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The World Economic Forum has created what it claims is the first ever global consortium dedicated to designing a framework for the global governance of digital currencies.

Tether is now offering a gold-backed stablecoin, XAUT, which represents ownership of one troy ounce of gold held in a Swiss vault controlled by the company.

The Supreme Court of India has this listened to further hearings in the landmark case against the central bank’s ban on banks’ dealings with crypto-related businesses.

Crypto lending company Celsius will add compounding interest on deposited tokens starting on February 1.

Japan appears to have reversed its earlier stance on CBDCs as Facebook’s Libra and China’s digital yuan pressure decision makers to release a digital yen.

Italian winery adopts NFC-enabled closures to its wines, adding tasting notes, reviews, and blockchain-based authentication.

Bitcoin figures continue to highlight the dangers of U.S. economic policy as debt hits record highs of $23 trillion and dollars keep getting printed.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse predicts that initial public offerings will become a more common feature of the cryptocurrency and blockchain space in 2020.

Ripple’s quarterly sales dropped from $251.51 million in Q2 2019 to just $13.08 million in Q4 2019 due to removal of programmatic sales.

Bitcoin’s consolidation culminated with a downside break below the $8.3K support but bulls are fighting to hold the price above the 200-day moving average.

Modern crypto exchanges often have audited financials, chief compliance officers, and seek out regulators without hesitation. Will insurance be the next step?

According to a Facebook post by Alexander Vinnik’s lawyer, Zoe Konstantopoulou, the alleged BTC-e money launderer has successfully been extradited to France.

The U.S. SEC has requested that Kik Interactive Inc. provided detailed information about its operations since it released its native token, Kin.

The chairman of the securities market regulator of India urges exploration of the best possible usages of blockchain for security markets.

Data shows Litecoin is not “digital silver” but a slight correlation between LTC and silver can provide insight into the digital asset’s future returns.

A Chainalysis report finds more exchange hacks in 2019, but less money stolen than in heists from previous years.

MIT’s crypto research group said the crypto and blockchain space is an experimental playground paving the way for a central bank digital currency.

Major global economists credit Facebook’s Libra with pushing the world to reconsider the U.S. dollar as the world’s anchor currency at WEF panel in Davos.

Swiss cryptocurrency financial firm Amun AG launched a derivative giving investors inverse exposure to Bitcoin, called 21Shares Short Bitcoin.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos at a digital currency-centric panel, Calibra’s David Marcus focused on the issues of the unbanked as the primary use case.

The Bank of International Settlements’s new survey revealed that only 10% of central banks are likely to issue a CBDC for the general public in the short term.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, aiding sustainability through supply chain tracking via blockchain is one of the more discussed topics.

Greece’s Council of State ruled to extradite former operator of now-shuttered crypto exchange BTC-e Alexander Vinnik to France, against the wishes of Russia.

Gemini becomes the first crypto exchange and custody service to complete the SOC 2 Type 2 security inspection.

One disgruntled employee and his accomplice stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Japanese project’s Bitcoin wallets because of disagreements with management.

An uncertain regulatory climate has led cryptocurrency mining companies to seek opportunities elsewhere, rather than in Quebec.

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance invested in blockchain data monetization startup Numbers.

Adult entertainment website Pornhub has added a new crypto payment option after PayPal had abruptly stopped servicing its models in late 2019.

The World Economic Forum has released a toolkit for policymakers regarding the creation of central bank digital currencies.

Blockvest obtained a small victory in a case against an elderly couple accusing it of unlawful business conduct, but this may not matter in the long run.