Coinbase Unveils Open Source On-Chain Payments Protocol to Offer Instant Settlement for Merchants San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has introduced an open-source On-Chain Payments Protocol to its Coinbase Commerce product. The new protocol aims to enhance the payment experience for merchants and customers by providing instant settlement, low fees, and broad asset support, the exchange said in a Thursday announcement. Coinbase Commerce is a platform that helps merchants anywhe...

South Korea’s National Pension Fund Bought $20 Million Coinbase Stocks in Q3 2023 The National Pension Service of South Korea has acquired approximately 26 billion won ($20 million) worth of Coinbase stocks (COIN). The National Pension Service is South Korea’s largest investment group and the third largest pension fund in the world. The investment group manages over 997.4 trillion won, approximately $800 billion in assets. As per the stock holdings report submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exc...

Today in Crypto: Mining BTC For Free, Bitdeer is Preferred CSP in NVIDIA Partner Network, Gucci in The Sandbox Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. _ Mining news A public mining company mined bitcoin for free in Q3, according to the latest Miner Weekly report by BlocksBridge Consulting. It said that Riot Platforms reported a negative $6.1k cost for mining bitcoin (BTC) due to the power curtailm...

Here is what happened in the Cryptoworld in the last quarter of this year and this decade: Total crypto market capitalization in Q4 October We started this quarter with looking who is to blame for Bitcoin price crash. We were in for a surprise when a German bank stated that Bitcoin prices are in for a major boost next year and that current prices do not take into account the upcoming halving. Speaking of which, the discussions on the halving and what it might mean for the future of BTC miners h...