Binance has introduced a new way to deal with the Tether Bomb - an affectionate term for the fact that nobody really knows if the fiat currency to back a couple of billion dollars is actually there or not. You can now exchange Tethers (USDT) for True Dollars…

Ripple just lost half a billion dollars in market cap, at least until someone finds Matthew Mellon’s key. His unexpected death left hundreds of millions of dollars in blockchain limbo, and his family is scrambling to find a way to access them. 

In partnership with the American Idol-affiliated Starmaker App, a platform designed to give musicians fair pay for their work, ICST, has announced the launch of its own blockchain talent competition: ISCT Idol. The winner will be announced at the end of June…

Quick Essentia code review, it's a data interoperability ICO, some funny terminology here - "Essences" are data owners, private or corporate, "Synergies" are the links designed to help data services operate. Sure, why not. But hey, they call their robot assistant…

Online gambling Is a $52 billion global industry. The Augur Ethereum-based decentralized oracle and prediction market is seeking to disrupt this industry using its REP token. It’s been in development since 2014 and its beta is online, enabling bets on anything.…

Our Oasis Labs review focuses on Ekiden Protocol, a new blockchain built to address the issues of scalability and security without sacrificing cost. An impressive team of seasoned entrepreneurs leads the Oasis team: and the prototype boasted 100x less cost…

California has a history of eccentric candidates, from Ronald Reagan to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now there’s a crypto candidate too, a self-proclaimed 'technodemocrat', and he’s planning to rebuild the Tyranny of the Majority - wait, sorry - democracy, with…

There’s another contender for America’s wackiest presidential candidate, and he’s likely to gain the support of every Bitcoin hodler above eighteen. John McAfee—the drug-cooking, crypto-shilling, probably-own-dick-munching antivirus tycoon who spent half…

Investors have been queueing up around the block to try and purchase QKC, with the QuarkChain price experiencing a sudden boom in value following multiple exchange listings. A peer-to-peer platform, QuarkChain's ICO only finished yesterday with only a fraction…

The Microsoft Github acquisition, announced today, has already sent shivers of apprehension down the spines of the platform's community. Microsoft has stressed the buy-out won't change a thing, but they are already installing their own CEO. Uncertainty reigns…

Crypto Briefing interviews the co-founder of Orvium, a blockchain publishing project that plans to offer a platform where scientists and academics can publish and access work in a communal and collaborative environment. Publishers have dominated the sector…

You might think that the sagging crypto prices would be a sign of institutional money fleeing the market. However, recent research has found that the opposite is true: despite the sleepy bears, 2018 is shaping up to be a record year for institutional funds…

Cryptocurrency capital gains taxes are becoming a point of interest for governments. In 2017 the combined market cap for all cryptocurrencies rocketed up from $15 billion to over $600 billion dollars. So how do you calculate your crypto cap gains taxes to…

Good news, Satoshi! There's a new way for traders to exchange high volumes of Bitcoin, without crashing the market. The Republic Protocol project announced an open-source solution that will allow third parties to create a "dark pool" for anonymous cryptocurrency…

Valerie Szczepanik was elevated to the newly created position of Senior Advisor for Digital Assets and Innovation. In her new capacity, she will advise the Division of Corporation Finance on cryptocurrencies, ICOs and other blockchain-related inventions.

So this is an Ankr Code Review, not an ICO review, but I'm looking very carefully at the consensus protocol here. Proof of Useful Work sounds intriguing. Ankr explain they're creating 'Distributed Cloud Computing on Trusted Hardware' and they have a lot of…