Aubrey Swanson

Bitcoin reached $18,483 in the past 24 hours, extending a significant rally over the previous week. BTC/USD climbed more than 15 percent in the last seven days following a breakthrough past the $16,00

DeFi token yearn.finance (YFI) jumped more than 20% as Bitcoin surged past $18,000, sparking enthusiasm across the crypto market. The token climbed from just above $21,000 to an intraday peak of $24,8

Litecoin has achieved its strongest price point throughout the entirety of 2020, briefly reaching $75.92 in recent trading activity. As of the latest quotation, the asset is trading somewhat lower at

A flash loan attack drained $7 million from Origin Dollar, striking at the Ethereum-based protocol that markets itself as a yield-bearing stablecoin. The Origin Protocol team disclosed the breach thro

Bitcoin Cash split into two separate networks on November 15th when the last block both chains could share was mined. Bitmex Research captured the moment: \"Bitcoin Cash: The last common block between

Grayscale's path toward breaking through the $10 billion asset ceiling appears increasingly imminent. Current figures peg the cryptocurrency custodian at $9.8 billion in assets under management, with

Polkadot trades at $4.40 amid mounting pressure, with bulls battling to keep the token above a crucial support area. The price could rally toward $5.00 if this level holds, but profit-taking could sen

Chainalysis, the blockchain surveillance firm, announced a new service for law enforcement: storing and selling the cryptocurrencies government agents seize during investigations. The company will par

Uniswap's governance token surged 11% over the past day, reaching $3.30 against the dollar. The token gained 5% in the last hour, signaling continued momentum that traders say could push prices higher

Uniswap's liquidity farming program wraps up November 17, and the community is scrambling to figure out what comes next. Over seven weeks, the protocol distributed 583,333 UNI tokens weekly across fo

Sellers have rejected BTC prices near $16,000 multiple times, but one analyst says a close above the resistance line could see bulls charge to highs of $17,000...

Johnny Lyu, KuCoin's CEO, tweeted yesterday that the exchange recovered $235 million of the $280 million stolen in the September 25 attack. The figure represents 84% recovery. KuCoin underestimated t

$170,000 worth of crypto and other valuables including crypto wallets were confiscated following his arrest

Gary Gensler, a former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will oversee the financial arm of Joe Biden's transition to the presidency. The president-elect's selection of Gensler follows

OmiseGO's token sits above $3.40, though technical signals point toward weakness ahead. OMG rose 7.7% over the past day as traders tested a key resistance level. On the hourly chart, a sell signal for

Bitcoin rebounded to $15,333 by Monday's close after dipping to $14,895 in morning trading. Pfizer announced its vaccine trials showed 90% effectiveness against COVID-19, spurring a market rally with

Cardano trades at $0.104 after slipping below its 100-day moving average. The direction from here hinges on whether bulls can fight back. Two barriers block a path higher. The first is the 100-day li

BTC has traded at a high of $14,560 and could rally to $16,000 in the coming weeks as bullish sentiment continues to rise...

Ethereum bounced from the $385 low toward the $408 high, breaking through the critical resistance level at $395. Bulls need to defend that $395 support to maintain their edge. A sustained push above $

South Korea's Financial Service Commission delivered a notice this week that will reshape the country's crypto trading landscape. Starting in March 2021, exchanges operating in the country cannot list

NetCents, the Vancouver-based crypto payments company, announced credit card support for buying cryptocurrency on its exchange. Users can now make purchases with Visa, MasterCard, or American Express

Square Crypto awarded a grant to designer Maggie Valentine to tackle one of the biggest obstacles keeping newcomers out of crypto: wallets that require a PhD to use. Valentine, who works at blockchai

Changpeng Zhao denied allegations that Binance had established its US operations as regulatory camouflage. Michael Del Castillo alleged in a Wednesday Forbes report that the exchange used a \"Tai Chi

Bitcoin reached $13,800 this week. Traders expect prices to fall to $12,300 before rebounding again, based on a technical pattern that has repeated twice since March. The next hurdle for bulls is $14

Bitcoin has climbed to $13,500 this week, marking its highest level since 2018. Wrapped tokens are a key driver of the recent surge. Developers building lending and borrowing apps on Ethereum have be

Hackers briefly seized control of the Trump Campaign's online presence yesterday evening, posting a message condemning the president before the organization regained access. The takeover occurred arou

JPMorgan Chase deployed its long-promised digital currency this week, marking the bank's entry into the blockchain space as a commercial product rather than a research experiment. The JPM Coin went l

Bitcoin hit $13,864 on Wednesday, just shy of its 2019 peak near $13,880. Traders watched for weekly and monthly closes that could confirm buying momentum. Bitcoin had broken through several resistan

Bitcoin climbed over the last couple days, but altcoins failed to keep pace. Ethereum topped $400 before retreating. XRP had similar trouble after poking above $0.25. If Bitcoin rallies past $20,000 t

Mobile apps have woven themselves into the fabric of daily life. You order food, book rides, manage finances, track fitness, and stay in touch with friends through them. The pace of this shift acceler

The crypto asset management firm Grayscale Investments has been on a remarkable acquisition spree. Over the course of just 24 hours, the firm injected $300 million into its portfolio of digital assets

VeChain faces a pivotal moment in its recovery. The token dropped over 60% from its August peak, a sharp reversal that sent prices from $0.023 down to $0.010. But recent price action on shorter timefr

Bitcoin reached $13,250 this week, its highest price since mid-2019 and the strongest performance the cryptocurrency has posted in 2020. The jump from $12,300 caught many traders off guard as the rall

Litecoin surged 14% over the past 24 hours as traders bet on PayPal's plan to support cryptocurrencies. The coin started the day at $46 and climbed to a high near $56.50, settling around $55.50. PayP

Bitcoin commanded the crypto conversation this week, riding momentum from PayPal's announcement that it would support the cryptocurrency as a payment method. Prices surged. Bitcoin cleared $13,000 aft

Andre Cronje released Keep3r Network on October 19. Traders jumped in, and many lost money betting on the token. Three weeks earlier, hackers had stolen $15 million from Eminence (EMN), an unreleased

The weekly close above $11,000 maintains Bitcoin's macro trend, with an analyst saying it's important than the $20,000 \"blowoff top\"...

Major Filecoin miners shut down operations just hours after the network went live, protesting what they call an impossible economic model. Five of the network's largest miners participated, with Zhihu

Data from Dune Analytic reveals that had EIP-1559 been implemented, the Ethereum network would have destroyed nearly 1 million ETH tokens throughout the past year - equivalent to exceeding $360 millio

OKEx halted all cryptocurrency withdrawals Friday morning after losing contact with one of its key holders. The exchange suspended all withdrawal access at 11:00am Hong Kong Time, citing an ongoing in

The five biggest cryptocurrency trading platforms control 1.7 million bitcoins, according to data from Chain.info. That amount equals about 10% of all bitcoins in circulation. Coinbase leads the pack

A coalition spanning the globe's largest economies and major financial institutions is moving to establish unified frameworks for central bank digital currencies. The World Bank, International Monetar

A thousand bitcoins from Bitcoin's formative period have been transferred on the network for the first time in a decade, igniting debate across the crypto community about the holder's identity and mot

REN climbed 25% over the weekend, hitting $0.493. Active addresses jumped to their highest level in a week. The rally failed to hold. By Monday, the coin had slipped to $0.369, a drop of 18% from the

As Square announced its purchase of $50 million of BTC, bulls rallied to crack $10,800, pushing as high as $10,918...

Revolut, the London-based fintech, has enlisted Fireblocks to provide wallet security infrastructure for its cryptocurrency offering. Announced yesterday, the deal will integrate Fireblocks' multi-par

Autopilot, a trading bot developed by OSOM, leverages quantitative market analysis to identify and execute potentially lucrative trades in the cryptocurrency space. The system examines market data con

Analysts from the Bank of Canada question CBDCs as other nations consider adopting digital tokens over paper money

The decentralized finance sector has experienced a brutal correction, with numerous tokens shedding the majority of their value in recent days. Some assets have fallen as much as 90% below their Septe

Litecoin has switched on the testnet for MimbleWimble, calling it MWEB short for MimbleWimble Extension Block. The protocol boosts transaction privacy and network capacity. The testnet went live after

The legendary video game maker Atari is stepping into cryptocurrency, enlisting Bitcoin.com to distribute its new blockchain token. The iconic entertainment company has created an ERC20 token called A

Social asset and multi-asset broker eToro has revealed it will be providing a staking-as-a-service showcase to reward TRON and Cardano holders The dedicated staking service will be available for Carda

Cosmos token surged toward $5.41 on Wednesday, gaining more than 9% in the past 24 hours and over 30% in the past seven days. The rally continues a recovery that started when ATOM bottomed at $3.80 on

September's crypto market tells a cautionary tale. After the explosive decentralized finance rally that characterized the March-to-August window, momentum has begun to falter, dragging valuations down

Financial institutions across the globe view cryptocurrency as a tool for criminal enterprise, according to a survey conducted by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and the

Stellar's XLM token trades around $0.073, flat over the past 24 hours. The monthly chart has formed an evening Doji star pattern: a long green candle, followed by a doji with an extended upper shadow

Decentralized exchange Uniswap continues to dominate the broader decentralized finance landscape, commanding the most liquidity among non-custodial trading venues while processing the highest volumes

Bitcoin has now spent 63 consecutive days above $10,000 per coin, surpassing the 62-day streak from 2017's bull run. On the weekly chart, it closed above the $10K line for nine straight weeks, tying t

The European Union unveiled a regulatory framework for digital assets and cryptocurrencies this week. The European Commission released the proposal documents and detailed the framework on its website.

Mask Network has unveiled a widget enabling direct cryptocurrency transactions on Uniswap while remaining within Twitter's interface, eliminating the need to navigate between platforms. The feature em

Bitcoin holds steady at $10,000. Ethereum traders are defending the $330 region, but sellers keep pressing down. In the past 24 hours, Ethereum lost 13% from Monday's open. Across the last two days, l

A major business intelligence firm has made headlines by allocating substantial capital to Bitcoin, positioning the digital asset as its treasury's primary holding. The company has now accumulated 38,

Ledger, maker of the Nano S and Nano X hardware wallets, pushed a software update this week that lets users control which cryptocurrency addresses they use for transactions. The feature, Coin Control,

Cardano's price fell 33% since late July, when its staking network launched and buyers pushed ADA/USD to $0.155. The token now trades around $0.092 after dropping as low as $0.085 and bouncing back to

Bitcoin cleared $10,800 on Tuesday morning, extending its recovery above the $10,000 threshold with a 4% gain marking its strongest two-week performance. The move pushed the price to $10,838 and broke

Binance Coin cracked the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap this past weekend, vaulting past both Polkadot and ChainLink. The token hit $32.00, a level not seen since August 2019. The move came

Bitcoin miners are doubling down on conviction as the cryptocurrency's price tumbled this past week from $12,000 to test $9,825. Network hashrate reached 135.2 exahashes per second on September 14, m

ELF/USD price is correcting after a massive rally Thursday pushed it from $0.12 to highs of $0.28 on the back of DeFi token SASHIMI.

