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Michael Saylor hopes to reveal the product during the first quarter of the year.

The payment giant's approach allows recurring payments from self-custodied wallets.

The IRC and the Stellar Development Foundation are piloting a blockchain-powered cash disbursement system in Ukraine.

A Digital Rupee flowing across a Digital Payment system is part of Indonesia’s 2023 key economic plans, says the newly released report.

DMC holders to receive Dominica DID status, opportunity to obtain passports issued by the Government of Dominica, and Dominica Metaverse privileges.

As Lebanon's economy struggles and people lose trust in banks, they are relying on Bitcoin and Tether to store funds and make payments.

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison admitted that the leadership team made a "mistake" by being "too optimistic" about 2022 growth rates.

A total of 24,529.85 BTC was sent on the Bitcoin network for a fee of just over 4,000 sats — or roughly $0.83.

As of press time, COIN shares were up 6% following the announcement of Google's intention to use Coinbase Prime to hold its crypto.

Ripple's new partnerships will eliminate the need for Lemonway and Xbaht to pre-fund their accounts when making transactions abroad.

The partnership will focus on emerging markets across Latin America, Asia, and Europe. 

Saylor sent 3 million sats (0.03 BTC) to winners of his Lightning meme contest.

SWIFT Chief Innovation Officer Tom Zschach said that the innovation could help address CBDC's need for interoperability with the existing financial system. 

Sub-saharan Africa has the lowest crypto transfer volume but it has the highest number of small retail payments and use of P2P exchanges.

Sweden's Riksbank teamed up with BIS, along with the central banks of Israel and Norway to test the use of Sweden's CBDC "e-krona", results will be published in a report by the first quarter of 2023.

The digital currency — dubbed "Crypto-Rial" — will leverage blockchain technology to turn the Iranian Rial banknotes into cryptocurrency.

OpenNode will leverage the Central Bank's Regulatory Sandbox framework to test its bitcoin payment infrastructure.

Prime minister Mikhail Mishustin noted that the country's financial system would have to adjust because of the economic sanctions imposed by western authorities.