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Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams, celebrated for her role as Arya Stark, posed a question to her massive Twitter audience about diving into Bitcoin. With nearly 2.7 million followers watching,

Uniswap has lost its position as the leading decentralized exchange. The protocol shed over $1 billion in liquidity in the past 24 hours, a 44% decline in total value locked. Maker now leads with $2.

San Jose-based Peninsula Visa will start accepting Bitcoin for passport expediting services, the company said Monday. Through its partnership with Coinbase Commerce, customers can use the cryptocurren

Flash loans strike again in decentralized finance. Akropolis, a Gibraltar-based DeFi platform, has fallen victim to the latest attack, with hackers securing approximately $2 million in DAI from its sa

A federal judge sentenced 26-year-old Volodymyr Kvashuk yesterday for stealing more than $10 million from Microsoft through digital gift cards and Bitcoin. The IRS marked this as the first tax fraud c

Riot Blockchain posted stronger earnings for the third quarter, having produced 222 bitcoins from July through September. The mining company generated $2.4 million in revenue during the period, up 42%

Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the UK will develop regulations for stablecoins and pursue research into central bank digital currencies. The Chancellor of the Exchequer laid out the plans as par

San Francisco-based lending platform Cred has sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware after an internal fraud scheme drained its coffers. The company announced the move this past Saturday,

Ripple has opened a regional headquarters in Dubai while weighing a potential relocation of its global operations from the United States. The San Francisco firm isn't waiting for broader headquarters

Tezos (XTZ) is testing support levels that could determine whether bulls or bears gain control over the next trading sessions. The token climbed to $2.27 on November 7 as traders celebrated gains acro

Square reached a major threshold in its third quarter: Bitcoin revenues crossed $1 billion for the first time. Cash App generated $1.63 billion in Bitcoin revenue in the quarter, with $32 million in g

Enjin and Aave both announced gaming partnerships on the same day. Enjin linked up with Skymarch Entertainment, a Canadian studio with over three decades of game development behind it. Team members ha

Bitcoin surged past $15,800 on Friday, climbing 12 percent as traders bet on a Joe Biden victory in the presidential race. The Democratic candidate holds 264 electoral votes against Donald Trump's 214

Bitcoin jumped to $14,000 yesterday as election results started rolling in. The surge represented a 2% gain from earlier in the day, reaching that level about two hours after polls closed in several s

As traders watch the US election results drama, the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has dropped from highs of $14,064...

UNI tokens face a critical test at resistance. A dip below $2.00 appears probable if bulls cannot push past the descending resistance that has capped gains since early October. The Uniswap governance

ChainLink's token sank 11% over the past 24 hours, pushing technical analysts to forecast a potential slide toward $7.80 if sellers maintain control over price action. LINK/USD reached as high as $11

Decentralized finance tokens are getting hammered today as Bitcoin consolidates recent gains. While the world's largest cryptocurrency has pulled back to $13,300—down 1.85% over the last day and rough

Huobi is pushing back against claims that authorities took one of its top executives into custody. The crypto exchange's denial comes about two weeks after OKEx detained its founder, a move that rattl

PayPal will accelerate its cryptocurrency rollout across multiple markets in 2021, including plans to eventually support central bank digital currencies, the payment processor said during its Q3 earni

Bitcoin climbed to $14,100 over the weekend, the highest price since January 2018. By Monday, it had retreated to around $13,800, though the technical setup remained bullish. Stock market moves influ

Ethereum slipped to $382 on intensified selling pressure. The token hit $421 in October, notching a 7.5% gain through month-end on October 31st. Recent momentum stalled after touching $404 over the we

Coinbase opened a waitlist yesterday for a new Visa debit card that will arrive for U.S. customers next year. The card will let users spend cryptocurrency directly from their Coinbase holdin

Eight major DeFi projects have joined the Open DeFi Alliance's western expansion. Balancer, Aave, BlockScience, SuperRare, Ocean Ventures, DyDx, Quantstamp, and Outlier Ventures all signed on to the c

The Blockchain Expo Europe 2020 is coming in late November with a hybrid format combining digital and in-person experiences. The virtual component will span two days, while the physical event runs for

Bitcoin closed the week at $13,113, its highest level since January 2018. The move represented a 13.6% weekly gain. BTC/USD trades around $13,106 after pulling back from that close, sitting below this

The Bank of Japan won't launch a digital currency without public support. The BoJ announced last week that it would test a CBDC in 2021 and has formed a team to evaluate whether the project is feasibl

YFI has come under pressure near $14,020. The yearn.finance token was changing hands around that level at the time of writing, unchanged from 24 hours prior but well below the $15,505 resistance where

Ethereum could become the first public blockchain to cross a $1 trillion market cap, a milestone Chris Burniske of PlaceHolder Capital predicted two months ago might belong to either Ethereum or Bitco

PayPal's announcement this week that it will support cryptocurrency has set off fresh speculation about the company's next moves. Within days of the news, Bloomberg reported that PayPal is in talks to

Bitcoin broke above $12,000 and climbed to intraday highs of $12,314, a jump of 6%. After pulling back from those peaks, BTC/USD was trading near $12,279 at press time. The technical picture across bo

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network slapped Larry Dean Harmon with a $60 million penalty for operating Bitcoin mixers Helix and Coin Ninja, the first time the agency has pursued civil enforcement

Dash's recent momentum has carried the token through a narrow trading range, oscillating between $73 on the downside and $77 at the top. Within a single day, holders witnessed an 18% appreciation driv

Ethereum faces a test at $385 if it wants to maintain bullish momentum. The token dropped from yesterday's high near $384.50, and traders are watching whether it can hold above $375. A move above that

Ethereum 2.0 could launch within six to eight weeks, according to developer Ben Edgington. Edgington offered the estimate after Zinken, the network's second testnet, deployed without major problems la

Timothy Lane, deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, urged central banks to develop their own digital currencies before regulators block Facebook's Libra coin. Libra has faced regulatory scrutiny for

When Filecoin's mainnet launched on Thursday, the FIL token soared past $100 across multiple exchanges, though the rally proved brief. Trading around $60 by Friday, the token still gained 114% in the

Skeptics might write off DeFi momentum, but investors keep deploying capital to it. Over the past five months, participants poured about $4 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum into DeFi protocols. Partic

Cryptocurrency sector consolidation could exceed $1.9 billion this year, according to new research from PricewaterhouseCoopers released today. Despite global economic headwinds from the pandemic, de

Australia's central bank isn't rushing into a digital currency. Tony Richards, who oversees payments policy at the Reserve Bank of Australia, explained that an examination of central bank digital curr

Coinbase Chief Compliance Officer Jeff Horowitz is departing the exchange. His exit has nothing to do with CEO Brian Armstrong's blog post from last week, in which Armstrong declared that Coinbase wou

Ethereum shot to $395 earlier this week before sellers took control, driving the price down to $380 lows over the past two days. The ETH/USD pair has formed a pattern of lower highs and lower lows sin

Bloomberg analysts predict that Tether will surpass Ethereum to occupy the number-two spot by market cap before 2021 ends. Bitcoin, they forecast, should reach the $14,000 mark achieved during the 201

Recent data from Google's search metrics reveals waning enthusiasm in the decentralized finance space, with declining query volumes marking a sharp contrast to the sector's explosive growth just month

EOS, the 14th biggest cryptocurrency, spiked to $2.97 this week but pulled back to $2.57. The coin now sits above a descending resistance line that sellers have maintained for more than five months.

CoinLinked says it will offer tokens to accredited investors as it looks to raise funds for AI development

Ethereum's computational power surged 80% through 2020 and exceeded the record highs set in August 2018. On October 6, the network processed 252 terahashes per second, according to Glassnode. This mar

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority announced plans to block the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives to retail customers starting January 6, 2021. The regulator says the ban will prevent £53 million (

The European Central Bank released a report this week outlining plans to expand its investigation into a potential digital euro, with further research targeted for completion by mid-2021. Central bank

A major regulatory crackdown struck the derivatives sector Thursday when authorities arrested a BitMEX co-founder and filed charges against the platform alongside its leadership team. The Hong Kong-re

Almost all cryptocurrencies are trending red, with BTC/USD capped below $10,500 and ETH/USD down 6% to $342 after US President tested positive for COVID-19

Bitcoin SV's transaction activity spiked in the two days before the CoinGeek Live conference kicked off in New York yesterday. Active addresses jumped from 110,000 on Monday to 947,400, a 761% surge i

Ethereum miners posted their strongest month ever in September, taking in $166 million from transaction fees. This marked a 47% jump from August's $113 million haul, according to on-chain metrics trac

Europe's leading cryptocurrency broker has announced the close of a $52 million Series A funding round. Including seed capital, an initial exchange offering, and prior fundraising efforts, the company

Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments has surpassed the 2% threshold for Bitcoin ownership as the firm continues an aggressive acquisition strategy. Last week alone, the company injected more th

Jack Dorsey saw Bitcoin's security model as a blueprint for Twitter during a recent appearance at the Oslo Freedom Forum. The Twitter CEO addressed the platform's recent cryptocurrency-related attacks

Huobi Global unveiled a mobile trading application for the Russian market on September 27. The app is available on both Android and iOS platforms and gives traders access to the exchange's spot market

Ethereum now hosts over $1.2 billion in Bitcoin tokens, with Alameda Research marking a historic milestone by minting $25 million in wrapped Bitcoin on Friday. The development came as Bitcoin's spot p

Bitcoin climbed roughly 4% over the past 24 hours and hit $10,800 once more, as altcoins posted recoveries following a week of sustained selling. Cosmos, Binance Coin, and NEO all recorded gains. Chai

ChainLink's token has collapsed to $7.40 after shedding most of its summer gains. The coin peaked at $20 in August as the DeFi ecosystem bought significant quantities of LINK. Over the past week, sell

The Federal Reserve has been working on digital currency for some time, and Loretta Mester brought that work into public view yesterday. The president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve shared details o

Visa is pushing into cryptocurrency payments. Cuy Sheffield, who heads crypto efforts at the payments giant, confirmed the company would integrate blockchain into its systems. A full rollout timeline

Origin, a peer-to-peer commerce company, has revealed the launch of Origin Dollars, or OUSD. The stablecoin uses its reserve for the decentralised finance (DeFi) space and allows users to profit by ho

XRP struggles to hold key support near $0.23, with traders bracing for another drop after a major wealth transfer signaled potential further selling. The token peaked at $3.84 in January 2018 before s

Uniswap's token launch triggered a new wave of money into yield farming, with over $1.38 billion now locked in its liquidity pools. Investors have deposited more than $3.4 billion across decentraliz

