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PortuguêsThe coronavirus crisis will certainly have lasting impacts, but some measures may prove less harmful than others. While countries like Israel and China implement coronavirus emergency measures that digitally track…
Continue ReadingA survey released on April 2 and conducted by peer-to-peer Bitcoin (BTC) marketplace Paxful revealed growing positive sentiment in terms of cryptocurrency adoption in India. Paxful’s survey of investors between…
Continue ReadingOne of the first companies to host a token sale, Factom, has notified creditors it has entered receivership after an appeal for additional funding fell on deaf ears. “[FastForward] has…
Continue ReadingWhile global markets are experiencing tough times amid the coronavirus pandemic, the crypto industry is getting stronger as its core players have tapped one of the biggest crypto mergers in…
Continue ReadingBinance just bought the top of the funnel. The largest cryptocurrency exchange by market volume has acquired popular data site CoinMarketCap (CMC) for an undisclosed price, the companies announced Thursday.…
Continue ReadingCoinbase continues to ramp up its support for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, announcing a fresh $1.1 million investment via its USDC Bootstrap Fund for two projects in the field. The…
Continue ReadingCanadian conservation authorities and technology firm Insolar are conducting a test-bed blockchain project for renewable energy management. Within the scope of its Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (STEP), on April 1…
Continue ReadingLeading blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has found that the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic contraction is affecting Bitcoin (BTC) consumer habits in surprising ways. In a new report published on…
Continue ReadingThe $2 trillion economic stimulus package the United States Congress passed on March 26 might not cause the Bitcoin (BTC) market to skyrocket just yet, but investors could see modest,…
Continue ReadingInteroperable blockchain project Ark (ARK) designated one million ARK valued at roughly $150,000 toward its new development grants program on March 24. While the grant program was launched one week…
Continue ReadingThe amount of Bitcoin (BTC) held by crypto exchange BitMEX has fallen by 25% in the past few weeks. During the crypto bloodbath on March 12, Bitcoin (BTC) fell 50%…
Continue ReadingOpen-source internet browser, Brave, tallied more than one million new users in March alone, a tweet from Brave’s head of marketing, Des Martin, detailed on April 1. Isolation has increased…
Continue ReadingAmid global coronavirus fears and plunging mainstream markets, Bitcoin (BTC) trading has remained largely unchanged, according to CMT Digital head of trading and business development, Brad Koeppen. “Bitcoin trading has…
Continue ReadingAn auction to recapitalize MakerDAO (MKR) after the mid-March market turmoil successfully concluded on March 28, bringing in over $5 million worth of DAI. Crypto venture fund Paradigm Capital revealed…
Continue ReadingBinance is planning to launch its own mining pool, a first for the popular crypto exchange. The news was broken Tuesday by the Russian crypto news publication Coinlife and later confirmed…
Continue ReadingA malicious botnet has been targeting Microsoft SQL database servers to mine cryptocurrency for two years, according to a new report. Guardicore Labs said Wednesday that in the last several…
Continue ReadingAn amendment to the class-action lawsuit against Ripple, filed March 25, included additional claims of false advertising and unfair competition, “under the alternative theory that XRP is not a security.”…
Continue ReadingIt’s now easier than ever to use bitcoin to support regular businesses beyond the crypto bubble. Zap founder Jack Mallers, best known for Lightning-friendly bitcoin services, just launched a desktop…
Continue ReadingA publicly-listed bitcoin mining operator is set to double the size of its operations in a multi-million-dollar deal, largely funded through a sale of its shares. HIVE Blockchain announced via…
Continue ReadingA snapshot of the Bitcoin codebase will be encoded onto film reels and stored for a thousand years under the arctic ice in Svalbard, Norway. The move is part of…
Continue ReadingIndian crypto exchange BuyUCoin has sealed regulatory approval from Estonia’s financial watchdog to expand its services abroad. Speaking to Cointelegraph, the exchange’s CEO Shivam Thakral revealed that the platform had…
Continue ReadingMajor cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Huobi has partnered with decentralized crypto lending platform Cred to enable users to earn interest on their holdings. An announcement on April 1 revealed…
Continue ReadingAn amended complaint against Ripple has been filed by XRP investors in a long-running lawsuit involving allegations of breaches to U.S. securities law. The two-year class-action – which claims Ripple,…
Continue ReadingOnline purchases using Bitcoin (BTC), Visa, and some retail apps are down for the first quarter of 2020, spanning cryptocurrency and fiat currency transactions. With many around the world self-quarantining…
Continue ReadingCovantis, a blockchain agribusiness initiative backed by major industry company ConsenSys, has taken another step towards transforming global trade and supply chain operations. Backed by global agribusiness giants like Cargill…
Continue ReadingThe trouble with bitcoin payments these days may be a lack of spenders, not spending opportunities. On Monday, the Silicon Valley bitcoin startup Lightning Labs announced a new standards proposal…
Continue ReadingBinance blamed customer confusion for its FTX leveraged token delisting, explaining that users held the tokens instead of trading them, which was the originally intended use case. “The leveraged tokens…
Continue ReadingAs economists scramble to assess the devastating impact of the coronavirus, they’re homing in on an unexpected hero that’s mitigating the damage in the U.S.: remote working. With offices across…
Continue ReadingDigital payments giant PayPal posted a new job listing on March 23, where the company seeks to hire an Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) and Blockchain Strategy director for their Global Financial Crimes…
Continue ReadingBrazilian crypto exchange XDEX, which is owned by the largest stock broker in Latin America, announced the end of its activities. The company announced its closure on March 31: “Today,…
Continue ReadingA group of former State Street blockchain builders are now launching their own company – but with distributed ledgers playing only a minor role. “We could have retrofitted Hyperledger or…
Continue ReadingA new cryptocurrency wallet insurance product from Coincover offers better protection than many existing custodial solutions, the firm says. The Cardiff, U.K.-based risk management provider announced Tuesday that its insurance…
Continue ReadingInstitutions will now be able to trade on every single crypto market simultaneously thanks to GlobalX, an API platform launched on March 31 by San Francisco-based firm Apifiny. The startup…
Continue ReadingThe COVID-19 crisis may have put a stop to millions of sports events, work conferences and meet-ups across the world, but it has not halted those in the cryptocurrency space.…
Continue ReadingHong Kong Stock Exchange-listed BC Group, the operator of institution-focused digital assets trading platform OSL, reported a 737% increase in revenue in 2019. On March 31, BC Group revealed that…
Continue ReadingThe game once known as MLB Crypto is getting a facelift by reducing its dependency on its underlying blockchain, Ethereum. Announced Tuesday, MLB Champions introduced a slew of new features…
Continue ReadingWorld-famous car manufacturer BMW Group plans to roll out its blockchain supply chain solution to 10 suppliers this year. Dubbed “PartChain,” the platform has already been successfully tested by BMW…
Continue ReadingCivic Wallet is a multi-signature non-custodial wallet that now comes with a $1,000,000 guarantee from Coincover. Civic Technologies (CVC) has been known in the crypto space as one of the…
Continue ReadingLeading United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has published a report providing detailed insights into how its users responded to the violent crypto market crash suffered on March 12. While many…
Continue ReadingThe submission deadline for the Mt. Gox rehabilitation plan has been pushed back again after a draft proposed last week was met with opposition from numerous creditors. In the plan,…
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