The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has revealed the names of five entities who have won participation in its stablecoin issuer sandbox. Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), Animoca Brands Ltd., JINGDONG Coinlink Technology Hong Kong Limited, RD InnoTech Limited and Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) Limited are the other five entities. A day after the Hong Kong
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Blockchain data provider Allium Labs has raised $16.5 million in a Series A round led by Theory Ventures. Allium Labs along with Visa also released its latest findings on stablecoin activity showing that demand for stablecoins has picked back up in 2024. Data platform Allium Labs, which provides enterprise-grade blockchain data to companies like Visa
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator has unveiled a list of its stablecoin issuer sandbox participants, including Standard Chartered and Animoca Brands. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has announced the list of participants of the stablecoin sandbox, who can already start their experiments with issuing digital currencies backed by fiat currencies. In an announcement on Thursday
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