The prolonged legal battle centered on Craig Wright's Bitcoin fortune will press ahead into the new year, brushing aside efforts to halt proceedings. Wright has become no stranger to courtroom dispute

Iran's state power utility plans to direct excess electricity from three thermal plants toward Bitcoin mining operations, the company announced this week. Mohsen Tarztalab, managing director of Therma

Decentralized finance tokens trade well below their August peaks, with YFI and LEND down 46% and 50% respectively. Every token in the top 10 fell that day as selling pressure mounted across the market

Bitcoin traded at $10,653 as altcoins stumbled. DigiByte and Orchid bucked the downturn with gains of 11.89% and 30%. Nearly everything else fell. Price swung through the early week session. Bitcoin

The Bitcoin network's computational challenges reached unprecedented levels this week when the mining difficulty spiked 11.3%, establishing a new record at 19.31 T. The metric reflects how progressi

Uniswap's governance token reached $6.08 on Coinbase as traders allocated new capital to the protocol, pushing total value locked to $1.4 billion in a dramatic surge. Predictions that airdrop recipi

Federal authorities announced enforcement actions yesterday against individuals involved in separate cryptocurrency fraud cases. The moves signal a broader crackdown on crypto-related crime. Two Russ

Tezos (XTZ) gained on shorter timeframes today but fell 4.7% overall, trading near $2.50 after hitting a low of $2.44. Bulls need to hold these levels on longer timeframes to confirm their bullish cas

The battle for control of Bitmain has taken another twist as Jihan Wu emerges as the legal representative of the company

The New York attorney general is pressuring Bitfinex and Tether to comply with a financial disclosure order that has remained unanswered for 17 months. John Castiglione, senior counsel for the attorn

Over 100,000 bitcoin equivalents, worth $1.07 billion, now exist on the Ethereum blockchain. People seeking yield from decentralized finance pushed the figure higher this month—from around 72,000 bitc

Binance is staking its claim in decentralized finance. The Malta-based exchange has rolled out several new products in recent months, positioning itself to become crypto's Google and dominate DeFi as

Ethereum's developer activity climbed to a seven-month peak, the highest level since before the year began. JP Vergne studies this at UCL's School of Management. His 2017 research concluded: \"The bes

The IRS announced it's offering up to $625,000 in rewards to anyone who can develop tools to trace Monero transactions and identify Lightning Network activity. The Treasury Department posted the annou

The Ethereum blockchain holds more than $700 million in synthetic bitcoin tokens. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) leads the space. Around 69,836 synthetic bitcoin tokens circulate across the Ethereum network,

The week's market downturn created starkly different implications for exchange platforms. Institutional trading venues proved resilient and even strengthened their position, whereas peer-to-peer netwo

Colombia's president became the target of a cryptocurrency investment scam that used his name to approve a phony Bitcoin platform. Scammers attributed a public endorsement to President Ivan Duque for

The Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Börse) is now the third regulated market to offer cryptocurrency to investors. On September 1, the exchange began trading two products from 21Shares: the Bitcoin ETP

Law enforcement in Malaysia has dismantled two major cryptocurrency mining enterprises that had been siphoning electrical power worth more than $600,000 since 2017. The illegal operations, operating u

Ripple has signed on four new universities to its research initiative despite the pandemic's disruptions. The San Francisco company announced the additions to its University Blockchain Research Initia

YF Link has soared 1,677% over two weeks. The token gained 36% in the past 24 hours and trades near $701. Starting from a low of $12.75 on August 17, YFL reached an all-time high of $745 on August 30

Binance and Oasis Labs are building a platform to help cryptocurrency exchanges detect and share information about fraud. The two companies launched the CryptoSafe Alliance, a network that lets exchan

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday against 280 cryptocurrency accounts suspected of moving stolen digital currency for North Korea. Federal investigators traced the accounts to two exchan

LINE, the Tokyo messaging platform with 84 million users, rolled out a cryptocurrency wallet and blockchain infrastructure yesterday. The wallet, called BITMAX, lets users hold digital assets and trad

The IRS has sent another round of warning letters to crypto users in the United States. This marks the second time the tax agency has dispatched such communications. Dated August 14, users have receiv

According to Kommersant, Expobank has issued Russia's first loan backed by cryptocurrency. Businessman Mikhail Uspensky took the loan, working with the Moscow bank to structure a deal within the count

Capital One has patented an artificial intelligence system designed to track cryptocurrency market movements by analyzing information scattered across the internet. The bank wants the AI to pull from

Bitcoin burst through $12,480, carrying the broader cryptocurrency market to a $380 billion valuation—marking the first time the sector had reached this level in over a year. Two weeks of consolidati

XRP climbed past $0.31 on Tuesday, posting gains exceeding 6% in 24 hours that outpaced the top 10 by 5.4%. After two weeks of trading between $0.29 and $0.30, the token cleared the $0.30 resistance l

LTC has emerged as the standout performer among the top 10 cryptocurrencies today, climbing to $64.56 with gains of approximately 4.5% over the last day. Meanwhile, Bitcoin and Ethereum have faltered

Samsung's Blockchain Wallet now integrates with Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange, letting owners of the handset buy, sell, and store digital assets from their phones. The integration targets mains

Ethereum's transaction fees climbed to $7.40 on average, marking the highest level since the network launched in 2015. Median fees reached $3.92, surpassing the previous record set on January 11, 2018

Blockchain technology is stepping into the sports world as a shield against fraudulent merchandise. In Australia, the National Rugby League and IP Australia are collaborating on a novel verification s

ChainLink has posted its strongest week in recent memory, climbing 70% over seven days to claim the 6th position among major cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. The token moved from around $9 o

A remarkable two-hour surge propelled Balancer's BAL token to new highs this week, with the Ethereum-based governance asset climbing a quarter of its value in that window alone. The 40% jump over the

Small bitcoin holders now control a significant chunk of the network's total coins, according to fresh analysis from Glassnode. The breakdown reveals that wallets containing 10 BTC or less represent a

Ethereum Classic trades above $7.00, but a second attack in a week threatens that support. The ETC blockchain suffered another assault on Wednesday. Mining difficulty surged 52 percent in a matter of

The SEC wants a smart contract analysis tool to monitor the DeFi boom. The agency published specifications for a system that would access blockchain information tied to blockchains. The tool m

A groundbreaking patent has been issued for a system that marries blockchain technology with the verification of courtroom audio—a milestone achieved by For The Record, an enterprise specializ

Chromia developed Hedget, a decentralized options trading protocol that has secured $500,000 in funding from FBG Capital and NGC Ventures. As demand for options grows in DeFi, Chromia views options as

Ethereum's decentralized finance ecosystem exploded into new territory last month, with transaction volumes crossing the $12 billion threshold for the first time. The sustained momentum in DeFi has fu

Bitcoin has held ground near $11,000 after a bid to push higher ran out of steam. The cryptocurrency tested resistance around $11,500 but failed to sustain the advance. A rally that had carried Bitcoi

ChainLink's token LINK established a new all-time high at $9.50 on August 4, jumping 15% over the previous 24 hours. The surge pushed the decentralized token into the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market

Users moved Bitcoin onto Ethereum over the summer. Dune Analytics recorded $60 million in wrapped Bitcoin by June, then measured $225 million by late July, a new all-time high. Wrapped Bitcoin command

The opening days of August brought chaos to Ethereum Classic investors and exchanges. Trading halts cascaded across platforms after prominent members of the ETC community posted warnings on Twitter ab

Chainlink's LINK token peaked at $9 on July 5 before sliding to $6.30 in the following two weeks, erasing nearly 30% of its gains. Bitcoin's jump above $10,000 dragged down most DeFi tokens over that

HashStacs, headquartered in Singapore, has inked a deal with Bursa Malaysia Berhad to develop Project Harbour, an initiative designed to modernize the Central Securities Depository infrastructure of M

Social trading platform HedgeTrade has revealed a new partnership with Bluzelle to furnish its users with blockchain-interoperable trading tools Cryptocurrency social trading platform, HedgeTrade, has

Australia's milk producers are turning to blockchain technology as they grapple with a decades-long erosion of market position and mounting financial pressures. A combination of environmental

Bitcoin jumped 13% in 24 hours to reach $11,395, pushing its market dominance to 64%. The cryptocurrency broke through $11,000 on its way to those highs, closing at $11,032. That $1,095 daily candle

Bitcoin surged to $11,000 this week, pulling Litecoin along with it. The altcoin, which traders call silver to Bitcoin's gold, gained over 10% in the past 24 hours alone, propelling LTC/USD to $53.50.

Ripple's product director Craig DeWitt announced a personal project: Payburner, a peer-to-peer payment platform built on XRP. The non-custodial wallet lets users move money across borders without inte

Yearn.finance's governance token YFI touched $4,664 this week, a staggering move for an asset that launched with zero value days ago. The token climbed 11,000% over a few weeks, attracting investors h

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency signaled this week that federally chartered banks can offer cryptocurrency custody services. In an interpretive letter, the OCC said national banks and fe

DOKKZ, a Swiss software startup, launched its blockchain-based document validation system into beta this week. The platform enables users to create digital documents and store them on the Bitcoin SV b

Ripple has tasked Stefanie Roos, an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, with building privacy systems for the Ripple network through its University Blockchain Research Initiative (U

Compound token price tests daily resistance level and technical analysis shows COMP/USD is ready for an extended upside towards $200

Ether no longer dominates the assets on its own blockchain. Users now hold 51% of their Ethereum deposits in ether, while ERC-20 tokens worth $25.6 billion account for the remaining 49%. Ryan Selkis,

Bitcoin's dominance fell to 61.9%, its weakest level in five months. The digital asset remained trapped in a narrow band since hitting resistance at $10,400 and retreating to $9,000. Traders are watch

Blockchain technology presents a compelling solution for combating corruption across governmental institutions, leveraging its cryptographic foundations and programmable contract systems. A Wo

Beijing's government released a 145-page blockchain strategy in early July laying out a two-year roadmap to transform the city using the technology. The plan centers on improving coordination between

Ethereum trades at $235, down 2% from where it opened today. Bitcoin's decline to $9,150 has dragged Ethereum with it, the two cryptocurrencies moving in tandem. The correlation may hold, but technic

With Bitcoin still under the $10k threshold, cryptocurrencies critics have been redoubling their attacks...

