The crypto derivatives market will be 20 times the size of the underlying spot BTC market by the end of 2020, amid a recent flurry of exchange offerings, CoinFLEX CEO Mark Lamb forecasts. More and more hedge funds and more and more financial experts realize…

South Korea has the highest blockchain patent grant rate, followed by Japan, according to London-based law firm Withers & Rogers. South Korea has the highest patent grant rate (54%), followed by Japan (17%), and the United States (16%), with China significantly…

More bolivar traffic appeared on P2P exchange Localbitcoins. Venezuelans traded more bolivars for Bitcoin (BTC) than ever before last week. Data from Coin Dance, which tracks trading activity on P2P exchanges Localbitcoins, Paxful and Bisq, confirmed the…

Velas is a self-learning and self-optimizing AIDPoS blockchain platform for secure, interoperable, extremely scalable transactions and smart contracts. The Velas blockchain uses neural networks optimized by Artificial Intuition to enhance its consensus algorithm…

Ukraine's first futuristic capsule hotel is set to open in Kiev on August 20. And it will be accepting crypto as one of the payment options. Although capsule hotels have been popular in Asia for decades, Ukraine will see its first high-tech capsule hotel…

German startup Fundament has obtained regulatory approval to sell $280 million-worth of a real estate-backed ethereum token to retail investors. Berlin-based firm has obtained approval from Germany’s financial regulator, BaFIN, for the 250 million euro ($280…

Digital currencies are generating increasing interest from investors and traders, says the CEO of United States brokerage giant TD Ameritrade. TD Ameritrade CEO, Tim Hockey, explains that customers are showing increasing demand for cryptocurrencies and willingness…

Utah County becomes the third jurisdiction in the United States to offer blockchain-based mobile voting in their municipal primary election. One of the 29 counties of the U.S. state of Utah, Utah County will enable eligible voters to participate in the upcoming…

The price of cryptocurrency, Tron (TRX), has fallen by over 13.5% in the past 12 hours. This followed news that CEO, Justin Sun, had postponed his charity lunch with Warren Buffett. The reason given for the postponement was a case of kidney stones for Tron…

Morgan Creek Digital founder Anthony Pompliano is introducing an investment thesis he calls a “radical protection portfolio” centered on investing 5% of one’s available cash in Bitcoin. Although past performance does not indicate future results, Pompliano…

The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on regulatory frameworks for cryptocurrencies and blockchain next week. It would hold an open session titled “Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain” on July 30. Circle CEO Jeremy…

The Philippines-based UnionBank has successfully completed a pilot of a blockchain-based cross-border remittance from the Philippines to Singapore. The pilot is the result of a partnership between UnionBank and Singapore-based OCBC Bank, wherein the parties…

Leaked images from the Cardano GitHub show the protocol transitioning from centralized nodes to the more community-run decentralized network, with Ada staking, in under three months.Images from the open-source Daedalus wallet GitHub, the primary wallet for…

Bitcoin has dipped back below the $10,000 mark as the crypto markets are seeing near-total red. Having clung to its five-figure price point in recent days, a 3.2% drop on the day has brought BTC down to around $9.740 by press time. Earlier on its 7-day chart…

The New York Times Company has revealed its ongoing blockchain publishing experiments.The New York Times and partner companies will run a proof-of-concept from July until late 2019 to find a way to maintain trust in digital files. The project aims to store…

Starting this fall, the biggest airline in Scandinavia, "Norwegian" is accepting bitcoin for ticket payments and the owners also holds a large amount in BTC. They will also open up an exchange (Norwegian Block Exchange - NBX), in August for Norwegian residents.…

The CEO of blockchain and crypto hedge fund Pantera says Bitcoin’s past trend lines indicate the leading cryptocurrency is likely to hit $42,000 this year, followed by $356,000 a couple years later. "I know sounds crazy. But essentially we’re halfway back…

Despite being set up in Geneva, Facebook’s Libra project has not responded to a request by Switzerland’s data privacy regulator for more information. The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) had requested further details on Libra…