Payments

A settlements platform has unveiled a new scheme to encourage cross-border transactions.Hong Kong-based Bitspark announced earlier today that users of their payments network will be rewarded in Zephyr (ZEPH) tokens every time they send…

It's been five years since payments platform Dash made its debut, which makes the project about 35 in crypto years. The Dash team has revealed that it's not easy to keep the fire burning year after year, and we would venture that it's…

What Is Electroneum? Electroneum is a blockchain-based payment platform designed specifically for use on mobile devices like smartphones. It’s claimed to be the first Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) compliant…

Cryptocurrency is making headway in the field of cross-border remittances, but most people still find it too intimidating for regular use. A study by Clovr found that although 15% of respondents had used cryptocurrency to send cross-border…

The prospect of getting something for nothing is a powerful motivator. The American actress, Sandra Bullock, once (in)famously said that she would do "anything for free stuff" though whether this statement has been tested in the wild is…

Taking a look at COTI with my code review today. White label payments solution, high throughput claims, custom stable coins, wants to revolutionize the way digital currencies are perceived by merchants and buyers using their Trustchain…

What Is Dash? Dash is an open-source cryptocurrency and decentralized autonomous organization that forked from Litecoin. It aims to overcome Bitcoin’s shortfalls in governance, consensus, and speed. As a payment system, Dash is expanding…

Ripple’s stars have aligned again, in an eclipse that briefly saw the XRP token occlude Ethereum as the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.Crypto moves in mysterious ways, but there’s nothing baffling about the way…

ConsenSys on Wednesday announced the successful implementation of EIP-1337, a new Ethereum standard that introduces a recurring subscriptions payment model that's popular with Web 2.0 companies.The new revenue stream gives distributed…

The instant mobile payment platform Electroneum (ETN) is ambitious: it wants the world and it wants it now. So it seems with its latest announcement that it hopes will improve ETN adoption, to turn it into one of the world's largest payment…

The silver to Bitcoin's gold is about to get even cheaper to send. The leading development group for Litecoin, the seventh most valuable cryptocurrency, has announced that its next release will “lower network fees by a factor of ten,”…

Many people first heard about bitcoin (BTC) in the context of the Silk Road. This was an online marketplace, working off the darknet, where people could buy almost anything - heroin, pistols, pornography - a kind of illicit eBay.But…

Reddcoin launched its ReddID wallet to the public yesterday and says its one step closer to the ultimate goal of becoming the monetized ‘Like’ button of the internet.Tipping online creators is nothing new and Patreon leads the way, but…

Electroneum had two spectacular days on the cryptocurrency market after launching the beta of its instant payments processor earlier this week, recording a 31% jump in market values. But is this the instant payment system that can change…

It's a rare thing indeed when two multinational heavyweights come out the worse in a court case. Even rarer when the settlement costs them collectively over $6bn.The business press reported earlier this week that Visa and Mastercard,…

It may be only two days old, but Interstellar is ready to transcend time and space—at least when it comes to international payments. The company, which was only recently formed from the merger of Lightyear and Chain, announced its first…