Singapore's government has completed a three-year blockchain payment system called Ubin and opened it for commercial use. The Monetary Authority of Singapore developed the platform to explore whether

Uquid, a digital commerce platform, has started accepting XRP as payment. Users holding Ripple's native token can now shop for items including digital gift cards, video games, coupon codes and mobile

DeFi tokens built on Ethereum have rocketed higher over the past few weeks, prompting analysts to float the possibility that Bitcoin could cede ground. Bitcoin operates as a decentralized digital asse

The price of Bitcoin has failed to break above resistance and a slight pullback could see it drop to lows of $8,900...

Animoca Brands, a gaming firm that has incorporated digital assets into its titles, reported unaudited earnings totaling $7.34 million during the opening quarter of 2020, setting a new company benchma

Compound's COMP token appears to have driven a surge in decentralized finance activity. Users locked $2 billion in DeFi protocols during the second quarter of 2020, more than double the prior quarter

Cosco Shipping has opted to demo a blockchain record-keeping system designed by Alibaba's subsidiary, Ant Financial

XRP broke above $0.20 on Thursday for the first time since April, but traders remain cautious about whether the advance can hold. The token gained 3.6% in the past 24 hours and 9% over the past two da

Chainlink's price surged past $6 this week, reaching $6.17 and becoming the 12th largest cryptocurrency by market cap at $2.16 billion. Buyers broke through the previous all-time high of $4.82 set in

A viral TikTok video pushed Dogecoin up 54%, bringing the meme token to its highest levels since September 2018's $0.0068 peak. Retail traders poured in, driving intraday volume up more than 2000% as

Minima Global's Hugo Feiler sees blockchain technology becoming integral to the telecommunications industry in the years ahead, particularly as the world adjusts to a post-pandemic reality. Though sti

Most major cryptocurrencies are consolidating as market participants evaluate the path forward. The dominant digital asset has surpassed the $9,300 threshold for the first time in seven days, as the s

Matthew Graham, CEO of Sino Global Capital, views China's digital yuan as a way to undermine American dominance in global finance. He told Boxmining founder Michael Gu that the currency targets the US

Juan Villaverde and Bruce Ng of Weiss Crypto Ratings released a report questioning whether the Federal Reserve's approach to the pandemic recession will work. Their concern centers on unemployment: 46

A sophisticated cryptocurrency investment scam has ensnared approximately 250,000 people worldwide, according to findings released by Group IB, a cybersecurity intelligence company headquartered in Si

A report released yesterday suggests that the BoJ is divided on using blockchain technology to facilitate the project

The recent 14% surge in Cardano's value has taken the cryptocurrency back to price points not seen since June 2019. Trading around $0.0940, ADA is currently benefiting from optimistic on-chain metrics

Binance released findings this week on how scammers build fake credibility in the crypto space. The exchange's risk intelligence team, Binance Sentry, conducted the investigation using blockchain anal

Switzerland's National Council has unanimously approved a sweeping overhaul of its financial regulatory framework targeting the blockchain industry. The legislative package revises a dozen existing fi

The Washington DC Bar Association has become the fourth legal bar in the United States to green-light cryptocurrency as an acceptable payment method for attorney services. Through a newly published et

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority lifted restrictions on Wirecard today, eight days after imposing them. Thousands of customers can access their prepaid cards and digital wallets again. Several Bri

Building Cities Beyond, a Singapore-based blockchain firm, is deploying $15 million to fund development projects across Asia. The company builds smart city solutions and launched the BCB Innovation Gr

Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Union's top economic official, outlined the bloc's strategy for digital assets at Digital Finance Outreach 2020 this week. The EU plans to release new regulations befo

Bitcoin dropped below $9,000 on Wednesday as traders fled the market, erasing $15 billion from the crypto sector's total value in the process. The pair traded as low as $8,989 during the day, breaking

A new wave of selling pressure sent Bitcoin tumbling to $8,980 as Wednesday's decline rippled through digital asset markets. The broader cryptocurrency selloff mirrored equity markets' weakness, tri

Barcelona's fan token sale on June 22 sold out in under two hours. The BAR token, priced at $2.25, moved $777,000 in the first two minutes. Over the two-hour flash window, Chiliz sold all 600,000 toke

The COMP token experienced a sharp pullback of 13% over the last day, following an electrifying run that has captivated the DeFi sector. Markets are treating decentralized finance assets as a potentia

Bitcoin climbed over 4% on Tuesday, bouncing back from Monday's dip to $8,900. The cryptocurrency dropped to lows of $8,949 that morning before buying pressure through the afternoon pushed it above $9

Kazakhstan's government is targeting 300 billion KZT ($738.4 million) in crypto and digital mining investments over the next three years. Askar Zhumagaliyev, the Minister of Digital Development, Innov

Mark Hipperson has launched Ziglu, moving further into his push to disrupt traditional banking. The cryptocurrency exchange came after the Starling Bank co-founder and CTO completed testing of the pla

The pandemic spread globally through interconnected supply chains and travel networks, destabilizing economies worldwide. Governments responded by flooding markets with newly printed currency. This ap

Bitcoin dropped 8% on Thursday, dragging altcoins into the red with it. IOTA fell 10% in the move, sinking from a track toward $0.30 down to $0.228. The coin is off 6% on the day and down more than 5%

An Ethereum wallet made the same costly error twice in 17 hours, pushing speculation that a software bug, not intentional misconduct, caused the mishap. The wallet struck again Thursday with a 10,668

An Ethereum transaction that sent shockwaves through the crypto community on June 10 involved a staggering $2.6 million in mining fees for moving just $133 worth of assets. The peculiar transaction, t

Bitcoin Cash has stalled just below $260. A move above this level could open the door to $300, which traders watch as a psychological threshold. Over the past day, sellers have mounted resistance to a

Cardano outpaced other major altcoins this month. A 68% rally since May lifted the token into the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap. The Shelley public testnet launched and precedes an August main

Norway's Court of Appeals rejected Craig Wright's challenge to the country's jurisdiction over his defamation case against Bitcoin analyst Hodlonaut. Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, sued Ho

Blockchain's potential to reshape education credentials grabbed attention with a major report published Monday by the American Council of Education. The document, titled \"CONNECTED IMPACT: Unlocking E

Africans turn to cryptocurrency as their banking systems fail them. More Africans use the internet than have bank accounts, creating room for a peer-to-peer digital cash system. Bitcoin's creator, Sat

Telefónica has released a free decryption tool for VCryptor ransomware through the \"No more Ransomware\" initiative. The Spanish telecom's cybersecurity division, ElevenPaths, built the tool after pinp

Bitcoin network activity surged in early June as the price climbed above $10,400. On Sunday, 370,000 new addresses came online. By June 2, a single day generated over 463,000 new addresses, according

Bitcoin broke through the $10,000 level, resulting in almost 6% growth as the law and order crisis engulfs the US...

Canada has formalized cryptocurrency exchanges and payment processors as Money Service Businesses, a regulatory move that ends years of ambiguity. The amendment takes effect June 1, bringing these ope

Danny Ryan, a core Ethereum developer, answered community questions on Reddit's r/ethfinance about Ethereum 2.0, tackling concerns about the long-awaited upgrade that's been in development since 2018.

The pace of Grayscale Investments' Bitcoin acquisition has accelerated dramatically since mid-May, with the asset manager now amassing cryptocurrency at a rate that outpaces daily mining output. Data

UK retail traders cut back on crypto purchases in March as lockdown took hold. Revolut, the fintech platform where 3 million Europeans trade digital assets, saw weekly purchases among its British user

Bitcoin's recent decline has drawn small investors back in. The price fell nearly 12% over the past two weeks, hitting a low of $8,630 on Monday before bouncing from levels near $10,000. The dip has s

Telegram has dropped its legal fight against the SEC. The messaging company withdrew an appeal of the March injunction that blocked the Telegram Open Network and prevented Gram token distribution, acc

Peter Mallouk, chief investment officer at Creative Planning, issued a direct warning: don't buy cryptocurrencies right now. He extends the same caution to gold. Speaking on CNBC, the wealth manager a

Coinbase Custody announced staking support for Cosmos tokens this week through a Medium post, opening another income stream for institutional clients. The update means Cosmos holders can generate retu

France's banking sector achieved a significant milestone this week as Societe Generale successfully conducted a landmark blockchain transaction in partnership with the nation's central bank. The histo

Shopify and CoinPayments, the world's largest crypto payment processor, announced a partnership that brings cryptocurrency payments to the Canadian platform's merchant network. The deal will let over

Bitcoin options trading has concentrated heavily around Deribit, which now commands the lion's share of the derivatives market for the flagship cryptocurrency. The exchange reached a milestone on May

Cash App is introducing recurring Bitcoin purchases for US customers. The feature lets people schedule automatic orders at daily, weekly, or bi-weekly intervals. Jack Dorsey, who leads both Square and

South Korea's government will decide by month's end whether to launch a blockchain development program worth around $388 million. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Planning, in collaboration with the I

Bitfinex and Koine announced a partnership Wednesday linking the Seychelles-based exchange with the UK-regulated custody firm. Their joint service targets institutional investors who want protection a

Bitcoin crashed over the weekend, falling from around $9,800 to $8,100. The 15% decline wiped out $1,700 in value and triggered $260 million in liquidations on BitMEX. Analysts expect the cryptocurren

Square's Cash App pulled in more Bitcoin revenue than fiat revenue during the first quarter of 2020, according to the company's shareholder letter released Wednesday. The app generated $528 million in

May 12 brings Bitcoin's fourth halving. When the event occurs, the supply of new coins entering circulation will drop by 50%. Simon Peters, an analyst at eToro, thinks the coming days will usher in fr

Bitcoin has failed to break above key resistance as sellers push it below $9,000. This may be a result of breaking news from the US authorities regarding COVID-19....

