IBM has recruited two more major shipping carriers to join the blockchain platform it co-owns with container giant Maersk.  Announced Tuesday, Hapag-Lloyd and Singapore-based Ocean Network Express (ONE) – the world’s fifth…

The Takeaway Masterchain, a blockchain project backed by Russia’s central bank, is falling behind on its goals two years after inception. Sberbank, the leading bank in Russia, is unsatisfied with the system’s…

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is planning to enable futures trading. During a presentation at the Asia Blockchain Summit in Taipei on Tuesday, Changpeng Zhao, founder and CEO of…

The Russian Ministry of Finance will not issue any special regulations for Facebook’s upcoming digital currency Libra, deputy minister Alexei Moisseev said Monday. Answer reporters’ questions, Moisseev said Libra will be treated…

Longenesis has concluded two new partnerships in South Korea. According to the Riga, Latvia-based, Hong Kong-incorporated company, it will be providing its medical-consent platform-as-a-service to Hanshin Medipia Medical Center and Infinity Care.…

A new anthem for altcoin HODLers dropped harder than that market did in March 2018, potentially signaling cryptos’ return to meme-driven, pop-cultural awareness. Despite bitcoin’s surge in price and attention last week,…

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has cleared the way for crypto derivatives provider ErisX to offer futures contracts with a new license approval Monday. ErisX announced that the CFTC granted…

Jeffrey Berns, eccentric founder of blockchain incubation and investment firm Blockchains.com, purchased a small community bank in Las Vegas, Nevada in order to secure financing as he manifests his decentralized dreams, according…

Facebook’s initiative to create an accessible, frictionless, globally-available cryptocurrency and payments network is brushing up against unprecedented regulatory hurdles, at least according to a new report from Reuters. Though the social media…

Monarch, a wallet and exchange platform, launched a digital asset marketplace to supports 1,900 separate tokens. The company also announced a partnership with financial-services provider Ambisafe to create a licensed alternative trading…