The Swiss branch of Russian banking giant Gazprombank is planning to roll out a cryptocurrency service to its clients in mid-2019. For this, the bank has partnered with fintech company Avaloq and crypto-asset custody...

Trustology, a London-based startup focused on securing digital assets, has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Two Sigma Ventures, the early-stage venture capital fund of Two Sigma, and participation from...

Canadian cryptocurrency trading platform Coinsquare has announced the acquisition of BlockEQ, a cryptocurrency wallet on the Stellar network. According to the terms of the deal, the acquisition was closed for $12...

Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings is going to establish a joint venture with U.S.-based enterprise blockchain software firm R3 in January 2019, Nikkei reported. The new venture will aim to promote R3s Corda...

Crypto investment startup Bitwise has announced the launch of two new low-cost, liquid beta funds, exclusively holding bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH). The company said that the launch of the new funds is driven by...

Cryptocurrency trading platform ErisX has raised $27.5 million in its Series B funding round, CoinDesk reported. Investors include Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Monex Group, as well as...

Overstock.coms subsidiary Medici Ventures has purchased a $2.5 million equity in GrainChain, a software startup seeking to bring easy and secure payments to farmers, buyers and grain elevators through blockchain...

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has authorized Signature Bank, a New York-based full-service commercial bank, to offer a new digital payment platform named Signet. Officially unveiled on December...

Scanetchain, a commercialized augmented reality (AR) blockchain platform, has secured investment from a professional investment consultant firm Hillstone Partners, Edaily reported. The details of the investment have not...

Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain last week launched a new cryptocurrency index which tracks the performance of top cryptocurrencies, CoinDesk reported. The Bitmain Crypto Index publishes two types of prices a Real-Time...