In April, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shri Shaktikanta Das announced plans to expand its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot beyond banks. Last month the central bank said payment providers would join the digital rupee pilot this quarter. ...

Image by Ledger Insights.   Thai digital money giveaway highlights programmable money challenges   At the start of August, Thailand opened the registration process for the 10,000 baht ($284) digital money giveaway that was part of an election pledge last ...

Image by The Crypto Times   Andrej Karpathy, a former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, announced on July 16 the launch of Eureka Labs, a startup aimed at developing “a new kind of school that is AI native.”   ...

On Friday Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opened applications for its Digital Asset Regulatory Sandbox. As with most sandboxes, the aim is to explore innovations in the sector which may not currently be allowed by legislation. The term “digital ...

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles on a blockchain, according to the developer Oxhead Alpha and Ava Labs. The digitization is not on a permissionless blockchain. Instead, it is on a DMV-run blockchain, which ...

Image by The Crypto Times A group of anonymous whistleblowers has reportedly filed a complaint against the AI company OpenAI, alleging that the company used illegal non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to prevent former employees from warning regulators about the risks of ...

In June the Swiss National Bank (SNB) extended its wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) pilot by two years. That major news overshadowed another groundbreaking first: the central bank conducted DLT-based monetary policy operations by issuing CHF 64 million in ...