Blockchain

Despite having been highly anticipated, the Intercontinental Exchange’s bitcoin futures contract only traded at a total value of $5m in its first week.

Benoît Cœuré, executive board member of the European Central Bank, has told the German Bundestag that stablecoins like Facebook’s Libra initiative come with both risks and opportunities.

Representatives from Libra will be interviewed by officials from 26 global central banks on Monday in a bid to ease worries about its impact on the financial market. At the same time, investor interest in crypto seems to waning.

Bruno Le Marie, France’s finance minister, said on Thursday that Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency Libra should be stopped as it put “the monetary sovereignty of states [in] jeopardy.”

Spanish bank Santander has announced it has issued a bond that will only exist on the Ethereum blockchain.

Singapore-based Arival Bank has pulled in £1.87m in a pre-Series A equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube.

Bengaluru-based Signzy has reportedly entered into a partnership with Primechain Technologies, the blockchain compan

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Manny Pacquiao is launching PAC Coin, which he claims is the world’s first celebrity cryptocurrency.

Enterprise blockchain company R3 has signed a strategic partnership with Wethaq, the Dubai-based FinTech startup, to develop a new financial market infrastructure in Islamic capital markets.