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EnCirca is a domain name registrar and it recently announced that it will be accepting Ethereum addresses.

A pilot program in Utah County involving mobile voting via blockchain is underway. It is intended to test the method for allowing certain voters to participate in the election if they find it inconvenient to physicall…

The New York Times (NYT) has revealed it will use Hyperledger Fabric’s permissioned blockchain to verify the sources of digital files.

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…

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was recently signed by the Republic of San Marino and VeChain, a blockchain firm, to launch a project involving the distributed ledger technology. This new initiative is intended to…

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

Technical Analysis: Bias Turning Bearish

Support: 84.75 (May 23 low), 79.13 (Lower BB), 76.19 (200-DMA)

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

Support: 9972 (55-EMA), 9339 (Lower BB), 8606 (110-EMA)

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

Bitfinex and Tether have submitted multiple filings on Monday, claiming that the previous filings of the New York Attorney General (NYAG) were misleading.

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

The Indian Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) has officially announced that it has received a report on cryptocurrency regulation submitted the inter-ministerial committee which was set up by the Indian government i…

Ping An Insurance’s financial technology unit OneConnect announced its partnership with UBX, the fintech subsidiary of Philippine’s UnionBank, to use blockchain to offer financial services to micro, small, and medium …

The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has extended the deadline of its request where member companies will provide data regarding crypto activities that they are involved in. The previous deadline was…

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…

The fight to end the flow of counterfeit drugs into Uganda is set to see a new tool in use with Ugandan President Yoweri Musevini looking to blockchain as a potential solution. The intent is to leverage the transparen…

UK House of Commons’ Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee chair Damian Collins recently revealed his plans to launch a probe into Facebook Libra.

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.

We all remember our own phone number, but what about other people’s? According to a 2010 study, less than half of us know our partner’s number by heart. It would be fair to assume that figure has decreased in the year…

Support: 1.0598 (21-EMA), 1.0361 (5-DMA), 0.9342 (61.8% Fib)

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.

Support: 0.2741 (May 8 low), 0.2715 (88.6% Fib), 0.2565 (trendline)

Blockchain startup R3 recently made a new hire for marketing Corda Enterprise, a commercial distribution of the Corda blockchain platform specifically optimised to meet the demands of complex institutions.

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…

The former CEO of the crypto exchange WEX, which stopped its operations last year, has been arrested in Italy, Russian BBC outlet reported.

Blockchain startup Diana is launching a new “lunar registry” that will put plots of space on the lunar surface in an ownership database.

Technical Analysis: Bias slightly bullish

The Iranian Economic Commission has reportedly finalized an electricity tariff scheme for cryptocurrency miners, according to local news outlet Financial Tribune.

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

Compared to other countries that have basically branded Facebook Libra as a grave threat, it would appear that Thailand is at least willing to listen and discuss before making any judgments. This is based on a recent …

The emergence of stablecoin has created quite a stir among the regulatory authorities in the European Union and all over the world. This is why an official at the European Central Bank (ECB) recently stepped up to say…

A government official of India recently stepped up to address the concerns with regards to its treatment of cryptocurrency and said that there is no official ban in place just yet.

German electric utility firm E.ON has filed a patent application for a blockchain-based data collector with the European Patent Office, according to the company’s filing on July 19.