The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

One of the Bitcoin space's best-known and most outspoken developers has pledged to advertise Binance for the rest of the year if the exchange implements specific features.

Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, is asking tough questions of Facebook over its proposed leap into cryptocurrency.

Facebook's Libra digital currency developers have released a new roadmap outlining steps toward its mainnet launch.

Swiss crypto broker Bitcoin Suisse has partnered with fintech firm Amun to launch a new crypto exchange-traded product on the country's stock exchange SIX."ABBA" Bitcoin and Ether ETP goes live.

Another crypto-based financial product is coming to the Swiss stock exchange SIX. Fintech firm Amun and crypto service Bitcoin Suisse announced Thursday the launch of its Swiss franc denominated Amun Bitcoin Suisse BTC/ETH exchange-traded product under the ABBA ticker.

The Tezos community has strong shared values, arguably as strong as bitcoin's.

Xpring, an initiative by Ripple, is launching a platform to provide tools, services and programs for developers to easily build applications with payment gateways using fiat and crypto, particularly XRP. In an interview with Forbes, the senior vice president at Xpring, Ethan Beard, said that the platform will be directed at developers not only involved in blockchain, but to "All the 23 million developers around the world." It aims to open the gates for anyone to create applications on top of the XRP Ledger leveraging the Interledger Protocol, an open network for sending payments across different blockchains.

Blocko, a South Korean blockchain provider, launched in the United Arab Emirates after securing $16 million in funding.

Members of the United States House of Representatives Financial Services Committee asked the Federal Reserve whether there are any plans of launching a U.S. dollar digital currency.

Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague announced the immediate suspension of the OhioCrypto.com website that allows businesses to pay taxes with Bitcoin.

Leading Japanese companies are forming a regulatory association for security token offerings.

Two U.S. lawmakers want the Federal Reserve to consider creating a digital dollar.

Wednesday, Oct. 2 - After a fake breakout, where Bitcoin jumped upwards from a seven-day low of $7,746 to $8,480 from Sept. 29-Oct. 1, BTC slowly retraced to its current price level.

Manuel Andersch, senior FX analyst at the Bayerische Landesbank has published a report, which suggests that the "Forthcoming halving effect has hardly been priced into the current Bitcoin price." Using a stock-to-flow ratio metric, the report projects a target price of $90,000 for Bitcoin in 2020.Though there were great expectations for the launch of Bakkt, it turned out to be a dud.

Apart from creating additional security layers, offline transactions could, in theory, enable complete censorship resistance for cryptocurrencies.

As Bitcoin's price floats in the waters of uncertainty in the low $8,000 range, one might wonder how crypto's largest asset found itself at the bottom of a steep drop after its exuberant price rise from $3,330 to $13,880 earlier in 2019.

Blocko, the South Korean enterprise blockchain provider backed by Samsung, has launched in the UAE after raising funding in Asia Pacific and Europe, the company said.

Telegram Open Network is on track for its planned launch, according to an email from the company sent to TON investors on Wednesday.

Encrypted messaging service Telegram will launch its long-awaited Telegram Open Network in late October.

Major cryptocurrency payment processor BitPay has entered a partnership with Ripple's investment arm Xpring to support payments with XRP. The development was announced in an Oct. 2 press release, revealing that now businesses can accept the third-largest digital currency XRP for payments via BitPay's cross-border payments platform.

Investors are nearly as fearful as they were during the bear-market despair of January, where Bitcoin was trading below $4,000, according to the "Crypto Fear & Greed Index."

Major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service Coinbase now allows holders of USD Coin to earn a 1.25% annual percentage yield.

It's too soon to write off Bakkt, despite the bitcoin futures market's disappointingly slow start, analysts at Oppenheimer & Co. said.

A candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 2020 is accepting cryptocurrency donations to run against Representative and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Parity Technologies released a new version of Parity Signer, a mobile application that turns old smartphones into offline wallets.

Cryptocurrencies are based on decentralized technologies, but there is a big difference in terms of what they are, how they are used, and what it means for the projects - and now, governments - that are engaging in these technologies.

The credit rating arm of financial services giant Morningstar is developing a blockchain platform for the $117 trillion debt securities industry.

Starting Wednesday, customers of the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange can earn interest on their holdings of the dollar-pegged stablecoin USDC. The annual percentage yield is 1.25 percent.

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Bitfinex may be enjoying a break from having to produce documents to investigators, but it should be preparing for when the reprieve ends, the New York Attorney General's office said.