The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The co-founder of Indian crypto exchange Unocoin has been arrested shortly after setting up an allegedly unregistered Bitcoin ATM machine in Bangalore, English-language daily Times of India reports Oct. 24.

On Oct. 23 at the Web3 Summit event in Germany, HTC announced the launch of its Exodus 1 smartphone which will include the manufacturer's proprietary wallet called Zion, according to CNBC.Genesis Block.

A senior executive from U.K.-based bank HSBC has said that time-efficient distributed ledger technologies and central bank digital currencies represent a "Great challenge" to existing real-time gross settlement systems, Cointelegraph learned at the Money20/20 conference Oct. 23.

The Chinese Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Consortium, led by multinational telecommunication company Huawei and tech giant Tencent, will soon present its coinless blockchain FISCO BCOS, as revealed in a press release Tuesday, Oct. 18.

Over a million dollars'-worth of bitcoin was hidden in a picture - and there's still some left to be found.

The CEO of Dash Core Group, Ryan Taylor, told Cointelegraph in an interview Oct. 23 that central bank-issued cryptocurrencies are the "Inevitable future," but it will be people who "Will decide what form of money they want to consume and use as part of their lives."

Algorand, the blockchain protocol founded by MIT professor and Turing Award winner Silvio Micali, has raised $62 million in new funding.

A new protocol is allowing users to complete cross-chain transactions - meaning value can be transferred between different blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

On Oct. 19, Spain's Ministry of Finance approved an anti-fraud law.

Indian police force in the city of Bangalore has raided an ATM operated by local cryptocurrency exchange Unocoin just weeks after it was set up.

Boost VC has officially backed crypto startup number 100.

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by trading volume, announced the listing of Decred.

The venture capital wing of the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China - People's Daily Online - has signed a deal for a strategic partnership on a blockchain laboratory Oct. 23, according to a press release.

Major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has launched the USD Coin stablecoin, making it the first stablecoin for trade on the platform, Cointelegraph learned at the Money 20/20 conference Oct. 23.

New York state regulators have approved Coinbase Custody Trust Company LLC to roll out their cryptocurrency custody services in the state, according to an official announcement published Oct. 23.The New York State Department of Financial Services has authorized Coinbase's wholly-owned subsidiary Coinbase Custody Trust Company LLC to provide a limited range of custody services for virtual currencies, including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Ripple and Litecoin.

Coinbase and Circle have partnered to bring the USD Coin stablecoin to Coinbase.

A New York judge has thrown out an investor's proposed class action lawsuit against the development team of altcoin Nano, according to court documents filed Oct. 22.

A lobby group of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs has recently sent its proposals for crypto regulation to country's prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, Russian business media RBC reports Monday, Oct. 22.Per a document obtained by RBC, the head of RSPP Alexander Shokhin criticizes the main draft that was accepted by the Russian State Duma in the first of three readings in May. He urges Medvedev to postpone the hearings until 2019 to develop new aspects of the draft law that would serve both entrepreneurs' and regulators' interests.

Not only the eyes of retail traders appear to be glued to the horizon, with crypto executives, venture capitalists, economists, and bootstrapping ICO projects seemingly awaiting any one of this year's selection of institutional catalysts to drive the cryptocurrency market into a new dimension.

A new stablecoin is launching on the Stellar blockchain that's designed to hold its value with the Australian dollar and is being pitched for consumer and business uses.

Japan-based financial services firm SBI Group and Danish cryptography services company Sepior ApS have partnered to jointly develop a proprietary wallet, according to an announcement published Oct. 13.

Tuesday, Oct. 23: crypto markets continue their sideways trend today, with total market cap slightly down over the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.

Coinbase has received approval from New York regulators to form a qualified custodial firm for cryptocurrencies.

From this data point, you could be forgiven for concluding that Bitfinex's customers trade huge quantities of tethers for dollars, and vice-versa - more than they trade ether, XRP and EOS combined for dollars.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has published a memorandum, dated Oct. 9, from a meeting regarding the Bitcoin exchange-traded-fund proposal from VanEck and SolidX. As stated in the memorandum, VanEck is a New York-based investment management firm with $46 billion in assets under management and SolidX is a provider of blockchain software development and financial services.

Oxfam, the non-profit group focused on alleviating global poverty, has teamed up with blockchain startup Etherisc to help bring affordable insurance to paddy rice farmers in Sri Lanka.

According to CoinMarketCap, the leading provider of cryptocurrency data, there's never been more cryptocurrencies in existence than now.

Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of crypto investment app Circle, has called on global economies to develop coordinated regulation of cryptocurrencies in an interview with Reuters Oct. 22.

Blockchain infrastructure firm Parity Technologies' founder Gavin Wood demoed a live blockchain launch in just fifteen minutes at the Web3 Summit in Berlin Oct. 23, TechCrunch reports.

The crypto collectible game, Blockchain Cuties, has announced Raid Boss Battles, a new everyday server event.