A Canadian judge approved more than $1.6 million in fees for firms that are seeking to recover funds from the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX. Nova Scotia Supreme Court Judge Darlene Jamieson ruled Wednesday that all activities undertaken and fees…
Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo have joined Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) per CoinDesk Japan. The 2018 program now boasts 33 participants including Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon, and the National University of Singapore, among others. Ripple committed…
A rule embedded within litecoin’s (LTC) code is set to soon reduce rewards for the miners who today ensure transaction processing on the world’s fourth-largest blockchain by total value. In approximately five days, litecoin will undergo a scheduled reward halving – a process…
The Philipines’ UnionBank has issued its own stablecoin, PHX, according to Filipino media PhilStar Global. With the issuance, the bank also conducted the first blockchain-based transaction by a Filipino bank. The PHX stablecoin is pegged to the Philipino peso and…
Blockchain has made its way to the firearm industry with a patent issuance to Justifire, a Georgia-based gun appliance manufacturer. Described as a ‘black box’ for your gun, the company’s signature device captures visual, audio, and other data for events…
Blockchains are all and well and good, but they won’t be enough to bring financial services to the underbanked and unbanked. At least, that was the drift of a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday on cryptocurrency regulation, where lawmakers and witnesses…
Square Crypto is focused on bitcoin, not the publicly traded company’s specific products. That was the message Monday during a Twitter ask-me-anything (AMA) with the head of Square’s crypto team, Steve Lee. The unit’s playful Twitter account fielded questions from…
OB1, the developers behind the online decentralized marketplace and currency trading platform OpenBazaar announced a mobile counterpart called Haven. Haven allows users to buy and sell goods and services directly with each other, using cryptocurrencies, without relying on middlemen who…
A new version of the widely used but controversial stablecoin tether (USDT) is launching on Blockstream’s Liquid Network. Announced Monday, the addition of the token to Liquid’s bitcoin sidechain network, launched last October, will offer bitcoin traders and companies new…
[embedded content] “It’s not a surprise to me that inevitably corporations are going after creating their own tokens but for Facebook to be one of the first big ones is is pretty much a surprise,” said Lukka CEO Jake Benson told…