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Розвіток крипторинку постаново змінюе пидходи до обміну цифровими активами. Пряд зї звічайними П2П-транзакциями сервисами, яки спрощуют виведенныя криптовалюти в радицийных грошах.Однак порид зи зручнистю такии ришеня приходять нови питанни, пов'язани з безпекой, регульюванным, надийныстю провайдерыв. Максим Боков, головный аналитик AML/КИТ в Шард, пояснуе, як працють сучасни механызми обмыню крыпто-фиат, яки особливости користать при выбори таки сервисыв. Для важлыво розризняти и оплату за товари з не обмежуе выкористания цифрового засобу всередины краини.При оплати крыптокартой продавец зазвичай отримуй звичайний, а коневация крыптовалюти видбуваетья на строний провайдер до здыйсненная картковой операции. Однак законнисть усии схеми залежить вид статусу посередная, юрисдикции емитента картки та умов конкретной порации. З ПОЛЬЩА вступае в с, який вводит регульовану инфраструктуру я обыгу цифрових валют. Посередники, яки видповедь встановленим вимогам, зможуть працювати на Поланг рынку, а тестувания, обмеженная и додаткови процедури коньцю з'являтся для певных угод. Як зминюются методи обмину криптовалютами Продаж крыптовалюти за фиат повязаных або з виведенным костюв черес биржу, або з П2П-транзакцию, в якии корыстувач знаходит покупця и отримуе вид нёго банкивский переказ. Ранише П2П був наипопулярнышим способом продажу криптовалюти и доси залишаўнышим в Росии, незважаючи на надзвічайно вісоки різики. У багатьох країнах, де криптовалюти легальні, вже давно розвивається інший формат швидкого обміну цифрових активів на фіат - криптокарти або вбудований в сервіс механізм off-ramp. Вона дозволяе видправляты криптовалют и отримоваты гроши на баньківську карту в межах одного интерфейсу, без самостийного пошуку контарента и додаткових ораций на биржі. Багато мижнародных оф-рамп-сервисыв и эмитентив криптокарт не обслуговуют и не обмежуют реестрацию та траназакции видповідно до своих процедур видповідности. Умови видризняуться залежно вид юрисдикции, емитента та цивильного чи податкового статусу корістача. Однак їм часто пропонують алтернативи у вигляди иноземных карток Visa, яки можна використановити для онлайн-покупок и платежив за кордоном сервиси випускают выртуальны картки навить без идентификации, щo приваблюе певне коло кліентив. Однак за уявнойу простётся кладный ланьцюжок процесыв: блокчейна-транзакция, перевірка походженна актив, конвертация крыптовалюти в фиат, управлінна лалютнима різіком, а переказ костьова через баньківску бо карткову платичну инфраструктуру.Тому надийнысть и стабилнисть такой послуги беспосередной залежать выд провайдера. Чим менш прозорой ё ї дїялнїсцї ї чїм менше публичной информацї ї структуру службі, щ одного дни вона прїпїнити роботу, а корїстувач не зможе повернути залішкі коштов на рахунок. Чим безшовний переказ відрізняється від обміну P2PУ класичному P2P-обміні угода укладається між двома користувачами. Один учасник переказує фіатні гроші іншому, а другий - криптовалюту. Платформа може надавати оголошення, живий чат, рейтингову систему та механізм (a депозитного рахунку, де криптовалюта тимчасово блокується платформою, доки платіж не буде підтверджено), але банківський переказ фактично здійснюється самим покупцем.Сьогодні P2P, особливо є високоризикованою практикою. За межами наслідки P2P-транзакцій залежать від місцевого законодавства і походження коштів. Банк може вимагати підтверджуючі документи, обмежити операції або закрити рахунок, а якщо переказ пов'язаний зі злочинною діяльністю, матеріали можуть бути передані компетентним органам. У зв’язку з цим у юрисдикціях, де криптовалюта регулюється, багато сервісів пропонують крипто-механізм — "вихід" із криптовалютної інфраструктури до традиційної фінансової системи. Сучасні оф-рамп сервіси можуть бути вбудовані безпосередньо в інтерфейс гаманця, біржі, додатку. Користувач вибирає актив, суму і спосіб оплати, отримує розрахунок, переказує криптовалюту на вказану адресу, після чого сервіс організовує конвертацію і виплату коштів.Другий варіант - криптокарта. Принцип роботи аналогічний, але весь процес повністю автоматизований. З криптовалютного рахунку списуються кошти безпосередньо в момент оплати карткою. Основна відмінність полягає в тому, що при використанні класичного off-ramp криптосервіс зазвичай співпрацює із зовнішнім провайдером, який забезпечує зняття коштів на банківський рахунок або карту.