Joeri Cant

Virginia’s state legislature looks to study blockchain technology in a bid to protect voter records and election results.

China’s National Intellectual Property Administration is further streamlining the rules in regard to the guidelines of blockchain patent applications.

Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain is reportedly planning to layoff another 50 percent of its employees in advance of the Bitcoin halving coming in May.

Senior software developer at major crypto firm Ripple announced that he is leaving the company after six and a half years to focus on work at Coil.

Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex confirms data leak after sending out awkward email to customers.

Bitcoin mining farms in the Chinese province of Sichuan are under pressure from local authorities to scale down operations due to electricity shortages.

Ethereum researcher turned North Korea advisor has been released on a $1 million bail, and is allowed to travel but will have to stay out of California.

Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi is launching a local gateway in Indonesia to enable fiat-to-crypto trading between the Indonesian Rupiah and Tether.

ETC Labs works to ensure full compatibility between ETC and ETH as the upcoming Agharta hard fork is supposed to create backward compatibility between the two.

Google has banned major Ethereum browser extension MetaMask’s android client from its Play app store and rejects MetaMask’s appeal.

The Central Bank of the Bahamas is planning to pilot a digital version of the Bahamian dollar in the Exuma district starting December 27.

Tencent, the operator of Chinese social media app WeChat, is planning to create a digital currency research group to further advance blockchain research projects.

Head of the digital currency research institute at China’s central bank Mu Changchun said that the digital form of the yuan will be different from Bitcoin and stablecoins.

Binance’s cryptocurrency trading platform for United States-based users, Binance.US, is asking its community to beta test the upcoming Binance.US iOS app.

The U.S. SEC imposes a $250,000 penalty against Blockchain of Things for conducting an unregistered ICO.

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced that it has acquired Circle’s over-the-counter desk, Circle Trading.

Bitcoin is crashing below the $6,600 price mark, dropping $350 over the past few hours.

Security tokens platform TokenSoft hired former U.S. SEC Senior Counsel as its chief legal officer to work on the firm’s regulatory compliance.

ETC Labs Core has now been rebranded to ETC Core to help the company differentiate itself from ETC Labs.

Former head of trading at major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has joined rival crypto exchange CoinFlex as chief strategy officer.

Chicago-based crypto exchange ErisX has notified its members and participants that it will start trading futures tomorrow in a strange notice.

China’s smart internet courts have reportedly applied blockchain and artificial intelligence to decide on millions of legal actions.

Within less than 24 hours since Cardano’s testnet went live, ADA holders staked more than 5 billion ADA coins, worth around $195 million.

A product developer witnesses Litecoin network activity that reminds him of the Aug. 10 dust attack on the network.

New York Attorney General continues to push to investigate the alleged multimillion dollar coverup involving Bitfinex and Tether.

Law firm Miller Thomson wants to exhume the body of Gerald Cotten, the deceased owner of now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX.

Chinese Bitcoin mining giant Canaan Creative’s shares have seen a 40 percent drop in value since its initial public offering in November.

Anthem, the second-largest health insurance company in the U.S., plans to use blockchain technology to secure medical data for its 40 million members.

Hybrid intelligence firm Cindicator announced the launch of Cindicator Capital, a crypto hedge fund based on hybrid Intelligence data as well as quantitative research.

Shopin founder and former CEO Eran Eyal pleads guilty to felony charges for running a fraudulent initial coin offering that raised more than $42 million.