Blockchain
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316The Growing Importance of Blockchain in Fintech
When Circle published its 2024 attestation report, it revealed that USDC, the company’s dollar-backed stablecoin, had processed over $12 trillion in cumulative...
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283How Blockchain Is Improving Financial Transparency
In September 2023, Visa published the results of a year-long experiment: every USDC settlement transaction processed through its stablecoin pilot was visible...
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322The Evolution of Blockchain in Financial Technology
On 3 January 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block, embedding a headline from The Times: “Chancellor on brink of second...
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Why Blockchain Is Becoming a Core Fintech Technology
In 2020, Revolut listed cryptocurrency trading as a feature alongside currency exchange and budgeting tools. By 2024, blockchain was embedded in the...
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How Decentralised Technologies Are Changing Financial Services
On 15 September 2022, Ethereum completed the Merge, switching its consensus mechanism from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake and reducing the network’s energy consumption...
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The Role of Blockchain in Digital Finance Innovation
In March 2024, BlackRock launched BUIDL, a tokenised US Treasury money market fund, on the Ethereum blockchain. Within six months, the fund...
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Why Financial Institutions Are Exploring Blockchain
In November 2023, Goldman Sachs issued a €100 million digital bond on a blockchain, settling the transaction in the same day instead...
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Blockchain’s Role in Secure Financial Transactions
In February 2016, hackers sent fraudulent SWIFT messages from Bangladesh Bank’s terminal and successfully transferred $81 million to accounts in the Philippines....
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How Blockchain Is Transforming Cross-Border Payments
A migrant worker in Dubai sending $200 home to the Philippines through a traditional remittance channel will pay an average of $12...
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The Future of Decentralised Financial Infrastructure
In October 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore completed the first live cross-currency transaction on Project Guardian, a decentralised financial infrastructure pilot...
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Why Blockchain Adoption Is Growing in Fintech
Between January and December 2024, venture capital firms invested over $10 billion in blockchain and crypto startups, according to multiple industry trackers....
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How Blockchain Is Improving Payment Systems
Every time a customer taps a credit card at a coffee shop, at least four parties take a cut: the card network...
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The Rise of Blockchain-Based Financial Platforms
Uniswap processed more spot trading volume than Coinbase in multiple months during 2024. A decentralised exchange, governed by smart contracts and operated...
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How Crypto Infrastructure Is Supporting Financial Innovation
Fireblocks, a crypto infrastructure company that provides custody, transfer, and settlement technology, processed over $4 trillion in cumulative digital asset transactions by...
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Why Blockchain Is Transforming Digital Asset Markets
On 10 January 2024, the SEC approved 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs simultaneously. Within 100 days, these funds collectively attracted over $50 billion...
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The Growth of Institutional Blockchain Adoption
In March 2024, State Street, the third-largest custodian bank in the world with $41 trillion in assets under custody, announced it was...
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How Blockchain Is Reinventing Financial Trust
When FTX collapsed in November 2022, $8 billion in customer deposits vanished because customers trusted a centralised exchange to hold their money...
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Why Fintech Companies Are Building Blockchain Solutions
In December 2024, Revolut applied for a full UK banking licence while simultaneously expanding its blockchain-based payment infrastructure across Europe and Asia....
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The Role of Blockchain in Financial Transparency
After FTX collapsed in November 2022, cryptocurrency exchanges faced a simple question from customers: prove you have our money. Within weeks, Binance,...
