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Bitcoin ETF ads spotted on China’s Alipay payment app

DIGIT — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:46:33 +0000

Alipay’s mainland Chinese users spotted an ad inviting them to invest up to $137 daily in a fund with indirect exposure to a US spot Bitcoin ETF and Coinbase.

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JPMorgan: Ant International Processes Billions of Dollars Using JPM Coin

DIGIT — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 02:35:05 +0000

A JPMorgan report reveals that JPM Coin has processed billions of dollars seamlessly with Ant International, the global arm of Ant Group, which owns and operates Alipay. The report emphasizes plans for client-hosted blockchain nodes, currently controlled by JPMorgan, to increase decentralization and direct client connectivity. JPMorgan Explores Programmable Banking and Payments With JPM Coin […]

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China’s largest payments app debuts AI feature that checks if you’re balding

DIGIT — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:52:34 +0000

Eat your heart out Elon Musk and X.com, China’s Alipay is the real ‘everything app.’

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Cambodian digital currency bakong amps up use case with Alipay agreement

DIGIT — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:47:34 +0000

The CBDC-like bakong provides digital payment services in riel and the U.S. dollar. It has been steadily extending its regional scope.

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China’s Wechat Adds Support for Digital Yuan Payments

DIGIT — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:00:31 +0000

Chinese social media platform Wechat has introduced support for the state-backed digital yuan in its popular payment app. Over a billion users will now ostensibly be able to take advantage of fast payments with the digital currency issued by the People’s Bank of China. Wechat Pay Follows Alipay in Integrating Payments With Digital Yuan The […]

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China’s CBDC wallet resorts to ages-old tradition to boost adoption

DIGIT — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:00:00 +0000

A traditional Chinese way of gifting money that’s gone virtual with the rise of digital payments has been introduced into the digital yuan wallet app.

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Social Media Giant Wechat to Support China’s CBDC, Platform Expected to Boost Adoption Rate

DIGIT — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 14:30:04 +0000

China’s social media giant, Wechat has said it will support the digital yuan in a move that is expected to increase the of Chinese residents that use the central bank’s digital currency (CBDC). Wechat’s support of the digital yuan potentially avails the digital currency to the social media’s 800 million active users. New App Provides […]

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Chinese Bank Employees Told to Entice 300 Customers to Use the Digital Yuan

DIGIT — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:30:44 +0000

In mid-May, a report stemming from residents in Shenzhen, China explained that the digital yuan wasn’t seeing widespread participation, which the Chinese government has alluded to in many press releases. Now a handful of China’s state-owned banks have asked staff to recruit 200 to 300 digital yuan users. The banks are also giving away small […]

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Chinese banks tell staff to recruit up to 300 new digital yuan users each

DIGIT — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 01:13:59 +0000

Six of China’s top banks have tasked their employees with promoting digital yuan wallets to between 200 to 300 people a year.

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NFT Roundup: Beeple’s We.new Platform, DeLorean DMC-12 NFTs, Jerry Garcia’s Music Art

DIGIT — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 04:20:46 +0000

Over the last seven days, there have been close to 18,000 non-fungible token (NFT) primary sales worth over $12.7 million. This week also saw a great number of non-fungible token (NFT) announcements surrounding big names like DeLorean Motor Company, the renowned NFT artist Beeple, the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, USA Today and more, as the […]

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