Despite the US not recognising virtual currency as legal tender, a Texas town near Dallas might be introducing its own cryptocurrency - if mayoral candidate Winston Edmonson gets his way. Blue Coin would be a ‘municipal cryptocurrency’ to generate revenue…

The OneLedger ICO and OLT Token offers a protocol to facilitate enterprise integration of blockchain technology. Despite a well-designed system and a strong team, we see little in the way of an imminent MVP, and competitors who have already made significant…

The bearish sentiment in crypto markets continues with news that China might be introducing additional cryptocurrency regulation as a means to combat what it considers dangers to its financial system.

A bulky wallet may be one of the smaller irritants in life that makes cryptocurrencies and mobile payment options attractive, but some people take the bulge in their jeans (and their personal security) seriously. Meow Ludo Disco Gamma Meow Meow's Bitcoin…

VeChain (VEN) is the biggest winner in this morning’s trading as the cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb announces plans to list the token on its exchange. The price of VEN tokens experienced a sudden surge in value early this morning, from $2.25 at just before…

According to a Reuters report, Amber Baldet, a coding prodigy and leader of the JPMorgan Blockchain Center of Excellence, is set to leave the giant bank to start her own venture.

Social media token Steem is heating up in anticipation of the Hivemind protocol, which is expected to enable community functionality on the Steemit platform. An update was posted yesterday on the Steemit blog, and the STEEM token saw a threefold increase…

Zilliqa (ZIL) has released the first blockchain built around the use of sharding: a technology that enables platforms to increase in size and capacity and could potentially match the transaction rates of Visa. Their platform’s shard technology will address…

there are several serious and unresolved questions around the Ethereum project. How will it scale? Will the supply be capped? Is it moving from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake? Will it fork on news of the new Bitmain ASIC miner? The uncertainty is what currently…

The NKN ICO (NNC Token) aims to reinvent the Internet. Ordinarily we might stop reading here. But a stellar team (with a Turing Award-winning advisor who co-invented public-key cryptography) suggests that NKN and their 'New Kind of Network' data transmission…

"After I launched the first ICO in 2014 there were a number of projects that added tremendous value to the cryptocurrency space. Today some offer a little more than a whitepaper and a smile... the ICO was never meant to act as a business model." - Antoine…

IBM has announced further developments to its Blockchain platform, which it hopes will attract more businesses and institutions to integrate with its own Distributed Ledger Technology. Straight from Steve Jobs' playbook, the vertical integration of hardware…

The Alchemint ICO and SDT Token offer a stablecoin management system built on the NEO platform. Tied to currencies including the USD, Chinese Yuan, and the Euro, the idea is to decentralize the stablecoin model for the NEO Smart Economy. Great idea, now where's…

Just as Ripple is being excoriated for offering large payments to exchanges to list their coin, Tron (TRX) illustrated the value of a listing after South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb, announced they would list the coin, resulting in a $1.2bn increase…

First it was Bitcoin. Now it’s Bitcoin Cash. And soon, a portfolio of other cryptocurrencies with “bigger economic weight”, all tracked via forensic tools developed by Chainalysis. Chainalysis announced on...

With its own leading actors, overnight stars, bitter feuds and power struggles, the world of crypto celebrities has become a real-life soap opera: All the gossip and sensationalism of Hollywood, but played out against an epic backdrop of rapidly shifting…

OTC crypto exchanges provide a means to trade cryptocurrency between individuals. The stock market is heavily regulated, no matter where you live: And although crypto was intended to circumvent regulations, flashy headlines about massive price increases quickly…

The Reserve Bank of India has introduced a blanket ban on regulated businesses dealing with virtual currencies. The regulation is just another move in the global crypto crackdown, but such a firm stance stance hasn’t been seen since the China ban. Is this…