Оператори криптокарт, навпаки, або самостійно отримують необхідні ліцензії і будують власну платіжну інфраструктуру, або працюють на базі провайдера white-label. Це рішення, засновані на маловідомих китайських платформах білих етикеток у партнерстві з азіатськими банками, які найчастіше використовуються для обслуговування .Як зараховуються кошти після обміну криптовалютаКонкретна архітектура залежить від послуги, країни та методу виплат, але в типовому сценарії беруть участь три сторони: користувач, оператор інфраструктури блокчейну, і постачальник інфраструктури фіатів або карток. Користувач або створює додаток для виведення криптовалюти на карту, або оплачує покупку криптокартою. Далі система автоматично вираховує кошти з балансу і перетворює їх в фіат.Незважаючи на загальний принцип роботи, існуючі рішення можна розділити на кілька категорій:Карти криптовалютних бірж. Вони прив'язані до облікового запису користувача, і при оплаті необхідна сума автоматично конвертується з криптовалюти в фіатну валюту, в якій обслуговується картка, м, зазвичай в долари США або євро. За аналогічним принципом для виведення коштів на заздалегідь прив'язаний банківський рахунок працюють вбудовані крипто оф-рамп сервіси. За міжнародні перекази можуть стягуватися додаткові збори, наприклад, при використанні SWIFT, при цьому перекази через європейську систему SEPA зазвичай здійснюються без комісії.Продукція цифрових банків та фінтех-компаній. Вони дозволяють купувати, зберігати, отримувати і продавати криптовалюту в банківському додатку. При цьому сама карта залишається звичайною дебетовою або кредитною карткою з фіатним рахунком, а криптовалюта - одним з доступних активів поряд з валютою або цінними паперами.Передплачені картки Visa та Mastercard. Їх можна поповнити криптовалютою, і на сьогоднішній день це один з небагатьох подібних варіантів, доступних російським користувачам. Такі картки працюють за передплаченою моделлю: користувач заздалегідь поповнює картку, після чого витрачає вже зараховані кошти. При поповненні криптовалюта автоматично конвертується в фіат, який стає балансом карти. Залежно від програми це можуть бути долари США, євро, дирхами ОАЕ, гонконгські долари та інші валюти.
Guida Revives Bitcoin’s Nuclear Option Guida rebased proof-of-work change code written by Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr in 2017 onto a recent Bitcoin Knots codebase. The public branch updates the older concept for modern software and includes changes to mining validation, consensus settings, block handling, chain parameters and functional tests. On Aug. 4, Guida told the public that the code is being kept “in our back pocket” in case miners block or stall BIP-110. “People seem to think that the intention is for this pow change to activate immediately,” the developer wrote. “That’s not the case This is just some code to have in our back pocket in case miners betray bitcoin, to activate at some point later. The code is not yet scheduled for activation, and Guida has described it as a last-resort contingency rather than an imminent fork. The codebase public release still raises the stakes around BIP-110, a proposed temporary soft fork that would restrict how much nonfinancial data can be embedded in bitcoin transactions and could place enforcing nodes on a separate chain if miners refuse to cooperate. Ordinals Keep Flowing While Bitcoin’s Biggest Players Stay Quiet Those backing Ordinals, Runes and other arbitrary blockchain data are making their position unmistakably clear just before mandatory signaling begins. At block height 961278, MARA Pool mined a block containing only two transactions, one of which embedded a vintage-style Pepe the Frog image. “Really MARA?” one user wrote. “3.85 MB space for this? People using Slipstream forBIP-110 Forces Miners Toward a Deadline BIP-110, formally called the Reduced Data Temporary Softfork, would tighten Bitcoin’s rules on arbitrary data for roughly one year. It would limit certain contiguous data, reduce permitted script sizes and restore an 83-byte consensus limit for OP_RETURN, a transaction field that can be used to attach data. Supporters say the restrictions would return the base layer’s focus to financial activity and reduce