Cardano Foundation Partners with Petrobras for Blockchain Education
The Cardano Foundation is partnering with Petrobras, Brazil’s largest state-owned oil corporation, to offer blockchain education and investigate its use cases in the energy sector. The foundation will conduct blockchain education seminars for Petrobras’ 45,000 employees, with Cardano Academy content accessible through Petrobras University, according to an announcement made on December 20. Established in 1953, […]
Ripple Receives VASP Operator License in Ireland
Ripple, a cryptocurrency payment network, has achieved an additional regulatory milestone in Ireland with the Central Bank of Ireland’s (CBI’s) approval as a virtual asset service provider (VASP). Ripple recently obtained registration as a VASP with the CBI, enabling it to offer specific digital asset services in Ireland, the company announced on December 19. Ripple […]
Shiba Inu Team Plans to Launch ‘.shib’ domain for SHIB Holders
The Shiba Inu memecoin development team has applied for a “.shib” domain, which operates natively on the internet’s domain name system (DNS). “We are collaborating with @ShibToken to apply for and acquire the.shib Top-Level Domain (TLD),” internet domain company D3 announced on X (formerly Twitter) on December 19. D3 is mainly concerned with domains of […]
Google to Limit Election-related Queries on Bard AI Search Tool
Google announced in a blog post on December 19 its intention to impose restrictions on election-related queries that its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Bard can answer. According to the source, this limitation will become effective in early 2024, preceding the forthcoming presidential election in the United States. The post noted that in addition to the […]
Court Rejects Do Kwon Approval for Extradition
Do Kwon, co-founder of Terraform Labs, has had his extradition status to the United States or South Korea rejected by a court in Montenegro. The official announcement on December 19 states that the Appellate Court of Montenegro vacated the High Court of Podgorica’s ruling on December 14 that had authorized Kwon’s extradition to the United […]