Coinbase’s new partnership with a digital gift card startup will enable customers to buy retail goods and services using crypto assets.
In comparison to the overall crypto market fall, Ripple considers this to be its best performance in Q2 so far. The company also boasts on adding new customers to the XRP ecosystem.
An announcement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said the decision concerning bitcoin ETFs of investment firm Direxion is postponed until September 21.
BitMart Exchange, a digital asset trading platform, has announced its plans to launch a new community listing market for its utility token called BMX.
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Check out the report jointly created by OK Blockchain Capital and Coinspeaker covering main trends of blockchain industry over July 14 – July 22, 2018, with strong focus placed on the market overview, analysis of the newly listed and closed public sales projects, along with topical news on global governmental policies.
Professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland will conduct an external audit of the Tezos Foundation, which is the first time when a blockchain organization is accepted as an audit client by a Big Four firm.
Decentralized prediction protocol Augur, which finally launched in full July 9, has got under fire for speculating on death benefits.
Initial coin offerings (ICOs), the funding mechanism for releasing new digital currencies, are an enigma. They are at once a vital component for the proliferation of the decentralized economy, and they are one of the most controversial aspects of its development.
The leading airline operator has launched a digital wallet that can be used to pay for the purchases at 18 merchants at the moment. The private blockchain was developed in collaboration with Microsoft and KPMG’s Digital Village.
It became known that local authorities of Chinese mountain region Xinjiang are going to haul illegal mining activities before summer 2018 will come to a close.
KT Corporation will use the blockchain technology to streamline several of its processes including energy trading, data roaming and ID verification.
Investing into blockchain startups can be rather challenging for small investors. Nevertheless, working with funds can open new opportunities for them.
XMR Wallet is one of the few wallet platforms which conducted a third-party audit and published its results publicly. All the issues found are already resolved.
Ethereum-based games developed by a group called Team JUST turned out to be Ponzi scams serving as an experiment to gauge how far greed can drive people.
Government officials in Xiongan New Area have established cooperation with ConsenSys with a view to create blockchain solutions for China’s “dream city.”