The decentralized finance sector witnessed a violent pullback during the opening week of September, with tokens across the space tumbling roughly 50% on average from peak to trough. The carnage extend

Square is pooling crypto patents through a new nonprofit called the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, or COPA. Member companies can now defend themselves against patent trolls while keeping foundat

For the first time since January 2018, Ethereum has overtaken Bitcoin in total transfer value. On a seven-day moving average, Ethereum reached $3.08 billion while Bitcoin stood at $3.01 billion, an $8

Brave Software added PhishFort's anti-phishing tools to its browser yesterday, and the company announced the integration on Twitter. The move targets a growing problem: scammers stealing cryptocurrenc

Bitcoin SV reached $208 on September 1 before market-wide selling pushed the price down to $150 by September 4. Three days of decline wiped out nearly 28% of gains accumulated between mid-July and ear

Bitcoin fell to $9,850 on Tuesday before buyers stepped in to defend the $10,000 level. The dip sent prices below $9,000, pushing some investors to prepare for a drop toward $9,700. The pullback from

YouTube shut down a livestream run by crypto content creator Sunny Decree, citing violations of its harmful and dangerous material policy. The takedown represented another collision between the video

Revolut, a major European financial app, went live with cryptocurrency trading in Australia this week. The UK company launched in Australia a month prior with standard banking services and has now exp

The SEC's latest move on accredited investor rules has sparked sharply divergent reactions within the crypto community. The agency announced Wednesday amendments to what qualifies someone as an accred

Mining operations have accumulated larger positions compared to holdings from two years back, signaling optimism about long-term appreciation potential—a sentiment that persists despite bitcoin strugg

The Energy Web Foundation has brought SunSpec Alliance into its renewable energy blockchain consortium. The move combines SunSpec's 100 member companies, including Tesla, LG Electronics, and Schneider

Huobi’s new saving account will extend new users up to an 88% annual yield on their crypto holdings Huobi Defi Labs have revealed the introduction of a crypto savings account. The service will have no

Bangladesh's prominent textile manufacturer Viyellatex has reached a milestone by settling a trade transaction entirely through blockchain infrastructure, partnering with the global banking in

Pantera Capital's crypto fund has grown more than 130% since its 2018 launch, according to a Form D filing submitted to the SEC. Pantera Fund III raised $164.7 million from 200 investors, falling abou

Apollo Fintech has announced the completion of its National Payment Platform, a blockchain architecture specifically designed to allow central banks to launch digital currencies without requiring cust

Colorado-headquartered Riot Blockchain unveiled its latest quarterly performance metrics, showcasing significant technological progress despite headwinds in actual output. The mining operation's hash

The YAM token collapsed to $0.62 from $167 in minutes on Thursday, August 13, erasing all gains the project had achieved in two days. A critical flaw in the protocol's rebase function broke the projec

Within hours of launching Wednesday, Serum jumped 1,609%, climbing from $0.10 to $1.98. The surge made it the day's top performer despite broad market declines. Although the project remained incomple

Ripple is bringing on a senior product manager for its Xpring division, marking another step in the company's push to give developers worldwide access to blockchain-powered payment tools. The job pos

Tezos hit $4.41 on Monday, its highest price in more than a year. The 12th ranked cryptocurrency by market cap jumped 14.8% over 24 hours to reach $4.18. A red candle formed on the four-hour chart, si

The gaming sector continues to capture attention from both venture capitalists and established players within the digital assets space, with major technology firms now exploring how blockchain could r

China's blockchain sector is experiencing intense competition for specialized talent, with monthly salaries for developers ranging from $2,865 to $7,000. The sector's explosive growth stems from 2018,

A Russian man will face trial in France for his alleged role in an extensive Bitcoin money laundering network. Alexander Vinnik, dubbed \"Mr Bitcoin,\" stands accused of orchestrating a sophisticated fr

BCH and ETC face sell-off as bears look to push prices below critical support levels

Infinite Fleet, a space-based multiplayer game, closed most of its first security token funding round last week. The developer raised $2.5 million through Simple Agreements for Future Tokens, a struct

MCO has surged 39% over the last 24 hours as token holders rush to participate in the conversion to Crypto.com's newly launched CRO token. The sharp move has pushed MCO to $6.01, marking its highest l

Cardano's ADA token fell 6% over the past day and now trades near $0.1399. Buyers have regained some ground and are targeting $0.1400 in the near term. The recent price weakness stands apart from the

FiCAS, a Swiss crypto asset investment firm, launched Bitcoin Capital Active ETP (BTCA) on the SIX exchange this week, marking the first actively managed exchange-traded crypto product of its kind. Th

XRP rallied to $0.2425, hitting the token's highest price this month as buying pressure built over five consecutive days. The price surge broke through resistance walls at $0.22 and $0.23, putting it

Brian Platz, the co-CEO of Fluree, blockchain technology is a vital part of Artificial Intelligence (AI) development...

Bitcoin climbed above $9,500 on Thursday, breaking a month-long technical squeeze and setting up a potential run toward $10,000. The jump came after the price spiked $400 from its mid-week rise above

Bitcoin cleared the $9,500 mark Thursday morning while Ethereum reached $269, its highest level since March's downturn when bears had pressed prices below $246. The broader crypto market moved into th

Ant Group's blockchain infrastructure has begun powering a new digital approach to corporate authentication in Hangzhou, with businesses now able to manage their seals—traditional stamps known as chop

Decentraland and Samsung announced a partnership this week enabling the Samsung Blockchain Wallet to process trades of LAND tokens and NFTs. The wallet connects these assets to Samsung's user base on

Grayscale's chief shared remarks with investors this month indicating that governments face insurmountable obstacles in attempting to criminalize Bitcoin, citing growing acceptance from everyday peopl

Romania's government issued an emergency decree this month requiring crypto exchanges and digital wallet operators to register with state authorities. Officials said the move would help combat money l

Ethereum's transaction throughput has surged to levels not seen since the 2018 ICO boom, when the network hit record highs in both transaction count and asset value. The resurgence stems from decentra

The Pentagon is shopping around for software that can track Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, aiming to give law enforcement better tools for spotting criminal dealings. The move comes months after

Weiss Crypto Rating posed a question to its Twitter followers on July 15: would Cardano become a major player in cryptocurrency? Juan M. Villaverde, an analyst at the firm, answered yes, with caveats.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, said on the Bankless podcast this week that yield farming returns in DeFi won't sustain themselves. Ryan Sean Adams, host of the show and founder of Mythos Cap

WealthSimple is moving into cryptocurrency. The Canadian investment app, serving 200,000 customers, announced plans to launch WealthSimple Crypto, a dedicated trading platform for digital assets. The

A Twitter security breach that hosted a Bitcoin doubling scam has drawn the platform into potential legal liability it hasn't faced before. The compromised accounts belonged to Elon Musk, Barack Obama

Chainlink rallied to $8.02 on Wednesday, posting a 12% gain as buyers pushed through the $8.00 threshold. The token approached its all-time high of $8.48, set days earlier on Monday. Since January, L

Bitcoin sits at $9,207, unable to breach the $10,000 threshold that has defined recent trading. The price clings to the $9,200 level without clear momentum to push higher. Peter Schiff ran a Twitter

Craig Berman, who previously directed politics for Ron Paul's 2008 bid for the presidency, has shifted gears entirely. Today, he leads Vortex Blockchain Technologies while simultaneously operating as

Bitcoin's network is at its strongest point in history. The hash rate hit 125 EH/s, a new record set 63 days after the May halving. The seven-day moving average now stands at 124.4 EH/s, eclipsing the

Blockchain technology holds significant potential for reshaping how video game economies function, according to Forte Labs token economist Mike Termezy. Speaking at last week's Unitize Decentralized D

Comedian Jim Jefferies owns more Bitcoin than Elon Musk. He revealed this during a podcast appearance with author Kiana Danial, where the two discussed blockchain technology. Jefferies spent about $10

Stellar jumped more than 50% over three days to approach $0.10, though analysts split on whether another 60% rally awaits. The token sits at $0.086 after backing away from its $0.0907 peak. The rally

Tech Mahindra has rolled out bCRMS, short for Blockchain-based Contract and Right Management System, designed to crack down on content piracy. The platform tackles a straightforward problem: creators

Most people can't participate in professional sports finance. Unless you're a billionaire or run a major corporation, you have no meaningful way in. Young athletes face the inverse problem: they need

The Block Research examined online engagement around Bitcoin and found activity running well below 2017 levels. Google searches for crypto, new followers on exchange Twitter accounts, and Bitcoin Wiki

Steve Vallas took over as chief executive of Blockchain Australia this month, replacing Nick Giurietto after five years at the helm. In conversation with Coin Telegraph, Vallas outlined his agenda: re

Stellar Lumens dropped more than 2.5% this week after four consecutive sessions of gains. On Monday, Grayscale Investment announced that Stellar's network could achieve widespread adoption, positionin

Three Republican senators introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act of 2020 last week. The bill would grant law enforcement the power to access encrypted data held by tech companies. That inc

Basic Attention Token dipped about 2% over the session, though trading metrics suggested strength underneath. Transaction count and spot volume both climbed. The rest of the altcoin complex fell with

Tether's market capitalization crossed $10 billion this week, making the stablecoin the third-largest cryptocurrency asset behind only Bitcoin and Ethereum. USDT has expanded 144% over six months, sta

Ethereum's blockchain has been running hot in June. Transaction volumes climbed to record levels, with the network now processing more activity each day than Bitcoin. The network recorded 492,000 acti

Australia's cyber watchdog has issued a stark warning about a malicious campaign leveraging cryptocurrency mining exploits against local networks. The Australian Cyber Security Centre released its fin

South Korea picked SendSquare, a blockchain startup, to build a data registry platform for diabetes research. The National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) is backing the project as part of a broad

While Bitcoin and Ethereum trade sideways this week, some of the smaller tokens are on the move. Chainlink, Aave, and 0x are all climbing, with whale accumulation driving much of the surge. Compound's

Monaco has tapped Luxembourg-based blockchain company Tokeny Solutions to manage its digital asset tokenization operations. The Principality's Office of Digital Affairs revealed the arrangement, discl

New York's financial regulator is loosening rules that have kept crypto companies out of the state for five years. The New York State Department of Financial Services announced Wednesday that it will

Chainlink's token surged to $4.94 on Monday, within striking distance of the $4.95 all-time high reached in early March. The 11% one-day gain extended a weeklong rally that has traders betting the tok

A Supreme Court decision on Monday restricts the SEC's seizure authority in fraud cases. The 8-1 ruling requires the agency to recover net profits only, not gross revenues, when pursuing enforcement a

Zilliqa has dropped more than 5% as a technical analyst warns the token could lose another 40% of its value, tumbling to $0.011 if the recent weakness continues. The coin soared 900% from March 16 low

New Zealand's Asset Recovery Unit froze NZ$140 million ($90 million USD) in offshore bank accounts as part of a sprawling investigation into BTC-e, a defunct Bitcoin exchange that prosecutors say Alex

UNICEF put 135 ETH, worth roughly $30,000, into eight technology startups across seven developing countries on Friday. The fund focused on companies developing humanitarian solutions, with emphasis on

Key inverse pattern indicates price likely to rebound higher after a week of downtrend movement...

