The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

According to transaction data from Tether's accounts, it took 500 million USDT permanently out of circulation on Wednesday.

Malta's Financial Services Authority has warned of a "Dubious" online crypto trading platform it says has falsely claimed to be licensed in the country, English-language newspaper Malta Today reports Oct. 25.

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is enhancing its Blockchain-as-a-Service offering outside China, the company announced in a press release on Oct. 24.

South Korea is the most recent government to show its dedication to the tech with an investment of $90 million to create blockchain specialists who steer national technology decisions and conversations.

Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, and Deutsche Börse, owner of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, have completed a blockchain trial investigating the technology's potential in securities settlement.

Her Majesty's Royal Mint, the institution responsible for producing physical coins for circulation in Britain, has been unable to launch its gold-backed cryptocurrency after the government vetoed the project, Reuters reports Oct. 25.

The central bank of Germany, Deutsche Bundesbank, and securities marketplace organizer Deutsche Boerse have successfully completed the trial of a blockchain solution in the settlements area, DB's report reveals Thursday, Oct. 25.

The Canada Border Services Agency has become the latest entity to trial a blockchain shipping solution developed by IBM and Maersk, a press release confirmed Thursday, Oct. 25.

On October 20, The Bank of Japan's deputy governor, Masayoshi Amamiya, repeated his negative stance towards central bank-issued digital currencies, claiming that such digital currencies are unlikely to improve the existing monetary systems.

What is ConstantinopleThe upcoming Constantinople hard fork includes five different Ethereum Improvement Proposals to smooth the transition from PoW to PoS. Once released, they would fundamentally change the Ethereum blockchain via a host of new upgrades, which prevent any backwards compatibility, meaning that nodes must either update synchronically with the entire system or carry on running as a separate blockchain entity.

The first fully XRP-based exchange, called XRP United.

Crypto software company Blockchain has launched a new hardware device that integrates with its existing online wallet, developed in partnership with crypto hardware security firm Ledger, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph today, Oct. 25.

One of the oldest software wallet providers in the cryptocurrency industry is launching its first hardware product.

A 23-year-old woman from Sydney, Australia, has been arrested over the alleged theft of cryptocurrency worth over $300,000 at the time.

While the crypto markets likely have a slow, measured recovery in their future, just like web platforms before them, current pure-financial troubles belie the fact that the core blockchain technology on which cryptocurrencies function is progressing at breakneck speed.

The SEC, being an independent federal agency responsible for protecting investors from fraud schemes, has been trying to regulate the crypto market in the U.S. However, due to the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies and lack of federal regulatory framework, the agency's purview has been significantly limited: the SEC had issued numerous public warnings for investors and fought crypto scammers on a case-by-case basis in the past, but has been unable to come through with more precise, blanket regulatory solutions.

Bitcoin's price remains in a tight range below $6,500 despite recently breaching a key price hurdle.

Major U.S. crypto wallet provider and exchange Coinbase has been granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit over alleged insider trading during its launch of Bitcoin Cash support last year, according to court documents published Oct. 23.

The Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt cryptocurrency platform could get approval to launch its physically-delivered Bitcoin futures product from U.S. regulators next week, an unconfirmed anonymous source told tech outlet The Block Thursday, Oct. 25.

Parties solicited to invest in the pre-initial public offering funding round for Bitmain Technologies, Ltd., the leading maker of cryptocurrency mining software and hardware, received pitch decks falsely suggesting the company had secured financial backing from Digital Sky Technologies Global and GIC Private Limited, an investigation by CoinDesk has found.

Unikrn, an esports company that raised over $15 million in its ICO pre-sale last year, has been granted an Isle of Man license with regulatory approval for both crypto and real money betting that will span across 3 continents, the company announced in a Medium post on October 23, 2018.Unikrn's Biggest Launch Since 2014.

The research arm of Japanese technology giant Sony announced it had created a contactless cryptocurrency hardware wallet in a press release Tuesday, Oct. 23.

An Indonesian financial firm is looking to put Sharia compliant bonds called sukuks on the blockchain to fund social projects.

Only a week after India's first Bitcoin ATM was launched to much fanfare, regional authorities have confiscated the two-way crypto machine and arrested the initiative's founder, reported Times of India on Oct. 24.Bitcoin ATM Seized.

Japan's Financial Services Agency is weighing a plan to put a cap on the leverage in cryptocurrency margin trading in a move that is set to curb speculation and market risks.

Operating since 2017, when it was originally called Bitsquare, the Bisq DEX runs directly on the user's computer, rather than a hosted site, as many of the self-described DEXs currently do.

The Albanian government is planning a regulatory framework for digital assets in an effort to become a hub for digital asset investment in the Western Balkan region, a report.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Coinbase alleging the exchange hurt investors when it listed bitcoin cash by allowing insider trading.

In its quarterly financial results report published Oct. 24, semiconductor manufacturer AMD reveals that "Blockchain-related graphics processing unit sales in the third quarter were negligible."

Software development company Oracle Corp. has released a suite of blockchain-based software-as-a-service applications based on its Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service, according to an announcement published Oct. 23.