• Rosbank, one of Russia’s largest banks, is offering cross-border crypto payments despite the nationwide ban on cryptocurrencies.
• The bank is collaborating with Russian fintech service B-Crypto to offer a technical solution for customers to participate in cross-border digital currency transactions.
• Japanese regulators warned OpenAI against collecting sensitive data while Coinbase Derivatives Exchange unveiled Bitcoin and Ethereum futures.
Russia’s Rosbank Starts Offering Cross-Border Crypto Payments
Rosbank, one of Russia’s largest banks, is set to become the first major bank to offer cross-border transactions in cryptocurrency despite the country’s strict restrictions. The bank has collaborated with Russian fintech service B-Crypto to offer a technical solution for customers to participate in cross-border digital currency transactions. This process involves arranging with foreign suppliers and indicating the wallet from which it will pay before issuing an invoice that includes the amount due and transaction details.
Kakarot zkEVM Secures Backing from StarkWare & Vitalik Buterin
Kakarot zkEVM, a platform that allows developers to build secure and private blockchain solutions, secured backing from StarkWare and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in its pre-seed round. Kakarot zkEVM provides developers with a suite of tools that enable them to create privacy preserving applications on top of its network quickly and securely. This platform also supports smart contracts written in Solidity and other languages such as Rust or GoLang.
China Publishes National Blockchain Standard
The Chinese government has released a national standardization plan for blockchain technology which focuses primarily on establishing rules for infrastructure development, data security management systems, data sharing mechanisms, as well as best practices for developing applications across multiple industries such as finance, healthcare and manufacturing. This standard seeks to promote uniformity among various projects by setting out standards related to architecture design principles, system security evaluations and other criteria needed for successful implementation of blockchain technology within China’s market environment.
Japanese Regulators Warn OpenAI Against Collecting Sensitive Data
Japanese regulators have issued a warning against artificial intelligence research company OpenAI over its plans to collect personal data from Japanese citizens without their consent or knowledge for use in its AI models. The regulators stated that this type of data collection would violate the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) which protects citizens rights regarding how their personal information is collected, used or shared by companies or third parties without proper authorization from those individuals themselves.
Coinbase Derivatives Exchange Unveils Bitcoin & Ethereum Futures
Coinbase Derivatives Exchange recently unveiled new financial products based on Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). These newly launched futures contracts allow investors access to BTC/USD trades at 25x leverage while ETH/USD trades at 50x leverage – allowing traders more exposure than regular spot trading offers but also higher levels of risk due to using margin trading strategies instead of traditional buy/sell orders directly through exchanges like Coinbase Pro or Kraken .