Gumi founder Hironao Kunimitsu envisions a future where the economic value generated through blockchain-enabled gaming surpasses that of an entire nation. Speaking at CoinTelegraph's Japan Traders Liv

My Ethereum Wallet (MEW), the open-source wallet generation interface, has rolled out a feature enabling users to build and host decentralized websites. Through \"Host Your Own Site,\" individuals can l

Dubbed Rosetta, it is a secure solution to handle compatibility issues for exchanges and blockchain developers

Major altcoins including Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, and Zcash are fighting against downward pressure that has intensified throughout the latest trading cycle. With Bitcoin hovering around $9,400,

XRP rose 1% on Monday to settle at $0.1922, but the fourth-ranked cryptocurrency remains confined to a narrow range. Sellers drove the token below $0.190 over the weekend before buyers mounted a defen

The digital asset landscape has seen Tezos and Cardano emerge as standout performers through May and June, both vying for premium positioning within the top 10 cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap. Bitco

The six-member panel is expected to advise and discuss legal issues surrounding the country’s CBDC

Bitcoin is struggling to stay inside its ascending triangle pattern, so lows of $8,100 could be coming soon...

The government is considering a law to ban virtual currency whereas confusion about the status of cryptocurrency in the country continues to be unclear In a major blow to crypto investors in India, th

Blockstack and Algorand are adopting Clarity, a programming language built for smart contracts. The collaboration pairs the decentralized computing network with the proof-of-stake blockchain protocol

Zee Entertainment has deployed AdsDax's blockchain-powered advertising platform. The Indian media giant, valued at $2.5 billion, now tracks campaigns in real-time and uses the system to eliminate ad f

Bullish traders continue their struggle to defend the gains from recent sessions as XRP settles into a consolidation pattern during Tuesday morning trading. Lacking vigor despite buy-side efforts, the

Sekisui House, a major Japanese homebuilder, is moving its rental contracts to the blockchain. The company announced yesterday it will manage housing leases and utility agreements through the technolo

China announced plans to develop Hainan province as its newest major free trade port, positioning the southern island to challenge Hong Kong's dominance in global finance. The plan, unveiled June 1 by

A senior Iranian lawmaker is pushing his government to recognize Bitcoin and digital currencies as economic recovery tools instead of dismissing them. Mohammad Hossein Farhangi represents Tabriz in I

Bitcoin has traded as high as $10,450 in the past 24 hours - it could surge higher as miners hold minted bitcoins...

Bitcoin ended May with the price index settling at $9,453 on the 31st, the first time in nine months it closed at that level. Starting June at these levels keeps the door open for momentum to build in

Uruguay's largest medical cannabis producer will debut a blockchain-based app next month, giving buyers a transparent look at their product's origin and production history. Uruguay Can built the platf

Peter Brandt watches one thing when he trades: price. Forget the technical indicators clogging your chart. Brandt, a commodity trader and author of \"The Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader,\" has

Facebook renamed its digital wallet from Calibra to Novi, moving the cryptocurrency storage tool into its own standalone app while maintaining integration with Messenger and WhatsApp. David Marcus, w

Yi Gang, governor of the People's Bank of China, told panelists at this week's Two Sessions meeting that Beijing has not established a launch date for its Digital Yuan. The comments emerged during an

Ethereum's address growth has reached a new high, with 40 million wallets now holding a positive balance, according to Glassnode data. That represents a 350% increase over the past two years and puts

Bakkt, the digital assets platform owned by ICE, is bulking up its institutional insurance protections through a new arrangement with major insurance broker Marsh. The move represents a significant

Celo Gold's mainnet launched today, May 19, enabling token holders from the network's $10 million token sale to transfer their cGLD tokens on-chain. The Celo Foundation announced the news this mornin

A U.S. consumer protection agency said XRP could reshape how banks handle cross-border money transfers and remittances, validating Ripple's push into mainstream finance. The Consumer Financial Protect

More than $220 million worth of bitcoin left centralized exchanges in the days after the May 11 halving event. Glassnode's analysis of exchange flows shows that 24,000 BTC moved to self-custody, conti

Vitalik Buterin walked back comments he made at Consensus Distributed regarding an Ethereum 2.0 launch in July. At the virtual conference on Monday, CoinDesk's Michael J. Casey posed a question about

Binance’s Acquisition of an Indonesian exchange could help it to tap into a new market acquire new customers

Coinstar wants to double its Bitcoin ATM footprint as usage climbs during the coronavirus outbreak. The coin-counting kiosk firm currently operates 3,500 Coinme-branded ATMs positioned in supermarket

The European Central Bank looks at stablecoins as crucial instruments that can aid consumers meet demand in the payments services, but wants regulators to be proactive in addressing regulatory gaps th

Betting has been part of human culture for millennia. In ancient Greece, spectators wagered on Olympic athletes. Romans placed bets on gladiatorial combat and chariot racing. Wagering happened person-

AMFEIX.com operates as a digital asset investment vehicle, enabling participants to deposit Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies into a collectively managed portfolio from which resultant returns flow b

BetTronLive launched a casino platform on the TRON blockchain, using a proof-of-play system where players earn RAKE tokens as they gamble. RAKE operates as a TRC-20 token on TRON's network, and player

Singapore-based Xfers is partnering with Zilliqa, a blockchain startup founded by researchers at the National University of Singapore, to integrate smart contracts into its payment platform. The two c

The cryptocurrency Dash and the augmented reality application Aircoins have announced they are joining forces in a collaborative effort that will enable players to discover, gather, and transmit Dash

Everex, the Singapore-based blockchain company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Lao Development Bank to build blockchain systems for cross-border payments and trade finance. At the signing

CoinDesk's Consensus 2019 brought together the blockchain industry's power brokers, Fortune 500 executives, policymakers, academic researchers, and thousands of developers and investors hunting for th

Fundopolis and AlphaPoint revealed their partnership this week at Consensus, the blockchain and crypto conference held in New York. The two companies will integrate blockchain technology into Fundopol

Three major players in enterprise technology and luxury goods—LVMH, Microsoft, and blockchain development firm ConsenSys—have joined forces to launch AURA, a platform leveraging blockchain tec

The New York Attorney General opened an investigation into Tether last week, bringing fresh scrutiny to one of crypto's most controversial figures. The probe centers on claims of an $850 million fraud

Kaleido, a ConsenSys company, announced on Wednesday the launch of a new enterprise technology stack and the rollout of over a dozen new features, tools and capabilities for the enterprise blockchain.

Malta's government is pursuing blockchain adoption at the administrative level, with plans to modernize its company registration system using blockchain technology. Silvio Schembri, the nation

During Easter weekend, Bitcoin holders and Bitcoin Cash advocates tangled on Twitter over control of the @Bitcoin account. That handle has spent the better part of a year promoting Bitcoin Cash, a Bit

Liquid, the cryptocurrency exchange platform operated by Japanese startup Quoine, has partnered with Virtual Currency Partners (VCP), a venture capital group composed of fintech and crypto investors a

Set Labs Inc., a blockchain company based in the US, unveiled TokenSets, a platform for automating crypto portfolios. The first two strategies target bitcoin and ether: one buys during price declines

At Understanding Bitcoin in Malta, the second day's opening session brought together Blockstream executives to examine what's next for the protocol. Adam Back headed the conversation alongside colleag

A$170,000 in government backing has gone to Crypto SA, a blockchain consulting outfit, to establish Australia's initial blockchain incubator facility, according to Lead South Australia. The funding al

eToroX, the blockchain arm of European brokerage eToro, opened its crypto exchange this week. The platform launches with eight fiat-stablecoins—eToroX tokens pegged to the New Zealand Dollar, Japanese

Nestlé and Carrefour are putting blockchain to work on supermarket shelves. Starting today, the two companies will use the technology to track Mousline instant mashed potatoes sold in French Carrefour

A survey of financial analysts shows confidence that Brexit could boost cryptocurrency markets. Cindicator, a blockchain intelligence firm, conducted the study and found that 63 percent of respondents

Odyssey, formerly the Dutch Blockchain Hackathon and Blockchaingers, returns for its third edition as a blockchain and artificial intelligence hackathon. The event brings 100 teams together to build s

CoinShares released a market overview focused on the second half of 2018, and its assessment of Ethereum amounts to a reckoning with unmet promises. The report returns to something Vitalik Buterin tol

Decentralized artificial intelligence network SingularityNET has unveiled a new working relationship with Ping An, the globe's premier insurer by both valuation and scale, alongside its position as a

A handful of major mining pools now control Bitcoin's hash power, making the network more vulnerable to attack. This concentration hasn't triggered many actual exploits (though some classify SegWit2x

Hodl Hodl, a Latvia-based peer-to-peer exchange, plans to launch a prediction market where users can bet on cryptocurrency prices and real-world events without relying on a central exchange. The team

Delphi Digital released research on Ethereum's technical challenges. The firm examined four areas: blockchain growth, Infura's centralization, cross-shard communication, and code vulnerabilities. The

The Bahamas central bank tapped NZIA Limited to build its digital currency system. The announcement came on March 1, following more than a year of planning for Project Sand Dollar, which aims to creat