2019 proved to be a landmark year for CryptoKaiju, the physical-to-digital collectible project founded by Oliver Carding, who also helms MiningPool. What began as an experiment in blending tangible a

Blockchain gaming has become the fastest-growing segment in U.S. gaming, though blockchain enthusiasts, not seasoned game developers, built most of the games so far. Top universities are climbing abo

Looking to venture into Bitcoin cloud mining? G Mining Inc. stands out as a reliable partner for this endeavor. The operation delivers competitive pricing structures and maintains a reputation for res

Vienna's fintech powerhouse Bitpanda announced the launch of its Bitpanda Global Exchange today, unveiling a trading platform tailored to institutional clients, professionals, and advanced crypto trad

PodMiners, which markets itself as the first blockchain-based platform promoting freedom of speech, is partnering with TranslateMe Network to offer podcast transcripts in thousands of languages. Tran

BKSbex, a brand-new digital asset trading venue based in Singapore, commenced operations on July 25th, 2019, immediately after its establishment that same month. The platform was built by seasoned pro

Superorder released three new trading bots for its Marketplace. The Ukrainian-American startup designed them to automate cryptocurrency trading on Binance, Bittrex, and BitMEX. Traders access the bots

Crypt-Oink, Japan’s first blockchain game, is expanding its breedable, collectible and tradable racing pigs to English-language markets with an exclusive collaboration with CryptoKitties, the company

Beaxy Digital, Ltd. opened its cryptocurrency trading platform to the public on Tuesday, marking the finish line for two years of development. The exchange now serves customers across 43 U.S. states a

The 2017-2018 wave of initial coin offerings demonstrated significant appetite for blockchain advancement. Developers unveiled countless technological frameworks leveraging blockchain technolo

South Korea's financial regulator opened its fintech sandbox to its first wave of approved companies this week. The Financial Services Commission selected 18 projects from over 100 applicants to test

The World Economic Forum announced Wednesday that more than 100 organizations and experts had joined an effort to build an open-source toolkit for deploying blockchain in supply chains. The project, c

BMW unveiled a blockchain app designed to combat odometer fraud at the VeChain Summit in San Francisco on April 18. The VerifyCar application, built with the blockchain startup VeChain, creates what t

USDQ is a decentralized stablecoin created by PLATINUM ENGINEERING that uses Bitcoin as collateral, with plans to accept other major cryptocurrencies in the future. Jitendra Rathod, managing director

The cryptocurrency industry has long understood a paradoxical truth: whether Bitcoin's valuation climbs or plummets, the media spotlight shines equally bright. This dynamic proves especially apparent

The lnd lightning client is preparing to launch static channel backups in its next update, with developers merging the required code and version 0.6 entering pre-release testing. Node operators have s

Attendees at this year's MIT Bitcoin Expo gathered to explore how the Lightning Network and Bitcoin itself might achieve broader mainstream use. The discussion panel brought together Zap wallet develo

Central banks resist new technology, but the World Economic Forum published a white paper suggesting they may become early adopters of blockchain and blockchain technology (DLT). Dozens of cen

Mega.co.nz has been dropped from Paypal, opening the door for an opportunity for Bitcoin.

CryptoKaiju, a UK blockchain company, is shipping its second collection of Ethereum-based collectible figures this week. The new toys, called Jaiantokoin, each carry tamper-resistant NFC tags linking

Duke University is pairing up with Citizens Reserve, a blockchain startup out of the Bay Area, to expand how the university teaches and engages students with cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Lykke, a Swiss fintech startup, has launched two cryptocurrency indexes alongside associated service tokens, expanding its array of products that the company says offer \"a simple path to the crypto ma

Ecxx Global Private Ltd., headquartered in Singapore, is set to debut its cryptocurrency trading venue on March 21 following a substantial pre-launch buildup. The exchange has already accumulated over

Bitcoin-Core developer Matt Corallo has recently proposed a series of changes to the Bitcoin...

When crypto ventures seek investor backing, the composition and quality of the team ranks among the highest evaluation criteria. The correlation between project success and team strength—marked by col

Administrators responsible for France's commercial court system are implementing a major blockchain initiative designed to modernize the country's business registry infrastructure. The undertaking is

Malta's chief financial regulator has partnered with CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics and intelligence firm, to monitor and oversee cryptocurrency companies that operate with a license on the islan

Indian state governments are implementing blockchain technology across the country to improve how they deliver services to citizens. About half the states have launched such initiatives. Telangana and

Most UK consumers don't understand cryptocurrencies. Among the small number who have invested, few researched before buying. That's the picture painted by a Kantar TNS study released this week by the

eToro brought its social trading platform to the US crypto market on Thursday, opening access to customers in 32 states and territories. The move marks the brokerage's entry into digital asset trading

Curv, a digital asset wallet startup, has emerged from stealth and revealed a US$6.5 million seed funding round led by Team8 and Digital Currency Group, with participation from Flybridge Capital, Jump

Cryptocurrency attracted three-quarters of new investors who joined eToro during 2017 and 2018. Among those who bought crypto, one in nine moved into stocks, commodities, or forex afterward. Most dive

Recruit Holdings, the Japanese Internet and human resources firm that owns Glassdoor and Indeed, has launched a US$25 million blockchain fund.

Crypto trading platform BitMart has announced the integration of peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful onto its exchange as the two companies look to increase liquidity and scalability, they s

A new report examining the stablecoin market finds progress over the past year but substantial work ahead before these currencies mature. The State of Stablecoins 2019: Hype vs. Reality in the Race fo

The Crypto Valley in Switzerland and Liechtenstein added 121 new companies in 2018, bringing the total to 750 by the year's end. That's a 20% increase, according to January's Top 50 Q1 2019 report, co

The financial services division of America's largest automaker is turning to blockchain technology as a means to upgrade data handling and address persistent headaches in vehicle financing—chiefly ide

Techstars and Alchemist announced the ten startups entering the first class of their blockchain accelerator program. The cohort will spend 13 weeks in New York, working with mentors from the block

Data security breaches dominated headlines throughout 2018, bringing digital protection into the spotlight for investors and the general public alike. The year exposed vulnerabilities that resonate ac

Criminal activity in digital currency markets reached alarming proportions during 2018, with perpetrators extracting roughly US$1.7 billion through coordinated thefts and deceptive schemes, new resear

BxB Inc., a South Korean company, launched KRWb this week—the first stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the Korean won. Built on Ethereum's ERC20 standard, the token records transactions on the blockchain. The c

The appeal of digital currency for online wagering continues to expand, even as the underlying asset class experiences dramatic price swings. Bitcoin gambling platforms report steady growth in their u

eToro now offers Zcash for trading. The privacy-focused cryptocurrency becomes the 14th digital asset available on the social trading platform, joining Bitcoin, Litecoin, Stellar, and Binance Coin. Z

Huobi Group will launch its own stablecoin in the first half of 2019, according to Chris Lee, the company's CFO and board secretary. He made the announcement on January 20 at an invitation-only event

Tangem, a Swiss manufacturer of crypto “smart banknotes,” has raised US$15 million from SBI Crypto Investment, a digital asset venture investment company wholly owned by SBI Holdings.

UpStake, an exciting cryptocurrency project officially launched last year, is all set to take...

Mimicry drives innovation and accelerates human evolution—both scientific studies and observable animal behavior confirm this principle. When we replicate the best performers' methods, we bypass count

Steemit removed the Dark Overlord hacking group this week. The blockchain-focused social site joins Twitter and Reddit in deleting the hackers, though it remains unclear whether Steemit's staff made t

Singapore's PAL Network, a blockchain-backed insurance technology firm, announced it has inked two agreements with major industry players Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Allianz Malaysia to jointly buil

Bitcoin marked a decade of existence on January 3rd, arriving at the milestone after a punishing 2018. The network went live on the same date in 2009, beginning with the Genesis block. Satoshi embedde

Sri Lanka Telecom and Canadian tech company Ubique Networks have partnered to launch a blockchain-powered eSports service. The two signed their agreement on November 14 at Canada's diplomatic residenc

Gibraltar's financial regulator granted a blockchain technology license to eToroX, the blockchain subsidiary of eToro. The unit operates the social trading platform's wallet and will manage it

Kaspersky Lab found that cryptomining attacks in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa quadrupled in 2018, jumping from 3.5 million incidents the previous year to 13 million, according to data the compa

A new trading platform built by the founders of TaaS fund has launched its beta version. Kepler Technologies, the Kyiv-based software company behind the project, released Kattana—a desktop application

The blockchain-based encyclopedia platform Everipedia is rolling out significant upgrades to enhance how users interact with the service, introducing additional language versions and a slate of new de

Orbs, an Israeli blockchain startup, said Thursday it has secured a seven-figure investment from Kakao Investment, the venture arm of South Korean internet giant Kakao. The capital will fund protocol

Cryptocurrency offers a compelling premise: control your money without intermediaries, without trusting banks, without any external oversight. Most people don't want that responsibility. ChainFront l

The gaming sector has experienced remarkable evolution over the past decade, driven by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality that create deeper player immers

Canyudo, a UK-based startup, released its social tasking app in closed beta ahead of a January 2019 launch, the company announced this week. Canyudo will launch the service first in Hong Kong before e

Mastercard has submitted a new patent application centered on concealing activity within blockchain networks. The filing outlines a framework for moving funds across a blockchain in ways that mask b

South Koreans account for roughly a third of global cryptocurrency trading, according to new research by Cindicator, a blockchain intelligence firm. The nation's residents hold about 30% of all digita

Roughly a decade into its existence, blockchain technology has already reshaped numerous industries. Healthcare providers, banks, farmers, and educational institutions worldwide have embraced cryptocu

The Belarus High Technologies Park, a special economic zone, released additional rules governing cryptocurrency and blockchain operations within its jurisdiction. The regulations expand a framework in

Coinshares released an updated mining report showing that renewable energy sources power at least 77.6% of bitcoin mining operations. The finding contradicts widespread claims that bitcoin poses a sev

DragonEx has secured an EU cryptocurrency exchange license and plans to expand its global reach through new payment partnerships and enhanced service offerings. The Singapore-based trading platform,

Propy runs real estate transactions on blockchain. The company records property deeds on Ethereum, operates a buying platform it compares to Zillow, accepts cryptocurrency payments, and supports multi

Calvin Ayre has called off the hash war. CoinGeek, the mining pool and news outlet Ayre finances, announced this week that Bitcoin SV would stop competing for the Bitcoin Cash ticker. They are moving

After September 11, Congress passed the Patriot Act with minimal resistance. Lawmakers designed the law as a temporary shield against terrorism. Each renewal drew little debate. Since then, federal ag

The global sports betting market sits at $120 billion today, with projections putting it between $300 billion and $400 billion within five years in regions where betting is legal, such as the United S

Securitize raised $12.75 million in its Series A round, with Blockchain Capital leading the investment and Coinbase Ventures, Global Brain, NXTP, and OK Capital participating. The company aims to toke

Bitcoin's dominance in the cryptocurrency world often gets attributed to network effects, but the competitive landscape reveals deeper obstacles for privacy-focused alternatives. Several structural fa

LA-based startup Coinmine has announced the launch of Coinmine One, a sleek, plug-in device that aims to simplify the complex cryptocurrency mining process.

Ethereum has a new proposal in development that would change how smart contracts function after deployment. The standard, called ERC1538 or the Transparent Contract Standard, comes from Nick Mudge. I

Crypto finance startup Circle has announced the launch of a new reward program in a bid to attract new customers to its Circle Invest platform.

