The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

French hardware wallet producer Ledger has partnered with Hong Kong trust company Legacy Trust to offer institutional cryptocurrency custody services, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on March 28.

The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, said in an interview with Cointelegraph on March 27 that recent reports on fake trading volumes are useful for the crypto industry.

Cryptocurrency hardware wallets maker Ledger and Hong Kong-licensed trust and custody company Legacy Trust have partnered to provide "Institutional-grade" cryptocurrency custody.

Blockchain services firm AlphaPoint has upgraded its tech solution for security token offerings in a bid to attract institutional clients.

Cryptocurrency startup TokenPay is getting into the lingerie business.

Blockchain consortium R3's trade finance platform Marco Polo has completed its first real transactions, a press release from Commerzbank, one of the participants, confirmed on March 28.

Data scientists at blockchain infrastructure firm Elementus have published details of recent transactions from crypto exchange CoinBene that they consider to be suspect, beginning with $105 million in crypto swiftly being moved out of the exchange's hot wallet.

View Bitcoin created a bullish "Engulfing candle" last month, confirming seller exhaustion.

The president of the Swiss Confederation, Ueli Maurer, has stressed that establishing regulation for the blockchain sector should be fast and clear.

The Spanish National Securities Market Commission has affirmed that it has not authorized any entity to operate an initial coin offering with the agency's official sanction.

Japanese financial regulators approved a second cryptocurrency exchange to begin operations this week, a press release from local exchange DeCurret, the applicant, confirmed on March 25.

Blockchain-based trading platform CEDEX says it has now secured a supply of more than 6,000 diamonds ahead of its launch of a diamond exchange-traded fund.

CoinMarketCap, the leading cryptocurrency market data aggregator, has responded to the report recently published by Bitwise which showed evidence of fake volume reported from exchanges.

The first two real-world transactions have been conducted on Marco Polo, the trade finance blockchain built on R3's Corda platform.

The move follows the introduction of new regulation from Finland's Financial Supervisory Authority, where the company is based.

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has introduced two new initiatives, aimed at enhancing client security experience.

"Sample sizes are small in the cryptocurrency markets, with the oldest, bitcoin, having existed just 10 years, but two of the newly released metrics termed"Top Cap" and Delta Cap" have shown to be effective at identifying the tops and bottoms of bitcoin's wild market cycles thus far.

A Japanese court has acquitted a man who was accused of illicitly mining cryptocurrency by using the computing power of visitors to his website, Japan Today reported on March 27.The Yokohama District Court reportedly ordered to acquit a 31-year-old website designer, who allegedly ran Coinhive on his website to mine digital currency.

Vietnam's largest distribution company Linh Thanh Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Swiss blockchain company KRONN Ventures AG to establish a cryptocurrency exchange, according to a press release published on March 22.The collaboration is designed to facilitate the production of digital currency and the creation of a cryptocurrency exchange in Vietnam, to which the companies have supposedly received an appropriate license.

A critic of cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain, BTCKING555, said that a group investors are preparing a class action lawsuit against the company in a tweet on March 26.BTCKING555 said in the post that a number of Bitmain's investors are going to file a class action lawsuit against the company in Hong Kong, seeking to recover their investments after the expiration of Bitmain's initial public offering bid.

Our bullish view will be negated if the BTC/USD pair reverses direction from one of the above resistances and plummets below the uptrend line.

Coinbase Earn, the exchange's initiative that enables users to "Earn crypto while learning about crypto," has introduced support for Stellar.

Digital asset management firm Arrington XRP Capital has merged with cryptocurrency-focused private fund and research house ByteSize Capital, according to an official announcement published on March 27.With the merger, ByteSize Capital's co-founders Ninor Mansor and Ninos Mansor have also joined Arrington XRP Capital as partners, along with founding partners Heather Harde and Michael Arrington.

A banker from HSBC urged the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to make more "Positive noise" about distributed ledger technology, in order to encourage adoption by hesitant businesses.

Tron-owned peer-to-peer software company BitTorrent announced that it will release the public beta version of its decentralized social media app BitTorrent Live in Q2 2019 in a press release on March 27.

The leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin is up 2.34 percent on the day, and is trading at $4,061 as of press time.

The Technology Advisory Committee of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission discussed crypto regulation and distributed ledger technology adoption during a meeting on Wednesday, March 27.

The New York State Department of Financial Services has granted a BitLicense to institutional-grade crypto trading platform Tagomi Trading, according to an official press release on March 27.

The point, he said, is that decentralized networks, such as those based on blockchain models, can often enable more positive overall social outcomes despite the relative inefficiency of their command-and-control architecture.

Over the last few weeks, Bitcoin's second-layer scaling protocol, called the Lightning Network, has gained a lot of traction, steadily proving to become a viable solution to BTC's infamous scalability problem and even potential competitor to American payments giant Visa.