Cybercriminals are pivoting their attack strategies based on profit calculations, abandoning traditional ransomware and malware in favor of stealthier coin-mining operations that hijack computing reso

Blockchain platforms like Ethereum and EOS derive much of their appeal from the promise of programmable contracts executed across their networks. Proponents argue that Bitcoin's limited design restric

Hong Kong-headquartered fintech company FinFabrik announced the closure of its seed funding round, backed by BitMEX Ventures. The investment amount was not disclosed. BitMEX Ventures serves as the inv

TRM Labs, a San Francisco compliance startup, closed a $1.7 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital. Tapas Capital, Green D Ventures, The MBA Fund, and a group of strategic angels participated in

Most people assume Bitcoin provides privacy. The protocol offers almost none of it. Bitcoin transactions are transparent, traceable, and the network doesn't guarantee fungibility. Developers have prop

Binance traders can now buy cryptocurrencies with credit cards. The Malta-based exchange partnered with Simplex, an Israeli payment processor, to add Visa and MasterCard support. Investors can purchas

Oxfam released its latest annual report at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21, measuring the extent of wealth concentration worldwide. The richest 26 people on Earth now control as much w

The January has finally seen mainnet launches of two implementations of the novel MimbleWimble privacy-focussed payment protocol come to fruition. MimbleWimble was first introduced to the crypto-commu

Aryze, a Danish crypto startup developing a global payments system, has completed its initial coin offering (ICO), raising US$1.6 million from 278 individuals representing 14 different nationalities,

A trio of emerging technologies—blockchain, artificial cognition, and immersive digital environments—are positioning themselves as the next wave of transformative forces reshaping enterprise and publi

Two firms operating at the intersection of blockchain technology and cybersecurity have announced a strategic alliance. Rivetz, a developer of security-focused software solutions, is joining forces wi

Reports surfaced this week that Russia plans to load $10 billion worth of bitcoin into its foreign currency reserves early in 2019. Multiple outlets ran the story—The Daily Telegraph, Fortune, ZeroHed

Cryptopia, New Zealand's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, shut its doors on January 14 after hackers drained significant amounts from customer accounts. Police now estimate the theft could exceed $3.5

Ulaanbaatar is preparing to test a blockchain-based payment infrastructure in its Nalaikh district, tapping stablecoin developer Terra to spearhead the initiative. The six-month trial will introduce t

whereas the Lightning Network is mostly known as a way to make Bitcoin payments instant and practically free, another often-touted aspect of the layer-two protocol has been its ability to facilitate a

Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson announced they will leave Patreon on January 15th, ending their relationship with the platform that has become central to how independent creators fund their work. The t

Determining which metrics truly matter remains one of the biggest challenges facing investors and analysts in digital assets. This issue took center stage at November's Consensus Invest conference, wh

Fred Wilson sees the cryptocurrency bear market ending this year. The Union Square Ventures co-founder laid out his thesis in his annual year-ahead post, arguing that 2019 will mark the transition fro

A new survey from PANews indicates that approaching 40 percent of the Chinese population expresses interest in cryptocurrency investments over the coming months. The investigation surveyed roughly

The crypto market's wild swings through 2018 pushed stablecoins into the spotlight. Gemini Dollar, Paxos, and True USD all landed listings on major exchanges this summer, gaining traction in a market

Catalina Norena of Belgium has made a name for herself on eToro as a Popular Investor with a distinctive focus: capitalizing on market turbulence through ETF positions in volatility metrics and precio

Gibraltar's GBX digital asset exchange announced insurance coverage for its GBX-DAX secondary platform through a partnership with Callaghan Insurance, a Gibraltar-based firm. The coverage applies to h

Hardware makers are flooding the market with ready-built Bitcoin and Lightning nodes, lowering the bar for people who want to participate in the emerging Lightning network. The network now holds rough

Paxful opened its second school in Rwanda this week in partnership with Zam Zam Water, a humanitarian organization. The Delaware-based peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace gathered more than $100,000 in d

Blockchain gaming has languished on the industry margins for four years, despite persistent enthusiasm from the cryptocurrency sector. No major publisher has launched a game using blockchain technolog

BTC.com has rolled out replay protection and a coin extraction tool for the Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV split. The safeguards let wallet holders spend Bitcoin Cash without risking their newly created

Conflux, a blockchain protocol designed for decentralized applications (DApps) that promises much higher capabilities in terms of scalability and speed, has raised US$35 million from prominent investo

During protracted downturns, bitcoin's most adamant critics achieve their greatest visibility, deploying increasingly extreme assertions regarding the asset's future. Among the luminaries making publi

Traders need crypto exchanges that don't force a choice between security and usability. Encrybit, a Hong Kong startup, surveyed 1,108 people and uncovered persistent gaps: 40 percent ranked security a

Vitalik Buterin has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel because of his “outstanding achievements in the fields of cryptocurrencies, smart contracts and the design of instit

Charities and foundations tackling humanity's biggest challenges often face their own set of obstacles. Securing and holding onto donor confidence proves difficult. Mobilizing capital from supporters

Bitreserve allows users to hold and invest in a variety of currencies and commodities. Today, they are eliminating fees for currency trades.

Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange, operating under the umbrella of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group, has received formal authorization to function as a blockchain technology provider. The approv

Humans.net opened its peer-to-peer freelancer marketplace this week. The company raised $10 million in a seed round and ran a US trial that attracted 200,000 users. The platform cuts middlemen by comb

US-based crypto startup BitVault, Inc., doing business as Gem, has revealed the launch of its consumer crypto portfolio app that lets users track all their crypto accounts in one single app. The app,

Aevolve, a Zurich-based healthtech company, has announced the filing of the first crypto token...

Singapore has the most liberal and transparent treatment for the cryptocurrency industry in Asia, according to local experts.

The Bitcoin Cash hash war will conclude tomorrow, though no one can predict the outcome with certainty. As it stands, Craig Wright appears to have seized momentum. Wright and his backers command the m

The video Tim Canova posted to Twitter on November 8 showed election officials arriving in their personal vehicles and placing provisional paper ballots into a rented box truck. Each official made the

MediBloc, a blockchain-focused healthcare startup, has entered into a multi-year agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital—Harvard Medical School's flagship teaching facility and oldest hospital—t

The tension surrounding Bitcoin Cash's upcoming split has intensified dramatically. Roger Ver, operator of Bitcoin.com and a prominent figure within the Bitcoin Cash community, has disclosed what he c

Seagate Technology Plc and IBM have now revealed that they are working together to reduce global hard drive counterfeiting using blockchain technology. Figures from the International Anti-Counterfeiti

Snark.art, a Brooklyn-based blockchain laboratory focused on digital art, announced its first major project this week with artist Eve Sussman. The work, titled \"89 Seconds Atomized,\" explores collecti

For the first time, a decentralized application has successfully bridged the divide between separate blockchain networks. BancorX now enables seamless token swaps between Ethereum and EOS, eliminating

A new service enabling Dash transactions via text message debuted in Venezuela, providing access to the cryptocurrency for basic cellphone users on the Movistar and Digitel networks. BlockCypher partn

MetaMask announced a mobile app at Devcon, a developer conference held October 30 through November 2 in Prague. Joseph Lubin, CEO of ConsenSys, posted on Twitter: \"Everyone's favorite Ethereum browser

WeTrust Spring, a fundraising platform for nonprofits, announced that it will match every Ethereum donation dollar-for-dollar through November 27. The campaign marks Giving Tuesday and includes 14 cha

Digix's DGX token, which represents ownership of physical gold, moved into BitGo's custody platform today. The addition marks growing institutional interest in digital assets backed by precious metals

NXMH, a Belgium-based investment firm, acquired cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp in an all-cash deal. The two parties signed on October 25. Neither disclosed the purchase price, but people with knowle

Lacksfish, an engineer at BTC.com, has highlighted a privacy vulnerability in how Monero selects decoy transactions after October's hard fork. The issue stems from an unintended consequence of bulletp

The stablecoin space has doubled in size in a month. Over 100 projects now exist, according to analysis by blockchain entrepreneur Edan Yago and the Stable.Report resource. These tokens peg their valu

Goosebumps shaped childhood for kids in the 1990s. R.L. Stine's horror novels—Say Cheese and Die, One Day at Horrorland, Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes, How I Got My Shrunken Head, Vampire Breath—became s

We previously covered the announcement of Centre and its first product USD Coin by...

Canada's National Bank has wrapped up a successful test initiative with technology partner CGI and blockchain firm Skuchain, demonstrating how blockchain systems can reshape trade finance oper

NatWest will connect to a blockchain platform designed to speed up how lenders and agent banks exchange information in syndicated lending deals. The bank is moving forward with Finastra's Fusion Lende

Beijing-based Cobo raised $13 million in Series A funding from DHVC and Wu Capital. The cryptocurrency startup plans to use the capital to expand its wallet offerings and enter new markets globally.

Horizen—formerly known as ZenCash—has unveiled a framework designed to combat one of cryptocurrency's most persistent vulnerabilities: the 51% attack. Though no silver bullet exists, this proposal cou

Ping An Insurance, mainland China's largest insurer by market capitalization and second-largest by premium volumes, is expanding technology investments in blockchain, artificial intelligence, cloud co

Israel has built one of the world's most sophisticated startup ecosystems, and the country is now positioning itself as a blockchain powerhouse. The nation's success in software, communications, and l

Elevated Returns says it has wrapped up an $18 million token sale tied to the St. Regis Aspen Resort, a property the firm purchased back in 2010. The Colorado resort sits beneath Rocky Mountain views

Kakao, South Korea's dominant internet company, entered the blockchain sector this week. The firm behind KakaoTalk, the country's most popular messaging platform, launched a major blockchain initiativ

Five years since the Silk Road shut down, Bitcoin transformed from criminal enterprise to something else. Ross Ulbricht serves a life sentence. The network ascended from underground anomaly to potenti

Crypto startup Hoard has launched the beta version of its all-in-one mobile wallet and trading platform supporting both fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2017 and held by a Cayman Islan

Blockchain-based encyclopedia Everipedia has established its first European operations hub in Stockholm, Sweden, signaling the company's determination to deepen roots on the continent. The venture, he

Qiibee, a Swiss loyalty token protocol, has announced the addition of an American Express...

