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JPMorgan Pursues Tokenization Plans Despite Crypto Downturn and Regulatory Hurdles

Major Wall Street investment bank JPMorgan is moving forward with its push to tokenize traditional financial assets despite last year’s market downturn.

Mastercard Teaming With Solana, Polygon on New Crypto Credential Standards

Mastercard is teaming with public blockchain developers Aptos Labs, Ava Labs, Polygon and The Solana Foundation on a new set of standards it's dubbing Crypto Credential in an effort to build the trust of consumers, businesses and governments in the sector.

Visa to Develop Brazilian Blockchain-powered CBDC Project

The payments giant Visa has unveiled a new blockchain and central bank digital currency (CBDC) project in Brazil. Per the Brazilian media outlet Livecoins, the firm was selected by the Brazilian central bank to “explore” “innovative” on blockchain technology-powered “usage cases” for the prototype digital real.

BabyDoge Can Now Be Sent As Payment On Twitter

Users Can Now Send and Receive Baby Doge on Reddit, Twitter, Discord, Twitch, and GitHub With PIP.

PayPal Extending Crypto Transfers to More Than 60 Million Venmo Customers

Nearly a year after PayPal allowed users to transfer crypto between its platform and other wallets, the company is set to roll out a similar feature for its more than 60 million Venmo customers located in the United States.

Market Watch 

As of press time, according to Cointime data:

BTC 's live price is $29,345.85 USD, dropped by 0.82% in the last 24 hours;

ETH’s live price is $1,895.97 USD, dropped by 1.05% in the last 24 hours;

BNB’s live price is $324.24 USD, dropped by 3.03% in the last 24 hours;

XRP's live price is $0.47 USD, jumped by 2.69% in the last 24 hours.

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