A CashApp for Canada: Bitcoin App ShakePay Adds P2P Payments

Instant, irreversible fiat mobile payments come to the Canadian app, which will continue its crypto focus.

Emerging technologies can change the African financial landscape

The ease and convenience of services backed with the emerging techs can dramatically improve the financial landscape in Africa. Africa is the home to 1.2 billion people and what has been described as the world’s largest trade area — the African Continental Free Trade Area.

Austrian gin makers to use blockchain to guarantee bottles' rarity

The world of fine spirits continues to apply distributed ledger technology. The Stin, an Austrian-based gin distiller, is set to use ICON (ICX), South Korea’s largest public blockchain project, to transparently track its supply chain. An Austrian blockchain firm, block42, will be combining near-field communication (NFC) technology with the ICON blockchain to maximize the security of the tracking system. NFC chips and devices function as electronic identity documents and keycards and are currently used in contactless payment systems and mobile payments services that replace credit cards. For The Stin's supply chain, block42 will be fitting 999 bottles of the distiller’s limited-edition gin with crypto-enabled NFC chips.

Jack Dorsey’s Cash App Brings Bitcoin Logo to NASCAR

The mobile payments platform Cash App is bringing the Bitcoin logo to the race track.

The Bahamas Edges Closer to Hurricane-Proof Digital Currency

The Bahamas is betting its mobile phone-based digital currency could be the key to faster post-disaster economic recovery.