While blockchains are seen as the shared ledger technology behind facilitating and tracking cryptocurrency transactions, Wall Street bankers are starting to explore its use in trading and beyond, even as they duck direct crypto investments. The country’s largest bank, J.P. Morgan, has already started processing...
Seven of the 10 most active blockchain investors among large public companies have stakes in at least one company that offers payment services. That’s according to blockchain market intelligence firm Blockdata’s list of the “Most Active Investors in Blockchain Companies By the Top 100 Public...
Next month, the Ethereum blockchain is scheduled to make the long-awaited switch to a much more environmentally-friendly Ethereum 2.0, which will in turn set the stage for a vast scalability increase that will, in theory, allow it to compete as a large-scale payments network on...
As businesses and financial institutions (FIs) look for the best returns on their payments infrastructure investments, blockchain technology has become an increasingly diverse and promising area to explore. Among surveyed businesses that operate in 10 or more countries, almost 69% said they use smart contracts...
Moving gaming to the blockchain requires the infrastructure for gamers to view, track and manage their activities, and an opportunity for gamers and game publishers to explore new DeFi business models, Smile Coin's Nick Bucheleres tells PYMNTS in this month’s "Blockchain Payments Tracker."
Welcome to the ninth article in PYMNTS’ Blockchain in Action Series. Most people at least know that blockchain is the technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built on, but a digital ledger that timestamps and orders transactions in an easily trackable and immutable way...
As blockchain technology continues to move further into the mainstream, it stands poised to impact every aspect of society and finance, from payments and investments to data security and record-keeping. Most would agree that investment in blockchain technology is important, particularly in the financial services...
For the first time since mid-June, bitcoin is on track to close out a week without dipping below the psychologically vital $20,000 mark, and spent most of the week above $22,000. In this crypto market, that’s something of a victory. Not much of one, mind...
Ten days after Hurricane Bonnie ripped across El Salvador, causing flooding, damaging homes and cars, and killing at least one person, an economist took the government to task for spending 17 times more on bitcoin than on the entire Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources....
