Binance has reportedly been in talks to get involved in Facebook’s Libra project, by listing the coin when it’s live or running a node on the blockchain. CEO Changpeng Zhao explained his interest first and foremost is listing coins with lots of users. Assuming…

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of South Korea's Financial Services Commission has revealed plans to bring cryptocurrency exchanges under its direct regulation. As reported FIU is to shift away from its current practice of regulating. FIU official revealed…

Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle says developments in China indicate that the country’s hardline anti-crypto stance is “softening.” “We have been seeing, a softening in the Chinese stance towards crypto. Recently, a major Chinese court defended that Bitcoin…

The European Central Bank (ECB) has issued a new report indicating that it plans to use more on-chain data to better monitor the crypto markets. The report reveals that the ECB has already built a system that uses “high-quality” aggregated data available…

Kik laid out a paragraph-by-paragraph rebuttal of the SEC’s arguments and flatly denied its core allegation that the company conducted an unregistered securities offering. CEO Ted Livingston told that the SEC was “playing dirty” in its June complaint by trying…

Seychelles’ stock exchange has just listed a tokenized security for trading, becoming the first in the world to do so. MERJ, a recently launched exchange, clearing agency, and registry in full compliance with the Seychelles Financial Services Authority, announced…

Most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day by press time, as Bitcoin briefly spiked above $12,000 and subsequently fell. The Bitcoin price is currently up 0.49% on the day, trading at $11,774, according to Coin360. Looking…

A tax bill aimed at refining the Internal Revenue Service’s treatment of cryptocurrencies has moved to the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee. The Virtual Value Tax Fix Act, first legislators first proposed last Congressional session, has…

Binance introduced 8th IEO on its Launchpad platform. Dubbed Perlin, the project is a scalable smart contracts platform, which aims to transform and accelerate the $11 trillion global trade market into a completely digital, autonomous industry. The new token…

Ripple’s development arm Xpring is backing Equilibrium Connect, a company focused on building open-source tools for the Interledger protocol (ILP). Ripple built the ILP to give financial institutions a way to settle payments across a wide variety of different…

North Korea is funding its weapons of mass destruction via hacks of banks and crypto exchanges, says a confidential U.N. report. The report – researched by “independent experts” and presented to the U.N. Security Council North Korea sanctions committee last…

The correlation between digital and physical gold has almost doubled in the past three months, fresh data from Bloomberg reveals. The statistics reveal that while the correlation between Bitcoin (BTC) and gold over the past year was at 0.496, in the past…

Bitcoin started its journey upward at the very start of April and rose from ~$4,000 to almost $14,000 before experiencing a dip to $9,000 recently. A cryptocurrency analyst, Andrew Rennhack says Tether (USDT) has been the force behind Bitcoin’s price gain…

New Jersey’s Bureau of Securities has announced enforcement action against two state-based initial coin offerings. Canadian and American regulators coordinated under the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) and executed by New Jersey…

Bitcoin really does function as a safe haven asset in 2019, another source has told as the United States-China trade war rages. Investors looking for an escape from yuan devaluation are flocking to Bitcoin as well as traditional fallbacks, says Chris Reinertsen.…

According to a report the Czech Republic’s transposition of the European Union (EU)’s Fifth AML Directive (AMLD5) looks set to impose yet stricter requirements on cryptocurrency firms than that required by the European Union’s bloc-wide anti-money-laundering(AML)…