The great digital currency bull run of 2017 came to a screeching halt in early June. Shortly after hitting all-time highs—bitcoin broke $3,000 and Ethereum nudged $400—the party ended, Click here to view full article
Ripple , which touts itself as the “Global Settlement Network” and has been involved with various banks to move money around the world, has its own ideas about how Click here to view full article
Financial institutions and venture capital investors are betting on the opportunities of updating the financial infrastructure with blockchain .Enterprise blockchain-focused companies, who design a technology infrastructure and applications for Click here to view full article
Courtesy of Alan AronoffAlan Aronoff: From $8,500 to $7.5 million in six months thanks to digital coins and a dose of OCD.At the end of the 20th century, there Click here to view full article
Two major South Korean bitcoin and digital currency exchanges were hacked in 2017. Yet, users, traders and investors continue to store their bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum, Click here to view full article
JOHANNESBURG — 2017 has so far been another roller coaster ride for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum . After surging past the $3,000 mark, Bitcoin recently came crashing Click here to view full article
Digital currency prices have soared recently, with reports from the past few months showing enormous valuation increases for currencies across the board.Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum have all experienced exponential Click here to view full article
Government and decentralized autonomy: a seemingly natural contradiction. To some in the crypto-space, those two concepts complement each other like parkas at pool parties. But as fun as maximalist Click here to view full article
Last Sunday a message posted on message board 4Chan started the rumor that Vitalik Buterin, the founder of cryptocurrency Ethereum, had been killed in a car crash. News of Click here to view full article
Crypviser describes itself as a “disruptive, encrypted all-in-one network for social and business communication.” An initial coin offering (ICO) in which their CVCoin tokens are put up for sale Click here to view full article
The $600m market for initial coin offerings may soon be set to expand.Announced today, investment firm Pantera Capital is launching a new hedge fund focused on investments solely in Click here to view full article
23 June, Singapore, Bitquence has released multiple demos showcasing a user experience walkthrough of multiple new token features. The Bitquence token “BQX” is designed to be a mobile, on-the-go Click here to view full article
This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: SegWit2x, a bitcoin scaling proposal, has been signaled by over 80% of the bitcoin network Back in May, Click here to view full article
REX Through its platform, REX aims to reinvent an industry that has seen little to no technical innovation in recent years. The open MLS built on Ethereum enables REX Click here to view full article
Initial coin offerings are the wild west of financing. (Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg) Blockchain companies continue pushing the envelope. Their latest innovation: redefining how to raise capital.Initial coin offerings (ICOs) Click here to view full article
Banks have woken up to the potential for distributed-ledger technology and cryptocurrencies to improve the old convoluted system of cross-border payments. Now it appears that the International Monetary Fund Click here to view full article
Social media network Kik is on the verge of launching its own ethereum ICO, making it the first mainstream social network to feature cryptocurrency as a core component of Click here to view full article
$82 bln banking giant Morgan Stanley and leading financial institution Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) are utilizing Blockchain technology-based platforms to maintain backup records and process transactions.Earlier Click here to view full article
opinion If you want a price analysis of what it means for cryptos to break $100 billion, you might do better consulting a crystal ball than a market analyst. Click here to view full article
Naval Ravikant, a prominent venture capital investor and the CEO of AngelList, explains all Bitcoin has to do to become a premium store of value is to survive.“All Bitcoin Click here to view full article
The author, Lisa Froelings, is a productivity consultant with over four years of experience in human resources working for a major retailer in the US before she decided to Click here to view full article
When Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, has to explain to his mother, who lives in Kansas, what his company does, he says, "Mom, it's pretty simple. We sell Click here to view full article
It just got a whole lot easier for banks to do business with bitcoin.Yesterday, Ripple open-sourced the first bitcoin plug-in for its Interledger protocol (ILP), designed to seamlessly let Click here to view full article
Global banking consortium R3 has closed the largest funding round in the history of distributed ledger technology. Revealed today at Consensus 2017 , over 40 financial institutions participated in Click here to view full article
Ripple’s impressive rally didn’t last long and its market cap quickly fell from around $16 bln to $13 bln in less than a week. Ethereum took advantage over Ripple’s Click here to view full article