Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Bitfinex's parent company has received $1 billion in hard and soft commitments for its exchange token sale, according to a shareholder involved in the process.

GSR Capital has finally closed on its investment in tZERO, Overstock.com's security token trading platform, after months of delays and revisions to the deal.

Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz said that he expects bitcoin to beat its all-time-high price within 18 months.

Blockchain security and cryptocurrency custody firm BitGo has appointed a veteran Wall Street trader as its head of financial services, according to a press release published on May 9.

Dapper Labs, the creator of CryptoKitties, has released a new Ethereum "Smart wallet" called Dapper.

Economist and notorious cryptocurrency critic Nouriel Roubini said that "Cryptos is the mother and father of all bubbles" at the Salt conference in New York.

Crypto custody provider BitGo has hired Nick Carmi, former head of forex trading at a number of Wall Street banks.

JPMorgan Chase - the United States' largest bank with over $2.62 trillion in assets - has reportedly rehauled the infrastructure of its blockchain platform Quorum with the help of Microsoft.

A direct descendant of an Italian dynasty that ran a banking empire in the 1400s is launching a new bank focusing on "Digital-centric commerce and investing," according to a news release published on May 8.Prince Lorenzo de' Medici, president of the eponymous Medici Bank, said he has been motivated by advancements in blockchain technology to start the new venture, which aims to "Create seamless, digital customer experiences and expand financial opportunity across global markets."

A group of cryptocurrency trading firms has come together to discuss ways to prevent the rising number of hacks and scams in the industry.

View Bitcoin's dominance rate has hit 8-month highs, suggesting investor confidence in the recent price rally.

The president and CEO of Samsung SDS - an IT and consultancy subsidiary of the South Korean tech conglomerate Samsung Group - has revealed the firm is including blockchain as one of the key technologies for its "Digital Transformation Network."

Proceedings from yesterday's hack of cryptocurrency exchange Binance have been moved to seven addresses, crypto news outlet The Block reports on May 9.

Social networking giant Facebook is hiring PayPal staff ahead of its alleged cryptocurrency launch, Bloomberg reported on May 8.

First proposed in 2018, the update would expand the network's smart contract flexibility and offer unprecedented privacy, enabling even the most complex smart contracts to be virtually indistinguishable from regular transactions.

Thursday, May 8 - after a brief market falter yesterday following the $40 million hack of major crypto exchange, crypto markets are showing resilience, with bitcoin rallying above the $6,000 mark, as Coin360 data shows.

OneCoin, a controversial cryptocurrency issuer accused of running a $4 billion pyramid scheme, has been sued by a former investor over her losses.

Prince Lorenzo de' Medici - a descendant of the famed Renaissance-era Italian banking family, the House of Medici - has opened a bank in Puerto Rico.

JPMorgan's technology teams spread across three continents have been busy updating the bank's Quorum blockchain platform over the past six months, replacing key parts of its privacy-enhancing components.

Over 34 million EOS worth $167 million was permanently removed from circulation.

Over a year after its outright ban, Facebook has further lifted some restrictions on cryptocurrency and blockchain related advertisements.

Most recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook is talking to major payment networks Visa and MasterCard to raise a $1 billion for its crypto project, which reportedly entails a stablecoin along with a crypto-powered online payments system.

Not only has Medici Land Governance begun adding property records on the FLO blockchain, but T-zero is adding digital locate receipts, which locate the ownership of a stock, into FLO to mitigate naked short selling.

Bitcoin's price rose above $6,000 on most cryptocurrency exchanges for the first time today in nearly six months.

American blockchain startup Data Gumbo Corp. has raised $6 million from major energy companies, including the venture wing of Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company Saudi Aramco.

The chairmen of two United States financial regulators, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission testified before Congress today, May 8.The hearings before the Senate Committee on Appropriations served to inform the Senate on the agencies' budgetary needs while outlining various objectives and initiatives.

Popular crypto exchange Zebpay has announced that it is going down under.

The global exchange website Currency.com has announced that it will be offering a tokenized form of Belarussian government bonds, according to a press release on May 7.According to the press release, users can now use fiat money or cryptocurrencies bitcoin and ether to invest in and trade Belarussian government bonds.

An ethereum protocol for programmatic lending, MakerDAO emerged as a clear market leader in part for its rock-bottom interest rates of 0.5 percent.

A group major cryptocurrency traders is considering the idea of creating a blacklist of counterparties engaged in nefarious activities in the crypto space, Bloomberg reported on May 8.At a meeting in Chicago on Tuesday, a group of traders from 35 digital assets firms including such industry players as trading firm DRW Holdings Inc.'s Cumberland crypto unit, Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital Holdings, and tech startup Ripple proposed to create a blacklist for parties who reneged on trades and engaged in dubious activities.