Shopin's marquee corporate partnerships—prominently featuring Bed, Bath and Beyond and designer house Ermenegildo Zegna—appear to be fabrications rather than functioning business relationships. This r

Line, the company operating Japan's most-used messaging application, has announced plans to launch five decentralized applications. These applications will run on Line's blockchain network as part of

SFOX, a cryptocurrency trading platform serving institutional clients, is adding Litecoin to its offerings. The Silicon Valley firm launched in 2014 and manages trades for family offices, hedge funds,

Bitfinex launched EOSfinex, a decentralized exchange running on EOSIO technology, in beta. The platform lets traders conduct peer-to-peer transactions without go-betweens and handles high-volume block

Coinbase has announced a plan to “rapidly add” new assets to its system through...

Five years ago I surveyed Bitcoin options for buying PC games. The landscape has shifted considerably. Steam added Bitcoin support, then removed it. Indie Game Stand closed shop. Green Man Gaming drop

Joel Valenzuela in New Hampshire and Eugenia Alcalá Sucre in Venezuela have committed to the same practice: living on Dash, a cryptocurrency ranked 11th by market value. Valenzuela has lived on Dash

EverLife.AI has been able to create a blockchain network that is way different from...

A proof-of-concept (PoC) project of a mobile payments service utilizing blockchain technology has been successfully completed by SoftBank Corp., a Japanese telecoms and Internet firm, in partnership w

A YouGov Omnibus survey administered during late August paints a complex portrait of America's relationship with digital currencies, revealing widespread name recognition yet minimal hands-on engageme

RiotCats opens pre-orders for its blockchain-based collectible game starting today, September 10, through October 1. The gameplay mirrors CryptoKitties—players collect, breed, and trade digital cats—b

Origin Protocol, the open-source blockchain platform for peer-to-peer marketplaces, took the lead in establishing the ERC 725 Alliance. The initiative aims to establish a blockchain-based identificati

Behind every cryptocurrency project's success lies an often-invisible network of support professionals who shoulder the burden of educating newcomers and resolving user issues. Two such individuals—Me

Google Cloud is broadening its blockchain analytics platform. Having released Bitcoin's blockchain data for public examination on its infrastructure during the first half of 2018, the company

Unibright, the enterprise-focused blockchain platform, is advancing its development roadmap just over a quarter past its soft cap target. The German startup has recently unveiled collaborations with m

Digital asset management platform MyCrypto has closed a $4 million Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital, a prominent cryptocurrency hedge fund. The new capital will fuel development of mo

Singapore and Chongqing announced a joint investment fund to support technology companies working in artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and blockchain. The fund supports Singaporean firm

eToro has announced an advertising partnership with seven Premier League Football clubs. The deal...

The erosion of digital privacy has accelerated rapidly. Companies continuously harvest personal information to fuel their business models, while consumers remain largely unaware of how their data is b

PricewaterhouseCoopers surveyed 600 executives across 15 countries about blockchain leadership. Respondents view the US as the most advanced in blockchain development at 29%, followed by China at 18%

Singapore's financial regulators and exchange operator are joining forces to solve a technical problem that has long plagued global finance: how to move money and securities between blockchains withou

A merchant in 1793 handed out copper tokens to customers who could exchange them for store goods. Merchants kept offering those rewards. Today airlines offer miles, coffee shops punch cards, salons co

Chinese exchange giant Huobi has revealed an investment in and partnership with the OpenFinancial Network. The OpenFinancial Network describes itself as “the first US based regulated security token tr

Review.Network, a new blockchain project that has set out to improve online reviews and market researches, has raised US$1.4 million in seed funding.

Thailand has about 50 initial coin offerings in progress and roughly 20 digital asset exchanges seeking operating licenses from the country's Securities and Exchange Commission. \"We're working throug

Samantha Wang's entry into cryptocurrency came as a detour. In 2013, university classmates Jimmy Zhong and Ray Xiao introduced her to Bitcoin. She made small investments that went toward paying off re

Axact, a software company, operated a sprawling diploma mill through hundreds of websites. In 2015 alone, the operation generated $51 million after processing over 215,000 forged degrees via 350 ficti

The NFL Players Association has taken a minority stake in SportsCastr, a blockchain platform for live streaming and sports commentary. The union made the move through OneTeam Collective, its athlete-f

Mistertango, a cryptocurrency payment app regulated by Lithuania's central bank, surveyed 24 exchanges across Europe, Asia, South America, and Oceania. The exchanges reported combined daily trading vo

The Chamber of Digital Commerce released a detailed report this month on how the token industry should operate and where tokens sit in the regulatory framework. Over 350 companies and organizations w

Tron, a startup developing a blockchain-based entertainment and content-sharing platform, has officially completed the acquisition of file sharing software provider BitTorrent.

Pundi X Labs, the Indonesian maker of cryptocurrency-enabled point-of-sale terminals, has partnered with South Korea's Ubivelox to establish its payment devices across the region. The two companies si

SyncFab, which operates a blockchain platform for hardware manufacturing supply chains, joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, the world's largest open source blockchain initiative, to work alongsid

India won't ban cryptocurrencies outright, according to government sources. Officials are exploring whether to treat digital assets as commodities. An anonymous senior government official told Quartz

Supply chains lock up trillions in capital. The payment process crawls through multiple banks and networks. Businesses wait for their money. They wait for shipments to arrive. While they wait, they ne

Bitcoin's mining network processed over 40 exahashes per second in June 2018, crushing the roughly 13 EH/s record from 2017 by more than double. Four months brought growth exceeding 100 percent. For m

The Philippine central bank green-lit two new cryptocurrency exchanges to handle peso conversions. Virtual Currency Philippines, Inc. and ETranss received approval from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Bitcoin entered the world without any funding mechanism when Satoshi Nakamoto released it in early 2009. Modern cryptocurrency projects take a different path. Many fund themselves through initial coin

New, but fast-growing cryptocurrency exchange CoinDeal is quickly building a name for itself in...

Cryptocurrency exchanges have hemorrhaged $750 million in the first six months of 2018, according to CipherTrace, a cybersecurity firm that works with banks and exchanges on blockchain security and co

The Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing another application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. The latest proposal comes from Cboe Global Markets on behalf of SolidX Bitcoin Shares, an ET

Blockport, an exchange based in Amsterdam, went live with its public beta this week. The platform allows European traders to buy, sell and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and two additional cryptocu

The blockchain scaling venture helmed by Jimmy Nguyen and Craig Wright has built its entire operation around Bitcoin Cash—yet the software powering its security infrastructure remains locked away. Nak

Simcord Company finished its pre-sale phase and wrapped an internal crowdsale. The Bitbon System now enters the final stage of its public token offering, opening doors to anyone ready to bet on the sh

NordFX has converted MetaTrader 4 into a cryptocurrency trading platform through its new MTEX system. The platform retains its existing forex and metals trading features while adding crypto capabiliti

Attitudes toward cryptocurrency in Ireland have shifted from doubt to openness, according to new research from Amárach Research and communications firm Red Flag published in The Irish Times. The surve

A $15 million Series A funding round marks Galaxy Digital Ventures' entry into AlphaPoint, a blockchain infrastructure firm specializing in asset digitization. The investment is meant to propel the co

Dr. Dominik Thor sat down with journalists at CoinFest UK 2018 to discuss Vaultitude, his company building blockchain-based intellectual property protection. The platform, which operates under the Vau

Talla, an artificial intelligence company founded in 2015, has launched BotChain, a blockchain platform that runs on Ethereum. Through it, companies register their bots with unique identity codes whil

Women are moving into cryptocurrency at double the rate from six months prior. Men's interest has plateaued, making women the market's primary growth segment. The London Block Exchange, Britain's onl

WONO operates as an online marketplace where users can share, earn and spend without the tax burden or steep commissions that plague traditional P2P platforms. Participants monetize whatever they own—

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer KeepKey has launched native support for ERC20 tokens, now allowing...

Wallet maker imToken has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by IDG Capital, which has invested in Circle, Ripple and Bitmain. Ben He, imToken's founder and CEO, told MiningPool the company w

MyBit, a blockchain-based platform for investing in connected devices, has inked a deal with Prague-based smart furniture manufacturer Ability Concept. The collaboration marks a major milestone as the

eToro enters the U.S. crypto market during the second half of 2018 riding a strong year. The brokerage, which brings over 10 million users across more than 140 countries, is launching a new wallet and

Leading mobile game publisher gumi Inc. has announced a new cryptocurrency fund with an...

SoPay, a blockchain-based payment infrastructure designed to deliver speed, confidentiality, and user accessibility, revealed plans for its token offering commencing May 29, 2018 through June 3, 2018.

Marijuana legalization will usher in a new way of thinking that will be as disruptive as any emergent technology.

James Rodriguez, the 2014 World Cup's Golden Boot winner, announced today he signed with SelfSell, a blockchain startup, to launch his own cryptocurrency token. The Colombian midfielder for Real Madri

China's blockchain sector is accelerating. The government just documented 249 investment deals in blockchain startups on the books, with capital pouring in at record pace. A whitepaper from China's M

The crypto sector faces a pivotal question: how will major regulators, especially America's Securities & Exchange Commission, treat tokens and digital coins? Should the SEC determine that token sales

Blockchain gaming platform Game Protocol has formed a partnership with Bancor, the preeminent decentralized exchange solution for token conversions. At its core, Game Protocol operates as a fundraisin

Investment platform eToro has now revealed that it will launch a cryptocurrency offering in the US, enabling users in the country to invest in ten cryptocurrencies initially, with more to be added thr

Japanese blockchain software provider Tech Bureau has announced the release of the second version...

Blockchain Valley Ventures opened its doors Thursday in Zug, Switzerland, bringing together veterans from IBM, UBS, and SAP alongside the Swiss startup Lykke to back early-stage crypto companies. The

Wealth means more than pocket money. It means having enough set aside to support yourself now, support yourself later, and leave something behind when you're gone. The Spindle project wants to make th

Los Angeles hosted the Crypto Invest Summit from April 30 through May 2, drawing blockchain investors and entrepreneurs to sessions exploring the technology's emerging applications. The final day feat

Nine million investors have accounts on eToro, a platform where traders buy and sell alongside one another. The company raised $100 million in early 2018 to fuel global expansion and blockchain techno

Overthrowing an entrenched system triggers retaliation. The larger the change, the fiercer the response. Foreign governments intervene according to their interests. Workers protect their positions. Th

A group of the U.K.’s leading cryptocurrency platforms are urging the Treasury to regulate...

