The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has cleared bitcoin derivatives provider LedgerX to offer physically settled bitcoin futures contracts. The CFTC said Tuesday it had approved LedgerX’s application for a designated contract…

Walmart China has launched a blockchain-based platform aimed to address food safety concerns in the country. Announced Tuesday in a press release, the Chinese arm of the U.S. supermarket giant said it…

A Swiss central banker has suggested that Facebook’s recently announced cryptocurrency project, Libra, is not ruffling any feathers with the regulator. As reported by Reuters on Tuesday, Thomas Moser, alternate member of the governing…

Bitcoin IRA, a digital asset IRA company, has launched the first self-directed cryptocurrency IRA. Created through a partnership with BitGo Trust, the retirement account features $100 million in insurance protection, 30 percent…

View Bitcoin’s 165 percent gain so far this quarter is the best second quarter performance on record and the highest quarterly percentage gain since the end of 2017. The stellar gains have…

Social media giant Facebook, which recently revealed details of an ambitious plan to roll out a cryptocurrency called Libra, is seeking a data professional to work on the new network’s wallet data,…

Scott A. Shay is co-founder and chairman of Signature Bank of New York and the author of In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism (Post Hill Press, 2018). Allowing Facebook to mint…

In what amounts to interesting – and very cannafuturoid – word salad, a Panamanian company called TheraCann has begun to add “DNA tag-based forensic traceability and authenticity with TruTrace’s Industry Blockchain Hub.”…

Several exploitative websites launched over the weekend aiming to separate credulous Libra investors from their cash. Though Libra has not seen its public debut, the media buzz around it has piqued some…

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee will host a hearing on Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency next month, one day after the Senate Banking Committee holds its previously announced hearing. Maxine Waters, chair of…