Crypto exchange Bitfinex offers up to a ~$400M reward for info on the hackers that allegedly stole 120,000 bitcoins from it in 2016 Techmeme · 1 week ago
Binance has acquired Swipe, a multi-currency digital wallet and Visa debit card service; Swipe is available in 31 countries in the European Economic Area Techmeme · 1 month ago
Crypto Facilities, a subsidiary of Kraken, obtained a Multilateral Trading Facility license in the United Kingdom, first-ever for a cryptocurrency firm Techmeme · 1 month ago
Report: Active users on Ethereum-based dapps doubled in Q2; DeFi applications accounted for 97% of activity with transaction volume reaching $5.7B in June Techmeme · 1 month ago
Voice, a blockchain-based social media site on EOS that rewards users with tokens for posting "quality content", is now open for the public to browse Techmeme · 1 month ago
Robert Farkas, co-founder of Centra Tech, a celebrity-backed crypto startup, pled guilty to securities and wire fraud after raising $25M+ in a fraudulent ICO Techmeme · 2 months ago
Report: EOS platform, which raised $4B in ICO in 2018, has seen developer activity decline by 85% YoY; Ethereum has 80% of all smart contracts and dapps space Techmeme · 2 months ago
Brave browser is caught revising typed-in domains to companies like Binance with URLs including affiliate referral codes; Brave says it will stop the practice Techmeme · 2 months ago
Report: cryptocurrency fraud estimated to be $1.36B in 2020, with thieves increasingly obfuscating origins of funds as exchanges enact anti-laundering measures Techmeme · 2 months ago
ConsenSys has helped North American Collegiate League build an Ethereum-based service to make reporting smoother, automate payments for its esports tournaments Techmeme · 2 months ago
Chat app Telegram says it's abandoning its TON blockchain project, after the SEC challenged the legality of its $1.7B ICO and delayed the network's launch Techmeme · 3 months ago
There is only around $8M in bitcoin on the Lightning Network about two years after launching in beta, less than the ~$11.5M locked up in Ethereum wallet dapps Techmeme · 3 months ago
TD Ameritrade-backed ErisX launches the first Ethereum futures trading platform in the US authorized by regulators Techmeme · 3 months ago
Malta's financial regulator says ~70% of crypto and blockchain startups applying for a license have given up; insiders say Malta's regulations are too stringent Techmeme · 3 months ago
Coinbase announces Coinbase Oracle, a source of signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets sourced from the Coinbase Pro exchange Techmeme · 4 months ago
Hackers steal ~$25M worth of cryptocurrency from Lendf.Me, a dForce-based decentralized lending platform, likely using a well-known exploit of an Ethereum token Techmeme · 4 months ago
G20 watchdog says stablecoins could undermine financial stability and that major world economies must implement a regulatory framework to confront the risk Techmeme · 4 months ago
Binance adds Bitcoin options trading to its mobile app, six months after adding futures trading, as it looks to widen its lead in the Bitcoin derivatives market Techmeme · 4 months ago
Bitmain wins legal case against the 2nd-largest Bitcoin mining pool Poolin, which it previously owned, with court ruling Poolin cofounders violated non-competes Techmeme · 4 months ago
The Tezos Foundation says it has agreed to settle for $25M a class action suit that alleged it ran an unregistered securities sale through its $232M ICO Techmeme · 5 months ago
Crypto lending and borrowing service BlockFi raises $30M Series B led by Valar Ventures, bringing its total raised to over $100M Techmeme · 6 months ago
Blockchain data management startup Fluree says it has signed a contract with US Air Force to securely share data within the military and with US allies Techmeme · 6 months ago
Inside the shady world of upstart Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges like MXC, whose pump and dump schemes may have prompted China's latest crypto crackdown Techmeme · 9 months ago
German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies Hacker News · 9 months ago
Blockchain startup Bison Trails, a founding member of Libra Association, raises $25.5M Series A led by Blockchain Capital with Coinbase, Consensys participating Techmeme · 9 months ago
How Binance survived China's crypto crackdown, a $40M hack, and the bursting of the crypto bubble to become one of the most successful crypto exchanges Techmeme · 9 months ago
Operator of Bitcoin exchange Bitfunder sentenced to 14 months in jail for fraud and lying to investigators about a hack that cost clients 6,000 BTC in 2013 Techmeme · 1 year ago
Blockstack’s token offering is historic, but its dance with the SEC is not over Hacker News · 1 year ago