The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Italy's national securities regulator, La Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa, has issued a notice suspending investment firm Tessline and its cryptocurrency liracoin.

Bitcoin could inform investors worried about the United States-China trade war, an executive from financial planning and wealth advisory firm Bleakley Advisory Group told CNBC in an interview on June 4.

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has partnered with Japan's biggest railway firm, the East Japan Railway Company, to promote cashless payments.

Mark Karpeles has revealed he's "Starting from zero" with a new blockchain project soon after escaping most charges in a court case over the collapse of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued messaging app Kik over their 2017 ICO for its KIN token.

A new ethereum-based trade finance platform has been launched in Russia with the third largest retail player in the country as a key participant.

The latest of the big developments in this vein came up at this year's Consensus conference, as blockchain startup Flexa made public its partnership with a number of major U.S. retailers.

Tadge Dryja, who co-authored the original paper underpinning bitcoin's experimental lightning payments network, has released a new research paper outlining a proposed scaling solution that he's been working on for the past year.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued messenger app maker Kik for its $100 million ICO - which the agency contends was an unregistered securities sale - and the regulator appears to have built up a strong case in its initial court move.

As part of his winning $4.6 million bid for lunch with Warren Buffett, TRON CEO Justin Sun has the opportunity to invite up to seven guests to accompany him.

That's all according to a complaint filed Tuesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that Kik conducted an "Illegal $100 million securities offering" with a September 2017 initial coin offering for its kin token.

Polish cryptocurrency exchange Coinroom has reportedly shut down its operations and disappeared with customer funds, local business news outlet money.

The Securities Commission Malaysia has registered cryptocurrency exchanges Luno Malaysia, Sinegy Technologies and Tokenize Technology, according to a press release on June 4.Crypto exchanges are reportedly required by law to register with the SC, and the recently-approved exchanges will have up to nine months to achieve compliance with the SC's regulation standards.

Blockchain startup Fluree, a Public Benefit Corporation, received a $4.7 million round of funding from 4490 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund, along with Revolution's Rise of the Rest seed fund, to develop and market their decentralized data storage ecosystem.

Chinese-based blockchain platform Neo has implemented a new iteration of its consensus algorithm, the Byzantine Fault Tolerance mechanism, on its mainnet, according to a press release on June 4.The new algorithm purportedly provides immediate transaction finality.

Apple has announced "CryptoKit," a new framework that will allow developers to perform cryptographic operations securely and efficiently.

Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges facilitate 60% of all stablecoin tether trading globally, according to an analysis by Diar on June 3.

Bitcoin.com's Badger Wallet, a bitcoin cash light client, launched a new app for iOS, marking its entry into mobile devices after success with desktop storage and trading.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands has formed a non-profit organization to support the government in the implementation of the country's national digital currency.

The market valuation of bitcoin rose more than 190 percent since the low of Dec. 15, 2018, raising the question when the retrace will come and how pronounced it will be.

A blockchain-based alternative investment provider that tokenizes commercial debt is being listed on the Bloomberg Terminal, according to a news release published on June 4.Cadence is believed to be the first digital asset to obtain a Financial Instrument Global Identifier, enabling professionals who use the Bloomberg Terminal to research its offering and execute trades.

Digital asset trading platform OKCoin has expanded its trading services and opened an office in Malta, according to a blog post published on June 4.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Canadian startup Kik for an unregistered $100 million token offering, the regulator officially announced on June 4.

The California Society of CPAs is pushing for clarity in accounting and disclosure rules regarding cryptocurrencies, citing a lack of specific guidance within U.S. GAAP, the standard accounting protocols followed in the U.S. The 54-member committee's concern is the divergence in reporting methods utilized by companies who itemize cryptocurrencies on their financial statements and whether the varying approaches reflect the nature and risks of holding cryptos.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is suing Kik for allegedly running an unregistered securities sale when it launched an initial coin offering for its kin token in 2017.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation called for former users of the QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange to provide information in an official announcement published on June 3.

Amsterdam-based crypto exchange Blockport will attempt a relaunch after the firm said it would shut down its platform by the end of May, tech news outlet The Next Web reports on June 4.

Samsung revealed that it is designing and manufacturing chips for Bitcoin mining.

Multiple criminal investigative agencies within the U.S. are looking into the circumstances of the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX. According to a press release published Monday, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation division, the U.S. Attorney General's office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section are investigating the exchange, which filed for bankruptcy following the death of its founder and a months-long civil rehabilitation process.

Binance, the world's second largest crypto exchange by adjusted volume, has released its official Trust Wallet on its decentralized trading platform Binance DEX. The news was revealed in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on June 4.