Lightning Labs will bring fast stablecoin transfers through the Bitcoin network
    06 Apr 2022
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    Lightning Labs announced Tuesday that it is building infrastructure that would allow users to send money worldwide at a low cost and almost instantaneously through the Bitcoin network. Taro protocol, which will enable stablecoin transactions, is based on Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade launched in November 2021. According to Decrypt, the company raised $70 million in a…

    This year cryptocurrency will come of age in the Middle East
    06 Apr 2022
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    Areije Al Shakar, the senior vice president at Bahrain Development Bank & director at Al Waha Venture Capital Fund of Funds, revealed her thoughts on Wamda. Banks and financial regulators in the Middle East have been slower to embrace cryptocurrency than Europe and the US. Before the pandemic, the Middle East’s crypto market was still…

    Global crypto study: One-third of Emiratis own cryptocurrency
    06 Apr 2022
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    According to the new Gemini study, one-third of Emiratis and Israelis own crypto. Meanwhile, globally crypto ownership is the highest in Brazil and Indonesia. Also, nearly 40% of global respondents first bought cryptocurrency last year. New York-based crypto exchange Gemini published the “Global state of crypto” report following what it said was a pivotal year…