Gemini announced on April 25 that it will deploy Nasdaq SMARTS market surveillance technology across its platform. The move aims to strengthen trading oversight and build what the exchange calls a \"ru

A blockchain-powered transportation network called DACSEE (Decentralized Alternative Cabs Serving & Empowering Everyone) made its market entrance this week by releasing a consumer mobile app in Malays

Thomson Reuters surveyed more than 400 of its trading solutions clients and found that one in five financial institutions plan to start trading cryptocurrencies within the next year. The survey includ

eToro added EOS to its platform on April 23 in response to growing trader demand for altcoin exposure. The social trading platform serves 9 million users and offers access to more than 1,500 instrumen

MyEtherWallet and Kyber Network launched a token-swap feature allowing users to convert Ether into twenty different ERC20 tokens, including KNC, EOS, OmiseGO, and DAI, without withdrawing from their M

India's judiciary has thrust itself into the nation's escalating cryptocurrency debate. The Delhi High Court has directed the Reserve Bank of India, the Ministry of Finance, and the Goods and Services

Blockchain-based anti-spam email platform BitBounce is rolling out CredoEx, its proprietary trading venue for the Credo token. The exchange will initially support Credo paired against Ethereum, with p

Batavia, a blockchain-based platform for trade finance built on IBM's infrastructure, has executed its first live transactions with commercial clients. Six organizations developed the platform: Bank o

Monex Group Inc., Japan's third-largest online brokerage by customer base, finalized its purchase of Tokyo's Coincheck digital asset exchange for 3.6 billion yen (approximately $33.6 million) on Monda

Status, an open source Ethereum-based mobile operating system, is launching Status Incubate, a program designed to fund and support early-stage blockchain startups. The initiative provides capital, te

Ether Capital begins trading Thursday on the NEO Exchange after moving from the TSX Venture Exchange. The Canadian corporation, trading under NEO:ETHC, positions itself as the first publicly traded co

Saxo Bank released its second-quarter outlook on global markets, examining whether cryptocurrencies might mount a new rally. The 35-page report situates digital currencies against the backdrop of th

Hong Kong's financial watchdog has declared war on Initial Coin Offerings, condemning them as fraudulent schemes that exploit the absence of regulatory guardrails. Julia Leung, deputy head of the Secu

On April 1st, Vitalik Buterin posted an Ethereum Improvement Proposal that looked serious. He proposed a hard cap of 120 million coins, with no new issuance after that point. Buterin argued that minti

JP Morgan Chase faces a class-action lawsuit filed this week alleging the bank imposed punitive interest rates and fees on customers purchasing cryptocurrencies with credit cards. The suit marks an es

Vietnam's FPT Software, among the nation's premier IT enterprises, has joined forces with Factom, a blockchain infrastructure provider headquartered in Texas, in a freshly minted partnership aimed at

Bitcoin jumped nearly $1,000 in approximately thirty minutes Thursday, giving traders their first solid momentum in weeks. The price settled around $7,600, the highest level since late March, and gain

Yahoo lost millions of user records to hackers. Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica to harvest personal information from its users. These incidents exposed a core vulnerability in how major platforms

Modern Tech, a Ho Chi Minh City firm, allegedly defrauded 32,000 investors of approximately VND15 trillion, equivalent to $660 million. The company shut down operations afterward. The scheme involved

The cryptocurrency trading landscape presents significant challenges for the typical participant. Technical analysis demands expertise. Spotting emerging trends requires skill. And the market's notori

Proxeus, IBM Switzerland, Canton Zug, and Swisscom registered Switzerland's first company on blockchain. The process ran on Hyperledger Blockchain, which they connected to existing bank and commercial

The stablecoin market has accelerated over the past year, but much of the crypto world struggles with what they are. Most projects haven't matured past white papers, which doesn't help explain the con

Chainalysis has closed a $16 million Series A led by Benchmark. Sarah Tavel, a Benchmark general partner, took a seat on the board. The company builds software for exchanges, banks, and law enforceme

India's central bank is exploring the creation of its own digital currency. The Reserve Bank of India announced Thursday that it has formed a multi-department panel to examine whether introducing a ce

Samson Mow of Blockstream and Roger Ver of Bitcoin.com squared off at the Deconomy Conference in Seoul over bitcoin's future. The two men disagreed on scaling, Bitcoin Cash, and the Lightning Network,

Chrome's marketplace will no longer host applications designed to harvest cryptocurrency from users' computers. Google announced this week that it plans to crack down on the proliferation of malicious

Ripple's XRP token has secured a listing on London Block Exchange (LBX), marking another expansion for the United Kingdom's sole multi-cryptocurrency over-the-counter trading venue. The addition brin

GiveDirectly, which provides cash grants to families in extreme poverty, announced a $1 million donation from the cryptocurrency firm OmiseGo and Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. The nonprofit will d

Uphold, a San Francisco digital wallet, began offering XRP on Wednesday, expanding its exchange to include more than 30 cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies. The $57.5 million funding round the compan

Chris Concannon, president and COO of Cboe Global Markets, wrote to the SEC to argue that approving a bitcoin ETF is feasible. In January, the agency's staff had questioned whether markets were develo

The team behind NEM and its Catapult platform has been developing ProximaX since August 2017 to serve the growing market for decentralized applications. Lon Wong, president of NEM.io Foundation, leads

In a recent blog post, San-Francisco based digital currency exchange Coinbase has announced that...

With over 1,500 cryptocurrencies and 180 exchanges operating, traders confront a fundamental problem: no platform combines the security and tools they need. Slow order execution frustrates active trad

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the trading of bitcoin and other virtual currencies will be exempt from VAT, it said on Thursday.

The fantasy sports industry exploded when DraftKings and FanDuel proved that millions of Americans wanted to combine their love of sports with the convenience of mobile gambling. By 2015, these platfo

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the brothers behind Gemini Exchange, are pushing the crypto industry to police itself. The pair announced a framework for the Virtual Commodity Association, a nonprofit t

At the Money20/20 Asia gathering this week, Monaco Technology—a Switzerland-based digital assets firm—unveiled its forthcoming Monaco Credit and Monaco Auto Invest offerings. These new tools complemen

BitCar.io is letting investors buy their way to exotic car ownership through a revamped token structure. The blockchain platform operates a two-tier system: buyers purchase BITCAR tokens, which they t

Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 arrived in late February. The development team has spent months refining and stress-testing new features for this software client, which Satoshi Nakamoto originally wrote. Prices s

Hut 8 Mining Corp., a cryptocurrency mining and blockchain infrastructure company, began trading on...

The financial technology landscape in South Korea continues to evolve rapidly as established figures from the cryptocurrency sector pivot toward blockchain-based ventures. Daesik Kim, who previously l

The Bank of England's governor, Mark Carney, called for tighter regulation of the cryptocurrency industry this week. Speaking at Edinburgh University's first Scottish Economics Conference via vide

Bitcoin Core developers Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell, along with other researchers, released a paper this week introducing a protocol for zero-knowledge proofs called \"Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for

An anonymous, decentralized movement called Faythe is mounting a lobbying campaign across all 28 EU member countries to prevent cryptocurrency and blockchain from facing outright bans or heavy-handed

IQeon operates a decentralized gaming network that merges games with cryptocurrency. The platform's player-versus-player system lets 97% of gamers earn money from in-game achievements—a feature most g

Cannabis users looking for a dedicated online space won't find it on Facebook or Instagram. Both platforms remove content related to marijuana without warning, deleting posts and accounts. The impact

Microsoft has officially launched its cloud-based blockchain platform on Azure. The tech giant unveiled its new offering at DEVCON1 in London on Tuesday.

Circle, the Boston-based payments app backed by Goldman Sachs, has bought Poloniex, the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. For weeks, industry observers had been debating whether the deal would happen. Tod

Shakepay, a Montreal-based fintech company, is rolling out its cryptocurrency wallet app in private beta. The platform lets Canadian users buy and sell Bitcoin and other digital assets from their phon

A new partnership between Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare and payment firm Processing.com will provide Coinsquare customers with new online payments functionalities. These will soon be abl

Organizations worldwide are grappling with a surging threat landscape dominated by illicit cryptocurrency-mining software. Research from Check Point reveals that during the month of January, roughly o

LoopX, a cryptocurrency startup that raised millions of dollars through several initial coin offerings...

Institutional acceptance has emerged as a critical factor in determining whether digital currencies can transition from niche speculation to mainstream financial instruments. The academic world has be

BitCar, a Singapore-based blockchain startup, has revealed that AlphaBit, a fund launched last year, has purchased a “substantial number of BitCar tokens.” BitCar is currently conducting a token sale

Japan’s financial regulator said on Friday that it has begun on-site inspections of cryptocurrency...

Everipedia, a wiki platform and online encyclopedia, closed a $30 million funding round from Galaxy Digital's EOS.IO Ecosystem Fund, the Distributed Network Advisors Fund, and other backers. The compa

Coinbase, the world’s largest cryptocurrency brokerage, wallet, and exchange which also operates GDAX, the...

Channeling significant resources into broader decentralization infrastructure, Status—the Ethereum-powered mobile operating system—has committed $5 million to Matrix, the open-source messaging protoco

South Korea's finance minister Kim Dong-yeon ruled out any cryptocurrency trading ban Wednesday, moving to settle market jitters that have persisted despite repeated government statements. \"There is

South Korea's e-commerce landscape is shifting as WeMakePrice, one of the nation's most prominent shopping platforms, moves to embrace digital assets. The Seoul-based retailer announced plans to accep

Revain released version 0.4 of its blockchain-based review dashboard on Monday, marking the platform's first major update of 2018. The service now includes data for 20 initial projects, expanding from

Crypto markets swung wildly through 2017. Bitcoin climbed to historic heights. The entire cryptocurrency market reached $800 billion in total value. By year's end, those gains had vanished, leaving in

Ubitquity, a blockchain startup, announced that [email protected] at the University of British Columbia has featured the company in a case study of its real estate pilot in Brazil. Starting last Apri

British Prime Minister Theresa May warned that governments must take digital currencies seriously given their appeal to criminal enterprises. During a televised interview with Bloomberg at the World E

A new Ethereum game called CryptoCelebrities went live and processed nearly $1 million in ether during its opening 24 hours. The platform lets players buy and sell smart contracts tied to celebrities.

Nordea Bank's leadership in Stockholm announced this week that its 31,000 staff members across Europe can no longer trade bitcoin or other major digital currencies. The bank regards cryptocurrencies a

South Korea's tax authorities are moving to collect taxes from cryptocurrency exchanges. Yonhap News Agency reported that exchanges generating more than 20 billion won ($18.7 million) in annual income

Graft has become one of the first ICO ventures to pair its token offering with a proprietary blockchain architecture. The platform, positioned as a globally accessible and open-source payment infrastr

On January 11th, BTC.com announced it had become the first bitcoin wallet to integrate both Bitcoin Cash and Segregated Witness simultaneously. The platform also introduced a dynamic fee calculator th

Western news outlets reported this week that South Korean police raided cryptocurrency exchanges. The story was false, but the market fell. Local outlets JTBC and SBS reported what actually happened.