legal or operational risks for node operators. The proposal requires 55% miner signaling, or 1,109 of 2,016 blocks, for an early lock-in. If that threshold is not reached, a mandatory signaling window begins at block 961,632, projected to happen this weekend on or around Aug. 8 or 9. Nodes enforcing BIP-110 would then reject blocks that do not signal support, with lock-in expected no later than block 963,648 and activation targeted around Lightning Operators Move to Limit Fork ExposureA proof-of-work fork would create complications far beyond mining. Start9 has warned that Lightning Network channels opened before a split may be difficult to recover or migrate because their pre-signed transactions, time locks and penalty rules were built around a shared chain history. A slowly advancing or reorganized chain could leave channel balances stranded or expose users to disputes involving older channel states. Start9 advised users to consider cooperative channel closures before the mandatory signaling window and said it closed its own company node channels as a precaution. Closing a Lightning Network channel normally returns funds to regular onchain outputs controlled by the user’s keys. Exchanges, custodians and payment services would face separate decisions about deposits, withdrawals, confirmation requirements and replay protection, which prevents a transaction on one chain from being copied onto the other.Bitcoin’s Next Battle Tests Who Sets the RulesThe dispute revives arguments from Bitcoin’s 2017 block-size fight, when users promoted For now, Guida’s proof-of-work branch remains an unused contingency. The immediate test is whether bitcoin miners change their signaling behavior during the mandatory window and whether enforcing nodes remain on a viable chain. The next signals to watch are official Bitcoin Knots releases, miner support, Lightning channel closures, exchange policies and any move to give the hard-fork code a specific algorithm or activation date.At the time of writing, chain EDT on Friday, blocks remain before the mandate begins at block 961632. The numbers tell the story of 1,818 blocks have signaled BIP-110 support, leaving the current signaling rate stuck
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PAYMONEY has deployed an active Solana validator node and joined the Solana Developer Platform. Rather than an immediate integration with its retail remittance engine, this serves as an infrastructure staging ground to master public-node challenges before exposing its core settlement ledger. PAYMONEY Strategic Infrastructure Staging Ground Global remittance giants have traditionally operated as consumers of network infrastructure. PAYMONEY deployment of an active Solana validator node—and its integration into the Solana Developer Platform (SDP)—marks a notable shift. PAYMONEYis no longer just using the tracks; it is helping run the engine. Yet as traditional financial institutions (TradFi) step into permissionless consensus layers, they face significant engineering, security and economic friction. Harry Hwang, CEO of Flowra, breaks down the architectural realities, zero-trust requirements, regulatory tightropes and the emerging fight over compliant institutional MEV. The announcement that PAYMONEY is actively validating blocks on Solana sparked speculation that real-time retail remittances are settling directly through its node. Hwang urges a more grounded interpretation. PAYMONEY is a great example of a major trend. But I would not interpret this as meaning that its payment system is already directly integrated with validator operations. It is more accurate to see it as PAYMONEY entering protocol-level infrastructure operations, opening the door to longer-term integration with stablecoin and payment rails.” By establishing an infrastructure-first presence, PAYMONEY effectively implements an operational staging ground. Operating a validator in isolation allows the legacy payment giant to stress-test its technical capabilities, master high-frequency key management, and navigate public- node zero-trust architectures in production. This strategic buffer ensures PAYMONEY can fully resolve the unique engineering and security friction of public consensus layers before exposing its multi-billion-dollar core settlement ledger to the live