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Circle Goes Live with the Circle Payments Network

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Stablecoin issuer and infrastructure company Circle unveiled this week that the Circle Payments Network (CPN) mainnet is now live. With CPN, Circle is hoping to disrupt the $190 trillion cross-border market and bring stablecoins mainstream for cross-border payments. “We are just getting started. per transaction.

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

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31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. At the same time, investments in blockchain tech are positively puny. billion in 2018 — twice as much as last year. The end of this month, Oct.

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FIs Look Inward For Faster Blockchain Deployment

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Though the manic blockchain hype of 2018 has died down somewhat, FinTechs, banks and corporates continue to collaborate and innovate as they develop distributed ledger technology solutions for a range of use cases, including faster cross-border transactions. The technology uses a stablecoin linked to the U.S.