Singapore-based Rate3 closed a $17 million funding round to build infrastructure for converting assets into digital tokens that flow across blockchain networks. The company envisions a future where st

Pundi Labs (Pundi X), a point-of-sale (POS) terminal maker, has announced a partnership with blockchain startup HARA to bring its blockchain-based POS devices to farmers. The company said the partners

eToro, a European social trading and multi asset brokerage company, has revealed the launch of the GoodDollar experiment, an open source community project that seeks to reduce wealth inequality by int

Marking a major milestone for the blockchain space, Luxembourg-based cryptocurrency firm Blockchain has rolled out its first token giveaway initiative, teaming up with the nonprofit Stella

The past decade witnessed mounting enthusiasm for open-source development and decentralized systems, with Bitcoin serving as the catalyst for a broader vision. The technology sparked a central questio

Blockchain gaming isn't something I've ever been particularly optimistic about. My background spans both gaming and crypto, and I've struggled to envision these two worlds operating together in their

Throughout 2018, major tech companies faced mounting pressure over their data collection practices. Facebook and Google tracked users across the internet. Millions had grown wary. Apple positioned its

Origin, an Ethereum-based marketplace for services like ridesharing and short-term rentals, has integrated TrueUSD into its platform. TrustToken created TrueUSD, which ranks second by trading volume a

Shakepay, the Montreal crypto startup, opened an over-the-counter trading desk to handle large transactions for Canadian institutions, businesses, and wealthy individuals looking to trade Bitcoin and

eToro, the global investment platform with over ten million registered users, is helping Brits...

Scott Redman spent 2015 and 2016 posing as a physician while treating more than 100 American patients. He prescribed a nine-year-old child a 30-day supply of Vyvanse, a controlled substance used for A

Ethereum's core development team postponed the Constantinople upgrade to 2019 during a meeting on Friday, October 19. The hard fork had been scheduled for November 2018, but developers found bugs in c

The Ethereum blockchain now has another way to explore its transactions. BlockScout, created by the POA Network team, launched today as an open-source block explorer that developers can download, run,

A blockchain-based application designed to reward music fans and create new revenue channels for artists is preparing for market entry. Fanbase operates as a decentralized platform enabling musicians

Launching next month, BITTO is poised to become the first established cryptocurrency trading platform employing Proof of Stake validation, enabling investors to generate ongoing returns through stakin

Major Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs is joining forces with cryptocurrency entrepreneur Mike Novogratz to pour capital into BitGo Holdings Inc., signaling growing confidence in digital asset infrastr

Sony announced a blockchain system for managing digital content rights on Monday. The platform will track copyright ownership and creation timestamps for written works, music, films, and other media.

HODL shows up in crypto conversations as a misspelling that refuses to disappear. You stop reading, wondering if the writer made a mistake. They did, but the mistake stuck. Now it describes a coherent

Coinbase opened a Dublin office today, expanding its European footprint beyond London as EU customer demand grew faster than other markets last year. The San Francisco exchange secured a presence in a

A Dubai-based startup called Menachain Solutions DWC-LLC wants to build a payments system for the Middle East and North Africa using cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The company targets the r

eToro has revealed a huge slash in the transaction fees of crypto assets as part of an ongoing effort to increase awareness of the potential of crypto and blockchain. The platform hopes to make crypto

Jihan Wu and Ketuan Zhan's Bitmain Technologies took a significant step toward becoming a publicly traded company this week when it submitted audited financials to Hong Kong regulators. The mining equ

Fintech entrepreneur Marwan Forzely has set his sights on dismantling the traditional infrastructure that slows international business payments. The visionary behind eBillme—which he successfully sold

Josh Garza stole millions from ordinary workers and was sentenced to less than two years in prison. Ross Ulbricht created an online marketplace and was sentenced to life without parole. Garza ran GAW

CasinoFair, a new online casino, went live on FunFair's blockchain platform this week, marking the first operational casino to use the network's technology. FunFair built software that lets casino ope

Gospel Technology closed a £5 million Series A funding round with backing from IA Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Both firms made their first blockchain venture investments with these deals. The Lo

European law enforcement authorities have raised alarms about a significant shift in how digital criminals exploit cryptocurrency technology. According to a recent Europol assessment, anonymity-enhanc

Dozens of stablecoins already trade: Tether, Basis, Sagacoin, TrueUSD, Dai, and Carbon. Two more joined exchanges this month with approval from New York regulators, the Paxos Standard and Gemini Dolla

Alibaba's payments and financial services subsidiary Ant Financial Services Group has unveiled Ant Financial Technology, a new brand focused on equipping banks and other financial institutions with ad

Crypto exchange Poloniex announced on September 18, 2018, that it had started the process...

Singapore's leading university has opened a new hub dedicated to studying cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. The facility, known as the CRYSTAL Center (Cryptocurrency Strategy, Techniques and

Caspian, a cryptocurrency trading platform created through a joint venture between Tora, a front-to-back technology provider, and Kenetic, a crypto investment firm, raised $16 million in a token pre-s

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, envisions his exchange becoming something more like the New York Stock Exchange than the digital marketplace it runs today. He shared that vision at TechCrunch Disrup

Venture capital (VC) firm Cosimo Ventures has launched a new tokenized VC fund called Cosimo X.

Homero Joshua Garza, the architect behind GAW Miners, awaits sentencing on September 13th following his acceptance of criminal responsibility. The plea agreement released this week illuminates what to

The Winklevoss twins have secured a patent for cold storage of cryptocurrency and digital assets, bringing their patent portfolio to nine total approvals from the U.S. Patent Office. Patent 10,068,228

(A previous version of this article noted that eGold was forced to shut down because of bankruptcy. In truth, the company behind G&SR was allowed to proceed operations but were denied the permits requ

Latin Americans turn to cryptocurrencies as national currencies collapse. Venezuela has emerged as the largest market. Dash, a privacy-focused coin, has signed up 200 merchants and recorded tens of th

Michael Terpin, a prominent cryptocurrency investor, has filed suit against AT&T seeking to recover $24 million worth of altcoins that were stolen from him, plus an additional $200 million in punitive

eToro, an investment platform focused on multiple asset classes, has signed sponsorship deals with seven Premier League teams after settling the contracts in bitcoin. The club partnerships include Tot

A global platform for entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life has revealed that it is expanding into tokenised securities. By doing so, it hopes to bring true real estate assets to its global audie

Enterprise blockchain platform Axoni has closed a $32 million Series B, with Goldman Sachs and Nyca Partners leading the round. Commitments also came from Andreessen Horowitz, Citi, Coatue Management,

Sirin Labs, the company behind the $16,000 Solarin Android smartphone, is building a blockchain phone called Finney that will run on Ethereum rather than IOTA's Tangle technology, reversing what the c

A clemency petition for Ross Ulbricht has amassed more than 48,000 signatures in its opening three weeks, rapidly approaching the 50,000 threshold. Since its launch, the campaign has been gathering ro

Litecoin has joined the MCO cryptocurrency platform, expanding the digital wallet's coin offerings to five. The seventh-ranked cryptocurrency by market value, now worth over $4.3 billion, sits alongsi

Stephen Bliss runs a burger van called The Sizzling Griddle off the A174 in North Yorkshire. Between orders, he trades on eToro, where he manages about $6 million and has convinced nearly 5,000 people

Millions traded personal data for convenient services without much thought. Cambridge Analytica's breach exposed what people didn't realize they were giving up. The harvesting of 50 million Facebook

BRAVO, a Phoenix-based payments app, plans to launch a public token sale and fund its global expansion by integrating cryptocurrency and blockchain technology into its platform. The move targets lower

Peer review is at the heart of scientific publishing. the process by which grants are allocated, papers published, academics promoted, and Nobel prizes won. Through the process of peer review, a manus

Eyeing a lucrative corner of the emerging digital assets market, Malta's premier bourse announced ambitious expansion plans Thursday, rolling out new partnerships aimed at establishing the island as

Bitcoin promised financial freedom—the ability to own your wealth outright and access markets that had been closed to ordinary people. But that promise now runs into a hard problem: most people don't

Coinbase sees money pouring in from institutional investors, according to Adam White, the exchange's vice president and general manager. White told CNBC's Fast Money that institutional interest is bec

Embleema, a Delaware-based startup, has opened its HIPAA-compliant blockchain-based health records platform to public testing. The company spent a year developing PatientTruth, a decentralized applica

The Blockchain World Conference will end its three-day Atlantic City run—July 11-13—with an unprecedented event: a 100-player poker tournament conducted entirely in cryptocurrency. The tournament mark

Wes Nolte trades with what he calls a \"diverse, risk-balanced, and bodacious\" approach. A 30-year-old from South Africa who works as chief technology officer in London, he ranks among eToro's most-cop

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority approved 29 fintech companies for its fourth regulatory sandbox cohort on Tuesday. More than 40 percent plan to test blockchain or blockchain technology.

ARCHOS, a French multinational electronics company, has announced that it is providing the cryptocurrency...

Regulators in the United Kingdom have raised new alarm about financial institutions' involvement in digital currencies. Through a formal communication sent to leadership at banking, insurance, and i

Germany's solarisBank, which holds a full banking license, unveiled its dedicated Blockchain Factory initiative, positioning itself as \"the specialized infrastructure partner of choice for companies i

Malta's legislature delivered a decisive thumbs-up this week to a trio of bills aimed at cementing the Mediterranean nation's position as a leading jurisdiction for blockchain technology. The

A Los Angeles-based visual recognition firm announced Thursday it will tap the Bitcoin Lightning Network to facilitate micropayments for AI-driven image analysis and autonomous machine communication.

Diaman Capital, headquartered in Malta, has rolled out Exante crypto, a sophisticated platform engineered for professional management of digital asset portfolios. Built by the Diaman PhiToken team fol

Cryptocurrency industry representatives gave evidence to Britain's Treasury Select Committee this week, warning that without regulation, the nation risked missing out on \"the biggest technology since

eToro's platform now offers stocks alongside cryptocurrencies. As of mid-June, traders can hold cryptos, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and thousands of other assets in one account. The brokerage prev

Global investing platform and cryptocurrency exchange eToro has revealed now that it is adding Cardano’s ADA token to its list of cryptocurrencies, bringing the total number of assets available to ele

An Irish regtech firm pushing blockchain-based compliance tools has unveiled its debut platform designed to bring regulatory rigor to token offerings. Gecko Governance's latest product, Gecko Crypto1,

Dejun Qian's Singapore-based Fusion Foundation is constructing a new blockchain infrastructure designed to break down the walls separating disparate digital assets. The platform aims to enable cryptoc

CoinDeal's launch early this year caught the attention of crypto traders. Within three months of opening, the Polish exchange processed $3 million in daily trading volumes. Adam Bicz, Filip Dzierżak,

Global investment platform and cryptocurrency exchange eToro has now revealed that users can invest directly in shares on the platform where previously only CFDs were available. Users can now buy UK s

Status, an Ethereum-based mobile operating system, has become a founding member of the Ethereum Community Fund. The platform lets users message each other, move money, and access decentralized applica

Wachsman, a blockchain PR firm with offices in New York and Dublin, announced it hired two senior bankers to launch a new advisory division. The firm runs the world's largest blockchain-focused public

Blockchain security company BitGo has been a leader in the crypto space since the...

