Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

International remittance focused cryptocurrency Ripple has launched a new initiative designed to provide entrepreneurs and innovators with financial backing in order to develop solutions based on Ripple technology.

Chinese Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Canaan Creative plans to start trading of its IPO as soon as July, Bloomberg reports May 16.

"We go to the home stretch to create conditions for digital tokens and cryptocurrency in Ukraine. This is the outcome of many meetings and work of many people. There are many more nuances left to figure out. The final version will be ready in two weeks. I ask you to comment and edit. The thoughts of market practitioners are especially important."

Japan-based global investment bank Nomura has announced a venture to establish a custody offering for digital assets, Cointelegraph Japan reports today, May 16.

Announced at the "Beyond the Blocks" press conference held in Seoul, Aurora Chain is an improved smart contract platform that utilizes unique consensus mechanisms and blockchain features to create a more secure, efficient environment for decentralized application development.

If you wanted to hear red-meat rhetoric about New York State's regulatory approach, a fireside chat Tuesday between two of the cryptocurrency industry's most outspoken leaders delivered.

Fintech startup Circle has captured $110 million in venture capital during the largest venture capital round raised by a cryptocurrency or blockchain company to date.

Following a rough and tumble week where most major cryptocurrencies and altcoins were trapped in the red, brief signs of recovery on Monday have reversed as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple continue to drop in price.

"It's all cost and no revenue," Halsey Minor, CEO of Live Planet, an immersive video startup, told CoinDesk in an interview at Consensus 2018.

Belarus considers the digitization of the economy a top priority and is developing a resolution promoting digital economy for a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, local news BelTA reports May 15.

Ripple has launched a new initiative, Xpring, that will provide investments and grants to entrepreneurs using the XRP token and the XRP ledger, Ripple announced on their blog yesterday, May 14.

Trading and clearing platform LedgerX has launched a new Bitcoin savings product that is licensed by the US Commodities Future Trading Commission, Forbes reported May 15.

San Francisco-based Coinbase has announced the launch of a range of new products designed to attract institutional organizations to the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem.

Boston-based Circle Internet Financial Ltd., a digital currency products developer, has closed a $110 mln fundraising round led by mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain, Bloomberg reports May 15.

Nebula Genomics and Longenisis, two leading firms in artificial intelligence and blockchain technology for healthcare, are developing a platform for the storage and exchange of genomic data, according to an announcement May 15.

On May 8, developers released a planned improvement to Ethereum's network - a new version of the code of Casper.

A new partnership between IBM and carbon credits startup Veridium Labs Ltd will see carbon credits issued on the Stellar blockchain, streamlining the trade of carbon offset credits in an open market.

Buying a bottle of water quickly and spontaneously using cryptocurrency is still a massive challenge, but the company behind a new ecosystem says its technology will make it easy for crypto holders to use their funds for everyday purchases - all without creating a headache for merchants.

Consumer electronics corporation HTC has unveiled "The first native blockchain phone", HTC Exodus, which will launch with support for multiple blockchains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum networks, PCMag reported May 15.

European Central Bank board member Yves Mersch has said that banks should "Segregate" their dealings in cryptocurrencies from other activities, Reuters reported May 14.

A Bitcoin Cash upgrade that will both increase block size from 8MB to 32MB and add or reactivate Bitcoin script operation codes has been activated today, May 15.

eToro, the social investing platform, is launching a full-fledged cryptocurrency exchange and mobile wallet and expanding into the United States.

The three co-founders of cryptocurrency startup Centra Tech have been formally indicted for running fraudulent ICO, according to a statement May 14 from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has announced the launch of the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate and Real-Time Index in partnership with UK-based digital asset exchange Crypto Facilities.

U.S. regulators are still looking into cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings, but don't aim to suppress the industry, according to comments made during a panel at CoinDesk's Consensus 2018 conference in New York.

Microsoft-powered search engine Bing has joined other internet giants in announcing it will ban cryptocurrency-related advertisements on its network by July 2018, according to an official blog post today, May 15.

Amazon Web Services, the tech giant's cloud computing arm, is partnering with ConsenSys' blockchain startup Kaleido to offer simplified blockchain cloud platforms for its clients, CNBC reports today, May 15.Kaleido is a blockchain business cloud that helps enterprises build and manage blockchain platforms without having to start from scratch, and is based on the Ethereum blockchain.

Announced Tuesday, Circle has closed a $110 million Series E fundraising, a figure that effectively values the startup at over $3 billion, according to figures from the company.

The Two former leads of JPMorgan's blockchain program unveiled a new startup, a decentralized app store, Fortune reported yesterday, May 14.Amber Baldet and Patrick Mylund Nielsen, both of whom held lead positions at JP Morgan's blockchain platform Quorum, have announced the release of a new startup, Clovyr, where users can browse decentralized apps, developer programs, and distributed ledgers.

Enigma will conduct the first public demonstration of its privacy-oriented, blockchain-based protocol at CoinDesk's Consensus 2018 conference on Tuesday.