The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has requested, along with a number of other jurisdictions, that the companies in the Libra Association provide details on how they plan to protect user data. The ICO has released a joint statement on global…

The trade war between China and the United States intensified as China allowed its currency, the yuan, to fall to its lowest level since 2008. This is seen as a retaliatory move by China on the latest tariff hikes by the U.S. If the nations enter into a currency…

Coinbase says it is working on support for eight new cryptocurrencies. The expansion is part of a larger agenda by the exchange to give customers access to 90% of the aggregate market capitalization of all digital assets. Per the announcement, the exchange…

There is now a total of 204,244 ERC-20 token contracts deployed on the Etheruem mainnet. The number of tokens on the Etheruem platform grows on a regular basis, with there being about 180,000 tokens in April of this year. It has been designed to be a supporting…

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says the cryptocurrency space needs a safe habor from over-regulation which stifles innovation. Commissioner Peirce opined: We need to allow people that are interested in this space [crypto] to be involved with it in a way that…

While some analysts are already paining doom-laden scenarios for the global economy, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee doesn’t necessarily believe that a full-fledged currency war between the US and China is going to happen. He pointed out that Bitcoin no longer moves…

North Korea has netted around $2 billion by hacking banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to the United Nations (U.N.). As per the Report , the U.N. Security Council North Korea sanctions committee said that hackers formed an essential part of government…

In a major escalation against socialist president Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump’s administration has frozen all Venezuelan government assets. Action took immediate effect, with President Trump citing Maduro’s ongoing “usurpation” of power as well as human…

The stablecoin company Tether has minted 100 million USDT. The creation of new USDT tokens is often correlated with a rise in the price of Bitcoin, as Tether moves the coins to crypto exchanges like Bitfinex. Less than an hour after minting the new tokens…