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Digital Assets Data, a fintech and data company building enterprise-grade software and data feeds for cryptocurrency, has secured another $3.2 million in equity funding.

Two U.S.-based investors have indirectly purchased Bitfinex’s LEO tokens by exploiting a loophole in the exchange’s policy, CoinDesk reports.

Dapp.com, a crypto analytics provider, has secured $500,000 from FBG Capital as well as Landscape Capital, according to CoinDesk.

Newegg, a giant e-retailer for electronics, has announced that it will now be accepting bitcoin payments in most of its stores.

Showcasing how blockchain is playing an increasingly huge role in gaming, it was just announced that PUBG Corp. is now partnering with Refereum. The former is responsible for one of the biggest Battle Royale titles in…

Ripple, the developer and issuer of XRP, revealed that it has sold $251.51 million in XRP in the second quarter of this year.

The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added new players to its list of licensed cryptocurrency exchanges in the country.

Omise Holdings, a Bangkok-based payments and blockchain startup, has secured an investment from Japanese financial giant Nomura Holdings.

Lithuanian blockchain-based energy procurement and trading firm WePower has announced that it has secured a strategic equity investment in a seed round led by Japanese giant Marubeni Corp.

The Tron (TRX) price plunged by over 20% from its 24-hour peak after its founder Justin Sun postponed his long-awaited lunch date with finance titan Warren Buffet. TRX/USD is trading at $0.023 at the time of writing.

A new acquisition by software firm Workday is intended to build an advanced network for verified and trusted credentials powered by blockchain technology.

Germany-based firm Fundament Group has received the go signal from the Germany Financial Market Supervisory Authority (BaFin) to distribute the country’s first tokenized real estate-backed bond worth €250 million (~$2…

Blockchain identity firm Civic Technologies has partnered with BitGo to develop a new crypto wallet.

Peer-to-peer payments technology firm Circle has announced the expansion of its operations to Bermuda.

Crypto trading app Robinhood has secured $323 million in a recent Series E funding round.

Bakkt, a subsidiary of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) parent company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has started testing the delivery of BTC futures.

Swedish crypto exchange QuickBit recently confirmed that it had indeed committed a major blunder in the form of a data leak that could impact as many as 3,00,000 users of the platform. This involves essentially placin…

Forise International Limited is a Singapore-based investment holding firm that recently announced its expansion into blockchain consultancy with its subsidiary. Tianjin Forise Corporation Management Consultancy Limite…

Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes Benz, has partnered with blockchain company Riddle & Code to develop a hardware wallet for automobiles.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is adding support for GBP-backed stablecoin, Binance GBP Stablecoin (BGBP), as per its announcement.

A former head of Token Foundry, which is a startup that came from the ConsenSys incubator, is gearing up to sue ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin, CoinDesk reported.

In a rather odd turn of events, it was recently reported that someone is trying to trademark “Samsung Coin” in South Korea that is not actually the tech giant. It would appear that this person is trying to leverage Sa…

Crypto banking firm FairX has closed its digital doors after it failed to secure funding for a banking license.

In an exciting new development, blockchain platform Algorand has revealed that it is now part of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA).

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has invested in a new blockchain-based, energy efficiency company, called Efforce, that will be based in Malta, according to local news outlet The Malta Independent.

Crypto derivatives provider ErisX announced that it is now a member of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a leading trade association that advocates the digital asset and blockchain technology industry.

LibertyX, the firm widely known for launching the first bitcoin ATM in the United States, has announced its partnership with Desert ATM, a non-bank ATM service provider, and the addition of the latter's 90 traditional…

Following the recent sale of the Vostok project, Waves founder Alexander Ivanov announced that he will be launching a new company department called Waves Enterprise.

Cryptocurrency firm Anchorage announced that it received a license from the state of South Dakota for a new subsidiary.

Blockchain-based game studio Horizon Blockchain Games has secured $3.75 million in seed funding led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s Initialized Capital.

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi is poised to shift its HUSD token to an ERC-20 token via a collaboration with crypto startups Stable Universal Limited and Paxos Trust Company.

In a recent partnership, blockchain entity R3 and fintech company Banco Maré announced that they will be working together to launch a stock exchange that is focused on tech startups.

A lot of companies become successful in ways that they did not set out to be and the most recent example of that is Chainalysis. What started out as a research firm that gained fame after retrieving stolen bitcoins fr…

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has launched a suite of new signaling tools that will help crypto beginners understand trade.

The hostility that India’s government views cryptocurrency with has claimed yet another exchange. This time, it is Cryptokart and as was the case in other closures, the reason is the country’s central bank. More speci…

U.S. dollar-backed Tether USDT stablecoin is poised to launch on the Algorand blockchain.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint Japan said it will compensate the estimated 50,000 users who lost their assets following a recent hacking attack with cryptocurrency, according to media outlet Asahi Shimbun.

Stablecoin issuer Tether mistakenly minted and subsequently burned $5 billion worth of its USDT tokens, according to a tweet by Whale Alert.

A number of reports have been floating in the media suggesting that Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of 24-hour trading volume, is looking to enter the South Korean market.

Bitcoin Suisse, a notable crypto broker in Switzerland and a member of the Crypto Valley Association, has announced that it has applied for banking and securities dealer licenses from the country's financial regulator.