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The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is moving forward with the Helvetia III pilot project, becoming the first central bank in the world to issue a tokenized central bank digital currency (CBDC) on a regulated third-party platform. The SNB has been extensively researching the development of a digital central bank currency (CBDC) and identified early on the privacy issues associated with a central registry of all financial transactions. As part of “Project Helvetia,” research has been underway since 2019 on how to settle securities transactions and cross-border payments using blockchain technology and a digital Swiss franc. Despite the potential benefits of…

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The US dollar stablecoin market is currently concentrated in the hands of two companies: Tether and Circle. Now, Ripple wants to enable blockchain payments with a dollar stablecoin via the XRP ledger. Is the company waving the white flag and admitting the failure of its own XRP cryptocurrency? Ripple was founded in 2012 as a crypto startup with the goal of creating a decentralized digital payment system. The company wanted to enable low-cost cross-border transactions and differentiate itself from Bitcoin by offering a more scalable solution. The foundation of this payment network was to be the XRP cryptocurrency, formerly known…

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The Solana blockchain utilizes Proof-of-History (PoH) to verify and timestamp transactions. PoH enhances scalability and security by streamlining transaction order without relying on energy-intensive computations like Proof-of-Work consensus.

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