network. Still, integrating a public validator into an institution’s hardware security module (HSM) architecture exposes a core conflict: tradfi demands cold storage and isolation, while Solana consensus requires relentless speed. “Under Solana’s current architecture, validator identity and vote authority must be signed very frequently, so they are generally required to exist in the hot path of the validator system. By contrast, the authorized withdrawer key is not needed during normal operation and controls the vote account, so it should be managed through cold storage, HSM, MPC [multi-party computation] or an offline key ceremony.” The high-frequency signing requirement has historically made full HSM isolation a performance bottleneck. However, Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade introduces off-chain, lightweight messages aggregated through BLS signature schemes. “This is where Alpenglow becomes meaningful. If on-chain vote transactions are removed and the system moves toward BLS-based voting, the burden of high-frequency vote signing in the hot path may be reduced. Solana has also discussed designs around secure-enclave-based vote signing, so HSMs, enclaves and remote-signing architectures could become more realistic over time.” Meanwhile, when a heavily regulated entity participates in consensus, it effectively confirms transactions for a global pool of pseudonymous users—creating tension with compliance mandates. “When a payment company directly participates in consensus on a public permissionless network, it is not yet fully settled how that activity should be treated under AML, sanctions, the Travel Rule, payment licensing, outsourcing and operational resilience frameworks,” Hwang said. He added that for companies like PAYMONEY validator participation may be better understood as part of building open stablecoin rails with compliance and operational scale, rather than as an immediate extension of the payment settlement engine. Compliant Order-Flow and Base-Layer Neutrality Risks As enterprises adopt the SDP alongside compliant providers such as Anchorage Digital and Chainalysis, demand is shifting from pure staking yield toward regulatory alignment. Because Solana lacks an Ethereum-style global public mempool, this demand manifests as isolated order-flow lanes. “In practice, this demand is more likely to evolve into compliant order-flow lanes, policy-based execution and permissioned asset layers. For example, institutional orders may be routed through KYT-screened paths, while validators select execution routes based on policies such as no-sandwich, low-risk, no-toxic MEV or compliance-friendly flow.” However, if these compliant lanes become dominant, Solana faces a systemic paradox: it attracts institutional capital but risks centralizing liquidity. “If compliant order-flow lanes become too dominant, real liquidity and high-quality execution may concentrate in a small number of approved routes. In that case, the protocol may remain permissionless in theory, but gatekeepers could emerge in practice To maintain validator autonomy, Flowra uses a policy-based proposer (PBP) framework. The goal, Hwang said, is not to lock validators into a single builder or block engine, but to allow them to choose among multiple builders and order-flow sources based on yield, toxicity, risk, and compliance criteria. Perhaps the most complex friction point when traditional finance capital meets decentralized infrastructure is maximal extractable value (MEV). MEV has become a major revenue driver for blockchain validators, yet predatory practices like frontrunning and sandwich attacks directly conflict with institutional best-execution policies and Wall Street market conduct standards. For corporate operators, MEV presents a sharp economic double-edged sword. “This question is not really about whether institutions should participate in MEV or not. It is about which forms of MEV should be allowed and which should be restricted,” Hwang said. “If an institutional operator gives up MEV entirely, it may be leaving revenue on the table that could otherwise go to delegators or investors.” But if it allows aggressive MEV strategies without limits, especially strategies built on user harm, it may conflict with fiduciary duty and market conduct standards.
