The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

U.S.-based DocuSign announced it will integrate the Ethereum blockchain and legal AI company Seal Software in its electronic signing business, starting immediately.

Tether is currently trading at around $0.96, down about 3.05 percent on the day, according to CoinMarketCap.

Blockchain startup Adhara, which boasts a stellar line-up of former banking innovators, has secured $15 million in new funding from Consensys, the ethereum design studio.

Japanese technology multinational Sony revealed it is working on a blockchain-powered extension of its digital rights management system Monday, Oct. 15.

Bitcoin spiked 11 percent Monday, likely due to a sell-off in tether, but a bullish reversal is still not confirmed, technical charts indicate.

Earlier today, on Oct. 15, the price of Bitcoin surged from $6,150 to $6,700 on most major fiat-to-cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase, Bitstamp, and Kraken.

The latest developments aim at the logistics sector - but IBM has been keen on blockchain for over 5 years that reveals a slow and steady approach to the adoption of enterprise-scale blockchain solutions.

Bitcoin Meetups Most Prominent in the U.S. Bitcoin groups unsurprisingly outnumber all other crypto-meetups, but steady growth in the number of Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and EOS indicates crypto-communities are moving towards offline methods of community building.

The former architect of China's central bank digital currency initiative has left the position to head the country's central securities clearing house.

The team behind a new cryptocurrency platform designed to transfer the way consumers and businesses are paid, says it is putting its money where its mouth is - and has managed to launch without the need for an initial coin offering.

Hong Kong's securities and futures commission is planning to introduce crypto regulation to protect investors, the SFC chairman told Hong Kong English-language newspaper the South China Morning Post Monday, Oct. 15.

Nearly a week since his furious condemnation of all things blockchain at the U.S. Senate, it seems that Nouriel Roubini, American economist and veteran blockchain naysayer known as 'Dr. Doom', is yet to exhaust his arsenal in a fiery one-man stand against the cryptocurrency community.

The price of the tether stablecoin has fallen to an 18-month low Monday, despite a general rise in the wider crypto markets.

KPMG has decided to "Refresh" its distributed ledger technology strategy, according to new U.S. blockchain lead Arun Ghosh, who took over the group in September.

Payment giants MasterCard and VISA will soon group cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offering jurisdictions in a new "High risk" category, financial trading news site Finance Magnates reported Friday, October 14.

NBA basketball star Spencer Dinwiddie, who rose to fame last year after a series of spectacular games, may soon convert his successful Bitcoin investments into a legitimate business that accepts the digital currency.

Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, jumped by 11 percent on Monday, pushing its prices above $6,900 for the first time in two weeks.

That's how Athens-based crypto enthusiast named "Sporos" describes faircoin - a tiny, $0.22 asset that in terms of daily trading volume, is barely a glitch on global cryptocurrency exchanges.

Despite a blanket ban on cryptocurrencies and related businesses, China's central bank is employing cryptographers and blockchain engineers to launch a state-issued digital currency presumably, reported South China Morning Post on Oct. 12.BitYuan Soon?

An alleged "Consensus issue" in the testing of a planned hard fork of Ethereum, called Constantinople, has caused a testnet to be "Not usable," according to a tweet from Ethereum blockchain infrastructure firm Infura October 13.

Nouriel Roubini is a New York-based economist that famously predicted the 2008 financial crisis when only a few considered there might be a threat to the existing course of events at the time.

Litecoin, one of the first and most well-known altcoins, is celebrating turning seven years old on Oct. 13.

Sunday, October 14: crypto markets keep their balance after the recent sell-off this week, with most of the 20 top coins by market cap slightly in the green.

Ran Neuner, crypto analyst and host of CNBC's show Cryptotrader, said this week that the price of Bitcoin is "About to explode." In a series of tweets, the trader predicted that a notable Bitcoin rally could be tied to the SEC's upcoming decision on several BTC ETF applications.

On October 9, American financial services giant Mastercard was granted a patent for a method to partition a blockchain so that it can store multiple transaction types and formats.

In a systematic ICO scam attempt, individuals claiming to be Walmart press officials have contacted a number of media outlets, including CryptoSlate, announcing the sale of tokens for the retail giant's supposed Ethereum-based payments network at WalmartLeaf.com.

Volatile price swings and plummeting valuations have been a reality for bitcoin investors of late, but those who own traditional equities haven't been immune either.

Veteran investor and AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant told conference goers on Monday the last "Hype cycle" was a "Coming of age" for many cryptocurrencies such as ethereum, the second largest crypto by market cap.

Elevated Returns, a hospitality-focused asset management company, recently announced the closing of the Aspen Digital real estate token sale, which raised $18 million via Indiegogo.

On April 10, 2018, 21 EU member states and Norway signed up to create the European Blockchain Partnership.