Blockchain News

New York’s financial regulator has a job opening for a Virtual Currency Senior Blockchain Analytics Analyst. The permanent position focuses on preventing financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud by ensuring compliance in the growing virtual currency sector. The role involves using blockchain analytics to monitor risks. Applications are due by Oct. 14. New […]

Payment processing juggernaut Visa Inc. V introduced a new product called the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP), which enables banks to issue and manage fiat-backed tokens (like stablecoins) on blockchain networks. This new platform is part of the company’s broader strategy to integrate traditional finance with blockchain technology. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. BBVA, a major bank, is already […]

In some ways, blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies are polar opposites. On the one hand, blockchain is celebrated as one of the most open and transparent technologies around, based on the idea of a decentralized public ledger that’s shared across nodes. There are no secrets on the blockchain, with the full transaction history of every […]

Payment processing juggernaut Visa Inc. V introduced a new product called the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP), which enables banks to issue and manage fiat-backed tokens (like stablecoins) on blockchain networks. This new platform is part of the company’s broader strategy to integrate traditional finance with blockchain technology. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. BBVA, a major bank, is already […]

Refik Anadol Studio, co-founded by Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç in 2025, is launching an immersive AI art & NFT museum called DATALAND at The Grand LA, with a flagship location at the Frank Gehry-designed development in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. DATALAND will feature immersive AI art experiences by establishing a new model […]

An academic paper titled: “Reconciliation of Anti-Money Laundering Instruments and European Data Protection Requirements in Permissionless Blockchain Spaces” published in the Journal of Cybersecurity suggests that governments should target cryptocurrencies — especially privacy preserving chains — to combat money laundering. The author of the paper outlined several methods of undermining trust in permissionless blockchains including 51% attacks, price suppression, […]

Almost five years ago, db’s Arabella Mileham reported about the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, as referenced by Lord Holmes of Richmond, the co-chair of Parliamentary Groups on Assistive Technology, Fintech, Blockchain at the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) conference. Holmes explained how technology could transform the wine trade, could even reduce trade friction, provide more information for consumers, […]

Visa has released a product to help financial institutions issue fiat-backed tokens on blockchain networks. The Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP), the company announced Thursday (Oct. 3), is available on Visa’s development platform to allow its banking partners “to create and experiment with their own fiat-backed tokens in a VTAP sandbox.” The effort, Visa said […]

In the Harry Potter story, MimbleWimble is the spell that prevents an opponent from accurately casting their next spell or saying anything at all by tying their tongue. In the crypto world, it is something similar: a protocol that ensures privacy. Just as the spell conceals spoken words, the Mimblewimble protocol conceals details of financial transactions, ensuring […]

Aptos (APT), the Layer 1 blockchain inspired by the discontinued Diem (formerly Libra) blockchain developed by Meta, has become the latest network where investors can trade shares of Franklin Templeton’s OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund (FOBXX). The fund, which is the second-largest tokenized fund on the market with a $435 million market cap, is already available on Ethereum via […]