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IOTA price saw a high volume surge that took the altcoin to a near 1-year high, but are there reasons to support further upside?

The IOTA Ecosystem DLT Foundation is the first to receive approval from regulators in Abu Dhabi after its financial authority passed a new, related law earlier in the month.

Blockchain adoption has been "unabated" throughout bull and bear markets over the past years, says Bloomberg analyst Jamie Coutts.

Critics often overlook the inconvenient fact that “decentralized” blockchains in fact depend on centralized points of failure that have the potential to corrupt entire ecosystems.

According to an analysis from Moody‘s Investors Service, AI and distributed ledger technologies are set to disrupt companies, industries, and economies across the globe.

The year-on-year growing support for digital cash is supported by ongoing domestic pilots and cross-border initiatives taken up by various jurisdictions, CitiBank‘s survery found.

The limitations set out in the Federal Reserve’s new Program provides additional measures to its original policy statement laid out in January.

“Canada punches above its weight” in blockchain innovation, parliamentarians conclude, but lots more should be done to encourage the industry.

UK Finance says it’s not too late for the United Kingdom to make up for other jurisdictions’ faster start to securities tokenization, and the country better do it if it wants to remain a global financial leader.

The theoretical network would help the dollar maintain its status internationally with “game-changing” improvements in service.

Three trial use cases have been completed as part of the project, and the report uses them as a “framework for consideration” of financial market infrastructure.

Like the IMF’s single-ledger proposal released a day earlier, BIS’ unified ledger uses familiar concepts, such as tokenization, without the blockchain.

A new report from the Global Financial Markets Association says regulators need to take distributed ledger technology more seriously.

The institution will reportedly train more than 500,000 specialists in distributed ledger technology.

Argentina’s central bank banned payment providers from offering crypto transactions, adding that it intends to reduce the country’s payment-system exposure to digital assets.

The White House national strategy listed eight emerging technologies, focusing on building international standards and finding use cases in the economic sector.

Abu Dhabi. (Nick Fewings/Unsplash)

The lawmaker said the regulation will need to be both “pragmatic” and “proportionate” to ensure economic growth is maximized.

DLT Science Foundation opened its call for grant proposals, offering up to $5 million for eligible individuals or organizations.

The Bank of England is experimenting with tokenizing assets for real estate sales, as well as developing a digital pound, lawmakers were told.

Christopher Waller praised the emerging applications of distributed ledger technology, smart contracts and tokenization, but he changed his tune for crypto assets.

Italian central banker Ignazio Visco talked about fostering or discouraging crypto assets during a lengthy speech to the Italian financial markets association.

Even though surveys show only about 2 of households own crypto, regulators are bracing for the EU‘s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) rules for service providers.

A SWIFT-style system for bank-issued and regulated digital currencies was launched by a firm involved in building China’s national blockchain project.