Cryptocurrency

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

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

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

Mercury Cash, a US-based cryptocurrency exchange, has added Dash to its offerings alongside Ethereum. The integration allows users to purchase and sell Dash using debit or credit cards. Mercury Cash

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

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

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

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

OriginTrail has closed its token sale after hitting the hard cap of $22.5 million. The blockchain startup is building infrastructure for supply chain data sharing. The company is creating blockchain

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

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

For three years, Bitcoin developers proposed raising the network's block size limit through hard forks. None won consensus. The appeal was simple: more block space would lower transaction fees and inc

eBay, Amazon, and AliExpress control how global commerce works online. These companies set the rules and control the pricing. When consumers buy from foreign merchants, they pay bank fees and eat the

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

ZED Network, a Canadian startup, plans to build a blockchain-based payments platform designed to cut costs and speed up remittance transfers. The service will run on the Stellar network and accept Bit

A team of computer scientists from Cornell University examined whether the bitcoin and Ethereum networks were truly decentralized. Emin Gun Sirer, Robbert van Renesse, and Adem Efe Gencer analyzed 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