Image by Ledger Insights The UK’s HM Treasury has confirmed plans to run a pilot for the issuance of digital gilts, UK government bonds, following leaked news earlier this week. The previous Conservative government had also planned to organize a pilot. It’s seen as an important step for UK capital markets, particularly as the UK …
UK government confirms digital gilts pilot. What’s the roadmap? 閱讀全文 »
Image by Ledger Insights Today Securitize, BlackRock’s tokenization partner, announced that BlackRock’s money market fund, BUIDL, is now available on five additional blockchains. It launched in March on Ethereum and has now expanded to Aptos, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism’s OP Mainnet, and Polygon. BUIDL is the largest tokenized money market fund on a public blockchain with a market …
BlackRock expands tokenized money market fund BUIDL to five more blockchains 閱讀全文 »
Image by Ledger Insights Five banks have been working with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to flesh out its vision of the Global Layer One (GL1) blockchain, a public permissioned blockchain network that could form the foundation of numerous applications. The five institutions are BNY, Citi, J.P. Morgan, MUFG and Societe Generale-FORGE. They will …
Euroclear, HSBC join Singapore’s GL1 public permissioned blockchain initiative – 閱讀全文 »
Today Japan’s Soramitsu announced a strategic partnership with the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), a government funded research body and think tank. The collaboration is for blockchain technology research and to develop skills and applications in Nigeria. Soramitsu is best known as the developer of Bakong, Cambodia’s very successful digital currency payment …
Image by Ledger Insights The Wall Street Journal reported today that Amazon and Walmart are exploring potentially issuing their own stablecoins, or failing that, using an existing one. A lot depends on the outcome of the GENIUS Act stablecoin legislation winding its way through the Senate. Another e-commerce giant mulling a digital currency is travel …
Image by The Crypto Times The company itself will retain 11.48% of the token supply, also with similar vesting conditions. Pudgy Penguins, one of the most popular NFT projects, is launching its cryptocurrency called PENGU later this year. The announcement was made by the Pudgy Penguins team in a post on X on Thursday. The …
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Image by Ledger Insights Today tokenization firm Securitize announced a partnership with alternative asset manager Apollo Global (AUM $512 billion) to tokenize one of its funds. Securitize is creating a new tokenized feeder fund for the Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (“ACRED”). The fund will be available on six blockchains following Securitize going live with …
Tokenized Apollo fund launched on 6 public blockchains 閱讀全文 »
Image by The Crypto Times Mastercard (MA) has integrated its blockchain-based Multi-Token Network (MTN) with JPMorgan’s (JPM) newly rebranded digital assets platform, Kinexys (formerly JPM Coin), to improve business-to-business (B2B) cross-border payments. The collaboration aims to deliver greater transparency, faster settlements, and reduced time zone-related delays. Mastercard launched the MTN in mid-2023 as a platform …
Mastercard and JPMorgan to Bring B2B payments on Blockchain 閱讀全文 »
Image by Ledger Insights Today Japan’s Soramitsu announced a strategic partnership with the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), a government funded research body and think tank. The collaboration is for blockchain technology research and to develop skills and applications in Nigeria. Soramitsu is best known as the developer of Bakong, Cambodia’s very …
Bakong blockchain provider Soramitsu partners Nigerian public research body 閱讀全文 »
Image by The Crypto Times Today, Chainlink announced the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) framework designed to help banks, payment systems, and other traditional financial institutions connect smoothly with blockchain technology. According to the press release, the CRE will replace older technologies like COBOL and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). COBOL, introduced in 1959, was crucial …
Chainlink Launches Framework to Connect Banks with Blockchain 閱讀全文 »
