The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority has finished enforcement proceedings against crypto mining firm Envion AG, the authority announced on March 27.

Cryptocurrency intelligence company Messari has claimed that Stellar suffered an inflation bug in April 2017 that was exploited to create 2.25 billion XLM, which were later burned.

The United States-based operator of crypto exchange Huobi, Hbus, has formed a new team to launch institutional products and services, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on March 27.

Nick Percoco, chief security officer at United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, announced that two-factor authentication is now mandatory for the exchange's users in a post on the company's official blog published on March 26.

The New York Department of Financial Services has awarded its latest BitLicense to crypto brokerage startup Tagomi Trading LLC. Announced Wednesday, this is the 18th such license issued since the NYDFS finalized its controversial regulatory regime for virtual currency businesses in 2015.

One of Arrington XRP Capital's largest limited partners has injected a fresh $30 million into the digital asset firm, according to its founder Michael Arrington.

Ukraine's Cyber Police have arrested a man who allegedly placed crypto mining malware scripts on his own websites, local law enforcement reported on March 26.

While leading cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase and Binance feverishly add new tokens, smaller exchanges serving emerging markets are pivoting toward retail applications of the lightning network's bitcoin scaling solution.

Cardano's Ada is now supported on popular hardware wallet the Ledger Nano S. Now, Ada investors can store, interact with, and invest in the cryptocurrency using one of the leading hardware wallets on the market.

Canaan Creative, manufacturer of the Avalon bitcoin miner, is considering another attempt to go public, people familiar with the situation said.

United Kingdom-based global metals trading mecca the London Metals Exchange is reportedly backing an effort to disrupt industry supply chains with blockchain, but would not confirm its involvement, the Financial Times reported on March 27.

Top-ranked cryptocurrency exchange CoinBene has reassured users that its prolonged maintenance downtime is not due to a hack, as some community members had feared.

Germany's second largest stock exchange Börse Stuttgart is partnering with European digital publishing titan Axel Springer and its subsidiary Finanzen.net to jointly launch a blockchain-powered trading venue.

As revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, a global study of 216 exchanges by the reg-tech startup Coinfirm found 69 percent of these businesses do not have "Complete and transparent" know-your-customer procedures.

The U.S. branch of the Huobi Global crypto trading marketplace is courting big-money investors with the introduction of a new institutional team.

United States cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced that it is giving away 1 billion Stellar Lumens to users that are willing to study the Stellar protocol.

Trustology, founded by technologists who previously worked at such banks as BNY Mellon, RBS and Barclays, has launched an iPhone-controlled crypto vault it claims is secure enough for financial institutions.

The Japanese broker that acquired the hacked cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck in April 2018 has announced major changes in its management structure.

Swiss mortgage bank Hypothekarbank Lenzburg has partnered with Swiss crypto asset manager TokenSuisse to expand the bank's service offerings for crypto and blockchain firms.

Cryptocurrency hedge fund Pantera Capital is close to completing funding for its third venture fund, already raising $160 million, the company announced in a blog post оn March 27.

View Bitcoin has again created a higher low along the 30-day moving average line, neutralizing Monday's bearish close below $3,920.

Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has found that blockchain has far-reaching potential to improve asylum procedures.

The London Metal Exchange, which boasts the world's largest market for metal derivatives, is said to be supporting an initiative to track physical metals using blockchain.

The 46-year-old owner of a firm called CabbageTech has been charged in New York with duping investors out of over $200,000 in cryptocurrency and cash.

The World Bank has become the latest source of criticism over blockchain technology, this time urging caution over its role in land rights, Reuters reported on March 27.

Bitcoin's hash rate has been on the rise since its 50 percent drop last year and has regained over 80 percent of its all-time-high rate.

A new browser extension called "Coinflict of Interest" was recently launched on GitHub and it aims to solve the problem of transparency on Crypto Twitter.

"As alleged, the defendant defrauded investors by making false promises and sending them fraudulent balance statements, hiding the fact that he was stealing their money for his personal use."

Alleged North Korea-sponsored cybercrime group Lazarus is still targeting cryptocurrencies and adopting new tactics, according to a new report from cybersecurity and anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab published on March 26.The report reveals that allegedly state-sponsored hacker group Lazarus has been active with a new operation since last November, wherein the group uses PowerShell that allows them to manage and control Windows and macOS malware.

Developers behind privacy-oriented coin Grin are discussing crucial, potential changes to the cryptocurrency's hard fork roadmap.