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Support: 379.57 (4H 200-SMA); Resistance: 414.72 (20-DMA)

Blockchain startup Ripple has opened an office in Zurich, Switzerland to sell its native token XRP to institutional investors, UseTheBitcoin reported citing details on Moneyhouse.

Support: 239.64 (236% Fib); Resistance: 255.55 (20-DMA)

LINE Pay Corporation, the operator of fintech services of Japanese chat giant LINE, has entered into a strategic partnership with payments behemoth Visa to create new financial services experiences for their collectiv…

Support: 137.86 (50-DMA); Resistance: 153.13 (21-EMA)

European heavyweight club and Portuguese champions S.L. Benfica has entered into a partnership with cryptocurrency payment solution UTRUST to start accepting cryptocurrency payments.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed new fraud charges against fintech firm Longfin Corp. and its CEO Venkata S. Meenavalli.

The International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) held its first general Assembly meeting on Wednesday, June 05.

Korea Post, the national postal service of South Korea, wants to integrate blockchain technology to its billing system, local media outlet News1 Korea reported.

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance will reportedly issue its own stablecoin “in a matter of weeks to a month or two,” Bloomberg reported quoting the company’s Chief Financial Officer Wei Zhou.

Hydro-Québec, a public utility managing the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Quebec, has launched a request for proposals (RFP) for the allocation of 300‑megawatt (MW) block of electricity t…

Italian tech company SIA has partnered with blockchain startup Quant Network to explore blockchain interoperability.

Facebook will reportedly unveil its cryptocurrency project this month, allowing its employees to receive their salary in the form of the new coin, CNBC reported citing The Information.

Japanese tax authorities are planning to take action against entities underreporting their cryptocurrency-based profits, according to local news outlet Asahi Shimbun.

Kodak Services for Business has announced a new blockchain-based document management platform which will help ensure the safety and security of information.

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Payment Inc. has teamed up with the country’s largest railway firm, East Japan Railway Company (JR East) to promote cashless payments.

Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, will allegedly “start from zero” with his new blockchain cloud firm Tristan Technologies Co., where he will serve as the chief technology officer,…

Russia’s third-largest food retail network Dixy has integrated blockchain technology to its corporate finance system, Cointelegraph reported.

CoinMarketCap, a provider of price and market cap data for cryptocurrencies, has announced the launch of blockchain explorer for the top two cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin has announced its expansion into Europe and opening of its office in Malta.

Cadence, a New York-based startup digitizes private debt securities, has announced that all of its offerings are now fully discoverable on Bloomberg Terminal.

NEM Ventures, the venture capital and investments arm of the NEM blockchain ecosystem, has announced a seed round investment in ridesharing app, Mobi.

South Korea’s largest power provider, Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), has inked a deal with two local power suppliers to build a blockchain-based system for transacting Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), …

Blockport, an Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange, has been declared bankrupt shortly after its security token offering (STO) failed to hit the soft cap of €1 million (around $1.13 million), The Next Web reported …

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued Kik Interactive, the company behind the chat platform Kik, for conducting an illegal $100 million securities offering of digital tokens in 2017.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has created a non-profit organization to help the government establish, maintain, and implement the country’s national digital currency called the sovereign (SOV), according …

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has registered three new cryptocurrency exchanges, namely, Luno Malaysia, Sinergy Technologies, and Tokenize Technology.

Stably, a venture-capital backed startup, has announced that its US dollar-pegged stablecoin StableUSD (or USDS) will be issued on Binance Chain, the native blockchain platform launched by cryptocurrency exchange Bina…

The chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) J. Christopher Giancarlo believes blockchain technology would have made a difference to the regulators during the financial crash in 2008.

Apple will unveil a new developer update called Cryptokit at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

Bitfinex-owned cryptocurrency exchange subsidiary Ethfinex Trustless has launched its new on-chain decentralized over-the-counter (OTC) trading feature.

Support: 1.1263 (50% Fib); Resistance: 1.4405 (5-DMA)

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has confirmed that it is trialing a stablecoin pegged to the British pound.

U.S-based blockchain incubator and investment company Blockchains has announced the acquisition of slock.it, a German blockchain development company.

Justin Sun, the founder of blockchain platform TRON and CEO of peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent, revealed in a tweet that he will get a chance to eat private lunch with Warren Buffett after winning this y…

Support: 98.44 (23.6% Fib); Resistance: 110.57 (5-DMA)

French retail giant Carrefour said that blockchain implementation for tracking meat, milk and fruit along their supply chain have driven the sales of these products higher, Reuters reported.

Bitcoin app Samourai Wallet has managed to raise $100,000 in its first round of venture funding.

Support: 7683 (23.6% Fib); Resistance: 8359 (5-DMA)

Global utility company Veolia has partnered with Ledger to equip its water sensors with the latter’s security technology.