Since the summer, it seems like NFTs, blockchain, and the metaverse have just been everywhere. Searches for all of these things are up, way up, and more people are looking for new applications for this not-entirely new technology group.

Japan's biggest credit card issuer JCB partnered with California-based commercial payments platform Paystand for a new B2B product.

Coinbase Will Suspend All Margin Trading Tomorrow, Citing CFTC Guidance Crypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin trading effective Nov. 25, 2020, due to recent regulations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The San Francisco-based trading platform announced Tuesday that it would prevent customers from placing new margin trades beginning at 2 p.m.

Cryptocurrencies have the potential to eventually replace cash, according to new research from financial services giant Deutsche Bank. In the "Imagine 2030" research report, Germany-headquartered Deutsche Bank said cryptocurrencies may have been "additions" rather than "substitutes" in the finance world thus far, but the next decade could change that as regulatory hurdles get past.