U.S., another cryptocurrency company is having a blockbuster first quarter of 2021. Blockchain.com, the company behind a popular cryptocurrency wallet, an exch
Vega, a startup that is building a decentralized protocol for creating and trading on derivatives markets, has raised $5 million in funding.Arrington Capital and Cumberland DRW co-led the round, which
Blockchain.com has announced that it has raised a $120 million funding round. The company develops a popular cryptocurrency wallet as well as an exchange, an explorer and more.Moore Strategic Ventures
It’s hard to believe that fintech startup Revolut doesn’t have a proper banking license in its home country. But this is about to change as the company has applied for a banking license in the U.K. Up
The Libra Association, a consortium created by Facebook to support its Libra cryptocurrency efforts, announced this morning that it has a new name — the Diem Association — and made some key hires ahea
USDC, the stablecoin co-founded by Circle and Coinbase, first started as an Ethereum-based token. After adding support for the Algorand blockchain, Centre, the consortium that manages USDC, is announc
Fintech startup Revolut is expanding to Japan. After testing the service with 10,000 users, anybody can now sign up and open an account. The company originally obtained its authorization to operate fr