Crypto exchange operator Coinbase is set to sponsor two bitcoin developers for the first time, the firm announced Thursday. | Continue reading
The Ethereum Foundation has introduced a new smart contract language called 'Fe' (pronounced fee) for the ecosystem. | Continue reading
Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, has said that bitcoin may not have intrinsic value or the perceived worth determined through fundamental analysis. | Continue reading
One thousand bitcoins that were mined in 2010 were transferred to new wallets yesterday for the first time in a decade. | Continue reading
Using a well-known scheme, hackers have stolen $22 million from users of the popular bitcoin wallet Electrum. | Continue reading
Square, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s payment company, has purchased $50 million worth of bitcoin. | Continue reading
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against crypto investor and promoter John McAfee for his past promotion of initial coin offerings (ICOs) on social media. | Continue reading
Jay Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), appears to believe in blockchain technology's power and thinks that all stocks could become tokenized one day. | Continue reading
Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh writes about regulation, the law and decentralized finance nomenclature. | Continue reading
Coinbase employees staged a walkout in early June after CEO Brian Armstrong declined to answer a question about Black Lives Matter during an internal Ask-Me-Anything session, according to people familiar with the event. | Continue reading
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX and its owner-operators, including co-founder and CEO Arthur Hayes. | Continue reading
Coinbase is offering a package for employees seeking an exit after the release of a blog post from its CEO. | Continue reading
Crypto exchange Binance has been sued in a U.S. court by Japanese crypto exchange Fisco for allegedly facilitating the laundering of more than $9 million of stolen cryptocurrency. | Continue reading
Mastercard's new CBDC testing platform will let central banks test how digital currencies might integrate with existing payment networks. | Continue reading
Decentralized exchange activity experienced another record-busting month in July. | Continue reading
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic has released a new report today, saying that over 50% of bitcoins from Twitter hack have now been sent through mixers. | Continue reading
Crypto exchange Coinbase has said that it prevented little over 1,100 customers from sending bitcoin to Twitter hackers who hijacked high-profile accounts to advertise a bitcoin scam last week. | Continue reading
A wide array of Twitter accounts owned by popular figures, large companies, and crypto exchanges were targeted Wednesday in a wide-ranging attack on Twitter. | Continue reading
Public records show that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has inked a deal with crypto exchange company Coinbase to use its Coinbase Analytics blockchain tracing software. | Continue reading
The official Twitter accounts for at least three crypto exchanges — Binance, Coinbase and Gemini — as well the account owned by Binance’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao, appear to have been compromised. In tweets issued on Wednesday, the accounts tweeted what appears to be a bitcoin giveawa … | Continue reading
Payments giant PayPal has revealed that it is developing cryptocurrency capabilities. | Continue reading
Public records show that the U.S. government wants to buy blockchain analytics software from Coinbase. | Continue reading
Reddit, the popular online forum, is beta testing two Ethereum-based tokens for users to earn rewards for contributing content, The Block has learned. | Continue reading
$75 billion hedge fund Renaissance Technologies has opened the door to investing in bitcoin futures. | Continue reading
Facebook's David Marcus confirmed Thursday that the Libra stablecoin project will see a host of single-currency stablecoins developed alongside a multi-currency one. | Continue reading
Privacy-focused internet browser Brave added 1 million new users in March amid the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
Binance is in the final stages of talks to acquire CoinMarketCap, The Block has learned. The crypto exchange is looking to pay as much as $400 million for the deal, people familiar with the matter told The Block. | Continue reading
Investment banking giant JPMorgan is reportedly in talks to merge its blockchain unit Quorum with ethereum development studio ConsenSys. | Continue reading
Coinbase Wallet, Coinbase’s mobile cryptocurrency wallet, may soon remove its DApp browsing feature according to a message appearing in the app. According to Coinbase, it is removing the DApp browser functionality “in order to comply with App Store policy.” Users can still access … | Continue reading
Google has suspended MetaMask’s Android client from its app store, according to the firm. Through its Twitter account, MetaMask stated that its Android client was suspended “in the last week” with Google citing its policy of banning mobile mining apps from its app store. MetaMask … | Continue reading
