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Leading Car brand Volvo Cars has produced the first electric cars which contain recycled cobalt mapped on a blockchain, Reuters reported.

Digital asset exchange OKEx has rolled out a new comprehensive data insights platform that covers the trading trends of derivatives.

Financial giant Mastercard is seeking top-level executives for spearheading its cryptocurrency and blockchain efforts, The Block reports citing the company’s job board.

Support: 218.24 (20-DMA); Resistance: 240.09 (55-EMA)/ 256.72 (38.2% Fib)

Shinhan Financial Investment, the brokerage arm of South Korea’s oldest banking institution Shinhan Bank, has reportedly signed an agreement with financial service provider Directional to develop a blockchain-based, p…

The government of Iran has introduced a new law in the wake of people’s growing interest in mining digital currencies in order to avoid international sanctions.

Support: 10,858 (5-DMA); Resistance: 11,690 (trendline resistance)

The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has revealed its intention to accelerate the pace of the research and development of its digital currency in the forthcoming months.

Blockchain analytics startup Elliptic in partnership with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s IBM-funded AI Lab has released a public dataset of bitcoin transactions connected to illegal a…

Support: 86.86 (5-DMA); Resistance: 96 (50% Fib)

Grayscale Investments, which claims to be the largest digital asset manager in the world, has selected Coinbase Custody to be the new custodian for its digital asset holdings.

Retail giant Walmart is mulling a fiat-backed digital currency that is similar to Facebook’s Libra currency, according to its new patent filing.

Brazilian cryptocurrency traders are now required to declare their dealings to tax authorities, according to the newly published guideline by the Department of Federal Revenue of Brazil (RFB).

The epic poem of Beowulf has survived for thousands of years, and has inspired generations of readers across the world. Written using unrhymed poetry, it tells of the exploits of the monster-slaying hero Beowulf in th…

UK FCA publishes regulatory guidance on crypto assets Following the consultation on cryptoasset guidance launched in January, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its final guidance which sets out th…

Privacy-focused web browser Brave has announced the rollout of a tipping service, whereby users can “tip” individual content creators on Twitter with Basic Attention Token (BAT).

Bitcoin.com is gearing up to launch a new cryptocurrency exchange next month which will complement its existing bitcoin-focused products and services.

Arizona has been quite enthusiastic in supporting its fintech industry and one of its latest efforts involves approving trial of payment for medical marijuana via stablecoin in its fintech sandbox.

The New York Office of the Attorney General (NYAG) has submitted a letter to Supreme Court Judge Joel Cohen, arguing that cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and Tether should not be granted a continuing stay of demands.

Following recent reports that suggested LedgerX was launching physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts in the U.S. this week, it would appear that the launch did not take place.

As of now, the blockchain industry is like the California gold rush and as the pioneers, crypto firms Bittrex and Rain want to be the first to carve a huge slice for themselves in a new partnership.

It would appear that even Canada is not immune to the woes experienced by crypto traders since the exchange platform ezBtc.ca is now facing six lawsuits over refusing to pay customers.

Support: 80.60 (5-DMA); Resistance: 86.60 (55-EMA)

Payments firm Square has generated a total of $125 million in Bitcoin revenue in the second quarter of this year via its mobile payments service Cash App.

Security token specialist TokenSoft recently announced that it would be dabbling in the “Know Your Business” (KYB) sector with a new service that it is planning to launch.

Blockchain payments have been on the rise for a while and S7 Airlines just posted its July report, noting how it processed over $1 million of these payments.

Enterprise blockchain technology firm R3 has doubled the size of its London Wall office to make room for its growing engineering team, according to Mondo Visione.

Dubai just announced that it is planning to launch a blockchain consortium based on a Know Your Customer (KYC) framework. This will be done via the collaboration of the blockchain firm Norbloc, Dubai International Fin…

Support: 17.436 (61.8% Fib); Resistance: 16.685 (200-DMA)

Malta is one of the latest countries to announce the planned deployment of blockchain in one of its services, and in this particular case, it will be the Malta Business Registry (MBR).

The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) recently granted a license for crypto derivatives firm Quedex to operate in the country, making it the first crypto futures and options exchange to do so.

Multinational brewing firm Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev has collaborated with blockchain firm BanQu Inc. to help African smallholder farmers in their supply chain.

Natalie Ameline, the mother of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, is dedicated to raising cryptocurrency and blockchain literacy awareness globally.

In a bid to spur development of its native blockchain, decentralized cloud network ​Beowulf​ has announced $10,000 in earnings for the first phase of its hackathon.

Identity and privacy-centric think tank known as the European Association for e-Identity and Security (EEMA) announced that it will support the lawful evidence collecting and continuing platform development or LOCARD,…

Unstoppable Domains, a San Francisco-based company building domains on blockchains, and blockchain platform Zilliqa have launched a $250,000 .zil grant program for wallets and exchanges.

Cryptocurrency prime brokerage BCB Group has announced that it is live with Digital Asset Shared Ledger (DASL), an enterprise-grade solution that gives institutions increased control, automation and connectivity requi…

Support: 0.2990 (Lower BB); Resistance: 0.3276 (21-EMA)

Blockchain powered loyalty and rewards platform Loyyal has announced that it has secured investments from Asian giants including Recruit, Monex Group, and Unblock Ventures, which is LINE Corporation's blockchain inves…

The Australian Digital Currency Association (ADCA) and Blockchain Australia (BA) – the two leading groups aiming to promote blockchain technology – have officially signed their merger agreement on July 22.