Cryptocurrency

Charlie Shrem walked out of federal prison this week. The former CEO of BitInstant and Bitcoin Foundation founder announced his release in a blog post titled \"Onward,\" in which he described his plans

RSK Labs is building Rootstock, a Bitcoin sidechain designed to support smart contracts. The platform runs contracts the way Ethereum does, but with a critical difference: it settles and moves value i

Bitcoin has proven its staying power across eight years of upheaval since its creation in 2008. The blockchain technology that powers it delivers security, transparency, and reliability precisely when

Charles Hoskinson, who founded Ethereum before leaving in June 2014, discussed smart contracts and Ethereum's hard fork debate during a Coinscrum Members Club appearance. Hoskinson now runs Input Outp

The Winklevoss twins' cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has signed a sponsorship agreement with the eSports organization Echo Fox to integrate digital currency into competitive gaming. The eSports indust

The DAO breach and the surrounding dispute about restoring funds through a hard fork have dominated cryptocurrency discourse in recent weeks. Only Bitcoin's halving event came close to matching the at

The fintech giant behind Alibaba's payment systems, Ant Financial, has announced an ambitious push into blockchain technology, starting with its charitable giving platform. With a valuation ex

Ranked among Brazil's biggest banks, Banco Bradesco will test a blockchain-powered digital wallet and mobile payments app in Paraisopolis, a neighborhood on São Paulo's south side. The bank tapped eW

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

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

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

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

Pierre Gramegna, Luxembourg's finance minister, addressed the crowd at the World Economic Forum's 10th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China, with a sweeping prediction about blockchai

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

When we reached out to Slock.it about a blog post from Stephen Tual claiming that the vulnerability allowing attackers to steal over 3 million ether from the DAO had been patched, the company did not

Hardware wallet users seeking offline security have had few good options. Some run a computer disconnected from the internet to store private keys. Others write the keys on paper and hope the physical

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

International money transfer firm MoneyGram has entered into an agreement with Earthport, an Internet-based payments infrastructure company, to create a pathway enabling consumers to deposit funds str

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

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