Twitch, the online streaming service owned by Amazon that is particularly popular for gamers, previously took away the ability to support streamers via bitcoin. Now, there are reports that the platform was bringing it…
The alarm caused by Facebook upon the announcement of Libra has been widely reported and it has caught the attention of the Federal Cartel Office of Germany. The mistrust that regulators have with the biggest social m…
Money laundering is a huge issue that is tied to cryptocurrency and is one that Ripple aims to address with a new partnership. The crypto entity will be teaming up with Coinfirm, a startup that provides anti-money lau…
The war that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is waging on cryptocurrency has resulted in yet another crypto exchange in the country closing down. Koinex recently announced that it can no longer sustain its business du…
Blockchain technologies have a way of transforming entire industries and now, the subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Kakao, Ground X has launched its own blockchain platform.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank, has reportedly held talks with Facebook about its newly unveiled cryptocurrency project, Libra, according to Bloomberg.
Blockchain development firm Graph Blockchain has secured a pilot contract for Korea Post and partnered with Korea Telecom to adopt private blockchain to ensure information privacy.
J-Coin Pay, a QR code-based smartphone payment service app launched by Mizuho Bank, has added seven more financial institution partners to the digital currency platform which was officially unveiled in February this y…
Bofrost Italia, a company known for its door-to-door sale and distribution of frozen foods, is the latest company in the food sector looking to leverage blockchain technology to track its products along the supply chain.
Singaporean cryptocurrency exchange Bitrue has suffered a major hack on its platform today in which it lost more than $4.2 million in user assets, the exchange confirmed in a series of tweets.
Bitcoin ATM operator Coinsource has partnered with the Maker Foundation to launch support for the Dai stablecoin on its machines this summer ahead of the rollout of a full remittance service, CoinDesk reported.
Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis has appointed Michael Mosier, a former official from the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Department of Justice (DOJ), as its Chief Technical Cou…
PwC Strategy& and the Crypto Valley Association (CVA) have released the 5th Global ICO/STO Report which examines the state of the global initial coin offering (ICO) and security token offering (STO) markets.
Coinbase Pro will start accepting inbound transfers of LINK, the token that incentivizes the Chainlink decentralized network, for ether and dollar trading pairs.
CoinMarketCap, a provider of price and market cap data for cryptocurrencies, has announced the acquisition of Hashtag Capital, a startup that has developed a set of algorithms for “true price” with focus on liquidity.
Over the past few months, crypto whales – described as those who have out-sized cryptocurrency stakes – have been transferring a colossal amount of cryptocurrencies around the crypto space.
In a recent successful round of fundraising, the blockchain startup 3Box raised $2.5 million. This was due to the central premise of the company’s service, which is to simplify login. Such a straightforward concept im…
The practice of tokenization of digital assets has been around for some time and Seychelles’ MERJ Exchange Ltd. may be the first company to bring it to the mainstream, regulated market. The firm just revealed that it …
Waves Blockchain is poised to up its game by enabling the development of dApps and the offering of smart contracts that would then place it on the same level as Ethereum and other rivals. The upgrade is dubbed Node 1.…
As a network of some of the world’s biggest carriers, ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) is a powerful entity with plenty of influence in various fields. This same group is now poised to launch a blockchain-based platfor…
In a recent announcement, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is finally scheduling a public discussion of a possible exchange-traded fund (ETF) using bitcoin. This has been something that many traders a…
Crypto enthusiasts might remember the scandal that was the Mt. Gox incident in 2014, where over $400 million worth of bitcoins were stolen. Since then, the founder of the crypto exchange, Jed McCaleb has had to conten…
A recent announcement revealed that the South Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) has given its approval for a blockchain-based ID system to be implemented in banking. Called my-ID by ICONLOOP, it is a method f…
Opera, a web browser for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems, has announced the launch of the iOS version of its blockchain-ready Opera Touch browser.
Financial services giant Northern Trust has entered into an agreement with Broadridge Financial Solutions to transfer its distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for private equity (PE) asset servicing.
Swiss fintech startup Amun AG has launched a new exchange-traded product (ETP) using the Bitwise 10 Select Large Cap Crypto Index as a benchmark, CoinDesk reported.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) announced that it will allow blockchain companies to utilize its global payments innovation (GPI) platform to transact near real-time payments.