Following the crypto asset’s historic 40% rally at the end of October, the leading cryptocurrency by market cap is once again bearish, and Bitcoin price has now broken below $8,500.
Are bears back in charge com […]

Lending protocol Compound Finance just raised $25 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto fund, marking one of the largest venture capital investments in a decentralized finance (DeFi) s […]

Bakkt, a provider of physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts, is now planning to offer a cash-settled version of the product due to customer demand.

“We have the intention of offering a cash-settled c […]

The Bakkt platform has just announced that it will now allow any institutions to use its Bitcoin custody solution. Previously, only those trading the platform’s Bitcoin futures contracts had access to the Bak […]

This is quite an abstract theory, but the idea that Bitcoin could eventually overtake traditional gold as an investment is one that gets investors very excited. This is simply because in a world where Bitcoin is […]

Monday will bring the next chapter of a long-running and closely watched lawsuit against Ripple.

The plaintiff, Bradley Sostack, has until the end of the day to file a response to the startup’s Sept. 20 mot […]

Ember Fund, makers of an AI-managed cryptocurrency portfolio app, is seeking to raise up to $1 million through a Securities and Exchange Commission-registered securities sale.

The year-old company revealed […]

In many ways, Bitcoin (BTC) and the crypto markets as a whole live somewhat independently from traditional markets. The global crypto space never sleeps, operating at all hours of the day on a global […]

CME Group has just published the specifications for its upcoming bitcoin options contracts.

The Chicago exchange revealed Wednesday that each contract would be based on one of CME’s bitcoin futures con […]

As ethereum undergoes a major upgrade in 2020, how might the economics of the second-largest blockchain begin to shift?
The next major iteration of ethereum, dubbed Ethereum 2.0, will be based on […]

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is launching bitcoin options contracts through its subsidiary Bakkt.

Bakkt announced Thursday that it would “launch the first regulated options contract for bitcoin fu […]

Bitcoin’s low volatility consolidation has ended with a violent drop beyond four-month lows near $7,500.

The premier cryptocurrency fell by $500 in just 15 minutes at 12:50 UTC to hit a low of $7,500 – the low […]

With the era of negative interest rates well and truly here, return-hungry investors may increasingly borrow in low-interest fiat currencies and invest in higher-yielding cryptocurrency accounts.

“The f […]

Following a limited launch last autumn, Fidelity Digital Assets is going all out in the hunt for institutional investors looking into cryptocurrency trading and custody solutions. Up until now, the platform […]

The Emirati royal family has taken a stake in the Crypto Price Index (CPI) project, a cryptocurrency analog of the Dow Jones Industrial Average that operates on the blockchain.

The development comes as the ro […]

The crypto market, known as one of the most rabid topics for discussion on Twitter, is getting a new tool to help gauge investor sentiment — using tweets.

On Tuesday, the trading platform eToro launched a […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is again soliciting comments on a proposed exchange-traded fund (ETF) based around bitcoin and Treasury bonds.

According to a public filing published Tuesday, […]

Residents of Bermuda can now pay their taxes in cryptocurrency.

The Government of Bermuda announced Wednesday it will accept payments in USD Coin (USDC) “for taxes, fees and other government s […]

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said backers of Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra dropped out of the project over concerns that the stablecoin project would not meet regulatory standards.

Speaking on C […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has updated the main form individual U.S. taxpayers use to report their income to include a question about cryptocurrencies.

Following the release earlier this week of the […]