Ripple Pledges $50 Million to Universities for Blockchain Research
San Francisco-based Ripple has announced a University Blockchain Research Initiative which will include a funding amount of $50 million for select academic institutions. Despite the...
Verge Hits Crowdfund Target, Price Spike Follows
Like most altcoins, Verge has had a pretty dire year. The cryptocurrency shot to fame in mid-December by promising revolutionary new privacy tech and jumping over 3000 percent in just...
Upbit Exchange to Launch Korea’s First Cryptocurrency Index
Upbit, South Korea’s second largest crypto exchange, is planning to launch a new cryptocurrency index called UBCI (Upbit Crypto Index). The concept is to provide a standard index...
Coincheck Clients Compensated from Crypto Heist, XEM Soars
When a crypto exchange or digital wallet provider is compromised, the digital loot is often moved away so fast that there is no chance of recovery. This is what happened to Coincheck...
Binance Seeks Bounty Hunters to Track Hackers – $250,000 Reward
The attempted breach of Binance’s systems on March 7 sent a wave of fear through the crypto community. Binance is one of the world’s largest exchanges with over a billion...
MoneroV Hard-Fork Faces Delay
Hard forks are highly anticipated events in crypto-land. They often offer an opportunity for coin holders to get a free airdrop which increases the value and investment levels in the...
Experts Claim Ripple Could be the Next Bitcoin
Analysts, traders, and investors are constantly looking for the next big thing. While Bitcoin is far from fading, other cryptocurrencies may emerge to replace it as the standard for...
Tron (TRX) Awakes on Bittrex Listing Boost
Nothing will boost the price of an altcoin better than a listing on a major exchange. They don’t come much bigger than Bittrex which announced the listing of Tron (TRX) a few hours...
Crypto Experts Weigh in, Predict Big Gains for Ripple in 2018
Bold predictions on cryptocurrency prices can always be taken with a huge pinch of salt. If it were that easy to predict the price of Bitcoin, or Ripple in this case, we would all be...
SEC Probes ICO Fundraising Methods
In an effort to bring the largely unregulated and highly speculative world of initial coin offerings in the US under control, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has started...
Thai Exchange TDAX Halts ICO Trading
Regulators and banks in Thailand are slowly turning the screws on privately owned crypto exchanges operating within the Kingdom. Thai Digital Asset Exchange (TDAX) is the first to...
Litecoin Lifts off Ahead of LitePay Launch
Crypto markets have been a little flat over the weekend, and there have been a few small shifts in either direction. Bitcoin has maintained a steady course around the $9,700 mark...