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Litecoin creator Charlie Lee could be made a board member at the German bank the Litecoin Foundation - the group in which he serves as managing director - recently obtained a stake in.

Bitcoin's price shot well above $7,000 Tuesday in a dramatic move that took the cryptocurrency to a level it hasn't seen in more than a month.

July 17: Crypto markets are largely continuing to build on a major upswing that kicked off yesterday, July 16, according to Coin360 data, with virtually all of the top ten coins by market cap in the green.

Japanese internet services giant GMO Internet Inc. has today launched a new internet banking business that will leverage blockchain as a central part of its technological arsenal.

The world-renowned Chartered Financial Analyst Institute is adding blockchain and cryptocurrency curriculum to Level I and Level II of its three-phase examination.

Mastercard won a U.S. patent on Tuesday for a method of speeding up cryptocurrency payments.

Japanese internet giant SBI Holdings formally launched the public version of its cryptocurrency exchange VCTRADE, according to an official announcement July 17.

A new project for a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin that runs on the Stellar blockchain network has received backing from IBM, Reuters reports July 17.

Qiwi Blockchain Technologies, a subsidiary of the Russian e-payments firm Qiwi, plans to incentivize staff by rewarding them with a custom token.

Major League Baseball is releasing an Ethereum-based, digital, collectible game in late summer 2018.

Boeing is partnering with an artificial intelligence company to develop pilotless vehicles and other products using blockchain, it announced in a press release July 17.

Through three key acquisitions, Coinbase has gained regulatory approval to expand its asset offering and list tokens classified as securities.

A new report states the UK has the potential to become a leader in blockchain technology and the crypto economy by 2022, The Guardian reported July 16.

US computer technology multinational Oracle confirmed the general release of its blockchain platform in an official press release July 16.

Japanese digital services firm GMO Internet has just launched a new web bank that it says will soon use blockchain to facilitate payments.

Technology giant IBM has launched a new research center through a partnership with Columbia University in a move aimed to boost blockchain application development and education initiatives.

A startup blockchain company, with a team featuring former executives from Samsung Electronics, have unveiled plans to invigorate the way cryptocurrency mining is performed - creating an infrastructure designed to enhance profit and help blockchain technology become more prolific in everyday life.

The largest investment management firm in the world - BlackRock - has set up a working group to evaluate the investment potential of blockchain and cryptocurrency.

The token will be backed one-for-one with U.S. dollars held at a Nevada-charted trust company called Prime Trust, which in turn will deposit the cash at banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. IBM is partnering on the initiative with Stronghold, and said it will explore various use cases for the token with its financial institution clients.

Trade finance is possibly the busiest space in enterprise blockchain today.

U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reportedly received regulatory approval to acquire several securities firms - a move that could eventually see it supporting trading in tokens deemed as securities.

Bitcoin scaled the crucial 50-day moving average on Monday for the first time in nearly two months that does not amount to a bull breakout, technical charts indicate.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin put forward a series of open questions to the cryptocurrency community in a recent discussion with Mars Finance International WeChat group, postulating seven issues present within the blockchain ecosystem.

The world's first bank-backed cryptocurrency exchange is now open to the public after months of delays.

Mr. Smith presents three possible outcomes for Bitcoin's adoption and proliferation: Bitcoin Triumph, Bitcoin as Gold, or Bitcoin Bust.

ICOs are a unique combination of a stock purchase and a crowdfunding campaign, and they afford investors an opportunity to support platforms they believe in.

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced it will award a grant of nearly $1 million to a blockchain startup in an effort to advance the development of a decentralized energy grid infrastructure.

Thus began CoinDesk's attempts to determine the identity and intent of the individuals behind "Pied Piper Coin," a parody Twitter account inspired by the HBO series "Silicon Valley." Chronicling a plucky startup that suffers hilarious slings and arrows in its quest to remake the internet, the TV show had its characters conduct an initial coin offering in May. So, no one was exactly surprised when, a couple of days later, a Twitter account for the fictional token, Pied Piper Coin, showed up.

A crypto investor lost $50,000 on Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.

U.S.-based trading company Robinhood has added support for Dogecoin on its Robinhood Crypto platform, according to a blog post published July 16.