Facebook announces an independent consortium, Libra Association, with 28 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber, Lyft, Coinbase, and others Techmeme · 13 hours 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 · 1 day 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 days 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 · 5 days 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 · 2 weeks ago
SEC is suing Kik for allegedly running an unregistered securities sale when it launched an ICO for its kin token in 2017 Techmeme · 2 weeks 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 · 3 weeks ago
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is taking Sequoia Capital China back to court for allegedly harming his reputation after its case against him was dismissed Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Dutch authorities seize the bitcoin transaction mixer bestmixer.io, accusing it of money laundering, say it is the first such takedown Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Proxima Media, founded by Hollywood producer Ryan Kavanaugh, says it has raised $100M for Proxicoin, a token that enables fractional ownership of film projects Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Coinbase says Coinbase Commerce, its app to help merchants easily accept crypto, has exceeded $50M in transactions since launching in February 2018 Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Circle, which owns trading platform Poloniex, equity crowdfunding site SeedInvest, and the USDC stablecoin with Coinbase, lays off ~30 people, ~10% of its staff Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase Custody, which launched about a year ago, has $1B in assets under management, with 70 institutions using the service Techmeme · 1 month ago
Coinbase says it is expanding trading in the dollar-pegged stablecoin USDC to 85 nations globally Techmeme · 1 month ago
Satoshi's Treasure scavenger hunt has 60K people signed up in less than a month, with teams as large as 600, searching for clues to access $1M worth of bitcoin Techmeme · 1 month ago
Binance says it discovered a "large scale security breach", with hackers withdrawing ~$41M in bitcoin and taking user API keys, 2FA codes, and potentially more Techmeme · 1 month ago
QEDIT, which uses zero-knowledge proofs to enhance the privacy of enterprise blockchains, raises $10M Series A from MizMaa Ventures, Ant Financial, others Techmeme · 1 month ago