Carbon Black, a cybersecurity firm, discovered a $6.7 million market on darknet sites for cryptocurrency theft malware. The firm cataloged 12,000 such marketplaces offering about 34,000 different prod

What if global commerce didn't require banks as gatekeepers? That's the question BitPay and its ecosystem are beginning to answer—not by revolutionizing how coffee shops operate, but by transforming h

Narada Power Source, a Chinese energy company, is bringing its Asia Pacific subsidiary together with Electrify, a Singapore startup, to deploy blockchain and Internet-of-Things technology for energy t

A blockchain-focused ticketing startup operating from the United States has unveiled its freshly minted platform, now obtainable via Apple's mobile app marketplace. The application streamlines the tic

BitBay, Poland's largest cryptocurrency exchange, will shut down operations at home and relocate to Malta. Established in 2014, BitBay serves 800,000 active users, operates 29 digital assets, processe

Ethbay launches as a blockchain-based competitor to eBay, aiming to strip down the fees and privacy concerns that plague traditional online marketplaces. The Ethereum-powered platform charges 1% per t

Castle Craig Hospital in Peeblesshire became the first treatment facility in Scotland to open its doors to people struggling with cryptocurrency trading addiction. The residential program targets thos

TaaS, a Singapore-based closed-end fund focused on blockchain assets, has partnered with OSA DC, a startup building AI and blockchain tools for retail and supply chain management. The partnership brin

At CoinFest UK 2018, ETHBITS' co-founder and Business Growth Manager Matthew Rodbourne outlined the platform's trajectory over the coming months. Established in 2017 by what he describes as cryptocurr

Britain's financial regulator has 24 active probes into cryptocurrency operations, according to records obtained through a Freedom of Information request and reported by the Financial Times. The Finan

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has revealed that its GDAX platform will evolve to become Coinbase...

CheapAir.com accepted bitcoin for travel bookings starting in 2013. Now the company takes Litecoin, Dash and Bitcoin Cash as payment, becoming the first travel platform to offer all three. The crypto

The Ontario Securities Commission took action against five companies this week for operating without proper authorization in cryptocurrency. The watchdog issued an alert on May 18 identifying BTCReal,

Professor Alex Norta has signed on as scientific advisor to Black Insurance, a blockchain startup building a platform for insurance brokers to launch their own insurance companies without traditional

X Genomics announced the Human Variant Genome Project, positioning the Singapore-based startup to serve as a central hub for genetic research data stored on blockchain technology. The platform allows

Shyft, an identity verification and KYC/AML-focused blockchain company, has reached an agreement with Bermuda's government, with Premier E. David Burt taking the lead on the initiative. Under the memo

Scaling has dominated Consensus 2018, just as it did the three years prior. The \"SCALING, LAYER 2 AND CRYPTOGRAPHIC INNOVATIONS\" panel brought together Alin S. Dragos of MIT Media Lab, Amy Yin from Co

The peer-to-peer payment network Dash has found its way into Paycent, a mobile payment application operated by Texcent Asia. This integration makes Dash accessible to the app's individual users and gr

Across the globe, cryptocurrency and blockchain companies face an increasingly fragmented regulatory landscape that forces founders to navigate conflicting requirements from different jurisdictions. T

Finch Capital has led a €5 million Series A investment into Brickblock, a Gibraltar-based blockchain startup focused on tokenizing real-world assets. The funding round represents a major step forward

Quoine, a cryptocurrency startup from Japan, has launched its ICO Mission Control platform, an...

CoinJanitor recovers value trapped on dead cryptocurrency blockchains by purchasing abandoned coins and funneling those assets back into the active market. The project addresses two fundamental questi

Bitfinex is now trading Stellar (XLM) and Verge (XVG), two tokens that rank in the top 30 cryptocurrencies by value. Stellar sits at number eight with an $8.2 billion market cap while Verge comes in a

Yondo, ranked among Forbes's top nine must-have online tools, is integrating blockchain and artificial intelligence into its ecommerce video platform. The company's ICO presale is now underway. The s

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng denied breaching an exclusivity agreement with Sequoia Capital. The venture capital firm sued the major cryptocurrency exchange in Hong Kong over a failed investment dea

Cent attempts to merge the gig economy, social media, and cryptocurrency. Max Brody and Cameron Hejazi built it, and time on the platform convinced me the concept has potential. Automation has worrie

A decentralised insurance platform has revealed its backing for the first blockchain-enabled insurance product to tackle natural disasters in Puerto Rico. as per an announcement, Etherisc’s hurricane

Blockchain governance sits at the intersection of two domains: the protocol's code and its economic incentives. Since Bitcoin's launch, cryptocurrencies have evolved rapidly, yet they remain early-sta

WhatEOS, an organization uniting EOS blockchain enthusiasts and companies supporting the technology, held its first Australian roadshow in Sydney on April 20 at Portside Centre. Entrepreneurs and cryp

Huobi, a cryptocurrency exchange platform originally from China, is looking to expand into the...

Rare Bits, a San Francisco startup, raised $6 million in Series A funding to build an online marketplace for cryptocurrency collectibles. Spark Capital led the round, with backing from First Round Cap

HelloGold, the Malaysian fintech company that lets customers buy investment-grade gold at fractional prices, closed a Series A funding round with 500 Startups. Founded in 2015, the company won the in

Token sales operate without rules. A team can launch a project with a white paper, a landing page, and a digital wallet that collects millions from investors before anything ships. Some founders run l

Blockchain enthusiasts face a fundamental trade-off: keeping digital assets positioned for long-term appreciation means sacrificing immediate purchasing power. MoneyToken presents a workaround to this

A new co-working space was launched in Liechtenstein to support blockchain startups. House of Blockchain is an initiative of Aeternity, an open source, blockchain-based distributed computer platform,

For years, Craig Wright grabbed headlines by insisting he created Bitcoin. Now, a different kind of scandal surrounds the controversial technologist: accusations that he lifted substantial portions of

A survey of more than 1,000 British adults found that one in five would consider purchasing cryptocurrencies within the next three years. The research, commissioned by communications agency Citigate D

Bitcoin lost more than half its value during the first three months of 2018. That decline ranks as the second-worst quarterly performance in the cryptocurrency's history. In 2011, the worst quarter sa

Abra's chief executive, Bill Barhydt, operates a platform that functions as a cryptocurrency banking service, utilizing Bitcoin and Litecoin-based smart contracts to enable users to maintain various f

Search analytics firm Ahrefs recently conducted a sweeping examination of 175 million websites to quantify the prevalence of unwanted cryptocurrency mining occurring on web pages. The practice, known

Starting tomorrow morning, Gemini will introduce a mechanism allowing its users to execute trades of substantial size through channels separate from its regular matching engine. The Winklevoss brother

Crypto prices surged after the G20 summit concluded in Buenos Aires without reaching accord on how to regulate cryptocurrencies. The lack of global consensus allows individual governments to pursue th

South Korean authorities took four executives from two cryptocurrency exchanges into custody on suspicion of stealing customer funds worth billions of won. Kim Ik-hwan, who runs Coinnest—the country's

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sat down with CNBC on March 29th to address mounting skepticism about the company's growth trajectory. Nvidia's stock had surged 560 percent over two years, a run fueled in par

Blockchain technology is being leveraged to challenge the dominance of centralized social media platforms, with a new decentralized protocol emerging from veterans of major tech companies. The TTC Pro

Venezuela's economy collapses on petroleum. The Bolivar has lost 99.99 percent of its value against the dollar, and the country now endures one of the world's worst monetary crises. President Nicolás

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has left Facebook under the kind of public scrutiny the company has not faced in a long time. The network has encountered privacy trouble before, but this breach differ

Miami-based startup 8base has launched an application development platform that’s using technologies such as...

The Pillar Project will hold its second annual unconference in Vilnius from July 15 to 22 at the Vilnius Grand Resort. Organizers expect at least 500 attendees. The Swiss non-profit, which is developi

On March 22nd, Toronto-based Paycase Financial and TMX Group announced a partnership to launch Shorcan Digital Currency Network, marking the first time a major exchange has operated a cryptocurrency b

Bitcoin Private's foundation will distribute $150,000 grants to research teams working on cryptography and cybersecurity. The grants cover projects ranging from three months to one year, with funding

Volante Technologies, a software company dedicated to the financial industry, has launched a new interface with Ripple for global real-time settlements.

The SEC plans to inspect up to 100 hedge funds focused on cryptocurrencies, according to the Wall Street Journal. In February, the agency issued subpoenas demanding details about how cryptocurrency

Yahoo Japan is stepping into cryptocurrency trading. The company plans to purchase a 40% stake in BitARG Exchange Tokyo next month, according to the Nikkei Asian Review. Through YJFX, its forex platfo

Crowd Machine has partnered with Polymath, a Toronto-based security tokens platform. Through the partnership, developers and companies can build blockchain applications and smart contracts without wri

Philip Hammond announced that Britain will create a crypto assets task force to help fintech companies navigate complex financial regulations. The Chancellor made the declaration during a speech at Lo

A Zug-based startup called Crypto Real Estate is launching a token to let ordinary investors own pieces of Swiss commercial property. The company plans to issue SwissRealCoin, a cryptocurrency backed

Northern Trust has opened its private equity blockchain network to audit firms, allowing them to verify fund transactions in real time. The fund administrator announced the expansion with Pricewaterho

UK Bitcoin exchange Coinfloor has announced the launch of CoinfloorEX – a physically-settled Bitcoin...

Abra, a cryptocurrency and digital wallet platform, has expanded support to 20 digital coins available within a single app. The move opens wider access to the cryptocurrency market for users across th

Cryptocurrency valuations experienced sharp declines Thursday amid Google's decision to block digital asset advertising and escalating regulatory scrutiny spanning multiple nations. The sector's aggr

Unicorn Go PTE Ltd., a Singapore-based startup, is launching UnicornGO, an online collectible game where players own and breed fantasy unicorns on the Ethereum blockchain. The game features Candy Coin

Coincheck distributed ¥46.6 billion to 260,000 customers today after completing refunds for the hack that struck the Tokyo exchange in late January. The payout returned 88.549 yen ($0.83) per XEM toke

Bitcoin industry heavyweight Coinbase has announced the introduction of a new index fund which...

