Co-Founder Quits Avalon Mining Chip Maker Canaan Over ‘Differences’
Xiangfu Liu has left the board and management team of Canaan Creative, maker of the Avalon crypto miner.
Xiangfu Liu has left the board and management team of Canaan Creative, maker of the Avalon crypto miner.
Barclays' accelerator program, Ripple and others have backed a $1.7 million round for a new remittance startup that will use XRP.
The Series B funding was led by seasoned VC firm Accel and included investment from Benchmark, which led the firm's $16m Series A.
The software giant now has up to a dozen enterprise customers using live blockchain applications.
In a potential first for the crypto investment sector, two U.S. public pension funds are dipping their toes in Morgan Creek's latest vehicle.
Lightning Network projects are booming, thanks in part to the buzz surrounding bitcoin bull Jack Dorsey.
Ripple may be offering XRP bonuses worth up to $6 million in a bid to attract engineering talent.
IBM and two other organizations will marry blockchain and IoT to help manage groundwater usage in an "at-risk" Californian aquifer.
NYSE parent firm Intercontinental Exchange is likely to spend over $20 million building its bitcoin futures trading platform Bakkt in 2019.
CryptoLux Capital's co-founder Sina Nader and Pactum Capital's CEO Daniel Cawrey explained why most crypto hedge funds aren't really hedge funds.
A U.K. school won third place in a blockchain interoperability hackathon hosted by Clearmatics at the Barclays Rise fintech hub in London.
ConsenSys is experimenting with token models to see what could work for enterprise consulting clients.
Crypto exchange Bithumb has launched a global OTC trading desk for digital assets based in Hong Kong.
A Credit Suisse subsidiary has completed a blockchain trial for fund transactions, concluding the tech offers "considerable benefits."
Crypto trading firm ErisX has hired a COO from megabank Barclays and a head of infrastructure from YouTube.
Voyager, a crypto brokerage founded by Uber and E*Trade alums, is going public via a $60 million reverse merger.
Switzerland's top stock exchange, SIX, aims to roll out a blockchain platform to speed up trading later this year.
Chuck Kimble, who helped promote the USDC stablecoin for Circle, has joined blockchain startup Celo as head of strategic partnerships.
Opera has teamed up with crypto brokerage Safello to let users buy ether directly from its Android browser-based wallet.
Abra is adding a new feature to its blockchain-based app that will allow global users to invest in fractions of stocks and ETFs.
Lingerie purchasing as a bitcoin use case is much less far-fetched than you might imagine.
Coinbase customers in the EU and European Free Trade Association countries can now make withdrawals into their PayPal accounts.
Google just added BigQuery support for Ethereum Classic because startups are investing in use cases.
Offering a trustless lending product that "simply 'can't be evil,'" Dharma Labs just raised $7 million from some big-name investors.
Crypto exchange Huobi is launching its first crypto-to-fiat trading pairs and looking to add more U.S.-based financial services.
A former Bitfinex and Tether exec and crypto finance firm XBTO are launching a Bermuda-based clearinghouse for stablecoins.
Four Iranian banks have reportedly teamed up with a blockchain startup to launch a gold-backed cryptocurrency called “PayMon.”
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