Search engine giant Google has announced that it will start allowing regulated cryptocurrency exchanges to advertise in the U.S. and Japan, starting next month. The company had previously banned cryptocurrency and ini…
Gifto, a blockchain-based decentralized application (dApp) ecosystem, has partnered with NEM, a leading blockchain application platform. Founded in 2017 by Asia Innovations Group (AIG) – a leading global social entert…
Following the recent $62 million hack suffered by Zaif cryptocurrency exchange, Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has issued the third business improvement order to Tech Bureau, the operator of Zaif, Reuters rep…
Australian commercial real estate firm Vicinity Centres, in partnership with blockchain startup Power Ledger, has announced a blockchain trial aimed at facilitating its shopping centres to supply energy to neighboring…
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national cooperative owned by dairy farm families across the U.S., has announced that it has partnered with blockchain startup ripe.io to test the potential of blockchain technology i…
Japanese financial services giant SBI Group has announced that it is trialing a crypto token for retail payments and settlement over smartphones. SBI Holdings, in collaboration with tech startup Orb, is going to start…
BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices remained on the downside during late European session Tuesday, for the fourth consecutive day, following increased level of regulations from various financial authorities. The cryptocurrency br…
An interbank blockchain project launched by JPMorgan in October 2017 has been joined by more than 70 banks, The Financial Times reported September 25. Royal Bank of Canada and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group L…
Bitwala, a blockchain-based payment service provider, has announced that it has raised €4 million in its latest funding round. The funding round drew support from Earlybird and coparion, who join the company’s existin…
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced that it has taken action to stop a number of proposed initial coin offerings (ICOs) targeting retail investors. Last year, ASIC published an in…
Leading crypto exchange Coinbase has entered into a partnership with Caspian, an institutional grade crypto trading and risk management platform. Founded in 2018, Caspian is a joint venture between Tora and Kenetic th…
(Refer BTC/USD chart on Trading View) BTC/USD is trading lower on Tuesday and has fallen below the 6500 mark. The pair is experiencing the current cooling down effect after it surged to a high of 6826 on September 22.…
In a new report, leading cybersecurity company McAfee has found that the surge in cryptomining malware growth that began in Q4 2017 continued through the first half of 2018. McAfee has released its “McAfee Labs Threat…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has partnered with Blockchain Charity Foundation (BCF) to support the application of blockchain technology for social good. Blockchain Charity Foundation (BCF), a not-fo…
Walmart has announced that it is deploying blockchain technology to track leafy greens in the wake of a large outbreak of E. coli. In a press release, the retail giant and its subsidiary Sam’s Club said that they have…
Ride-hailing app Grab Philippines has entered into a partnership with blockchain startup LoyalCoin, GMA News reported. Founded in 2017, LoyalCoin offers a customer loyalty-oriented digital asset that aims to replace a…
BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices lost ground during late European session Monday, down-trending for the third consecutive day as financial regulations from top authorities still remain on board. However, a couple of good news …
US Congressman Tom Emmer last week announced that he will introduce three bills to support blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. The bills are aimed at supporting this emerging industry and providing “clarity to…
Professional Italian football club Juventus, which recently signed soccer megastar Cristiano Ronaldo, has announced its partnership with blockchain platform Socios.com to launch Fan Token. Socios.com is a blockchain-b…
UNICEF France announced last week that it is targeting a new category of donors as it starts accepting donations in cryptocurrencies. The organization has announced support for nine cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin (BTC), E…
Kasikornbank has become the first Thai financial institution to join the Visa B2B Connect pilot program, The Nation reported. Visa B2B Connect is a platform designed to give financial institutions a secure, fast and p…
The U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is looking into the use of blockchain technology in tracking aviation parts throughout the parts life-cycle. The current process of knowing the origin and history of fl…
The Smart Dubai Office (SDO), in collaboration with the Dubai Department of Finance, has launched a blockchain-based system to enable real-time processing of payments and expedite government transactions, according to…
The National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing has established an academic research laboratory and think tank focused on blockchain technology. Called CRYSTAL Centre, which stands for Cryptocurrency St…
The Crypto Valley Association (CVA), a non-profit organisation supporting the blockchain ecosystem in Switzerland, has announced the expansion of its Board to seven with the election of two new female Board Members. T…
Privacy web browser Brave is collaborating with Civic, a blockchain-based identity verification startup, to bring the latter’s identity verification services to its verified publishers. There are currently more than 2…
UK lawmakers call for regulation of 'Wild West' crypto market The UK Treasury Committee today published a report in which it has called upon the regulation of the “Wild West” crypto-asset market. The release of the re…
The Texas Securities Commissioner (TSC) Travis J. Iles recently took emergency action to stop the fraudulent offerings of investments in three separate schemes involving cryptocurrencies. The TSC has issued Emergency …
The Crypto Valley Association (CVA), a non-profit organisation supporting the blockchain ecosystem in Switzerland, has welcomed the issuance of new guidance from the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) to its members, reg…
Albert Heijn, the largest Dutch supermarket chain, in partnership with Refresco, is seeking to make orange juice supply chain more transparent using blockchain technology, European Supermarket Magazine reported. Accor…
The government of South Korea has pledged its support for domestic blockchain companies to further encourage the booming blockchain industry in the country, Business Korea reported. On Thursday, September 20, Second V…
This year, bitcoin and other cryptocurrency price trend hasn’t been that desirable so far on the back of the news of US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) clampdown on ETF product approval decision. But for no…
SK Planet, a subsidiary of South Korea’s SK Telecom, is planning to go big on blockchain, The Next Web reported. The telecom titan has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the ICON Foundation in order to cre…
Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC), a Swiss company launched by the founders of Lakeside Partners, has launched its initial “Genesis Hub” incubator in Zug, swissinfo.ch reported. The blockchain incubator aims to se…
Wachsman, a leading blockchain professional services firm, has announced its expansion to Asia and commenced operations from its Singapore office. Headquartered in New York, and with offices in Dublin and downtown Sin…
The NEM.io Foundation, creators of the peer-to-peer NEM blockchain platform for payments, messaging, asset making and more, has issued an official statement in the wake of the recent hack of the Zaif crypto exchange. …
PKO Bank Polski, Poland’s largest bank, is going to roll out a new blockchain system which will mark the technology’s one of the biggest applications in Europe till date, according to The First News. Earlier this year…
BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices traded flat during late European session Thursday amid lack of any major market movements ahead of the September 30 deadline for the U.S. SEC’s decision on the Bitcoin ETF. Also, a host of incr…
This week, the OAG published a report on the results of the Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative launched in April 2018. Kraken, which was one of the 13 crypto trading platforms that received a letter from the OAG, de…
Europol, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, has underscored the growing criminal abuse of cryptocurrencies in a new report. The agency has published "Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment …
