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A Token to Regulate All Tokens? Messari to Raise ICO

Some envision an apocalyptic battle between cryptocurrencies and regulators, others foresee blockchain innovations becoming too powerful to be tamed. But Ryan S...

Ripple Paper Pledges New Support for $40 Billion XRP

The startup that oversees development of the world's third most-valuable cryptocurrency, XRP, is moving to upgrade the underlying technology on which it operate...

Litecoin Cash Has Forked But It's Hardly Trading

Call it a slow start. A plan to launch a new cryptocurrency by forking the litecoin blockchain went off without a technical hitch over the weekend, but at press...

What Venezuelans Are Saying About the Petro

Social media has been abuzz since Tuesday's initial sale of the forthcoming Venezuelan government-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, though reviews are so far mi...

Investing App Robinhood Launches Crypto Trading in 5 US States

Mobile app stock trading provider Robinhood has formally launched cryptocurrency trading, rolling the new service out to five U.S. states today. The company say...

The Legal Risk to ICOs That No One's Talking About

Jared Marx is an attorney at the Washington, D.C. law firm Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis. He represents companies and individuals in civil and criminal proceeding...

Tezos Board Reshuffled As Johann Gevers Steps Down

Two board members of the Switzerland-based Tezos Foundation, including its president Johann Gevers, have stepped down from their positions. The pair will be rep...

Bitcoin Lightning Fraud? Laolu Is Building a 'Watchtower' to Fight It

A woman peers out from a watchtower. Below her hundreds of people are walking the streets of a bustling marketplace. She has one power: If a vendor tries to che...

Uphold Eyes Expansion With Mobile Payments Startup Acquisition

Digital money platform Uphold has bought a mobile commerce startup, the company announced Thursday, coming soon after it inked a multi-million dollar investment...

German Regulator Pledges 'Precise' Oversight of ICOs

Germany's financial markets regulator has issued new guidance on how it will classify tokens sold during initial coin offerings (ICOs), including those it will ...

Venezuela Is Talking With Russia About Cryptocurrency

Officials from the Venezuelan and Russian governments discussed the former's newly-launched cryptocurrency during a meeting in Moscow this week. Venezuelan Fina...

NASSCOM Teams with Blockchain Institute for Digital Economy

One of India's leading tech industry organizations is partnering with the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) to help spur a digital economy within the world's ...

Nasdaq Believes Publicly-Traded Long Blockchain Misled Investors

Long Blockchain is appealing a delisting decision from stock exchange operator Nasdaq which, according to a letter, believes the publicly-traded company misled ...

Australian Watchdog Received 1,200 Crypto Scam Complaints in 2017

Australia's consumer watchdog has reportedly received over 1,200 complaints about cryptocurrency scams in 2017. According to the ABC's current affairs program 7...

UK Treasury Launches Inquiry Into Cryptocurrency

The U.K. Treasury has today announced that it will conduct an inquiry into issues around cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Launched by the Treasury Co...

The Next Petro? Iranian Minister Reveals Cryptocurrency Plans

New statements suggest that Iran's central bank is developing a cryptocurrency that would be administered by the state government. Information and Communication...

Russia Is Leading the Push for Blockchain Democracy

Even as Russia stands accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, its national capital is taking a leadership role in making democracy more tran...

Oil Data Firm Platts Rolls Out Commercial Blockchain Platform

Energy markets data provider S&P Global Platts has announced the commercial deployment of a blockchain platform for sharing oil inventories in the United Arab E...

French Regulator Says No to Online Crypto Derivatives Ads

France's stock market regulator released a statement about cryptocurrency-tied derivatives on Thursday, which includes a curb on the advertising of such product...

Bitcoin Drops Below $10K as Crypto Markets Dip

Signs of bull market exhaustion in the bitcoin market may be having a knock-on effect across cryptocurrencies in general. All of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by...