The Bank of England's Retail Payments Infrastructure Board (RPIB) has opened a consultation on the design of the UK's next-generation core retail payments' infrastructure, setting out a framework that places interoperability between traditional and digital forms of money at its centre.
mBridge, China's multilateral central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform, settled close to 500bn yuan ($69bn) in cross-border transactions between June 2024 and the end of 2025, according to Chinese financial outlets Yicai and Beijing Business Today.
A 51% attack refers to a situation where a single entity or group gains control of more than 50% of the mining hash rate or validating power of a blockchain network.
"I bought my first Bitcoin in 2014 and, by the way, I haven’t sold any since then. I’m a believer in all crypto."
A blockchain intelligence firm says it has traced more than $3.84bn in alleged cryptocurrency flows between global exchange CoinEx and sanctioned Iranian entities over more than seven years, in findings that raise significant compliance questions for exchanges and institutional counterparties with CoinEx exposure.
