JPMorgan Chase is to going to initiate trials of its JPM Coin cryptocurrency with its corporate clients. The names of the companies involved in the upcoming trials are not revealed.
According to Tron Foundation, the program will have the widest coverage in the secondary market. It will last for a year and will include buying back TRX from the secondary markets in batches with no less than $20 million.
Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat discloses that rent contracts are to be seamlessly initiated unto a transparent and immutable blockchain hyperledger through smart contracts.
The chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters announced that the panel will hold the second hearing next month on Facebook’s plan to develop a cryptocurrency-based payments platform Libra.
Under this new collaboration, VeChain will provide its entire blockchain infrastructure for real-time tracking of the products in Walmart’s supply chain.
SendFriend incorporates Ripple’s xRapid software to enable Filipinos in the US to cut costs while sending money back to the Philippines in seconds instead of days.
To celebrate TRON Independence Day, Justin Sun will hold livestream to summarize the achievements of the year and to reveal the plans for the future.
Wall Street Journal readers found an interesting add between their finance news. It appears as if not only Libra’s logo is subject of discussion: one of the defining characteristics of Facebook’s project is seemingly inspired in a key element of Hedera Hashgraph.
From SWIFT they said that banks now know they cannot stand still. They need to adapt their own systems to support them. Only a seamless and open global value transfer system can enable that.
Bakkt hired a former Google consultant to help broaden its brand and assist with the roll-out of a new app. Bakkt Pay could be released in the next couple of months and will presumably enable instantly converting from cryptocurrencies to fiat.
After inviting the community to participate through the unique voting mechanism, Nebulas is now opening the last session for the election of the Nebulas Council, a governance body to guide the future of the project.
France decided to create a G7 taskforce in order to examine the ways how central banks can regulate Facebook’s Libra.
Ripple’s Garlinghouse told Fortune’s Brainstorm Finance conference that the entry of Facebook’s Libra into the crypto scene does not worry him since it is a boon for the general crypto market, and XRP in particular.
Western Union CEO is sure: digital currencies and the blockchain have great potential of acting as a processing system for payments, however, he claims that sending money with Ripple is 5-times more expensive than Western Union.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced the launch of a new tool for auditing cryptocurrency transaction data. The tool is a part of its Halo data auditing suite.