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China Gives 15M Digital Yuan to Shenzhen Residents
China Gives 15M Digital Yuan to Shenzhen Residents

The Chinese government will give away 15M yuan worth of digital RMB (e-CNY) to Shenzhen local residents. The move aims to boost consumption amid the recent round of Omicron outburst and promote its digital currency. At the end of 2021, the digital yuan had 261 million users. The People’s Bank of China (PBC), China’s central bank, came up with another digital yuan giveaway. According to sources, it aims to further promote its central bank digital currency (CBDC). Specifically, Shenzhen’s Futian district government disclosed that 15 million yuan ($2.27 million) in e-CNY will go to its local residents.  The latest move

Huawei Latest Chinese Tech Giant to Launch NFTs
Huawei Latest Chinese Tech Giant to Launch NFTs

Huawei Cloud launched its first batch of NFTs airdrop last Tuesday. The NFT is based on Hawei’s mascot. All of Huawei’s first batch of NFTs airdrops have already been sold. Huawei Cloud, a subsidiary of Huawei’s cloud computing, is the newest Chinese tech giant to join on the popular non-fungible token (NFT) trend by launching its first batch of NFT airdrop Last Tuesday.  As a part of Huawei Cloud’s branding campaign, the airdropped NFTs have been based on Huawei’s mascot. Huawei has yet to reveal if it will launch it on the NFT platform. Nonetheless, the NFTs run on Huawei’s

Binance Burns Bridges: China Punished for Banning Crypto

Binance is delisting the CNY trading zone.  This decision will be in motion from December 31, 2021.  After this, all users in mainland China will see their accounts switch to ‘withdrawal only’ Binance — the global crypto trading exchange platform, made a bold announcement via a blog post. To specify, the exchange is delisting the CNY trading zone. This means that Binance will stop all services provided to users in mainland China.  In detail, the blog post talks about Binance’s decision on the matter of regulatory requirements demanded by the local government. In response, Binance C2C decided to simply delist