Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin (BTC) now makes up 50 percent of the entire cryptocurrency market capitalization. Shortly past 03:00 UTC on August 11, CoinMarketCap’s bitcoin dominance rate – an indicator that tracks the percent of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization contributed by the leading cryptocurrency – reached 50 percent for the first time since December 19th, 2017. At

In today’s edition of Crypto Daily News, we’ll cover the World Bank preparing to launch the world’s first blockchain bond and why Facebook executive David Marcus is stepping down from Coinbase. Crypto Daily News: August 10th, 2018 World Bank Blockchain Bond According to CNBC, The World Bank has just made a huge announcement in the

Trading volume on Turkey’s cryptocurrency exchanges surged Friday as the country’s fiat currency plunged to record lows on economic jitters. According to CoinMarketCap, volume at Turkish exchanges Paribu, Btcturk and Koinim jumped over the past 24 hours by more than 100 percent each. Absolute volumes are still relatively small at these exchanges, with Btcturk, the country’s largest, handling

In the latest IOTA news, the IOTA Foundation has just received some bad press as a heated discussion between the founders of the project and their board of directors was. IOTA News: Leaked Chat-Log Transcript Sergey Ivancheglo, co-founder of IOTA, started out the chat-log by stating that he doesn’t have any confidence in his partner

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance unveiled the platform’s first look at its upcoming decentralized exchange (DEX) on Thursday. Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, announced back in March that it plans to launch a new public blockchain for the purposes of developing the Binance Chain, a platform to transfer and trade different crypto

In today’s edition of Crypto Daily News, we’ll cover Microsoft’s latest tech that runs on the Ethereum network and OKEx’s troubles launching its Bitcoin (BTC) futures. Crypto Daily News: August 8th, 2018 Microsoft Uses Ethereum Yesterday, the software giant Microsoft made a huge announcement debuting its latest Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) product. The product

Cryptocurrency markets are seeing red in a big way as the ongoing rout has wiped away billions of dollars in value. As CoinDesk reported earlier Wednesday, the collective market capitalization for all cryptocurrencies hit a new low for the year – as it stands, the overall market cap is roughly $225 billion, representing a significant decline

Most of the cryptocurrency market is in the red today, as Bitcoin (BTC) has just fallen below the $7,000 mark. But today, we’re focusing on EOS and Stellar (XLM), and their latest project updates and price. EOS The first EOS Global Hackathon took place in Hong Kong back in mid-June. There was a total of

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed a decision on a proposed bitcoin ETF, pushing its final determination ahead by more than a month. In an order published on August 7, officials at the agency wrote that they were giving themselves more time to deliberate on whether to approve what would be the

TRON has been in the news quite a bit recently, and for good reasons, too. The latest piece of TRX news came today, August 2nd, and it has caused the TRON vs Ethereum debate to rage on. TRON vs Ethereum: Who’s the Leader Now? On Thursday, Justin Sun provided an update on the TRON mainnet.

Bitcoin derivatives trading provider LedgerX says it saw a “record” amount of trading volume over the last two months. The firm cleared $50 million in derivatives volume in July alone, president and chief risk officer Juthica Chou told CoinDesk. Earlier this month, the firm also executed its largest trade to date for a December $15,000

Yesterday, cryptocurrency-focused merchant bank Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (GLXY) started trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The stock lost a lot of momentum but closed the day in the green. Galaxy Digital TSX Stock Movement According to TMXMoney, Galaxy Digital Holdings started trading at $2.09 a share and ended the day at $2.30. The stock gained $0.21

Trading volume at one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges has plummeted by 40 percent in three days after it temporarily stopped opening new user accounts. South Korea’s Bithumb exchange – which suffered a $31 million hack in June – said in a blog post on July 31 that it will suspend the opening of

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AXS Blockchain Solutions Inc. (“AXS Blockchain”) (CSE:BAXS) (FRA: C0B), a leader in blockchain solution development, is pleased to announce that the board of directors has appointed Ashik Karim as Chief Executive Officer, and a director, effective August 3, 2018. Mr. Karim is currently and will also

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the Atlanta-based firm that owns the New York Stock Exchange, announced Friday that it plans to launch a digital assets platform and a bitcoin futures product. Called Bakkt, the platform will leverage Microsoft’s cloud to build “an open and regulated, global ecosystem for digital assets,” according to a press release. Effectively, it

