Account Abstraction Could Onboard Billions of Asians to Web3, Experts Predict: Here’s What It Means

Account Abstraction Could Onboard Billions of Asians to Web3, Experts Predict: Here’s What It Means

Asia, the largest continent comprising 51 nations, is garnering the attention of Web3 players from different parts of the world, owing to its diverse market. ‘Account abstraction’ or Blockchain-based smart accounts could be the next thing that could onboard billions of Asians onto Web3, industry experts seem to believe. Essentially,…

Web3, Crypto are Future of Internet, but Lack of Regulations Can Stir Chaos: IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Web3, Crypto are Future of Internet, but Lack of Regulations Can Stir Chaos: IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Authorities in India seem to be warming up to the crypto sector, as we get closer to December when India’s G20 Presidency will conclude, hopefully with a detailed set of regulations to govern the sector. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, has acknowledged that…

Clothing Brand Lacoste Forays Deeper Into Web3 Exploration, Brings NFT Rewards System

Clothing Brand Lacoste Forays Deeper Into Web3 Exploration, Brings NFT Rewards System

Lacoste, a French designer brand that has been pro-Web3 for a while already, is stepping into deeper waters with its blockchain exploration. The company has decided to add more functionality to its NFT ecosystem, that it first brought to life in June 2022 with its UNDW3 collection. Lacoste wants to…

Credit Agricole’s CACEIS Registers as Digital Asset Custody Provider With French Regulator AMF

Credit Agricole’s CACEIS Registers as Digital Asset Custody Provider With French Regulator AMF

CACEIS, the asset servicing business owned by Credit Agricole and Santander, has registered with France’s markets regulator AMF to provide custody services for digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies. The company registered as a digital asset service provider (DASP) on June 20, according AMF’s website, adding a major traditional financial services…

Binance Operations Declared Illegal by Nigerian Market Regulator, Asked to Discontinue

Binance Operations Declared Illegal by Nigerian Market Regulator, Asked to Discontinue

Nigeria’s markets regulator has ordered the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance to halt its operations in the country, saying a local unit that courted Nigerian investors through a website was illegal. “Binance Nigeria Limited is hereby directed to immediately stop soliciting Nigerian investors in any form whatsoever,” the Securities and…

Bitcoin Coders Deliberate Over Future of $1 Billion Memecoins Such as Pepe

Bitcoin Coders Deliberate Over Future of $1 Billion Memecoins Such as Pepe

The coders who maintain Bitcoin’s blockchain are clashing over whether to stamp out the meme tokens swarming the network. A torrent of speculative coins led to a record number of transactions and an 11-fold spike in processing fees on the blockchain in May, creating a logjam and forcing the Binance…

RBI Deputy Governor Asks Banks to Gear for Blockchain Future as India Awaits Crypto Rules

RBI Deputy Governor Asks Banks to Gear for Blockchain Future as India Awaits Crypto Rules

Mahesh Kumar Jain, the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has predicted that technologies like blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) would be part of the future of finance. The RBI recently met with the directors of Indian banks. The aim of this meeting was to address concerns…

Binance Pulls Out of Canada Amid Tightened Crypto Regulations

Binance Pulls Out of Canada Amid Tightened Crypto Regulations

Binance said on Friday it was withdrawing from Canada, weeks after the country issued a series of new guidelines for cryptocurrency exchanges including investor limits and mandatory registrations. Canada has tightened regulations for crypto asset trading platforms in recent months, with the introduction of a pre-registration process. The companies that…

Coinbase Crypto Exchange Posts Smaller Quarterly Loss After Costs Cuts

Coinbase Crypto Exchange Posts Smaller Quarterly Loss After Costs Cuts

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global posted a smaller-than-feared loss in the first quarter, benefiting from cost cuts and diversification of revenue sources, sending its shares up 7 percent in extended trading on Thursday. The company has benefited from its deal for One River Digital Asset Management to ramp up product offerings…

Israel Seized Binance Crypto Accounts to ‘Thwart’ Islamic State, Claims Document

Israel Seized Binance Crypto Accounts to ‘Thwart’ Islamic State, Claims Document

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country’s counter-terror authorities show. Israel’s National Bureau…