The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Curve's tokens launched early this morning after an unknown individual/s deployed open-source contracts and minted CRV. Community reaction was mixed, with some observers calling it a "Scam."

Professional services firm KPMG has published a report predicting that blockchain will be one of five emerging technology sectors to see increased investment from enterprises over the next 12 months.

Two more South Korean banks are looking at crypto custody options.

Chainlink rallied another 4% today, maintaining its place as the fifth largest crypto asset by market cap - but are investors starting to become skittish?

After recovering 6.3% from a drop to $11,200 on Aug. 11, Bitcoin price appears to be gearing up for a third run on the $12K mark.

Skyrocketing Ethereum fees and the exorbitant costs of interacting with DeFi smart contracts, threaten the growth of the sector.

Law firm JPB Liberty filed a class-action lawsuit in the Federal Court of New South Wales earlier today, targeting Facebook and Google for anti-competitive behavior for banning cryptocurrency advertising in 2018.JPB argues the ban, which was loosened in 2019, killed the initial coin offering market and caused severe financial damage to the wider cryptocurrency industry.

Decentralized finance project Curve has been forced to launch its DAO and governance token CRV prematurely after an anonymous developer deployed the contracts without the knowledge of the official team.

A federal judge has ruled that a New York attorney is responsible for repaying a crypto investment firm after he prematurely released escrow funds set aside for buying $5 million in Bitcoin.

Hong Kong based cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX will be launching a user verification program on August 28, requiring all customers to complete ID checks within the next six months.

Earlier this week Bitcoin bulls and crypto investors were thrilled by the news that MicroStrategy, a Nasdaq-listed business intelligence company worth $1.2 billion, had formally adopted Bitcoin as its primary reserve asset by purchasing 21,454 BTC.This led the majority of top crypto analysts and industry folk to post uber-bullish statements on Twitter and for many this confirmed their belief that Bitcoin is in the early stages of a bull market.

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital is following in Grayscale Investments' footsteps by releasing an ad for cryptocurrency to the general public, this time using print media.

The DeFi market took a huge hit earlier today when YAM, an experimental yield farming project, suffered a contract bug that caused its market cap to drop from $60 million to virtually zero.

The now notorious project, Yam.Finance, was launched without a proper code audit just like many other projects in the space.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, publicized legal action against another 2017 Initial Coin Offering, or ICO. Boon.Tech and Rajesh Pavithran, the project's CEO, face fraud accusations from the commission, as well charges associated with securities registration, an Aug. 13 statement from the SEC detailed.

Bitcoin trading around $11,543 as of 20:00 UTC. Slipping 0.50% over the previous 24 hours.

Listen to article BBC Studios has officially entered the blockchain gaming space after partnering with Reality Gaming Group to develop a digital trading game for the popular TV series, Doctor Who.

Barstool Sports founder, Dave Portnoy, posted a video of his meeting with Gemini exchange founders, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, on Twitter.

The U.S. government's attempts to fix the current economic situation could ultimately lead to greater Bitcoin adoption, according to Bill Barhydt, CEO of crypto wallet and exchange solution, Abra.

The internet is back in Belarus, according to reports, but the outage sheds light on what kind of technologies might help ordinary citizens get around such blackouts in future.

Three major crypto exchanges listed Aragon's ANT tokens yesterday, causing an immediate price bump and frantic Google searches for what the protocol does.

There may be trouble in paradise with one of Ripple's major partners.

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of SilkRoad, has issued a short follow-up to his essay on MakerDAO and how it could be redesigned and improved.

Veteran crypto traders Scott Melker and Michaël van de Poppe will be discussing Bitcoin's different types of correlation with traditional assets and how to best profit from them.

Avaddon, a new ransomware-as-a-service, or RaaS, protocol, is the latest to jump on the crypto extortion bandwagon.

Justice Department announces the largest ever seizure of terrorist-bound crypto assets today in Washington, DC. 263 Total views.

Grayscale Investments, the largest digital asset management firm in the world, has been showing exponential increases in investment to its cryptocurrency products.

Is Ethereum to blame?Evidently, the Achilles heel of DeFi projects is bugs and vulnerabilities in the smart contract codes, but what or who exactly to blame for this? Is it the DeFi developers who don't properly test or audit code before launching their apps, or does the fault lie with Ethereum's architecture, meaning that little depends on platforms?

Listen to article Persol Group, one of the largest human resource companies in Japan, has partnered with major Japanese IT and electronics company, NEC Corporation, to build a new blockchain-powered recruiting platform.

Ethereum has been going skyhigh in more ways than one.