The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will launch a testnet version of its new decentralized exchange Feb. 20, CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed on Twitter Feb. 12.

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb is planting its flag in the Middle East with the launch of a licensed fiat-to-crypto exchange in the United Arab Emirates.

The new chair of the Financial Stability Board believes the emergence of crypto-assets could be a major hurdle for the agency as it plans to review its current frameworks for assessing global financial vulnerability.

A new form of cryptocurrency-stealing malware has been identified in the Google Play store.

United States automotive giant General Motors has become the latest member to join blockchain startup Spring Labs' partner project to enhance data security, the company confirmed in a press release Feb. 11.

General Motors Financial, the financing arm of the automaking giant, said Monday that it is partnering with blockchain startup Spring Labs on solutions for identity verification.

IBM has released its blockchain main net out of its data center located in Melbourne, Australia.

Bitcoin transaction fees are at new lows, according to a new report published by crypto and blockchain research firm Diar on Feb. 11.While BTC transactions struck a one-year high in January, almost reaching the levels registered in 2017, the median transactions value in BTC have reportedly dropped.

"The SEC has several legitimate thoughtful concerns that the industry has to overcome but I'm confident they will. Eventually we will see a Bitcoin ETF and it's at that stage that I will be much more comfortable recommending that ordinary investors participate."

If the price sustains above the downtrend line, it can move up to $4,255.

Cory Johnson is out at distributed ledger startup Ripple as its chief market strategist, CoinDesk has learned.

Decred founder Jacob Yocom-Piatt recently proposed a decentralized exchange to the Politeia community.

Venture capital valuations have been deeply affected by the cryptocurrency bear market, says Jalak Jobanputra, founding partner of Future Perfect Ventures, in an interview with Fortunes' Balancing the Ledger on Feb. 11.Founded in 2014 in New York, Future Perfect Ventures is a venture capital firm, focusing on early stage investments primarily in technology companies, including blockchain, machine learning, and data analytics.

A bitcoin scaling solution called the lightning network may soon come to Square's Cash App for mobile payments.

Blockchain tech company Bitfury is partnering with radiology blockchain marketplace Medical Diagnostic Web to create a blockchain-based medical imaging ecosystem.

The Venezuelan government has introduced regulations for crypto remittances within the country, according to a decree published on Feb. 7 in the country's official media outlet, Gaceta Oficial.

Reality Shares ETF Trust - a unit of crypto-focused fintech firm Blockforce Capital - has filed a proposal for an exchange-traded-fund that would invest in a portfolio which includes both sovereign debt instruments and Bitcoin futures.

Silicon Valley fintech startup Ripple goes out of its way to say it didn't create the cryptocurrency XRP. But that doesn't mean the company doesn't rely on its vast reserves of the token when courting prospective hires.

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey - also the founder and CEO of United States-based Bitcoin-supporting payments service Square - said that rolling out the Lightning Network on Square's Cash App is a question of "When, not if." Dorsey made his remarks during an interview alongside Elizabeth Stark, co-founder of Lightning Labs, on the Stephen Livera podcast Feb. 11.

The Moscow municipal government is planning to launch a blockchain-based city innovation cluster by summer 2019, Russian news agency TASS reports on Feb. 11.

A Greek member of the parliament of the European Union, Eva Kaili, declared that central banks have too much control over people's deposits, according to a post published on Ripple's blog on Feb. 8.

Binance Coin, the token issued by the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trade volume Binance, has extended its recent gains to set a new all-time high in bitcoin-denominated value.

Finablr, a global payment platform and foreign exchange operator based in the United Arab Emirates, has joined Ripple's RippleNet blockchain network, a press release reveals on Feb. 11.

At press time, Bitcoin is up less than half a percent on the day, trading at around $3,648, according to CoinMarketCap.

A new proposed exchange-traded fund would invest in bitcoin futures - though only as part of a larger set of investments.

Institutional investment is increasingly being seen as the future of crypto trading, with both Binance and Bittrex launching their own dedicated over-the-counter desks in January.

The ALS Association has partnered with the TRON Foundation to launch a blockchain-enabled charity campaign, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Feb. 11.

A collaborative IBM project using blockchain and the Internet of Things to tackle drought is underway in the United States state of California, according to a press release published Feb. 8.

Remittance firms UAE Exchange and Unimoni have gone live with blockchain-based payments using Ripple technology.

A form of malware that replaces victims' cryptocurrency wallet addresses has been discovered for the first time in an app on Google Play Store.