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What is crypto surveillance economics? Know how blockchain analytics became a financial intelligence industry, using heuristics to track crypto transactions and ensure AML compliance.

SWIFT is building a blockchain-based shared ledger as an add-on to its existing network for global money transfers. More than 30 household-name banks are participating, including Bank of America, Citi ...

September 28, 2021 - Using the term "blockchain" is a buzz word that most lawyers do not understand. It is often confused with things such as "Bitcoin" — a digital currency launched in 2009 by a ...

(1) The distinction between a main Layer 1 blockchain such as Bitcoin and Ethereum and a Layer 2 blockchain such as rollup chain. A third layer separates even more functions. See Layer 1 blockchain, ...

While regulators in Europe and the US debate crypto’s future, young Africans are already using blockchain to solve pressing challenges from unstable currencies to internet access. While blockchain ...

A protocol and framework for creating Layer 2 blockchains and sidechains, both of which run parallel to and interact with the Ethereum network. Introduced in 2017 as the Matic network, which was a ...

Blockchain statistics can tell us a lot about this surging technology. Users have registered over 85 million blockchain wallets as of the latest figures, up from just 10.98 million at the end of 2016.