Despite heavy government regulations and ongoing struggles with hardware sourcing, Tencent’s large language model has been released for business use in China.
Elon Musk to rebrand Twitter to X, but Crypto Twitter has other ideas
One pitch from Axie Infinity’s co-founder said to keep Twitter but have a crypto wallet named X for spending and creator tipping.
Brian Armstrong Envisions Coinbase to Eventually Become a ‘Super-App’
Coinbase will look more like Tencent’s WeChat than the simpler crypto exchange interface of today, Armstrong said.
A ‘Super App’ May Be Web3’s Super Power
WeChat integrates digital yuan into its payment platform
Chinese social media platform WeChat has incorporated the digital yuan in its payment app to boost the CBDC’s popularity.
China’s WeChat bans crypto and NFT-related accounts
The policy also covers secondary NFT trading as the firm notes that “accounts that provide services or content related to the secondary transaction of digital collections shall also be dealt with.”
Chinese banks tell staff to recruit up to 300 new digital yuan users each
Six of China’s top banks have tasked their employees with promoting digital yuan wallets to between 200 to 300 people a year.
Top Chinese banks promote CBDC over local payment firms for shopping festival
Leading Chinese banks are promoting the digital yuan over Alipay and WeChat Pay for an upcoming shopping festival in China.
China’s digital yuan os backup to AliPay and WeChat Pay, says official
Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay reportedly account for 98% of the mobile payment market in China.
Our Man in Shanghai: Digital yuan tests, ‘bear market’ and ‘NFT’ searches spike
Digital RMB testing for cross border payments and electric vehicles continues, sentiment takes a dive and blockchain events return to meatspace.
A WeChat Ban Should Be the Moment for Decentralized Tech. But It’s Not.
President Trump’s threat to ban WeChat could disrupt the communication of millions of people. Decentralized technology is one solution, but will people really use it? Not necessarily, industry watchers say.
Binance Now Accepting Fiat Through Alipay, WeChat
The move opens the exchange to peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto transactions from China.
China’s Biggest Payment Firms Have No Plans to Follow Facebook into Crypto
WeChat parent Tencent and Alibaba’s payments arm Ant Financial have no plans to follow Facebook into crypto.
WeChat Now Censoring Bitmain and Crypto Price Prediction Accounts
WeChat has just blocked an official sales channel for Bitmain miners, along with several accounts that analyse the crypto markets.
Crypto Media Banned From WeChat In Sudden Online Sweep
Blockchain and cryptocurrency media accounts in China have been banned on WeChat, the messenger app owned by Tencent.
What It’s Like to Be a Woman In China’s Get-Rich-Quick Crypto Culture
My experience as a Chinese woman in crypto has taught me that we need to be twice as strong and grounded to compete with our male counterparts.