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ING, the Netherlands megabank blazing a trail with extra privacy measures for enterprise blockchains, has come up with such a solution for the Corda distributed ledger system built by R3. Announced Tuesday at the annual developer conference CordaCon, ING has helped solve a security/privacy trade-off that currently bedevils Corda users.

Binance has joined the governance council of Kakao's Klaytn blockchain network as the project scrambles for partners and "Use cases" and seeks to building its legitimacy.

US announced on Twitter that the American subsidiary of Binance surpassed $10 million in daily trading volume for the first time.

Crypto-based extortion basically the process of using spam-flinging botnet armies to "Ransom" dirty pictures and compromising information in exchange for bitcoin has turned virtual crime into child's play.

The pace of change in the world of tech is famously fast, but we scarcely contemplate the way in which this breakneck speed might influence the viability of data over time.

Blockchain platform TBCASoft, technology behemoth IBM and telecommunications conglomerate SoftBank announced on Oct. 22 a collaboration to adopt a cross-carrier telecommunications blockchain payment solution.

Tuesday, Oct. 22 - Crypto markets are mostly showing red candlesticks, while Bitcoin fails to impress with a sudden drop below the $8,100 price point.

Swiss crypto broker Bitcoin Suisse has purchased a minority stake of CoinRoutes Inc., a provider of pan-exchange smart order routing and algorithmic trading software.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, named Russian President Vladimir Putin as the most influential person in the blockchain industry.

In a surprise AMA session on Oct. 21, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, discussed the progress Cardano made in the past weeks, as well as the future of Cardano and ADA. Hoskinson answered questions asked by the Cardano community, where he revealed that the company has been working on several pilot projects that will bring Cardano to the masses.

United States Congress is considering a draft bill that claims all managed stablecoins must be seen as investment contracts and therefore as securities.

Algorand has been certified as sharia-compliant, the company said Monday.

Financial Action Task Force's crypto regulations will trigger a shift of criminal activity from Bitcoin to privacy coins, CipherTrace's CEO says.

Overstock's venture capital arm Medici Ventures has invested in PeerNova, a startup that develops blockchain-based solutions for financial institutions to synchronize their data across multiple systems.

Morgan Creek Digital has raised the first $60.9 million tranche of its $250 million target for its second venture capital fund.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of social media giant Facebook, plans to tell United States Congress that Libra will not launch anywhere in the world until U.S. regulators approve it.

SAN FRANCISCO - The Trump administration acted to deflate the bitcoin bubble of 2017 by allowing the introduction of futures products, a former official said Monday.

Mark Zuckerberg will tell Congress that Libra can bring financial services to the world's 1.7 billion unbanked.

As part of its quarterly token burning scheme, Huobi Global has announced that it's burned 11.3 million Huobi Tokens worth approximately $40m. The Singaporean exchange reports a strong quarter of trading, with continued growth across its spot and derivatives market.

Anthony Pompliano's Morgan Creek Capital Management firm established a blockchain fund to explore opportunities using distributed ledgers.

Congress may consider a bill to classify stablecoins - cryptocurrencies whose values are pegged to a fiat currency or other assets - as securities.

Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is creating a revenue-sharing platform allowing professional sports players to tokenize themselves as debt securities, starting with an offering of his own Ethereum-based "Professional Athlete Investment Tokens" as early as this week, ESPN reported.

The New York Department of Financial Services is revisiting its controversial virtual currency license, the regulator's head said Tuesday.

A Yale professor and Goldman Sachs veteran are planning to complete a new project of a blockchain-based Facebook rival in 2020.Returning control of data to usersDavid Gelernter, a Yale's professor of computer science and Mirror Worlds creator, and Rob Rosenthal, a 19-year veteran of Goldman Sachs, are collaborating on a new social network called Revolution Populi, Business Insider reports Oct. 22.Gelernter and Rosenthal are planning to ensure user privacy with blockchain technology, also providing maximum security and enabling decentralization.

The German Federal Ministry of Finance has expressed concerns about rising use of privacy tokens due to their association with criminal activities and difficulties in tracking them.

Cornerstone Global Management announced a partnership with the Litecoin Foundation to integrate Litecoin into its crypto pay and pension plan program, CP3. In a blog post, the payment solution startup revealed that it will be using Loafwallet as the preferred Litecoin wallet for users to store their LTC. The move comes as part of the efforts put up by the Foundation to add utility to the token.

US announced that it will be listing IOTA on its retail platform for U.S. cryptocurrency investors.

San Francisco-based blockchain startup Ripple has announced three new appointments to its global regulatory team and that the company will be joining the Blockchain Association.

Bitmain, the world's largest maker of bitcoin-mining computers, chose an old Alcoa aluminum-smelting plant in Rockdale, Texas, for a new bitcoin mine.

An ING executive warned banks may drop Facebook as a customer if the social media giant continues with its experimental foray into cryptocurrency without addressing regulatory concerns.