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Japan’s SBI Group to Develop Crypto Derivatives Platform Following New Investment

Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings will expand its crypto business portfolio by acquiring a 12 percent stake in Clear Markets, according to SBI’s fi...

Confirmed: TRON Acquires Major P2P Platform Operator BitTorrent

TRON’s long-rumoured acquisition of BitTorrent Inc., the operator of popular torrent client uTorrent, has been confirmed by TRON founder Justin Sun in a communi...

Billionaire Investor Marc Lasry: Bitcoin Can Soon Hit $40,000 as Trading Becomes Easier

Avenue Capital Group co-founder Marc Lasry has said that Bitcoin’s (BTC) price is going to hit $40,000 n bullish comments to CNBC on July 18. Speaking in an int...

Bank of America Reveals Blockchain Patent for External Data Validation

Bank of America (BoA) has filed a patent for a blockchain-based system allowing the external validation of data, according to a United States Patent and Tradema...

Litecoin Founder Says in ‘Best Case’ Recent Bank Stake Could Result in Crypto Services

Litecoin founder Charlie Lee posted on Reddit today, July 17, to clarify his position within the Litecoin Foundation and the future of the Foundation following ...

Stellar Becomes ‘First’ Sharia-Certified Blockchain for Payments And Asset Tokenization

Stellar, an open-source platform for distributed payments, is reportedly the first distributed ledger protocol to obtain Sharia compliance certification in the ...

New Mining Pool Vows to Enhance Profitability While Reducing Power Consumption

A startup blockchain company, with a team featuring former executives from Samsung Electronics, have unveiled plans to invigorate the way cryptocurrency mining ...

Japan: Major Finance Firm SBI Opens Its Crypto Exchange to Traders

Japanese internet giant SBI Holdings formally launched the public version of its cryptocurrency exchange VCTRADE, according to an official announcement July 17....

IBM Backs New US Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin That Runs on Stellar Network

A new project for a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin that runs on the Stellar blockchain network has received backing from IBM, Reuters reports July 17. The new as...

Boeing to Develop Blockchain-Enabled Unmanned Vehicles in New Partnership

Boeing is partnering with an artificial intelligence (AI) company to develop pilotless vehicles and other products using blockchain, it announced in a press rel...

UK Set to Become a Blockchain and Crypto Economy Leader, New Report Says

A new report states the UK has the potential to become a leader in blockchain technology and the crypto economy by 2022, The Guardian reported July 16. The new ...

IT Giant Oracle Confirms General Release of Its Blockchain Cloud Service

US computer technology multinational Oracle confirmed the general release of its blockchain platform in an official press release July 16. The launch follows a ...

Universities Racing to Provide Lectures on Crypto: Opportunities and Pitfalls

Knowledge is power, particularly in the Information Age, where an understanding of ‘the new’ can provide an edge over the competition. This is why, barely a yea...

EOS Developer Block.One Secures Investments from PayPal's Peter Thiel, Bitmain's Jihan Wu

EOS developer Block.one has secured investments from billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and crypto mining hardware billionaire Jihan Wu of Bitmain, accor...

FN: BlackRock Eyes Bitcoin Futures, Market Reacts to Increased Institutional Interest

The world’s largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider BlackRock announced the formation of a working group to assess potential involvement in Bitcoin (BTC), F...

Hong Kong Monetary Authority to Launch Multi-Bank Blockchain Trade Finance Platform

Hong Kong’s de facto central bank will launch its own blockchain trade finance solution with 21 banks in August, Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday, July 15. ...

South Korea to Simplify Blockchain Investment With New Legislative Changes

South Korea regulators vowed to introduce friendly blockchain investment legislation in a meeting July 13, the latest chapter of an ongoing push to promote the ...

New York State Regulators Approve New Power Rate Structure for Crypto Miners

New York state regulators have approved a new electricity rate scheme for cryptocurrency miners that will allow them to negotiate contracts, Bloomberg reported ...

London School of Economics Introduces Online Course on Crypto

The London School of Economics (LSE) will be offering an online course on cryptocurrency investing, starting in August 2018, Financial Times reports Monday, Jul...

Kaspersky Lab: $10 Mln in Ethereum Stolen Over Past Year via Social Engineering Tricks

Kaspersky Lab’s security experts have found that cyber criminals were able to steal more than 21,000 in Ethereum (ETH) (worth around $10 million) through social...