I often hear that the majority of cryptocurrencies will eventually go to $0. While that’s not exactly the case, it’s technically true nonetheless: most of the coins won’t go to zero-value but they will be illiquid. In fact, most of the cryptocurrencies are already illiquid today. … | Continue reading
The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI announced today that it has arrested and charged Virgil Griffith for violating the U.S. sanctions laws and traveling to North Korea to “deliver a presentation and technical advice on using cryptocur … | Continue reading
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s de facto central bank and financial regulator, has just proposed to allow the listing and trading of cryptocurrency derivatives on approved local exchanges. Under the proposal, trading of derivatives tied to cryptocurrencie … | Continue reading
China’s upcoming digital yuan will not fully control people’s information and will provide them with required anonymity in their transactions, according to an official. “We know the demand from the general public is to keep anonymity by using paper money and coins … we will give … | Continue reading
Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of payment processing firm Stripe, is not sure if cryptocurrencies have a future. “I’m very skeptical of anyone who’s adamant that crypto’s gonna work,” Collison said at the WIRED25 conference in San Francisco on Friday. Cryptocurrency is curr … | Continue reading
Money transfer giant MoneyGram processes 10% of its transactions between the U.S. and Mexican corridor via Ripple’s payments solution On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) that leverages XRP cryptocurrency. MoneyGram chairman and CEO Alex Holmes announced the news on Friday at Ripple’s Swell … | Continue reading
Police in China have arrested Yang Zuoxing, a former employee of ASIC miner manufacturing giant Bitmain, who is now the CEO of its rival MicroBT, the creator of well-known Whatsminer chips. Chinese news outlet BlockBeats reported the news Friday, citing “insiders,” who include Ch … | Continue reading
Government authorities in the Chinese city of Shanghai, along with China’s central bank and other banks, have formed a blockchain alliance to improve trade finance operations. The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, Shanghai Customs, the People’s Bank of China and the Bank … | Continue reading
Arweave, a blockchain protocol focused on storing internet information permanently, has secured $5 million in venture funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Announced on Tuesday, the seed round was reportedly oversubscribed, with participation from Multicoin Capital, Union Square V … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency miner manufacturing giant Bitmain Technologies is said to have secretly filed an initial public offering (IPO) application in the U.S. with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Tencent News reported the news on Wednesday, saying that the sponsor for Bitmai … | Continue reading
China’s President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that the country’s communist party should regard blockchain as a core technology for important innovative breakthroughs and should commit to accelerating the development of the technology, according to a report from Xinhua.net. Xi mad … | Continue reading
eBay, Stripe, and, Mastercard have become the second, third, and fourth official companies to depart from Facebook’s Libra stablecoin project, according to Bloomberg and Financial Times. “We highly respect the vision of the Libra Association; however, eBay has made the decision … | Continue reading
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released an early draft of its new Form 1040, Schedule 1, Additional Income and Adjustments to Income, which for the first time will ask U.S. income tax payers about their crypto activities. The first line of the form, set to roll out in tim … | Continue reading
Coinbase has announced the launch of a crypto rewards program for its users. Starting Tuesday, eligible U.S. customers will earn 1.25% APY for every USDC stablecoin they hold on the exchange. According to Coinbase, “USDC Rewards is a way for Coinbase customers to earn a return on … | Continue reading
A 27-year-old Congressional candidate mounting a primary challenge for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s seat is a blockchain fan, and wants to see the meaningful enactment of ‘practical’ regulation around digital assets. Earlier this week, Agatha Bacelar launched a cryptocurrenc … | Continue reading
In an interview with CNBC, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton said that “progress is being made” on the bitcoin ETF front. Still, concerns hang over the decision to approve such a product. During the interview, Clayton raised those concerns, noting the lack … | Continue reading
Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), the non-profit organization behind the Stellar blockchain network, has set the stage for yet another sizable airdrop, according to an announcement Monday. This time, the organization is giving away 2 billion Stellar lumens (XLM) tokens, curr … | Continue reading
Over 94,000 bitcoins, currently worth over $1 billion, have just been moved to an unknown wallet; possibly associated with Bakkt. The transaction, which took place three hours ago, consolidated bitcoins from 92 different inputs from 15 addresses into just one address that now hol … | Continue reading