While the crypto-focused regulatory framework still needs approval from the European Council before final adoption, many in the space have reacted positively to the advancement of the Markets in Cryptoassets (MiCA) bill.
Nigerian cryptocurrency exchange Roqqu has received regulatory approval to operate in South Africa, allowing users to buy cryptocurrencies and withdraw funds using the country's fiat currency, the South African rand, local media reported.
The Texas House of Representatives approved a bill on April 20 requiring cryptocurrency exchanges to maintain reserves “sufficient to meet all obligations to customers.”
A pair of computer science researchers recently published preprint research showing that the nascent cryptocurrency market is starting to show a similar level of maturity to traditional stock markets.
Decentralized finance protocol 1inch has deployed its aggregation and limit order protocol on Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution zkSync Era to take advantage of faster and cheaper transactions.
TransUnion, one of the three major US credit reporting agencies, announced on April 20 that it will begin providing credit scores to public blockchain networks. Off-chain credit data was previously unavailable to Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications.
Montenegrin prosecutors have filed an indictment proposal against Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, Bloomberg Law reported, citing Montenegrin newspaper Vijesti.
U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is preparing to file a lawsuit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after regulators warned the company could violate securities laws,
According to a report from The Information, Microsoft has been secretly developing its own artificial intelligence (AI) chip in response to rising development costs both internally and through the OpenAI project.
Major U.S.-based technology firm Intel has reportedly announced plans to discontinue its Blockscale line of bitcoin mining chips as part of an effort to cut costs.
San Francisco-based venture capital firm Tribe Capital, which invested in FTX before its collapse, is exploring the possibility of injecting fresh capital to revive the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, Bloomberg reported on April 18.
The European Commission has launched a new research unit that will investigate the impact of algorithms made and used by prominent online platforms and search engines such as Facebook and Google.
Web3 data company Space and Time announced that developers can now deploy their data warehouses directly from Azure Marketplace, Microsoft's online store for services and applications for use on Azure.
Crypto mining firm Mawson Infrastructure Group is exiting Texas following the $8.5 million sale of its local subsidiary and lease agreements and contracts related to operating in the state.
The field of large language models continues to swell as Stability AI, maker of the popular image generation tool Stable Diffusion, has launched a suite of open-source language model tools.
Blockchain data provider Chainstack has launched a Web3 data collection hosting service called “Subgraph,” according to the company’s April 19 announcement.
