The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Centra Tech had raised $32 million during its ICO. Centra Card was advertised as a debit card reportedly backed by Visa and Mastercard, which allowed users to convert crypto into fiat currencies.

One of Coinbase's earliest employees, risk operations manager Rees Atlas, has left the Silicon Valley cryptocurrency exchange - and the blockchain industry - for Twilio, a publicly traded tech firm.

New York-based Signature Bank is launching a digital payments platform built on a blockchain architecture to streamline real-time payments.

Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority has introduced a new fintech license with "Relaxed" requirements that is applicable to blockchain and cryptocurrency-based firms.

Crypto exchange ErisX has raised $27.5 million from Fidelity Investments and Nasdaq Ventures, among other investors, Reuters reports Dec. 4.

Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a Series B funding round that raised $27.5 million, the company said Tuesday.

A South Korean financial authority has warned two major domestic banks about their lack of management of cryptocurrency transactions and Anti-Money Laundering regulation, local online media outlet The Daily reports Dec. 4.

A group of university professors and researchers including a Turing award winner have raised $35 million for a non-profit foundation that will support the development of a new blockchain network.

Singaporean governmental body Enterprise Singapore, along with other partners, has supported a new blockchain accelerator launched by a local venture capital firm, daily local newspaper The Straits Times writes Tuesday, Dec. 4.

The world's second-largest stock exchange, Nasdaq, has confirmed it plans to launch Bitcoin futures in the first half of 2019, United Kingdom daily tabloid The Express reported Monday, Dec. 3.

An Iranian bitcoin trader, Ghorbaniyan was among the wallet holders whose names and blockchain addresses were added to the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions list last week.

The CEO of Japanese fintech firm and crypto exchange operator Quoine has said he believes Bitcoin will "Surpass" its all-time price highs by the end of 2019, during an interview with Bloomberg Markets: Asia Dec. 4.

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx launched a cryptocurrency-focused Bitcoin Perpetual Swap product on December 3, 2018, during a press conference attended by CryptoSlate.

Major Ethereum blockchain startup and incubator ConsenSys plans to streamline and toughen its business style amid an increasingly "Crowded" competitive blockchain space.

A quick recovery from one-week lows seen today may have helped bitcoin avert a bigger sell-off, but the bulls are not out of the woods yet.

Global retail giant Auchan is expanding TE-FOOD's blockchain solution to improve the transparency of products' history, U.S.-based news agency Cision PRWeb reports today, Dec. 4.

Japan's government is seeking ways to prevent tax evasion on significant profits from cryptocurrency transactions, daily Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reports Tuesday, Dec. 4.

The crypto market has been brutalizing of late - but many traders don't realize that there is a plethora of financial instruments out there.

Enterprise Singapore, a government agency set up to develop the startup ecosystem, is supporting a new blockchain accelerator program called Tribe Accelerator.

South Korean technological holding SK Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ConsenSys for blockchain business cooperation, according to a SK Group official press release published today, Dec. 4.

Veteran Chinese crypto investor Li Xiaolai has joined a blockchain firm listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as an executive director and co-CEO, effective Dec. 3.

Justin Sun and Vitalik Buterin clash once again over Twitter.

A blockchain-based company has unveiled plans to roll out a global network of self-service kiosks - enabling millions of unbanked people around the world to pay bills, make purchases and access other financial services.

American trading-communications firm IPC Systems has partnered with enterprise blockchain software consortium R3, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Dec. 3.IPC is a trading technology service company known for producing trading turrets, which are communications systems used by financial traders on their trading desks.

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has launched a new derivative product called Perpetual Swap trading, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Dec. 3.Perpetual Swap is a peer-to-peer, virtual derivative developed by OKex, that enables users to speculate the direction of the price of digital assets.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking information about investigating and analyzing blockchains, including those used for privacy coins, according to a pre-solicitation notice published Nov. 30.DHS has released a proposal, which invites interested parties to comment and design applications for blockchain forensic analytics in respect to emerging cryptocurrencies.

Grayscale's Bitcoin Investment Trust was worth less than $1 billion for the first time this year, Diar reports Dec. 3.

The G20 mentioned crypto regulation in its recent declaration on sustainable development adopted in Argentina.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has put out a pre-solicitation request for tracing private transactions and performing blockchain analytics on cryptocurrencies, such as Zcash and Monero.

Bitcoin's mining difficulty saw its second largest drop in history, with a -15 percent adjustment on Monday, Dec. 3, as per data provided by major Chinese mining pool BTC.com.