Cryptocurrency

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

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

Decentralized applications and sidechain platform Lisk has raised over 4,600 BTC and announced a new partnership with Microsoft.

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

Ethereum-powered real estate platform Propy has inked an agreement to collaborate with Ukraine's government on launching blockchain-based systems for property transactions and ownership documentation.

Falcon Private Bank will expand its cryptocurrency offerings on August 22, adding Ether, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash to its platform. Last month, the Swiss bank became the first private bank in the cou

Bitcoin broke through $4,300 on August 14, marking another record high. The surge came during a week that saw tensions between Washington and Pyongyang intensify, institutional money flowing into cryp

REAL, a Singapore startup, launches its Ethereum-backed real estate platform in November. The platform grants investors access to global property deals, cuts the friction from traditional investing, a

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

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

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

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

A consortium of major banks has completed development of a blockchain application designed to overhaul trade financing. The eleven institutions—Bangkok Bank, BBVA, BNP Paribas, HSBC, ING, Mizu

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

investFeed unveiled a new platform for cryptocurrency traders. CEO Ronald Chernesky described it as \"a combination of Facebook, cryptocurrency and the Bloomberg Terminal.\" The New York startup, found

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

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

A team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign took first place at this year's IC3-Ethereum Crypto Boot Camp. The winning project, KEVM, is a framework that produces the first complete, ex

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