Cointelegraph

⁠Leading crypto exchange Binance has made its first strategic acquisition, buying Ethereum token mobile wallet Trust Wallet

⁠129-year-old asset management firm Northern Trust Corp. is looking to start a custody service for digital assets such as cryptocurrencies

⁠Let’s talk about on-chain tokenization, off-chain tokenization and how we should use them.

⁠The U.S. market research firm Forrester Research estimates that 90 percent of blockchain initiatives by American companies will never become operational

​​Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman thinks “disappointment” in blockchain and crypto will “probably collapse” the whole market

​​Former US President Bill Clinton will start off Ripple’s fall Swell conference with a keynote speech and Q&A

​​Fresh analysis from “big four” auditor KPMG shows that U.S. blockchain investment in the first half of 2018 has already outstripped the overall total seen in 2017

​​Will Blockchain Protect the World Economy from Financial Crises?

​​An Ethereum-based audit firm is developing a Bug Prediction Market, aiming to provide a transparent and accountable metric for smart contract security #SPONSORED

​​Coinbase has hired Jeff Horowitz, formerly a managing director at Pershing LLC and a banking regulator with the FDIC, as its Chief Compliance Officer

​​A new U.S. Ripple-based decentralized crypto marketplace dubbed DCEX has now opened registration for retail and institutional accounts, initially offering 15 crypto-crypto trading pairs

Widespread losses in the markets are seeing Bitcoin back below the $8,000 mark for the third time this week, and total market cap down about $10 billion on the day

​​A Letter of Intent has been signed between Billon and FIS to implement blockchain tech into the global financial market

⁠Reuters’ financial desktop Eikon platform will track 50 cryptocurrencies through a new partnership with CryptoCompare

⁠Swiss online banking service provider Swissquote has seen a 44% surge in profits in the first half of 2018, a strong upturn attributed to the “crypto boom” earlier this year

⁠A $300,000 blockchain loan backed by land has issued by the Agricultural Bank of China, the world’s fourth-largest bank by assets

⁠The Australian government has provided a grant to a project deploying blockchain technology to ensure the provenance of sustainable sugar

⁠A Washington utilities company has stopped accepting applications for electricity use for crypto mining and related blockchain operations

⁠Valve has pulled a game from its Steam marketplace for deceptive practices and cryptojacking

⁠A Russian request to extradite Alexander Vinnik has been supported by a Greek Court, complicating the case as France and the U.S. seek his extradition as well

⁠University blockchain research groups are on the rise, but corporate funding raises questions of objectivity