Blockchain technology is finding new applications in healthcare supply chains through an emerging collaboration. Sweetbridge, a non-profit focused on leveraging blockchain technology to transf

IPCHAIN Database wants to solve a real problem for creators. When someone invents something, makes art, or discovers an idea, they need a way to prove they own it. Right now, that's hard. Misuse of in

NTT Security's threat research team identified a growing menace in the form of cryptocurrency mining malware that has infected machines over the past three years. The company monitors 40 percent of gl

Groves Medical Group in the UK will become the first medical practice in Britain to accept cryptocurrency payments from patients. The practice, which serves 30,000 patients at four locations, has part

A London firm called Always Efficient LLP has become entangled in an investigation into laundering bitcoin stolen from Mt Gox, the Tokyo exchange that collapsed in 2014. According to BBC Radio 4, the

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is facing two class action lawsuits, one of which is claiming insider trader information.

South Korea has become a focal point for rapid expansion by aelf, a blockchain-based computing platform. The company unveiled three major developments Thursday: the launch of its ELF token on trading

Pantera Capital, a heavyweight in the cryptocurrency and blockchain investment space, is backing Codex, a new startup working to establish a decentralized infrastructure for cataloging art and collect

Rabobank, the Dutch banking giant, plans to launch Rabobit, a cryptocurrency wallet embedded in its online banking platform. The move reverses the bank's previous stance against serving crypto busines

Bitcoin users watching the network in late 2017 encountered a new problem: block space was scarce. Starting in November and accelerating through December, incoming transactions swamped the system. Bit

StormX partnered with I Only Fly First Class to let Storm Play users buy first class tickets using cryptocurrency. Users of the Storm Play app can access I Only Fly First Class through the platform an

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, spoke about Bitcoin at Regent's University in London on Monday evening. \"Bitcoin has pretty much failed thus far on the traditional aspects of money,\" he

Cryptocurrency exchanges are buckling under the weight of demand. Outages knock platforms offline for hours. Customer service teams don't respond for days. Security vulnerabilities surface with regula

Longenesis and Neuromation announced a partnership this week to build a healthcare data marketplace using blockchain and artificial intelligence. Alex Zhavoronkov, chief scientific officer at Longene

eToro has revealed that it has added NEO to its platform following on from the addition of Stellar last week. The latest addition brings the total number of cryptocurrencies supported to nine. The oth

Crypto incubators and hedge funds begin with an unfair edge: inside access to promising projects before news reaches the broader market. Global Blockchain Technologies (CSE: BLOC; OTC: BLKCF) offers o

Approximately 240 million individuals globally struggle with alcohol dependency, according to research published in the journal Addiction, while the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reports th

In Northampton, United Kingdom, Bitto Exchange has unveiled preparations for its initial coin offering. The platform, which bills itself as a hybrid trading ecosystem with diversified earning opportun

Baroness Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman launched EQUI, a new investment platform built on the ethereum blockchain. The platform runs on the EQUItoken and aims to reshape venture capital by letting o

Vitalik Buterin, who co-founded Ethereum, pushed back against Bitcoin developers claiming he created the network primarily as a pre-mining mechanism to benefit its founders. The debate echoes an earl

Job.com will rebuild its job platform on blockchain technology. The 60-million-user service plans to cut out recruitment middlemen. Spring 2018 marks the target launch window. The last major change i

The IOTA Foundation has announced that it has teamed up with Taipei City to...

The Central Bank of Barbados should hold a "relatively small" proportion of bitcoins as part of its portfolio of international reserves, according to two economists.

Coinbase's Brian Armstrong praised CryptoCribs, an Ethereum-based housing rental service, in a tweet this week, calling it \"impressive execution\" and saying he wanted to try the platform. His endorsem

Trading Technologies International plugged Coinbase into its trading platform this week, opening a gateway for institutional money to flow into crypto. TT connects to 19 of the 20 largest firms in the

On Wednesday morning at 10AM Singapore time, Huobi Global unveiled its platform-native digital asset—Huobi Token, ticker HT. The response was immediate and overwhelming. Initial allocations of 31 mill

DocCoin is building a medical platform on blockchain that brings together patients, doctors, insurance companies, hospitals and rehabilitation centers into one network. The promise extends to multipl

Digital assets have experienced a dramatic correction in recent weeks, with bitcoin sliding from near $20,000 last month to current levels around $11,247, pressured by a combination of profit-taking a

South Korea's government spent weeks denying rumors of a cryptocurrency trading ban, but the real scandal involved people inside the Financial Supervisory Commission. These officials had watched the J

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission Chairman Kim Sang-jo pushed back forcefully against proposals to prohibit cryptocurrency exchanges during remarks made on a radio broadcast this week. In his commen

Blockchain startup Codex has unveiled its provenance-based protocol that aims to tap into the...

The global tutoring market will reach $227 billion by 2022, according to industry forecasts, yet online education captures just 3-5% of those revenues today. Instructors and students still prefer meet

The blockchain-powered secondary market for startup shares is about to expand significantly. Hatcher+, a Singapore-headquartered venture investment firm, has partnered with Funderbeam to enable tradin

Kodak's stock price surged 125% after the company announced it would develop blockchain technology for managing photography rights. Working with partner WENN Digital, Kodak unveiled KodakOne, a blockc

Charlie Lee founded Litecoin using Bitcoin's code, adjusting the block time and mining algorithm before releasing it on bitcointalk.org as silver to Bitcoin's gold. Six years after that initial launch

A South Korean investor turned a $90 bitcoin purchase into $22 million, MoneyToday reported on January 9. The finance publication is one of South Korea's largest. For $90 to grow into $22 million, the

Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit are hiring staff faster than South Korea's banks and financial institutions. South Korean broadcasters, including YTN, have documented the hiring surge at Bithumb, which h

Ethereum's market value has crossed $100 billion for the first time since the protocol launched two years ago. The milestone comes after three months of rapid growth in decentralized applications buil

Spanish payment startup Bitnovo is bringing Dash to 10,000 retailers across Spain. The partnership enables shoppers to purchase Dash through coupons at stores, and through gift cards at select Carrefo

NITI Aayog, the Indian government's policy agency, is building a test system for blockchain applications in education, health and agriculture. An official who spoke with the Economic Times described t

In late December, Vitalik Buterin made clear his patience has limits. The Ethereum creator said he would walk away from the sector if the community's output amounts to nothing more than memes and imma

Bitcoin's value surged 13% on Wednesday after reports emerged that Founders Fund—the Peter Thiel-led venture capital powerhouse based in San Francisco—commenced accumulating the digital asset in 2012.

Two major US exchanges have submitted six bitcoin ETF applications to federal regulators this month. The Chicago Board Options Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange filed the applications with the

Loomia has just inked a collaboration with L.L. Bean, bringing smart textile technology leveraging blockchain to one of America's oldest apparel makers. The innovation allows manufacturers to understa

The digital asset sector experienced a substantial decline on Friday, with investors pulling roughly a quarter of the market's total value. The worldwide cryptocurrency market capitalization contracte

Edward Snowden has shifted his focus to zero-knowledge proofs as the path forward for private cryptocurrency transactions. The former CIA employee and renowned whistleblower backs Zcash's cryptographi

Investing.com, the number one rated financial markets app on Google Play for three consecutive years, serves over five million traders and investors. The company just released a dedicated cryptocurren

BnkToTheFuture plans to launch a public token sale in February 2018 to build a platform for trading equity tokens. According to Bloomberg, the company is targeting $33 million through the initial coin

The meteoric rise of CryptoKitties has created an unprecedented bottleneck on the Ethereum blockchain. Just 72 hours after a single collectible feline fetched $117,712 on the platform, the game has su

Cryptocurrency Dash has been integrated into digital wallet and money transfer platform Uphold. Customers...

Cantor Fitzgerald is preparing to launch a bitcoin futures program sometime next year, a move that solidifies the Wall Street firm's place among traditional finance players now trading digital assets.

Indorse went live with its minimum viable product recently, opening access to beta users who want to build professional profiles on the Ethereum-based platform. The MVP lets professionals create a pro

YouNow, a live video streaming platform, yesterday added PROPS to Coinlist.co, an ICO vetting service for accredited investors. Three projects now carry Coinlist's approval: Filecoin, Blockstack, and

Two dozen enterprises have now joined IOTA Foundation's ambitious effort to build an open marketplace for buying and selling information captured by connected devices and sensors worldwide. The roster

Six Bitcoin developers and security researchers took the stage on day two of Baltic Honeybadger 2017 in Riga to discuss what kept them awake at night. Eric Lombrozo of Ciphrex, Adam Back at Blockstrea

South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon is demanding strict regulatory frameworks for cryptocurrency trading. Bitcoin's value grew from $10 billion in January to $167 billion today, and Lee views thi

Bitcoin's rally has analysts scrambling to revise forecasts. Ronnie Moas, head of Standpoint Research, bumped his 2018 price target to $14,000 from $11,000 in a Monday note to clients, citing five mon

Bitcoin carries a popular reputation for anonymity, one that doesn't survive scrutiny. The blockchain is public, and anyone motivated to do so can trace transactions if they connect wallet addresses t

Fujitsu Laboratories, a leading research center and a subsidiary of Japan’s IT giant Fujitsu,...

The emergence of blockchain as a transformative technology extends far beyond cryptocurrency speculation—its applications are poised to reshape the gig economy. The freelance workforce has exploded ac

Singapore's financial regulator and MIT's media lab are joining forces to expand the city's blockchain talent and research capabilities. The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced the partnership a

Vitalik Buterin this week outlined an Ethereum that never materialized. The protocol's founding vision placed it atop Bitcoin, leveraging Bitcoin's security without operating as a separate blockchain.

A Manhattan preschool chain now accepts cryptocurrency for tuition bills. The Montessori Schools, which operates locations in Flatiron and Soho, began taking bitcoin and ethereum payments after sendin

Funderbeam, a blockchain-backed marketplace for startup investment, has crossed the €5 million fundraising threshold since its April 2016 launch. The platform operates the first and only secondary mar

Tech Bureau, a Japanese fintech and cryptocurrency company from Japan, has raised US$767,500 from...