Singapore's MegaX launched a cryptocurrency-powered online shopping platform after raising $2.5 million in a token sale concluded in November. The venture combines iFashion Group and MC Payment, two c

Steven Nerayoff, an early Ethereum contributor and advisor, predicted Monday that ether could triple in 2018. Speaking on CNBC's Fast Money, Nerayoff said expanding developer adoption and the billions

Propy is putting up 50,000 of its PRO tokens as prizes for the Blockchain Hackathon at the World Crypto Economic Forum in San Francisco. The tokens were worth $230,000 as of January 8th. Huobi lists t

Forty Seven Bank in London is launching an Open API to let outside developers build applications within its banking infrastructure. The system uses modular, domain-specific components—Account Informat

Circle has acquired mobile investing platform Trigger Finance to help it develop new investment products for crypto assets.

A blockchain development firm called IOHK is partnering with Greece's governmental research and education network GRNET to launch an initiative that would store higher education credentials on a distr

Reuters and other news organizations published false reports over the past 24 hours claiming that South Korea's government plans to ban or shut down cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the country.

The government of Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean island with a regulated casino industry, has approved Edgeless as a licensed casino operator. Edgeless is a decentralized application built on the Ethereum

A Zug-headquartered venture called Reserve Currency Solutions SA has unveiled Globcoin, a blockchain-powered system designed to democratize cross-border payments and currency management. The platform

The OPSkins virtual gaming marketplace has begun listing CryptoKitties, the Ethereum-powered phenomenon captivating players with collectible digital felines. Through the platform, enthusiasts can inst

Theta Labs, the video streaming subsidiary of esports platform SLIVER.tv, brought in $12 million through a token pre-sale aimed at creating a decentralized, blockchain-backed network for streaming vid

Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum, appeared on Bloomberg Markets with hosts Julia Chatterley and Scarlet Fu to discuss Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the initial coin offering market. The Ethereum camp

Woori Bank, South Korea's third-largest commercial bank behind Shinhan and Kookmin, has decided to shut down cryptocurrency exchange accounts. The Hankyoreh reported last week that the bank will close

Colu, an Israeli startup building localized digital currencies on blockchain, secured $14.5 million from IDB Development Corporation. The funds represent both a corporate investment and part of the CL

Privacy infrastructure firm NuCypher has closed a $4.3 million token pre-sale round backed by thirteen investment entities spanning crypto hedge funds and traditional venture capital. Polychain Capita

A fraudulent version of MyEtherWallet, the most widely-used Ethereum wallet, reached the third position among finance apps in Apple's App Store. Christian Lundkvist, a ConsenSys developer and founder

Australia's largest stock exchange has announced plans to become the first global financial marketplace to adopt blockchain technology for its core clearing and settlement operations. The Australian S

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger joined Everipedia as chief information officer. The blockchain startup is building the world's first encyclopedia on blockchains. Everipedia launched in 2015

According to a post from three Lightning Network development teams on Medium, a release......

At the Baltic Honeybadger Bitcoin Conference in Latvia, developers gathered for a candid discussion about protocol evolution. The panel touched on a subject many in the community had been hesitant to

On December 3rd, Stimpson J. Cat sold a digital cartoon kitten for $117,712. The kitten came from CryptoKitties, a new platform built on the Ethereum blockchain where users breed and trade virtual pet

Ireland Craft Beers and arc-net partnered to build Downstream IPL, a beer that buyers can track on the blockchain from production to the retail shelf. The two companies met through Entrepreneurial Spa

Digital payments platform Abra has unveiled a Bitcoin-backed multi-signature wallet designed to facilitate storage, transfers, and asset swaps featuring ether and 52 traditional fiat currencies as ini

Ether has climbed 5,700 percent since January, with Ethereum's market cap surging from $700 million to $45 billion. The token is the year's best performer among major cryptocurrencies. Mike Novogratz

Zimbabwe's cryptocurrency market is surging. On the very day Robert Mugabe resigned after 37 years in power, bitcoin's price on the country's main exchange, Golix, had reached $13,000—50 percent above

San Francisco-based Orchid Labs has unveiled the private alpha of its Orchid network, a blockchain system that enables internet access without censorship, restrictions, or surveillance. The network op

Rumors of a nationwide bitcoin mining ban in China have sent miners and pool operators scrambling to scope out alternatives. They're eyeing Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Russia, and the United States for r

Narrative, a recently launched venture, is leveraging digital currencies and blockchain systems to construct an alternative social network that compensates those who generate material, manage

CME Group chairman and CEO Terry Duffy has said that the planned bitcoin futures...

Pundi X announced November 14 that its point-of-sale terminals now connect to the NEM blockchain, allowing retailers across Southeast Asia to let customers buy and sell cryptocurrencies. The startup t

A major energy sector consortium has assembled to develop and launch a blockchain platform for trading commodities. The group bringing BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Statoil into a partnership also counts

At Stanford's Scaling Bitcoin workshop this past weekend, Tadge Dryja presented discreet log contracts, a framework designed to strengthen Bitcoin smart contracts while reducing how much users must tr

Luno, the cryptocurrency trading platform formerly known as BitX, has unveiled support for Ethereum, expanding access to the digital asset across 40 countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria, S

IBM is pitching blockchain technology to British Columbia's government as a tool for tracking cannabis through its supply chain as the province develops regulations for legal marijuana sales. In docu

Majozi Sithole, governor of the Central Bank of Swaziland, told delegates at the Swaziland Economic Conference this week that the bank plans to learn more about cryptocurrencies even as the CBS weighs

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of cryptocurrency wallet provider and exchange Coinbase, personally holds more...

One of Silicon Valley's prominent bitcoin ventures, 21 Inc, which accumulated over $121 million in venture funding, underwent a substantial identity transformation into Earn.com, pivoting toward a mis

Lala World, a Singapore-based blockchain startup, closed a $2 million Series A funding round designed to bring financial services to the unbanked across developing markets. The identities of the inves

IndaHash, a 130-person company operating across seven countries, automates influencer marketing. The platform connects social media personalities with major brands including Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and

GameCredits, a blockchain company which focuses on the gaming industry has revealed that it is teaming up with game developer Unity Technologies to accelerate the adoption of the blockchain and digita

Bitcoin may be a bigger idea than Amazon or Apple. That’s according to Catherine......

MiningPool has partnered with Bitcoinshirt.co after editors at the site discovered the store's merchandise designs through a Reddit post from the company's owners. The collaboration sets the stage fo

Australia's financial regulator is moving forward with a significant overhaul of its anti-money laundering framework, bringing cryptocurrency exchanges into formal compliance oversight for the first t

BitClave raised nearly $15 million in its pre-sale, positioning itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Google and Facebook. The Ethereum-based search engine built transparency into its core functi

Digital commerce grows at 20% per year. By 2020, online marketing should hit $335 billion. Affiliate marketing operates on a straightforward principle: merchants pay promoters according to campaign re

Over the past month, following The PBOC’s crackdown on Chinese Bitcoin exchanges, Japan has successfully...

Vitalik Buterin sees a problem. Core developers on public blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum work below market rates to build critical infrastructure. They earn less than they could in private indu

HitBTC will list BMT, the token from BMCHAIN, starting in October, the team announced. The token trades against Bitcoin and Ethereum. The exchange handles more than $104 million in volume each day. Po

Dan Morehead, the founder of Pantera Capital and chairman at Bitstamp, a major cryptocurrency...

Early September brought a significant development to South Korea's digital asset landscape when Coinone—the nation's third-ranked cryptocurrency exchange, trailing only Bithumb and Korbit—unveiled a g

Rod Garratt, an economics professor at UC Santa Barbara, has voiced skepticism toward the push by central banks to develop their own digital currencies. Throughout 2017, central banks from multiple co

Japan’s financial regulator the Financial Services Agency (FSA) and various financial institutions are developing...

Starting October 2nd and running through November 17th, B2Broker is launching a token offering to finance an ambitious technical initiative: the B2BX aggregator platform (www.b2bx.pro). This system co

Scotland's whisky industry began as contraband. Distillers once outran English tax collectors. The business has since grown into a global powerhouse worth billions. Scottish food and drink exports re

Bitcoin has collapsed 38% since early September as China cracks down on digital assets. Within hours of each other this week, two major exchanges announced they will shut their doors: ViaBTC said it w

A new contender in the cryptocurrency exchange arena is taking a decidedly different approach to platform governance. Mandarin Exchange proposes tackling the persistent problems of centralized exchang

When Ethereum's developers activated the hard fork to reverse the DAO hack, the community celebrated the decision. Vitalik Buterin opened champagne. Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, tweeted about the

The regulatory hammer is coming down on token sales across the globe. The US, China, and Hong Kong are all tightening their grip on initial coin offerings and crowdfunding mechanisms, which opens an u

Foodborne illness represents a staggering global health burden. The World Health Organisation reports that approximately one in every ten individuals on Earth suffers from contaminated food consumptio

Michelle Mone and Douglas Barrowman are selling luxury apartments in Dubai for bitcoin. The Knox Group is the first major developer to accept bitcoin as payment for property. Mone, best known for bui

Bitcoin's SegWit update went live on the network this year as Bitcoin Core's answer to transaction malleability and scaling concerns. In the coming weeks, developers expect to activate Metropolis and

Ethereum-based Aragon, which develops infrastructure for establishing and overseeing decentralized autonomous organizations, has rolled out a new Transparency Framework that seeks to become the benchm

Three entities—Singulariteam, CoinTree Capital, and BlockchainIL—have launched Alignment, a blockchain hub operating out of Israel. Functioning as an all-encompassing resource center, Alignment will s

At Blockstack Summit 2017, BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen sat down with Blockstack's Muneeb Ali to discuss his perspective on Bitcoin's current development trajectory. The conversation touched on Cohen

The Blockstack Summit 2017 brought together three prominent figures in payments technology for a panel discussion on where digital currencies fit in the online economy. Balaji Srinivasan, CEO of 21, E

Hackers infiltrated Enigma's website and social media accounts, walking off with about $500,000 in ether from supporters of the MIT-founded blockchain project. An attacker gained access to an adminis

Western Union and WorldRemit dominate how people send money across borders, and their fee structures drain billions from global remittance flows. In 2016, developing countries received $429 billion in

Bitcoin mining pools reached full consensus on activating Segregated Witness (SegWit), a software upgrade that will change how the network processes transactions. All mining pools signaled support yes

LAToken and Rivetz International announced a partnership to integrate hardware-based cybersecurity into LAToken's marketplace for tokenized assets. The collaboration will use Rivetz's RvT token to pro

Bitcoin Cash hard forked from Bitcoin on August 1 after Bitcoin ABC, an implementation backed by Bitmain and others, gained support from miners. ViaBTC, a major Chinese mining pool, mined the first bl

A pseudonymous researcher calculated that a single bitcoin should trade at $5.8 million. The paper, titled \"Bitcoin: A $5.8 Million Valuation,\" argues bitcoin functions as better money than any existi

Wanglu Tech, a Chinese blockchain firm, unveiled Wanchain today—a distributed financial infrastructure built on Ethereum that bridges separate blockchain networks and enables asset transfers between t

The European Commission is dedicating €500,000 to find a team that will establish the European Blockchain Observatory and Forum. This expertise hub will focus on blockchain and blockchain tech

Coinsilium will be hosting its first Blockchain Tech Lab in April 2016, a week-long event dedicated to the developers community.

