​​⁠Brave has launched Brave Ads, an option that enables its users to earn BAT tokens for watching ads

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⁠Electronics giant Samsung invested 2.6 million euro in hardware crypto security firm Ledger

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⁠Binance has reportedly launched a new service in Singapore, albeit with limited features

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⁠Bitspark will release a Philippine Peso backed stablecoin for money transfers dubbed “peg.PHP”

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⁠A new job position at the SEC for a Crypto Specialist will pay up to $239,000 per year

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⁠Japan’s Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso urged reporters to stop referring to virtual currencies and switch to the newly-proposed legal name crypto assets

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⁠Ripple sold $169.42 million worth of XRP in Q1 2019, up over 31% from the preceding quarter, the firm’s latest quarterly XRP Markets Report has revealed

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⁠A 13-count indictment was filed in the U.S. charging two men with the theft of 10.88 bitcoin (worth ~$59,000) as part of an allegedly fraudulent scheme involving over 50 bitcoin

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⁠The U.S. SEC and CFTC have jointly issued an alert warning investors against fraudulent websites purporting to operate advisory and trading businesses

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⁠The third-largest Japanese bank by assets, SMBC, will leverage R3’s Marco Polo blockchain for trade finance

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⁠At least 95% of crypto crimes investigated by law enforcement involve bitcoin, the co-founder of Chainalysis claims

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⁠Japanese online broker Monex Group is planning to start trading in their United States cryptocurrency exchange in July

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​​⁠The spot trading service of Chicago-based cryptocurrency exchange EriX is about to be launched, according to unnamed sources

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​​⁠Although JPM Coin has been widely criticized by the community, the U.S. banking giant continues to explore blockchain and, more importantly, find use cases for it

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​​⁠New enterprise-targeting crypto mining malware Beapy surged to over 12,000 unique infection across 732 organizations since March, according Symantec researchers

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​​The footwear giant Nike has filed a trademark application for the phrase “Cryptokicks" with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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​​American rapper Lil Pump has started accepting bitcoin payments through his merch store Unhappy

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​​The Russian Ministry of Economic Development proposed to pilot the use of crypto as an experiment in Moscow and three Russian regions

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​​26 stablecoins will be launched by United Kingdom-based cryptocurrency payment processor Wirex as part of a partnership with Stellar

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​​Crypto lender Genesis processed $425 million in loans over the first quarter of 2019

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