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Financial services company Robinhood has officially launched its crypto-trading app in New York.

LTC/USD is extending gains for the 2nd straight session, bias higher.

Social media behemoth Facebook is reportedly gearing to launch its own cryptocurrency in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020, BBC said in a new report today.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing a California resident for allegedly running a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme.

AT&T becomes the first major US mobile carrier to accept cryptocurrency as a bill payment option.

Rep. Eric Swalwell has started accepting cryptocurrencies as donations to support his U.S. presidential bid in 2020, blockchain firm The White Company announced on Thursday.

Crypto asset management firm Grayscale Investments has announced that it has received approval from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for the public quotation of eligible shares of Grayscale Ethereum…

Bharti Airtel, an Indian telecom giant, has awarded a multi-million dollar contract to IBM to deploy a blockchain-based pan India anti-spam call solution, the Economic Times reported.

The CEO and founder of crypto exchange Binance is seeking damages from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital China, CoinDesk reported.

The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Medici Land Governance (MLG), Overstock.com’s blockchain subsidiary focused on land administration, for the issuance of 250,000 certific…

Japan’s leading carmaker Toyota has teamed up with the University of Tokyo and TRENDE, a renewable energy retailer, to initiate a blockchain-based electricity trading solution.

The Russian National Settlement Depository (NSD), a subsidiary of the Moscow Exchange Group, is eyeing to launch its own digital asset ledger in June, CoinDesk reported.

Support: 0.3612 (21-EMA); Resistance: 0.4007 (5-DMA)

Coinstar, the operator of self-service coin-counting kiosks, has expanded its bitcoin buying service to more than 2,200 locations in 21 states and the District of Columbia.

Support: 7110 (21-EMA); Resistance: 7882 (5-DMA)

Switzerland’s principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, is working on a stablecoin pegged to the Swiss franc, a spokesman for the company confirmed to Cointelegraph and CoinDesk.

Four financial institutions have successfully issued a promissory note using a blockchain platform, Cointelegraph reported.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and its affiliated stablecoin issuer Tether have been granted a stay of document demands on Wednesday, according to its blog post.

Support: 216.96 (21-EMA); Resistance: 267.51 (Weekly cloud base)

Digital currency exchange Coinbase revealed that its cryptocurrency payment processor Coinbase Commerce now supports the dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin (USDC).

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has announced that it will run a second study group to promote the adoption of blockchain technology.

Craig S. Wright has been granted copyrights for the original Bitcoin white paper and bitcoin source code by the U.S. Copyright Office. The registrations issued on Tuesday recognize Wright as the author, under the penn…

IT firm Wipro has developed a blockchain solution for digital payment solutions company Travacoin to enable digital currency-based payments for the airline industry.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has stopped an ongoing cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that embezzled an estimated $30 million, the regulator confirmed in its press release on May 21.

Crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital has sold the majority of its share in EOS developer Block.one for $71.2 million, which amounts to a 123% return on its initial investment.

Japan’s House of Representatives on Tuesday submitted new crypto regulation in the upper house of the National Diet, called the House of Councillors, according to Nikkei.

In a major crackdown on a leading crypto mixing service, the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), in collaboration with Europol and the authorities in Luxembourg, has seized servers of Bestmixer.io.

Crypto brokerage firm Voyager has joined the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA), a non-profit advocacy group for blockchain technology, as a corporate member.

Support: 6123 (1H 200-SMA); Resistance: 7040 (Upper BB)

Insurwave, the EY and Guardtime marine insurance blockchain joint venture company, has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China’s Zhuhai Port holdings.

Technical Analysis: Bias Slightly Bearish

Support: 10.39 (110-EMA); Resistance: 13.85 (trendline)

Mozilla has announced that it is introducing new privacy protection features in the latest update of its Firefox browser which would allow users to block crypto mining scripts, among other things.

In the latest move in the ongoing legal tussle between iFinex, owner of Bitfinex and Tether, and the New York Attorney General (NYAG), the lawyers of the two crypto firms are moving to dismiss the case.

Support: 243.01 (1H 200-SMA); Resistance: 267.51 (Weekly cloud base)

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) this week published a framework for an innovation sandbox which would allow non-regulated fintech firms and entities to test their proposed solutions.

CULedger, a credit union service organization (CUSO) focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT), has announced that it is expanding its partnership with blockchain startup R3 to support blockchain-based domestic a…

The Ethereum Foundation has detailed how it plans to allocate the previously announced $30 million on ecosystem development over the course of next year.

Circle has become the latest company in the crypto space to lay off staff, CoinDesk reported.

Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed bitcoin creator, has filed United States copyright registrations for the original bitcoin code and the Satoshi white paper, CoinDesk reported.