The IRS publishes its first guidance in five years for calculating taxes owed on cryptocurrency holdings, clearing up how hard forks should be treated Techmeme · 5 days ago
At Devcon 5, Ethereum's premier conference, Ethereum's creators admit that the original blockchain was never meant to scale and discuss how to get to Eth 2 Techmeme · 5 days ago
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance creates a system of trusted reward tokens backed by Microsoft and Intel, to incentivize teamwork in consortiums of companies Techmeme · 6 days ago
Skale Labs, parent to Skale Network, which develops a scalable and elastic blockchain network, raises $17.1M from Arrington XRP Capital and others Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Block.one settles with the SEC for $24M in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale; Block.one had raised ~$4.1B via ICO over a one-year period Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Korean exchange Upbit says it is delisting six "privacy coins" including Monero, Dash, and Zcash following June's FATF guidance and a similar delisting by OKEx Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Following JPMorgan's JPM Coin, Wells Fargo announces plans to pilot a US dollar-linked stablecoin for internal settlement beginning next year Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Winklevoss' crypto exchange Gemini launches Gemini Custody, a custody service targeting financial institutions, with support for 18 cryptocurrencies Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Filing: Blockstack raised $15.5M from its SEC-approved token offering under Reg A+, and another $7.6M in a separate token offering in Asia under Reg S Techmeme · 1 month ago
Binance launches a USD-backed stablecoin in the US in partnership with Paxos after receiving approval from NY regulators Techmeme · 1 month ago
Elliptic, which uses AI to trace and locate suspicious transactions on blockchains, raises $23M Series B led by Tokyo-based financial institution SBI Holdings Techmeme · 1 month ago
Source: judge rules Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and IP from before 2014 to the estate of Dave Kleiman in $10B lawsuit filed in 2018 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain announces a partnership with BitPay to integrate BitPay's payment architecture into its wallet service Techmeme · 2 months ago
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten launches crypto exchange for trading in bitcoin, ether, and bitcoin cash, via an Android app, with no fees for making trades Techmeme · 2 months ago
IRS sends out letters warning taxpayers that data it received from crypto exchanges shows they owe taxes related to trades over the past several years Techmeme · 2 months ago
Bakkt says it plans to launch its physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts on Sept. 23, after getting approval from NY state's financial regulator Techmeme · 2 months ago
CipherTrace: $3.1B may have been stolen through cryptocurrency exit scams and another $874M in misappropriated funds in 2019 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Sources: Coinbase and Barclays end UK partnership, started in early 2018; Coinbase partners with ClearBank, which may have asked the exchange to drop Zcash Techmeme · 2 months ago
IBM is the first major tech company to back Hedera Hashgraph, which claims its distributed ledger tech is faster and more secure than current blockchains Techmeme · 2 months ago
Coinbase tells UK customers to convert their Zcash to other coins or move it to external wallets, otherwise it will automatically convert to pounds on Aug. 26 Techmeme · 2 months ago
District judge rules that Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash, following its allegedly botched listing in 2017 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Berlin-based Bitwala, which offers a crypto banking service with a built-in bitcoin wallet, debit card, and trading options, raises €13M Series A Techmeme · 2 months ago
Sources: Chinese importers in Russia buy ~$30M worth of tether, a USD pegged crypto coin, every day, to send large sums of money back home Techmeme · 2 months ago
US files ~$100M lawsuit against BTC-e crypto exchange and a co-owner for alleged crimes including conspiracy, money laundering, and unlawful money transactions Techmeme · 3 months ago
Coinbase's VP of Engineering Tim Wagner is leaving the exchange after just over a year at the company; two other senior engineering employees are also leaving Techmeme · 3 months ago
Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain launches PIT, its first crypto exchange, which is based in London and able to trade up to 26 assets Techmeme · 3 months ago
Solana raises $20M Series A led by Multicoin Capital for its speed-focused blockchain, which, it says, processes 50K transactions/second on a 200-node testnet Techmeme · 3 months ago
Robert A. Cohen, the SEC's Cyber Unit chief, will step down in August; Cohen had led several investigations into ICOs Techmeme · 3 months ago
Berlin-based Fundament gets regulator's approval for $280M tokenized real-estate-backed bond offering on ethereum blockchain, which is open to retail investors Techmeme · 3 months ago
Mercedes Benz parent company Daimler partners with blockchain company Riddle & Code to create a hardware crypto wallet for the auto industry Techmeme · 3 months ago
Amid mounting regulatory pressures in the US, Circle says its Poloniex exchange will service non-US customers, ~70% of its users, out of a new Bermuda office Techmeme · 3 months ago
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint says it was hacked for $32M in crypto assets, of which $23M belonged to its customers Techmeme · 3 months ago
Coinsquare, a Canadian crypto exchange, buys a controlling stake in payments software startup Just Cash to bring crypto transactions to non-bank ATMs in the US Techmeme · 3 months ago
Metronome says its MET tokens can now be moved between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic blockchains, a feature that started rolling out last week Techmeme · 3 months ago
Walmart China uses VeChainThor blockchain to show customers the path a food product took, from its source to the shelves, with 23 product lines listed now Techmeme · 3 months ago
CoinMarketCap acquihires the team of Hashtag Capital, which started as a crypto trading fund, to improve the easily faked volume-weighted crypto price estimates Techmeme · 4 months ago
TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for its blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business Techmeme · 4 months ago
Israeli crypto startup Orbs says it's working with the Trump administration on blockchain tech to manage economic aid and investments for the Palestinian people Techmeme · 4 months ago
Crypto exchange Kraken, a regulated platform for spot and futures trading, raises $13.5M from 2,263 participants in an online round at a $4B+ valuation Techmeme · 4 months ago
Report: QuadrigaCX CEO transferred customers' funds to his personal accounts on other cryptocurrency exchanges, effectively stealing $200M Techmeme · 4 months ago
FATF says its members, including US and EU countries, should adopt regulations within 12 months requiring crypto exchanges share customer info when moving funds Techmeme · 4 months ago
Microsoft and Salesforce have joined the Hyperledger blockchain consortium, an umbrella project for various business blockchains run by the Linux Foundation Techmeme · 4 months ago
Facebook announces an independent consortium, Libra Association, with 28 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber, Lyft, Coinbase, and others Techmeme · 4 months ago
Sources: FINRA has stalled for months in responding to roughly 40 applications from companies needing licenses for dealing in crypto assets in US Techmeme · 4 months ago
Sources: as Stellar and others refused to partner and MobileCoin refused to sell, Facebook hired several dozen blockchain experts for several million/year each Techmeme · 4 months ago
Binance says it is setting up a US trading platform in partnership with FinCEN-registered BAM Trading Services, but offers no timeline for its launch Techmeme · 4 months ago
Blockchain-based mobile voting platform Voatz, which held a pilot program with 24 counties in West Virginia during the midterms, raises $7M Series A Techmeme · 4 months ago
SEC is suing Kik for allegedly running an unregistered securities sale when it launched an ICO for its kin token in 2017 Techmeme · 4 months ago
Chat app Kik launches a crowdfunding campaign to support a likely court fight with SEC over its 2017 ICO, says it's spent $5M so far and pledges $5M more in BTC Techmeme · 5 months ago