Cointelegraph

⁠Ripple employs former Facebook’s Global Director of Financial Services Payment Partnerships to develop global payment systems

⁠Riyadh municipality in Saudi Arabia has partnered with IBM to jointly design a blockchain strategy to improve services in the government sector

⁠Crypto markets are experiencing the second day of losses with Bitcoin hovering between $6,300 and $6,400

​​As analysts Todd Colvin and Bart Smith point out $5,000 as an important price point for “sophisticated” investors to get into Bitcoin, let’s take a look at the charts and see where the markets are going

​​After seeing low profits this year, HTC plans to release a smartphone featuring a crypto wallet and ETH-based DApp CryptoKitties

​​Leading crypto industry figures weigh in on the major implications of cryptocurrencies for - and beyond - the global economy, at the Rise conference today

​​Blockchain in telecoms will expand more than 2000 percent by 2023, says a major new report

​​TenX co-founder Julian Hosp sees Bitcoin hitting $60,000 in 2018, as the coin has already neared his previous forecast of $5,000

​​Sirin Labs, a Swiss-based smartphone developer, will release a blockchain-based phone in November this year

​​The Litecoin Foundation has now acquired a 9.9% stake in Germany’s WEG Bank AG, as a result of a new strategic partnership with crypto-fiat payments firm TokenPay

​​South Korean Lotte Global Logistics, a major logistics and shipping firm, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA)

⁠Opera has released a beta version of their web browser for Android that includes a native crypto wallet

⁠Coinbase’s app download rate has fallen to its lowest level since April 2017 following a significant decline in the crypto market

⁠The Cagayan Economic Zone Authority has awarded licenses to three crypto exchanges and expects to raise $3 million in investment

​​London School of Economics is set to offer online course on cryptocurrency investing, starting in August 2018

⁠Having sold more than one million hardware wallets in 2017, Ledger to boost its business by attracting the interest of tech giants like Samsung and Siemens

​​Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin has made the surprise revelation that he is an Ethereum miner, saying he believes that the crypto global network is “extraordinary”