The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is going to discuss blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) during World Standards Week (WSW) 2018, to be held October 15–19 in Washington, DC. The topics will be d…
Audit and consulting giant Deloitte is collaborating with Singapore-based blockchain startup Jupiter Chain to implement an innovative data exchange in Southeast Asia. The data exchange aims to transform the way data i…
Crypto exchange Bitfinex has introduced Ethfinex Trustless – an Ethereum-based trading solution which places security, privacy and control in the hands of the user. “With Ethfinex Trustless there are no signups, no de…
UK-based fintech company TigerWit has announced that it has become the official foreign exchange trading partner of Liverpool FC. Founded in 1892, Liverpool FC is one of the world's most legendary football clubs havin…
BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices traded in a tight range during late European session Monday, tracking a mixed bag of news over the past few days. While Google’s removal of three major cryptocurrency wallets from its Playstore…
The European Central Bank (ECB) does not intend to issue central bank-backed digital currency (CBDC), the ECB president Mario Draghi said last week. Draghi attributed the reasons behind this decision to the underlying…
Medici Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Overstock.com, has announced that its portfolio company Bitsy.com has started the limited beta launch of a digital wallet service. According to the official release, the i…
BMW Group Financial Services is partnering with blockchain startup Bloom in a bid to enhance customer lending solution. The project is part of the BMW Collaboration Lab 2018 and aims to streamline customer journey and…
MoneySENSE, a national financial education programme in Singapore, is organizing the second run of the World Investor Week in Singapore (WIWS) from 4 to 12 October 2018. World Investor Week (WIW) is a week-long, globa…
Lamda256, the blockchain research unit of Dunamu – the operator of South Korean crypto exchange Upbit, has introduced a new blockchain app developer tool called “Luniverse.” Luniverse will enable developers to build v…
Tech giant IBM has announced that it has joined the HACERA Unbounded Registry as a founding member. Founded in 2015, HACERA is an enterprise blockchain firm focused on highly secure Authentication, Authorization and A…
South Korea-based LG Uplus Corp., Japan’s SoftBank, Taiwan’s Far EasTone, and U.S.-based TBCASoft are joining forces to trial a cross-carrier blockchain platform. All four project participants are the members of the C…
Indian private sector insurer ICICI Prudential Life is seeking to leverage blockchain technology for faster claims settlement, The Hindu Business Line reported. ICICI Prudential Life began its operations in the fiscal…
The ID2020 Alliance, a nonprofit public-private partnership committed to improving lives through digital identity, has announced its first two pilot projects. According to the official release, both the projects will …
BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices remained tad lower during evening session Friday, although managing to cross the $6,500 mark early in the day after a host of ups and downs through the week. The movement comes after search eng…
France creates legal framework for ICOs The French parliament has implemented a legal framework for initial coin offerings (ICOs), French Finance minister Bruno Le Maire confirmed via Twitter. Under the new legislatio…
Samsung SDS, an IT subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Samsung Group, has announced that it will build the world’s first blockchain-based export customs clearance system in an initiative led by the Korea Customs Ser…
The National Commercial Bank (NCB), one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East, is the latest to join RippleNet, Ripple’s enterprise blockchain network with over 100-member banks and financial instit…
(Refer BTC/USD chart on Trading View) BTC/USD continues to trade in the green on Friday and holding its strength well above the 6500 mark. The pair surged nearly 2 percent to 6564 at the time of writing (Bitstamp) On …
Cryptocurrency security firm BitGo has announced the launch of BitGo Trust Company – a regulated, qualified custodian purpose-built for digital assets. In May 2018, BitGo revealed that it was building the first qualif…
ZED Network, an integrated global payments platform, has partnered with Interstellar to tap the Stellar Network to transform cross-border, cross-currency and cross-asset transactions. Lightyear, a Stellar-focused comp…
In the last 30 days, initial coin offering (ICO) projects have sold approximately 283,000 ETH, TrustNodes said in a report dated September 13. Crypto experts have been speculating that liquidation by ICO projects trig…
Cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin has announced the launch of its token-to-token trading platform in 20 new U.S. states. The 20 new states include Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryl…
Google has silently removed three cryptocurrency wallets from Play Store, The Next Web reported. The move comes after the search engine giant updated its Play Store developer policy, which states:
BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices recovered during European session Thursday amid a host of pessimism that panicked all crypto investors, driving prices to fresh year lows. Amid the dilemma for the Bitcoin ETF, positive news fr…
(Refer ETH/USD chart on Trading View) ETH/USD is trading in the green on Thursday as bulls seem to have taken back some control. The pair is currently trading at 192, recovering from the 13-month low of 167 hit on Sep…
The French parliament has implemented a legal framework for initial coin offerings (ICOs), French Finance minister Bruno Le Maire confirmed via Twitter on September 12.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is seeking to expand its team focused on cryptocurrencies and related activities, a senior official was recently quoted saying. Kiyotaka Sasaki, vice commissioner for policy coo…
(Refer BTC/USD chart on Trading View) BTC/USD is trading higher on Thursday and hovering around the 6400 mark at the time of writing. On the upside, resistance is seen at 6464 (10-DMA) and a consistent break above wou…
Rostec, a Russian state-owned manufacturing conglomerate, has signed an agreement with Vostok, a blockchain startup founded by the Waves platform team, CoinDesk reported. Under the agreement, the companies will work t…
Leading cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has announced that Prism, its trustless portfolio market platform, will shut down next month. ShapeShift launched Prism in closed beta last year. The platform aimed to give u…
Indian’s Union Cabinet has given its approval to Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) to conduct collaborative research on distributed ledger and blockchain technology with participating member banks under BRICS. L…
The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance, a blockchain consortium for the risk management and insurance industry, has announced the launch of the industry’s first end-to-end reusable blockchain framework, using the Corda, R3…
BTC/USD: It is a bad day for the cryptocurrency market, with all coins suffering a setback during European session Wednesday as heated pessimism have crept in, with the United States’ financial regulators speeding up …
(Refer ETH/USD chart on Trading View) ETH/USD moved further south on Wednesday as bears continue to flex their muscles. At the time of writing, the pair is trading 10 percent lower and hovering around the fresh low of…
A federal judge in the U.S. has ruled that a criminal case against two reportedly fraudulent initial coin offerings (ICOs) falls under the scope of the country’s securities laws. In September 2017, the U.S. Securities…
U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex announced the formation of a new company which will own and manage ventures outside of the United States. Bittrex International, an affiliate of Bittrex Inc., aims to drive t…
The Bank of Korea has published a research note in which it has analysed the causes and implications of the price difference between domestic and foreign crypto asset market. Authored by the bank’s Payment Research Te…
Singaporean cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has invested over $3 million in Bitcoin Australia, The Australian Financial Review reported September 9. The companies have formed a joint venture which will see KuCoin expan…
Japanese telecom carrier Softbank, U.S.-based blockchain firm TBCASoft, and Synchronoss Technologies, a provider of cloud, messaging, digital and IoT products, have teamed up on a Proof of Concept (PoC) for a Rich Com…
