Cointelegraph

⁠A major Ethereum software client, Geth, has released a code upgrade that includes an activation time for the Constantinople hard fork in January 2019

​​Russia’s cryptocurrency draft bill will not be edited in any “significant” way, according to deputy prime minister of Russia Maxim Akimov

​​In the Netherlands, cryptocurrency service providers will soon be required to obtain a license issued by the Dutch central bank

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⁠Crypto markets are seeing modest gains, with all the top 20 coins trading in the green today

​​Russia’s Parliament will discuss a bill on blocking suspicious financial websites — including those relating to financial pyramids — that may cover “scam” ICOs

​​⁠IBM Research teams up with U.S.-based agritech firm Hello Tractor to boost the African agriculture industry with blockchain and AI

​​Canadian city of Calgary creates Calgary dollar, allows holders to pay for local goods and services

​​A crypto exchange will be launched in the first half of 2019 due to the collaboration between SolarisBank and the Stuttgart Exchange Group

​​The CEO of Allianz Global Investors, an investment management firm with $595 billion in assets under management, has called for crypto assets to be “outlawed”

​​Chinese tech giant Tencent has opened its payment platform on WeChat for electronic blockchain invoices Shenzhen, Guangdong Province

​​India’s telecom regulator and major telecom firms have completed blockchain pilots with IBM to improve mobile network data records

​​Online broker Monex Group, known for buying hacked Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck in April, has announced it will launch cryptocurrency trading in the United States starting Q1 2019

​​An R&D lab at crypto startup TenX has demoed the use of its cross-blockchain interoperability protocol to transfer ERC20 tokens for Bitcoin using the Lightning Network

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​​The man behind the “Blockchain Terminal” ICO has been ousted as a financial criminal who concealed his former identity from employees and investors alike

​​Denmark’s tax agency has confirmed it is “identifying” 2,700 individuals it says owe taxes on Bitcoin gains

​​The director and chief executive of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has expressed concerns about cryptocurrencies and disintermediation

​​United States cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, which is currently the subject of a lawsuit over its support of the competing forks of altcoin Bitcoin Cash, has reportedly valued its shares at $4 billion

​​A digital currency meant for interbank transactions is being jointly developed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

⁠New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority adds three more suspicious crypto-related companies to its blacklist

⁠Crypto operator Cubits, or Dooga, has appointed outside administrators to work on behalf of creditors following an outage locking customer funds

⁠U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton says he is “optimistic” about blockchain, aims to both foster innovation and protect investors

⁠Japanese prosecutors propose a ten-year jail sentence for ex-Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles, citing embezzlement charges

⁠New initiative from Binance aims to mitigate the impact of fast-spreading “misinformation” in the cryptocurrency sphere

⁠Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko believes that blockchain can help combat corruption in public administration

⁠Malta-based crypto exchange OKEx announced it will list Bitcoin Cash ABC under the original Bitcoin Cash ticker, BCH

⁠Four government agencies of the U.S. state of Vermont have formed a blockchain working group to learn more about the technology’s applications

⁠The CEO of KFC Venezuela denied that the fast-food chain will start accepting cryptocurrency Dash following a purportedly unauthorized announcement last week