Author: Crypto Insider

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) is launching a national digital currency in a public pilot targeting domestic micropayments. On June 18, the CBI officially announced the launch of a pilot scheme for Iran’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital rial. As part of the pilot, the Iranian digital currency will be available to banking customers and…

Ether has been under pressure since June 7, when it lost the $3,800 support level. Despite a series of positive developments, its price remained below $3,600 on June 19, showing no weekly change. Some analysts believe that the primary reason for the bearish momentum is a lack of institutional demand for cryptocurrencies. Others attribute it to…

Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, has updated its privacy policy to improve user consent, transparency and control of their personal data. According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph, the changes aim to apply greater privacy and security measures for users of Consensys’ services, including MetaMask. “As a blockchain software company whose mission is to…

Fox Corporation and the global media brand Time have partnered to use Fox’s Verify protocol to make content licensing and verification immutable. The collaborative effort aims to ensure journalism’s authenticity and combat misinformation in the press. Mark Howard, Time’s chief operating officer, emphasized this goal, stating: “Time is proud to join Fox’s Verify as an…

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is dropping its investigation into whether Ether is a security. “The Enforcement Division of the SEC has notified us that it is closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0,” Ethereum developer Consensys said in a June 19 X post. “This means that the SEC will not bring charges alleging that…

Corporate adoption and trust in the cryptocurrency industry are still in their infancy, despite the previous approval of the first spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The regulatory approval of the first spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States was considered a turning point for the legitimacy of the crypto industry, introducing the first publicly traded Bitcoin products…