e-CNY

Indian crypto scam investigated meanwhile Korea’s Kakao’s webtoon NFTs sell out

China’s e-CNY app downloaded 16 million times meanwhile in Kazakhstan the outages hit miners

China’s e-CNY pilot app is ready for download as Bored Apes headline NFT frenzy.

China prepares to show off its tech innovation muscles at the Beijing Winter Olympics as it unveils some unusual-looking wallets for its new digital yuan.

With economic security as a top priority, the Kishida administration anticipates the release of competing CBDCs.

Why the Federal Reserve and other major central banks are likely to speed up development of retail CBDCs.

Top blockchain and crypto news: Are India’s CBDC plans crowding out crypto? Jack Dorsey goes full Bitcoin bro. China’s digital yuan hopes claim another victim.

In the long run, the new rules may ‘lay the perfect foundation’ to improve risk management, says an ICBC expert.

Top blockchain and crypto news: Fed nominations suggest no sudden moves. El Salvador’s Bitcoin lava affair. Dodgy dealings in China’s digital yuan.

Another e-CNY scam busted, meanwhile SCMP to tokenize history

Inner Mongolia police bust yet another digital yuan money laundering case.

Chinese police have busted yet another tele-fraud case related to e-CNY money laundering as the country continues to test the digital currency.

e-CNY scam investigated meanwhile S Korea gets metaverse bug

Police crack a tele-fraud case related to digital yuan money laundering, potentially thanks to the CBDC’s ‘managed anonymity’ feature.

South Korean presidential hopefuls lean towards delaying crypto tax to impress younger voters.

China’s telecom giants to bring digital yuan transactions to mobile chatting boxes.

In a special Q&A, a Canadian law advisor who works with Chinese clients breaks down the ban’s potential legal boundaries and concerns held by overseas Chinese.

China’s crypto ban is part of a global battle over freedom and ideology, writes Michael B. Greenwald. How can the US lead the world in a different path?

China’s hardline stance against crypto is already rippling beyond its borders. A mainland crypto insider explains the global shakeup yet to come.

D-day for Korean crypto exchanges meanwhile e-CNY project speeds up

China may be a small step closer to internationalizing the yuan, though its central bank says the e-CNY is now mostly tested for domestic use.

Black Friday for Korean exchanges while E-CNY launch in final stretch

Digital yuan expected to undergo its first crucial international test despite concerns it can be used as a surveillance tool.

A tourist spot in South China’s Hainan province to hand out digital yuan, while Shenzhen tests adoption for Hong Kong residents.

Top blockchain and crypto news: Does TBD stand for Twitter Boss Decision? NFTs’ ballooning interest. How billions in e-yuan are coursing through China.

Tens of billions in digital yuan circulate through the banks’ systems, as leaders encourage wider adoption.

China’s high penetration of smartphones, digital-savvy population helps reduce e-CNY testing time, observers say

E-commerce company’s tie-up with government-owned lender suggests hybrid private-state future for central bank digital currency.

People’s Bank of China vows to keep sector under ‘heavy pressure’ as it pushes digital yuan.

Privacy concerns prompt call for Americans to avoid e-CNY as lawmakers point to use of WeChat app to ‘surveil, threaten and arrest Chinese citizens.’

Central bank in apparent push for adoption ahead of Olympics as it doubles up on warning over non-state cryptocurrencies.

In a new report, BIS says countries must work together and design CBDCs with interoperability in mind. Hong Kong and Singapore lead mCBDC efforts.

Warning comes as Beijing ramps up efforts to internationalize China’s currency through launch of digital yuan.

Top blockchain and cryptocurrency news: Binance bounced out of Britain. Musk moves Shiba Inu prices again. China’s digital currency gets ready to roll.

Adoption of e-CNY for urban transport networks marks first step in wider introduction of state-backed digital money.

In the last installment of a 3-part series on blockchain in China, Forkast.News examines: Everyone knows money has value. But does it also have ‘values’?

How China’s deployment of the digital yuan intertwines economics with geopolitics and concrete with virtual infrastructure, from Cambodia to the Caribbean.

Long before most governments, the Asian superpower saw the potential in Bitcoin’s technology to spawn the next internet and a new form of money.

Urged on by the authorities, banks have wasted little time in putting e-CNY infrastructure in place, but now comes the hard part — getting people to use it.

CBDC ATMs appear around Beijing and Hong Kong-based Amber Group is Asia’s billion dollar unicorn after raising US$100 million in its Series B.

Money may be easy to part with when it’s free, but as Shanghai’s first experimental e-CNY giveaway shows, it’s not so easy finding shops to take it.