Goldman Sachs is preparing to launch its own CBDC, while other global banking entities such as BCB Group and SberBank are expanding their financial services to include stablecoins. These news and more in this practical summary so that you are always informed with the most recent and impactful events that occur within the crypto world.
📍The development, evolution and growing demand for cryptocurrencies, , the technology blockchain and ecosystems DeFi is leading large banking corporations to consider creating their own digital currency (CBDC) in order to improve their business strategies. Now, the CBDC fever is joined by Goldman Sachs, one of the most important American banks in the world in terms of investment and securities, which integrated into its work team Mathew McDermott, a cryptocurrency visionary, as the new head of the corporation's Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology Department. McDermott announced that Goldman Sachs is exploring the commercial viability of creating its own digital currency.
📍BCB Group y Circle join forces to expand their financial services and products for clearing, payments and custody of stablecoins across Europe. BCB Group is a multinational banking company headquartered in London, offering a wide range of financial services for the digital assets, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology market. Now, with its new alianza With Circle, BCB Group seeks to implement all of the platform’s innovative features to improve the speed of its payments, as well as efficiency and reduce transaction costs, in order to provide feasible solutions in response to the growing institutional demand for payments, clearing and custody of stablecoins in Europe.
📍In Russia, the country's largest state-owned bank is preparing for the launch of SberCoin, the bank's first stablecoin Sberbank aimed at corporate clients of the entity. The new stablecoin will be used to settle payments for digital financial assets and will be backed by the Russian ruble, the fiat currency of the Russian Federation, in order to avoid the volatility that so characterizes cryptocurrencies.
📍WEI Art Collection launches a new collection of contemporary art based on Bitcoin y Ethereum, to celebrate cryptocurrency lovers and new developing technologies. The collection named Innovation Series 21, features over 20 works of art related to Bitcoin and the most important and prominent cryptocurrencies in the markets and in the industry. The artists consider this to be one of the most viable ways to introduce blockchain technology to large investors and the community at large.
📍Ethereum Classic suffered two 51% attacks last week that the network was deprived of more than 5,79 million dollars and more than 97 thousand dollars in commissions. Now ETC Labs plans to sue those responsible for perpetrating the two attacks in court, an event that marks the first theft executed through a 51% attack to be brought before government authorities. ETC Labs hired the blockchain analysis specialist firm, ciphertra by, to investigate in depth the two attacks that occurred.
Despite attacks that reorganized a total of 4.000 blocks on the network, the fall of the hash rate and the closing of operations with ETC on Binance, the drop in the price of the cryptocurrency is only 0,64%, standing at a value of $6,84 USD per unit, as of the date of this publication.
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