Federal law enforcement made public the financial scale of Alexandre Cazes's alleged criminal enterprise today through a verified forfeiture complaint. Cazes, identified as a top administrator of the

IBM released its new Z mainframe, the company's most substantial hardware overhaul in more than 15 years. The company developed the system by consulting 150 enterprise clients, all of whom ranked encr

Dmitry Murashchik's contract with Mycelium ended on April 1st. He volunteers with the Bitcoin wallet company, and the token crowdsale remains a source of tension with investors. On a recent episode of

Omise, a payment processor operating across Asia, revealed OmiseGO this week: an Ethereum-powered digital wallet that works without a traditional bank. The platform could serve the hundreds of million

Jihan Wu, co-CEO of Bitmain and the world's largest bitcoin mining hardware maker, took the stage at The Future of Bitcoin Conference 2017 on Friday with a diagnosis: Bitcoin has fallen behind on a fe

The NEM.io Foundation announced a $40 million spending plan for the next year to drive its blockchain platform across global markets. Of that, $5 million will support companies in the Blockchain Cente

Ambisafe, a US-based startup, introduced Orderbook this week, a platform where traders can buy and sell tokens from initial coin offerings on the Ethereum network. The service runs in alpha version. A

The Future of Bitcoin conference will converge in Arnhem, Netherlands on June 30–July 1, 2017. Organizers have revealed a speaker lineup spanning Russia, Poland, France, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands

Leading Europe-based bitcoin exchange Bitstamp, has been granted a license as a regulated Payment Institution by Luxembourg.

Share&Charge, which pairs electric vehicle drivers with charging stations through a peer-to-peer model, unveiled its mobile app this week on both Google Play and Apple's App Store. The platform operat

Multi-asset digital wallet Jaxx has secured over 70 new partners and integrations in a...

Managing assets after death presents inherent difficulties, but these challenges intensify significantly when cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based holdings are involved. During remarks at the Z

Gnosis, the first project founded within the Consensus Systems (ConsenSys) Ethereum development studio, has...

Kraken added Dash to its trading platform. Traders could exchange the cryptocurrency for dollars, bitcoin, or euros, with margin trading possibly arriving later. At the time of listing, Dash ranked as

Suspicions surrounding Amit Bhardwaj, the operator of India's GBMiners mining collective, have intensified following evidence of fraudulent activity. The entrepreneur stands accused of orchestrating a

The criticism leveled at altcoins has been consistent for years: they're dead weight in the bitcoin ecosystem, promising vague improvements but delivering nothing of substance. The landscape is litter

South Korea's first public blockchain project has secured $3 million in pre-ICO funding. BlockchainOS built BOSCoin to provide an alternative to Ethereum, targeting what the company views as flaws in

The Bitcoin scaling debate has kept watchers fixated on those who maintain the network's computational security—but these operators rarely prove as eager to alter foundational code as popular commenta

Two years of competing proposals have pushed Bitcoin toward a critical juncture on block capacity. Groups within the community want to expand transaction throughput through hard-fork changes to the ne

Darknet Markets Extend Well Beyond Narcotics While the popular perception of darknet marketplaces centers on illegal drugs, the reality proves far more diverse. AlphaBay, the internet's most robust u

The bitcoin and blockchain landscape continues shifting as enterprises launch, pivot, and disappear at rapid pace. Reaching niche audiences within this space presents significant hurdles—and cryptocur

Tokyo's Digital Garage is putting money and engineering talent behind blockchain development. The company announced plans for a blockchain platform aimed at the Japanese market, built through a partne

A strategic partnership between the software giant and a blockchain data verification startup aims to fundamentally reshape how enterprises validate information across digital systems. The initiative

Update: The post has been updated with a response from Amit Bhardwaj GBMiners has made headlines in various media outlets lately because of the bitcoin mining pool accounting for roughly 3 percent of

Bitcoin's price surge into five figures grabbed mainstream attention over the past two weeks. The cryptocurrency broke through $800 on December 20th and crossed $1,000 on January 1st. That spike refle

Major financial players stand to gain significantly from embracing bitcoin, which offers a compelling set of advantages over traditional currencies—including a predetermined supply cap, independence f

Smartrac, the world's largest provider of radio-frequency identification products and Internet-of-Things hardware, unveiled dLoc, a document verification and authentication system that anchors paper r

Florida's early vote looked strong for Clinton. Democrats show up in the early voting period when states offer it, and the numbers in Florida, Nevada, and other swing states suggested a good night was

Dash, the seventh-ranked cryptocurrency by market value at over $78 million, announced a partnership with Shake this week to let Dash holders spend their coins through Visa networks. Using Shake Debit

TechCrunch unveiled its first documentary series this week, \"Truth Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain,\" bringing together a diverse array of voices—venture capitalists, policymakers, and sector

Needham & Company raised its bitcoin price forecast to $848 from $655 in the first half of 2016. The firm has underwritten major offerings, including Google's IPO in 2005, and serves as manager or co-

Financial institutions and technology firms have increasingly turned their attention toward the cryptographic infrastructure underpinning Bitcoin rather than the currency itself. While figures like JP

Siam Commercial Bank's venture arm, Digital Ventures, has become the first Thai financial institution to invest in a blockchain startup, backing Ripple's $55 million Series B funding round. \"Siam Comm

After receiving "overwhelming flood of requests from the crypto community," cryptocurrency wallet Jaxx has added support for Ethereum Classic.

Ethereum pushed through a hard fork to return funds to users caught in The DAO contract exploit. Mining power shifted to the new chain almost at once. Some Bitcoin block-size advocates seized the mome

Bitcoin payments still require users to scan QR codes or manually copy and paste long alphanumeric address strings. That friction has finally started to disappear. Two competing standards—BIP-47 and B

Visa Europe Collab is piloting a blockchain-based settlement system with Blockchain Tech LTD, known as BTL Group. The proof-of-concept program will enable banks to move funds across borders and curren

IndieSquare and EverdreamSoft have joined forces to launch a blockchain gaming platform arriving in September. IndieSquare manages Counterparty wallets and APIs, providing backend infrastructure for c

KeepKey, an American hardware wallet maker, and ShapeShift announced a partnership allowing customers to trade cryptocurrencies from their device in two clicks. Neither company had collaborated with a

During remarks at the American Financial Services Association's Vehicle Finance Conference in Las Vegas, a top PricewaterhouseCoopers executive explored how blockchain systems might reshape se

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency remittance platform Bitspark has entered into an agreement with Vitaxel Group, positioning the company to expand operations into Malaysia. Through this arrangement, cust

Mining power that once loomed as a threat to Ethereum Classic has shifted into its corner. Chandler Guo, a prominent GPU operator in the Ethereum ecosystem and head of Bitangle, previously warned he w

Poloniex added Ethereum Classic to its platform yesterday morning with no advance notice, setting off a firestorm in the digital currency community. ETC is the version of Ethereum that runs on the ori

Since its introduction by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 through the seminal whitepaper titled \"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,\" Bitcoin has functioned as both a digital store of value and a

Booz Allen Hamilton's Middle East office released a report this week pushing Gulf states to build blockchain infrastructure for their smart city plans and emerging financial systems. The report also e

Ethereum attracts investors with promises of decentralized autonomous organizations and smart contracts that could reshape how the world operates. Rootstock took a different path. The Buenos Aires sta

A Silicon Valley startup called Chronicled has developed a way to authenticate designer sneakers using blockchain technology. Rather than relying on labels that counterfeiters can copy, the company em

A protracted intellectual property battle is unfolding for Litecoin in European Union courts, where the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization must defend its own name against a tradem

IBM Research and China UnionPay E-payment Research Institute have unveiled a new blockchain system for loyalty bonus points exchange among multiple banks.

Ripple cleared a major regulatory hurdle. New York's Department of Financial Services approved the company to sell and custody XRP, its native digital asset on the Ripple Consensus Ledger. The approva

The smart contract revolution began when Ethereum launched in mid-2015, sparking widespread interest in decentralized autonomous organizations, decentralized applications, and programmed contracts. Li

BTCTurk, Turkey's biggest bitcoin exchange, saw trading volume spike after PayPal announced it would exit the market. The payments company could not secure the permits needed to continue operating, an

Bitcoin Core's developers have spent much of the past year defending their work to skeptical observers. The reference implementation's dev team improved its communication strategy over the last six mo

Adam Back, president of Blockstream, outlined his approach to Bitcoin's capacity problem at a recent talk in Prague's Paralelni Polis. The roadmap tracks with what Bitcoin Core contributor Greg Maxwel

Steam customers can now purchase games, software, and hardware using bitcoin. BitPay manages the payment processing through the store. Leaks and official hints made this outcome unsurprising. In Febr

Valve is bringing Bitcoin to Steam, the world's largest PC game platform. The company sent an announcement to developers and publishers outlining how the payment method will work alongside existing op

Ethereum is gaining traction in Asia as traders begin swapping bitcoin for ether. Gatecoin, a Hong Kong-based exchange focused on cryptocurrency and digital assets, has witnessed a sharp rise in new s

In a recent interview with Bitcoin Uncensored, Bitcoin Core contributor and Bloq Co-Founder Jeff...

During the COALA Blockchain Workshop NYC last week, 150 experts discussed the challenges and opportunities related to blockchain technology.

The Lightning Network, viewed by many Bitcoin Core developers as the primary solution for transaction scaling, could reach a usable state this summer. Built as a layer on top of the blockchain itself,