Blockchain technology could facilitate quicker, cheaper financial transactions with added security. Smart contracts on the blockchain can automate and speed up financial processes like claims and ...

Staff writer Mark Hooson has been a journalist within the personal finance, consumer affairs and fraud sectors for more than 10 years. He is also Forbes Advisor UK’s resident tech expert. Mark says he ...

Smart contracts – like those used in Swift’s Ethereum based blockchain – allow banks and other financial services operators ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) extended the comments period for its proposal to amend Rule 3b-16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which ended June 13. The Blockchain ...

About three months ago, one of our reporters, Theo Normanton, set out to examine Digital Asset Holdings—its past, present, and future. The thinking was this: The blockchain revolution that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...

A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule expanding the definition of a "dealer" to capture digital assets activity has gone too far, a lawsuit by the Blockchain Association and Crypto Freedom ...