The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

It's Blockchain Week in the Big Apple, but if city leaders have their way, New York will become more than just a nice place for the industry to visit.

Derivatives exchange operator CME Group is launching an ether reference rate and a real-time ether-dollar index in partnership with UK-based digital asset trading service Crypto Facilities.

A Florida county tax collector has partnered with bitcoin payments processor BitPay to accept cryptocurrency for a variety of services.

Bitcoin is on the back foot having hit three-week lows over the weekend and now risks deeper losses below $8,200, the technical charts indicate.

To shed light on a tumultuous Q1, CoinDesk's latest State of Blockchain report provides a 90-plus slide analysis of some of the most significant data points.

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx sparked criticism May 14 as its CEO resigned.

Filament, a startup that focuses on Internet of Things solutions, announced Monday that it has successfully created a USB-compatible form factor for its blockchain semiconductor.

Blockchain Week New York has seen a number of large scales cryptocurrency conferences flood the Big Apple with thousands of blockchain experts, entrepreneurs, and community members.

A regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies has come into effect by royal decree in Thailand, the Bangkok Post reported Sunday, May 13.

Wanchain has continued to steadily develop its platform with the goal of providing a private cross-chain smart contract ecosystem that enabling a confidential distributed financial infrastructure.

A start-up led by seasoned professionals in the shipping industry is creating a Blockchain-driven platform which, for the first time, will provide a real-time registry of the world's 27 million containers.

Multinational software firm SAP is expanding its work with blockchain into the supply chain space.

The first bitcoin smart contracts sidechain just reached an early milestone.

Big Wall Street firms now have new options for storing bitcoin.

This article will look into the current price of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple and Bitcoin Cash using technical analysis tools.

Switzerland-based blockchain consortium, the Crypto Valley Association, has added European venture capital firm Lakestar as a strategic partner, the association revealed to CoinDesk this week.

Continuing the impressive tokensales is Bezant, the decentralized payment platform that recently raised $16.8 million in their token pre-sale in under one hour has a team of heavyweights leading the project.

South Korea's top financial regulator the Financial Services Commission joined the ongoing probe into local cryptocurrency exchanges Sunday, May 13.

During the Ethereal Summit, hosted May 11-12 by ethereum startup/incubator ConsenSys in Queens, New York, attendees were given an immersive experience to highlight the benefits a blockchain could have of tracking goods as they move along the supply chain.

A stunning 10% of all ICO proceeds wind up getting diverted to scammers.

Although not the most crypto red carpet-ready event in history, Ethereal did not disappoint, bringing together the more conservative threads of the traditional enterprise space with the colorful, yet in-your-face style of the creatives that have taken a liking to a nascent industry that preaches radical inclusion.

The New York Times reported this week that the NYSE might be giving its customers the option to buy and hold Bitcoin, an assertion backed up by documents, emails, and anonymous sources that confirm these future crypto traders contracts.

The Kingdom of Bahrain is eyeing the adoption blockchain technology in bid to cut the cost of maintaining the country's vehicle registration data.

Recently, there has been a push to get more women involved in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.

Consensus 2018 is the fourth annual blockchain technology summit hosted by CoinDesk.

LG CNS, a subsidiary of South Korean LG Corporation that supplies information technology services, has recently launched its own blockchain-powered service, local Yonhap News Agency reports Sunday, May 13.

Zilliqa's price continues to increase after the successful launch of its testnet and addition of new exchange listings.

An early proponent of cryptocurrency and one of the most well-known Bitcoin bulls, Mike Novogratz continues to tout the value of cryptocurrency and push institutional investors towards a new era of finance.

A new patent awarded to trade-processing tech provider Broadridge Financial Solutions could potentially see blockchain technology used to streamline corporate governance and shareholder relations.

Stellar Lumens is showing double-digit gains since our previous price piece, with over $100 million in volume in the past 24 hours.