Brazil’s users can enjoy services like up to 8% cashback on select cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin with the new rewards card. Binance and Mastercard are about to launch a prepaid rewards card that will let its customers make purchases with cryptocurrency in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, to “broaden the connection…

Ruja Ignatova, the so-called Cryptoqueen, has turned up in a filing submitted to the British government in January. OneCoin founder Dr. Ruja Ignatova has disappeared from the public eye more than five years ago, but has turned up, linked to a London property filing. The filing lists Ignatova as a…

Visa’s CEO is confident that stablecoins and CBDCs may be a significant player in the future of payments. Visa’s outgoing CEO Al Kelly has doubled down on his stance that blockchain technology can provide solutions to power the next generation of payments — particularly in stablecoins and central bank digital…

Asia’s top financial centres are ready to accommodate the crypto industry, with measures in place to protect customers and the market. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan are known for having the world’s most developed financial regulations, but each have taken individually different directions in regulating crypto, suiting each region’s specific…

Megan Crowell wants to keep “key employees” as they can “severely [limit] the debtors’ options“ amid bankruptcy proceedings. On January 23, BlockFi’s chief people officer Megan Crowell petitioned a court to allow BlockFi to give bonuses for “key employees”, citing that BlockFi may not be able to retain employees. In…

Since the launch of Ethereum’s EIP-1559 proposal in August 2021, the network is ‘burning’ (permanently removing from supply) ETH at an unprecedented rate. …

In a research report on Tuesday, the Bank of America (BoA) said that “Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoins are the natural evolution of money and payments.” Both CBDCs and stablecoins — a type of currency pegged to other assets such as USD or Gold — use blockchain technology…

Coinbase had originally planned to expand to Japan since the 2018 bear market, but market pressures have forced the crypto exchange to close its doors in Japan. In an announcement published January 18, Coinbase stated that it will halt its operations in Japan, and will conduct a complete review of…

Crypto mining stocks have surged after a depressing year for the industry, where public crypto miners faced $4 billion in liabilities. As Bitcoin hits above the $21,000 mark for a multi-month high, mining stocks have also enjoyed some positivity. Many crypto mining stocks have shown their best monthly performance after…