“Big Four” consulting giant Deloitte is now conducting a trial for a mobile Bitcoin wallet by allowing its employees to buy food in bitcoin, according to Luxembourg Times.
Japan’s most popular messaging app LINE launched its new crypto trading platform Bitmax on Tuesday, after obtaining a cryptocurrency business license from the country’s Financial Services Agency (FSA).
World’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance, has made an investment in Mars Finance, a Chinese cryptocurrency and blockchain-focused news website, Bloomberg reported.
PUBLISHalliance, a media blockchain consortium initiated by PUBLISH Inc., has announced the addition Al Bawaba to its consortium.
Cryptocurrency payment services provider BitPay will soon add support for ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
OpenSC, a venture jointly developed by the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Digital Ventures, has secured $4 million in seed funding from strategic impact investors.
HTC’s blockchain smartphone Exodus 1 has added support for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) through its partnership with Bitcoin.com.
Cryptocurrency startup Coinme has secured $1.5 million in a recently opened A-1 funding round from Ripple’s Xpring and Blockchain Finance Fund.
Cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFi announced that it has dropped minimum deposit requirement in its BlockFi Interest Account (BIA) and will pay interest on any amount of Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Gemini Dollar …
Dapper Labs, the firm behind viral blockchain game CryptoKitties, has secured $11.2 million in a new round funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Digital Currency Group, and Warner Music Group. The new …
Earlier speculations about Huobi’s plans to attempt a reverse initial public offering (IPO) appear to be coming true.
Binance announced that it will launch its New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)-approved stablecoin Binance USD (BUSD). The dollar-pegged stablecoin is now live on Paxos’ platform for U.S. dollar red…
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced that Binance Futures will go live on September 13.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced that it will open account registrations and deposits for its U.S. arm on September 18.
The Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) has announced that it will introduce its government-backed blockchain-based cryptocurrency, the Marshallese sovereign (SOV), in a token pre-sale.
Bobby Lee, co-founder and former CEO of the BTCC – one of the longest running bitcoin exchanges in China, is making a comeback to the crypto space with a new venture, Ballet, CoinDesk reported.
ConsenSys, the ethereum development startup founded by Joseph Lubin, has joined blockchain development project Hyperledger as a premier member.
Bitwise Asset Management has appointed BNY Mellon as the transfer agent and administrator of its proposed bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).
Cryptocurrency market data provider Kaiko has secured 5 million euros (~$5.5 million) in a seed funding round, spearheaded by global financial services investors Anthemis Group and Point Nine Capital.
Hong Kong-based asset custodian Legacy Trust announced that it will launch a new and independent business to accommodate its growing digital asset custody services.
Coinbase could be the latest cryptocurrency exchange to launch its initial exchange offering (IEO) platform, CoinDesk reported.
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has revealed that the Libra Association, the governing body of Facebook’s cryptocurrency project ‘Libra,’ is seeking an assessment of the crypto project under S…
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has announced tentative margin requirements for Bakkt Bitcoin Monthly and Daily futures trading contracts.
Decentralized computing network Blockstack PBC, the first crypto startup to receive the blessing of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to conduct an initial coin offering (ICO) for its blockchain-based …
Crypto exchange Coinbase is depositing 1 million USDC each in lending and borrowing money protocol Compound and margin trading protocol dYdX, as it aims to grow the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
Gemini, a Winklevoss brothers-owned exchange, has launched its own custody service, Gemini Custody.
Cryptocurrency exchange Blackmoon is eyeing to be one of the first companies to list Telegram’s upcoming Gram token through a collaboration with Swiss crypto custodian Gram Vault.
NASDAQ, the major stock exchange in the United States, has added crypto index Defix (DEFX) to provide markets information on blockchain projects working in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space.
Crypto intelligence firm CipherTrace has announced a new solution to assist cryptocurrency exchanges to comply with the FATF’s “Travel Rule.”
MERJ Exchange, the national stock exchange of the Seychelles, has announced that the digital initial public offering (IPO), which is said to be the first ever blockchain-based IPO, is now live.
In a major update, Facebook has revealed the list of potential currencies that will back its Libra cryptocurrency, Bloomberg reports.
Crypto futures platform Bakkt has announced that the bitcoin deposited at its regulated custodian, Bakkt Warehouse, is protected by a $125 million insurance policy.
Stablecoin firm Tether has released a new stablecoin pegged one-to-one to the offshore Chinese yuan (CNH).
Public blockchain platform Ontology has made a strategic investment in Vid, a social video platform slated to launch this year. The details of the investment have not been disclosed.
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit organization behind the open-source Stellar blockchain network, is launching a $121 million airdrop in cooperation with encrypted messenger Keybase.
Netki, a provider of KYC-AML compliance tools for crypto and blockchain firms, has announced that it has updated its TransactID solution to ensure compliance with the FATF “Travel Rule.”
U.K.-based hedge fund manager Nickel Asset Management has secured $50 million for a newly launched crypto investment fund, Nickel Arbitrage Fund, according to a report by CoinDesk.
Finney, the first blockchain-powered smartphone in the world, will soon be released in Bangladesh, according to The Daily Star.
Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange (LCX) announced that it has entered into a partnership with renowned Hollywood actor Dr. Wesley Snipes to tokenize a $25 million movie together.
The competition in the blockchain smartphone market is likely to get more intense as recent reports suggest that South Korean electronics giant LG is also entering this space.