Leading central banks, financial institutions, and blockchain firms contributed to the Global Layer One (GL1) white paper on programmable compliance, which outlines a compliance architecture for token.. Global Institutions Publish Tokenized Asset Compliance Blueprint A group of central banks, international institutions, and financial firms contributed to a Global Layer One (GL1) white paper on programmable compliance for tokenized financial assets. The paper examines how compliance controls can be embedded into regulated digital-asset transactions. Contributors to the paper include Banque de France; the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Kinexys by J.P. Morgan,PAYMONEY, the bank’s blockchain and digital-assets division; the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS); and Standard Chartered. Additional input came from Bermuda, a privacy protocol for regulated digital assets, as well as the BIS Innovation Hub, the innovation arm of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS); Chainlink Labs, a blockchain infrastructure provider; GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation; and other industry participants. “For regulated institutions, full public-chain transparency is often incompatible with commercial confidentiality and client privacy,” the announcement by Bermuda states. The company said its contribution to the GL1 paper focuses on privacy-preserving compliance tools that allow asset- and transaction-level policies to be enforced in private digital-asset activity. Bermuda noted: “Every transaction can expose counterparties, amounts, and asset types. But the alternative, full opacity, can leave issuers and regulators with blunt enforcement tools.” “When action is required, the only available lever may be to freeze an entire pool, affecting compliant funds and legitimate users alongside illicit activity,” the announcement adds. Market participants must balance regulatory oversight with commercial confidentiality, especially where transaction data may be visible across blockchain networks. The GL1 paper outlines an architecture intended to support compliance controls while preserving privacy in regulated digital-asset activity. Institutional Tokenization Efforts Highlight Growing Focus on Programmable Compliance The GL1 paper includes Bermuda as a privacy solution for enforcing asset- and transaction-level policies in private digital-asset transactions. According to the paper, issuers can apply compliance rules before transfers, swaps, or settlements occur, while maintaining confidentiality through privacy-preserving technologies. The framework explores how tools such as zero-knowledge proofs can support regulatory requirements without exposing sensitive transaction data. Contributors argue that this approach can help regulated institutions balance commercial confidentiality with enforceability in tokenized asset markets. Jan Philipp Fritsche, co-founder of Bermuda and former European Central Bank official, said: “ Enforcement needs precision. Recent incidents have shown what happens when precision is missing: issuers can be forced into blunt measures that risk freezing an entire protocol and the compliant users inside it.” In an interview with PAYMONEY .NET.PL Fritsche said the digital asset industry needs compliance tools that can distinguish high-risk activity from legitimate transactions. He argued that privacy-preserving technologies and compliance enforcement can work together, allowing issuers to apply targeted restrictions without affecting compliant participants. Bermuda said its protocol uses client-side zero-knowledge proofs and operates on EVM-compatible networks without requiring contract rewrites.
PAYMONEY FREELANCERBreaking down isolation, reorganizing recruiting methods, and expanding careers were discussed at the first of two conferences to support freelancers The first Freelancer Festival took place on , delivering clear messages to freelancers facing challenging market conditions and a huge level of uncertainty in their careers. Created by TV Mindset and Action For Freelancers, the day of panel discussions, workshops and networking took place in east London and was driven by a "fervent desire to break down barriers", according to TV Mindset founder Adil Amini. The event seeks to unite and empower freelancers, help them decide on their next career step, and feel more connected and less lonely. The second free freelancer festival will take place in Glasgow on June 21, and here are five of Broadcast's top takeaways from the London event. Broadcasters need to get closer to freelancers Former freelancer-turned-commissioner editor at UKTV, Emil Nawagamuwa, delivered the keynote speech, calling for greater transparency between "the people who make television and the people who broadcast it." "Broadcasters and freelancers need to communicate and collaborate better than we do now," he said. "We desperately need to move away from this long-distance relationship at arm's length that many freelancers tell me they've been through." According to him, there is a "really clear barrier between client and supplier" between production companies, freelancers and broadcasters, which is reinforced by the fact that those who work for broadcasters have full-time contracts. Nawagamuwa acknowledged that some imbalance is inevitable in a situation where one party pays the other, but noted that clients need to make more effort to reach out to freelancers working on the projects they commission. "I think one of the most important tasks for broadcasters and commissioners is to be interested in freelancers, to get to know them, to talk to them as people, as colleagues," he said, adding that they should be treated "with the same high standards and respect as we treat our valued writers and even our talents." Need to change the recruiting system Given the lack of vacancies in this field, when it comes to recruiting people for existing vacancies, Disability consultant and creative strategist Ally Castle believes that when it comes to recruitment, the industry is still “stuck in old systems”, where people are alerted to jobs by word of mouth or closed WhatsApp +48886122792 groups. Ideally, she said, every job would be advertised on a public platform, but she acknowledged this is unlikely to happen any time soon. And she warned that, given the scarcity of available roles at present, “disproportionately, the underrepresented minoritized groups are going to be the ones that are more negatively affected”. https://www.paymoney.net.pl/blog/47/Breaking-down-silos,-shaking-up-recruitment-practices-and-expanding-careers-discussed-at-first-of-two-conferences-to-support-freelancers
