End of the year data reveals a thrilling climb in the total value locked in decentralized finance (defi), which ballooned by 133.8% over the past year. December capped off this …
Bruno Le Maire–the French Minister of Finance, in a press release on Dec 9, is ordering all cryptocurrency providers to enforce strict Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) …
Ales Janda of Chainalysis–a blockchain analytic firm working with the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in an interview on Nov 22, said he likes Monero since it is smartly designed. However, …
CipherTrace has filed two patent applications for its Monero transaction tracking system. The firm claims the solution is designed to bring more transparency to Monero and make it harder for …
The Multidisciplinary Academic Grants in Cryptocurrencies (MAGIC), a 501(c) (3) nonprofit, is helping raise $5,125 to funds the development and implementation of Bulletproofs+ in Monero. The initiative is spearheaded by …
Privacy digital currencies catch the South Korean government’s ire. South Korea to Ban Privacy-Centric Crypto Coins According to a report by Asia Times, the South Korean government has decided to …
The Monero development team is now working on a community-funded Bitcoin–XMR atomic swap implementation project code-named Farcaster, a Reddit update on Nov 13 shows. Introducing Farcaster The first phase of the project …
ShapeShift, a non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange, de-listed Monero, Zcash, and Dash to de-risk themselves from a regulatory standpoint, the company’s Chief Legal Officer Veronica McGregor told Decrypt on Nov 11. The Privacy-Coin Purge …
From March 2021, cryptocurrency exchanges and virtual currency providers in South Korea will be barred from handling “dark” coins and assets that heighten money laundering risks, the country’s main regulator, …
Privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero (XMR) has gone live with a new version of its node software. Monero Goes-Live with ‘Oxygen Orion’ One of the most well-known privacy-centric digital currencies today, Monero …
Rudy Bouwman–the Vice-Chair of the DigiByte Foundation, is urging blockchain projects to embrace cryptocurrency frameworks published by governments rooting for compliance and protection of end-users as per a tweet on Oct …