The Ethereum network faces a critical challenge: a dearth of qualified engineers willing to tackle its most pressing technical hurdles. According to Augur's creator Joey Krug, this developer shortage

Bitcoin crossed $7,000 this week, setting another all-time high of $7,350 on Bitstamp Thursday. The cryptocurrency has climbed 620 percent since the start of the year, when it traded near $1,000. At t

The Securities and Exchange Commission warned investors on November 1st that celebrities who promote initial coin offerings face serious legal consequences if they fail to disclose how much they are b

China's ban on cryptocurrency trading in yuan took effect, shutting out mainland exchanges from the domestic market. Huobi, which operated among the world's largest crypto platforms, responded by esta

Foundational blockchain, envisioned as a decentralized online marketplace network, announces advisory board for the...

AMD's stock fell sharply following a Morgan Stanley analysis predicting that demand for cryptocurrency-focused chips would plummet by fifty percent over the next twelve months. Shares dropped nine per

A sophisticated phishing operation targeting MyEtherWallet users netted criminals more than $15,000 in just hours last week. The attack came to light when security specialist Wesley Neelen discovered

Tokyo's SBI Group is making a substantial push into cryptocurrency and blockchain this week through multiple business moves. The holding company, which controls most of SBI's subsidiary operations, pa

Quoine, a cryptocurrency startup headquartered in Japan, has signed a partnership with Blockwave to...

Vitalik Buterin expects the vast majority of initial coin offerings to collapse. At the ETHWaterloo hackathon, the Ethereum co-founder told judges from Coinbase, Consensys, Slock.It, and Augur that ni

Brickblock announced its public token sale begins October 31st, offering cryptocurrency holders a way to invest in real-world assets without traditional middlemen. The Berlin-based startup has built

A Swiss nonprofit called the Publiq Foundation announced the launch of a blockchain-based content platform designed to combat fake news and bias in reporting. The platform gives authors, journalists,

Singapore's Monetary Authority and Hong Kong's Monetary Authority are building a cross-border blockchain platform for trade finance. The project aims to eliminate fraud and errors in a system built on

BitGive, the first nonprofit to combine Bitcoin technology with 501(c)(3) status, unveiled GiveTrack in beta form Tuesday night at Money2020 in Las Vegas. The platform tracks charitable donations from

A $124 ATM fee in Las Vegas caught the attention of BitPay co-founder and chairman Tony Gallippi this week. He posted the receipt on Twitter, highlighting what he viewed as an absurd charge for a debi

Throughout 2017, development teams at Bitcoin and Ethereum shifted focus to building systems that sit on top of their blockchains, seeking to handle far more transactions than the main chains could ma

BitRent envisions fundamentally transforming the real estate sector through blockchain technology, targeting a dramatic expansion of crypto market value to $10 trillion via investor participation. The

A Reddit user posted on r/Ethereum this week describing malware that intercepts Ethereum addresses during copy-paste operations on Windows machines. The r/Ethereum community has grown to over 131,000

Celsius Foundation plans to launch a peer-to-peer lending platform on Ethereum that connects borrowers and lenders while removing banks from the equation. The company targets millennials and genX—demo

ShapeShift, a Switzerland-based instant cryptocurrency exchange, is adding NEM's XEM token to its offerings. The company, founded in 2014, operates an exchange where traders can convert bitcoin and al

Dr S.P. Sharma, chief economist at the PHP Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told the Economic Times that bitcoin needs regulatory oversight before India will grant it legal status as a currency. Bit

Consumer finance startup Circle has unveiled Cent Routing Exchange (CENTRE), a new open source...

Construction-focused blockchain venture Etch, operating out of the UK, has brought on KPMG—one of the world's most prominent consulting organizations—to guide its token sale strategy. The advisory eng

Eleven digital currency companies in Japan have been granted a Virtual Currency Exchange license...

The Middle Eastern nation of Bahrain has signaled serious intent to embrace cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, with officials actively exploring pathways for broader adoption. At the MIT Innova

Dunamu unveiled UpBit this week, a new cryptocurrency trading platform built with Bittrex, a major U.S. exchange. The platform will list all 111 cryptocurrencies currently available on Bittrex. The So

Sirin Labs is redirecting its focus toward cryptocurrency. The smartphone maker behind the ultraexpensive Solarin, priced at $16,000, has unveiled Finney, a new product line designed from the ground u

The CFTC has sued Gelfman Blueprint Inc. and its CEO Nicholas Gelfman for running a bitcoin Ponzi scheme that took more than $600,000 from about 80 investors between January 2014 and January 2016. Th

China's crackdown on cryptocurrencies has sent mainland investors and token founders scrambling for alternatives. Traders are buying and selling bitcoin among themselves while founders of crypto proje

Leverj, built by the team that created Coinpit, is preparing to launch a decentralized exchange for cryptocurrency derivatives. The platform aims to address security and usability gaps that plague tod

India’s central bank has stated to a parliamentary committee that digital currencies are ‘susceptible to misuse or abuse.’ In March, India’s finance ministry set up an interdisciplinary committee task

Finland's central bank released a research paper that presents bitcoin in favorable economic terms. The Bank of Finland commissioned economists Gur Huberman, Jacob Leshno, and Ciamac Moallemi to write

A technical presentation by Greg Maxwell, a Bitcoin Core contributor and chief technology officer at Blockstream, recently took place at a SF Bitcoin Developers event. The discussion centered on the i

Bitcoin's underlying technology offers capabilities that current financial systems lack. Supporters argue that peer-to-peer protocols could supplant banking intermediaries altogether, since transactio

The world of token sales has experienced a seismic shock this week as China's monetary authorities moved decisively against the booming sector. In a stunning reversal, a regulatory body overseen by th

Venture capital firm Lakeside Partners, blockchain firm Blockhaus, and business law and tax firm...

Bitcoin transaction fees have begun falling as major wallet providers activate Segregated Witness, or SegWit. The blockchain analysis firm OXT reports that fewer than one in ten bitcoin transactions u

Some prominent figures argue that bitcoin is overpriced. Mark Cuban, BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, and currency expert Jim Rickards have all made this claim. But high prices don't au

Nxt, the blockchain platform developed by Jelurida, is rolling out a Blockchain Creation Kit that lets developers build custom blockchains using the full Nxt source code. Builders can set up their own

Estonia, which pioneered e-residency, is developing estcoin as part of a strategy to build a bitcoin-backed sovereign wealth fund—a plan that would make it the first European Union nation to undertake

Hive Project successfully raised 2,087 BTC, or approximately $8.9 million, in its token offering from 2,234 investors. The team plans to create the world's first blockchain-powered invoice financing p

India's government began examining how to regulate digital currencies after two major cyberattacks in May and June convinced officials that bitcoin posed a security threat. In May, WannaCry hit system

Cryptocurrency prices climbed this week, with the sector's total market capitalization breaking through the $150 billion barrier. That figure represents a $132 billion injection of capital since Janua

Estonia could become the first nation to run a government-backed initial coin offering. The country is moving forward with plans for estcoin, a digital token intended for e-residents who want to parti

Thailand's central bank sat down this week with Vitalik Buterin and executives from Omise to explore blockchain's role in the country's payment and financial systems. Omise, founded in 2013, spent fou

HBO is working to purchase $250,000 in bitcoin to pay hackers who broke into its network and stole confidential materials, including cast members' contact information and scripts for upcoming episodes

Blockchain projects listed on Cofound.it will see their tokens automatically approved for integration into...

Dmitry Marinichev, an internet policy advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, plans to launch a cryptocurrency mining operation and is raising $100 million through an initial coin offering. Bloom

On the 8th of August, 2017, the GoldMint project is being launched to furnish gold ownership solutions for cryptocurrency investors. Physical gold is an age-old method of payment and wealth preservati

whereas the main sales pitch of Bitcoin has always been that it allows users to route around governments and banks to create a new, decentralized financial system, one online gambling site, known as B

Chronicled, a startup based in San Francisco, wrapped up a technical trial demonstrating a new way to transfer information about goods through cryptographic means without exposing parties to each othe

Bitcoin Cash forks off from the main Bitcoin network on August 1 at 12:20 UTC. Investors and traders show no signs of panic. Crypto analyst Vinny Lingham, CEO of Civic, forecast the opposite earlier

The Justice Department has resurrected a federal asset forfeiture program that permits law enforcement to seize assets in states where the practice faces legal restrictions. Attorney General Eric Hold

Earlier this week, the Genesis Mining development team revealed that an unauthorized intrusion by an undisclosed attacker was discovered and consequently, funds stored in the company’s hot wallet were

Bitcoin's community is moving toward activating Segregated Witness, a scaling solution first proposed in December 2015. Years of debate blocked progress. The UASF and Segwit2x proposals have broken th

Ethereum-powered Propy, a blockchain venture based in California, is developing a decentralized marketplace for real estate transactions that operates on a global scale. The platform aims to simplify

Coinbase announced that GDAX, its flagship digital asset exchange, will not support any blockchain created by Bitmain's planned hard fork. Adam White, general manager of GDAX, made the statement. Coi

A Warsaw-based blockchain technology company has secured €2 million in funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 initiative, signaling growing confidence in blockchain innovation across t

This October, London's Banking Hall will host a landmark gathering focused on how digital innovation is reshaping the money movement sector. Running October 10-11, the Global Money Transfer Summit bri

Jihan Wu and Eric Lombrozo are trading accusations of broken promises in private. The Bitmain CEO and Bitcoin Core developer have exhausted attempts to find common ground. Wu backs SegWit2x, which wo

Early Bitcoin contributor Amir Taaki has long viewed cryptocurrency through a distinctly ideological lens. His foundational work on Dark Wallet and his fascination with Bitcoin's application during th

ICObazaar is a crowdsale platform that lets investors participate in ICOs at any stage of a fundraising campaign. The platform targets both newcomers and experienced participants, aiming to eliminate

A South Korean lawmaker plans to introduce three bills next month that would establish the country's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to the Korea H

Bolenum, an Ethereum-based startup focused on Africa, opened its presale today with a full public ICO scheduled to launch July 15. The project aims to raise funds through the sale of 5 million BLN tok

Segregated Witness and the Lightning Network come up together in conversations, but many Bitcoin users don't understand how the two connect. SegWit would enable a better version of Lightning on the ne

Singapore's central bank released a report on Project Ubin, detailing its push to create a digital form of the Singapore dollar on blockchain. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) began the proje

BTC.com, the Bitcoin wallet backed by Chinese mining giant Bitmain Technologies, will let users buy coins without leaving the app. The partnership with US exchange Kraken brings Kraken Direct into BTC

SmartPlay.tech's RLT token has surged fourfold, riding momentum from the platform's blockchain roulette games. The company has introduced \"win-win roulette,\" a new game where players stake bets using

Developers and blockchain enthusiasts from across the globe are converging on Arnhem this summer for a major gathering focused on Bitcoin's direction. Set for June 29 through July 1, 2017, the Future

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