In today’s edition of Crypto Daily News, we’ll cover why Bithumb has dropped nearly 40% in its trade volume and why Bitcoin (BTC) was unaffected by the NYSE news. Crypto Daily News: August 3rd, 2018 Bithumb Sees Slump in Trade Volume The world’s 13th largest cryptocurrency exchange by its current trade volume, Bithumb, has dropped

A crypto mining company has raised £25 million (about $32.5 million) through an IPO on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).  U.K.-based Argo Mining (ticker: ARB), which provides “accessible” crypto mining via a subscription service, is the first crypto company to be listed on the LSE. The company raised £5 million (about $6.5 million) more than its initial

In today’s edition of Crypto Daily News, we’ll cover Coinbase adding the British Pound to its trading pairs and John McAfee’s “unhackable” Bitcoin wallet that gets, well, hacked. Crypto Daily News: August 2nd, 2018 Coinbase Supports the Pound Starting today, Coinbase customers in the UK will be able to seamlessly move GBP in and out

Tokens on the blockchain protocol neo may be indivisible – but it’s becoming apparent that its community is not. Perhaps ironically, it’s the very notion of indivisibility that has proved contentious to the coin’s investors and users in recent weeks. More specifically, a Github proposal to change the structure of the NEO token – one

Mike Novogratz, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner, is far past the point of no return with his Bitcoin merchant bank. Galaxy Digital LP trades on TSX Venture Exchange as of today says Bloomberg, despite the crypto market’s bear movement in 2018. Galaxy Digital LP Trades on TSX Venture Exchange Galaxy Digital, former Goldman

Crypto exchange Coinbase is now offering deposits and withdrawals denominated in the British pound (GBP), the firm announced Wednesday. The exchange’s U.K. division will now offer same-day deposits and withdrawals from the platform, allowing transfers to happen almost immediately. In a statement, Coinbase U.K. chief executive Zeeshan Feroz wrote that this system will replace the previous

DCEX uses Ripple tech, entering the crypto market as a brand new decentralized cryptocurrency marketplace with Ripple (XRP) at its core. According to a press release published yesterday, the San Francisco-based platform just opened registration for institutional and retail investors. DCEX Uses Ripple Tech The new platform was developed by the blockchain firm AlphaPoint and

Bitcoin’s 26 percent rally left many a cryptocurrency in the dust over the course of July. Indeed, the bitcoin dominance rate, a widely used indicator that tracks the percentage of the total crypto market cap contributed by bitcoin, rose to 48 percent, up from 42 percent, to record a 7-month high over the 31-day period,

The IBM blockchain platform aimed at financial services was launched today, according to a CNBC news report. IBM currently holds several blockchain-based patents and is working on several different projects with Distributed Ledger technology. IBM Paves the Way When cryptocurrency began its ramp up back in mid-2017, several banks around the world started eyeing blockchain technology to see

If cryptocurrency is decentralizing the world of money, a new bitcoin wallet startup thinks it could also help decentralize the world of work. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Misthos launched its multi-signature wallet Monday on top of Blockstack‘s decentralized application platform. One of the first enterprise products launched on Blockstack, the wallet is designed for project

Winklevoss Twins Get Second Rejection: Where the Cryptomarket is concerned, talk about establishing an ETF is a big deal right now. Only on Wednesday, BitWise applied to the SEC to establish an ETF and bull’s and bears across the spectrum have weighed in on the necessity of an ETF for the digital coins. However today,

If any coin is going to fly under the radar, it makes sense for a privacy coin to do so. Spectre (not be confused with a separate project called SPECTRE), created two crypto tokens – the aptly named spectre token and the xspec token – in 2016, but hasn’t received much notice from the crypto community

Formerly known as Moneybookers, the popular online payment operator Skrill has just announced big news in the crypto space. Skrill adds coins, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and Litecoin (LTC). We know lots of people want to experiment with #cryptocurrency trading but don’t know where to start, so we made the entire

July 26 might be forever remembered as one of the darkest days in Facebook’s history – or, at the very least, for its shareholders. An otherwise unassuming Thursday, the day saw the social media giant lose more than $120 billion in market value, the biggest loss in one day for any U.S. traded company. According

In today’s edition of Crypto Daily News, we’ll cover the crypto market taking a hit after an SEC ruling, and the CEM announcing that altcoin futures aren’t going to be released anytime soon. Crypto Daily News: July 27th, 2018 Crypto Market in the Red Source: CoinMarketCap Yesterday, CNBC reported big news that caused the entire