Announcements

Facebook has big plans for expanding in the world of financial services. Its upcoming digital wallet, Novi, will be built upon the still-pending stablecoin Diem to supplant established players like PayPal in the process. The social network’s Novi division will be “a next-generation digital wallet” built upon cryptocurrency that will be nothing short of a…

On Friday, Cardano’s official commercial arm EMURGO announced Astarter, a joint venture with China-based technology firm BlockChain4A, to build decentralized financial (DeFi) services infrastructure on Cardano blockchain protocol. The joint venture will combine EMURGO’s technical expertise of Cardano’s founding entities, coupled with Blockchain4A’s experience in DeFi technical infrastructure development. After Cardano’s Alonzo hard fork successfully…

El Salvador announced the country is looking to exempt foreign investors from taxes on Bitcoin profits to encourage foreign investment. While “over half a million users” have registered in the country’s Chivo Bitcoin wallet, President Nayib Bukele said. According to Javier Argueta, the legal advisor to El Salvador’s President, the policy aims to encourage entrepreneurs…

Search engine giant Google partnered with Canadian blockchain firm Dapper Labs to help bolster Web 3.0 development, including blockchain gaming and the NFT marketplace. The blockchain company’s CEO Roham Gharegozlou tweeted about the deal on Tuesday, noting that the firm was “amped to welcome Google to the Flow blockchain.” According to Forbes, Google Cloud will…

The first virtual assets trading platform that is fully compliant with the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) virtual asset policy framework announced to be launched, as a result of the Emirates Blockchain Strategy launched in the UAE in 2018, which aims to transform 50% of government transactions into the blockchain platform by the end of…

A new tremendous data center is set to be built in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The multimillion-dollar main hub in Bahrain will serve all member states of the Arab League, promoting collective digital transformation across the Arab world. On Sept. 1, The Arab League’s Arab Federation for Digital Economy (AFDE) signed a memorandum of understanding…