Announcements

El Salvador has become the first country to officially recognizes Bitcoin as legal tender. A supermajority of lawmakers in the Latin American country’s Legislature voted by the Bitcoin Law. In a Wednesday vote, El Salvador’s Congress voted by a supermajority in favor of the president’s proposal for the Central American nation to adopt Bitcoin as…

After months of waiting, the first Kusama Parachain auction went off without a hassle. The now active Parachain has already begun successfully processing transactions, paving the way for future slot auctions. The first Kusama Parachain auction could happen by mid-June. Gavin Wood, Polkadot and Kusama creator, posted on Tuesday the schedule for the long-awaited Kusama…

Payments company Square is considering creating a non-custodial hardware wallet for Bitcoin, the Square CEO, Jack Dorsey, said on Friday. Usually, cryptocurrency wallets can be stored offline or online at crypto exchanges, desks where Bitcoin can be bought and sold for fiat currencies or other virtual tokens. A non-custodial wallet gives you sole control of…

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that the country’s government would declare Bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar. In a video broadcast to a multiday conference Miami Bitcoin 2021, the president announced El Salvador’s partnership with Strike, a digital wallet company, to build the country’s modern financial infrastructure using Bitcoin technology….

Major bank Standard Chartered is launching a cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage platform, giving its clients access to crypto assets, like Bitcoin and Ether. Standard Chartered gets in a growing list of major banking corporations worldwide that have accepted cryptocurrency. On Wednesday, the bank declared that a Standard Chartered PLC unit aims to start a cryptocurrency…

Google has announced an update to its existing financial products and services policy, including a policy on cryptocurrency advertising. According to its notice on Wednesday: “This policy will apply globally to all accounts that advertise these financial products.” The new rules will take effect on August 3, and all prior crypto exchange certifications will be…