Cointelegraph

⁠The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has requested the withdrawal of a proposal of an ETF filed by Reality Shares ETF Trust earlier this week

⁠In his “State of the State” speech Gavin Newsom pointed out the need to develop AI, blockchain, and big data-related products in the state

⁠Coinbase has given out a $30,000 reward for reporting a critical bug in its system, the biggest bounty ever listed on Coinbase’s HackerOne page

​​Privacy-oriented altcoin Beam announced plans to incorporate a Mimblewimble-compatible lightning network

⁠British economic and financial historian Niall Ferguson believes that Bitcoin is “an option to digital gold,” and a type of insurance

​​The current initial coin offerings market is larger than it was at the beginning of 2017, despite being smaller than it was in 2018

​​Fundamentals are improving and blockchain is becoming more widely adopted, but sentiment needs to change for a new uptrend to start

​​The birth of a national Iranian digital currency has been postponed. However, blockchain remains a hot topic in the Islamic Republic of Iran, intertwined with international sanctions and the clash between conservatives…

​​Intel has launched a commercial blockchain package based on the Hyperledger ecosystem

​​⁠Here are the most suspicious things about the QuadrigaCX case: from a last-minute will to the exchange’s past banking problems

​​Turkish police have arrested 24 people involved in hacking a crypto firm, using online multiplayer game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to communicate

​​Feb. 25 sees two major crypto indices coming to Nasdaq: the Bitcoin Liquid Index (BLX) and the Ethereum Liquid Index (ELX)

​​A new attack vector is reportedly being introduced to Ethereum’s blockchain through the Constantinople hard fork

​​​​The largest foreign exchange bank in South Korea, KEB Hana Bank, has filed 46 patents related to blockchain tech

​​The Italian Banking Association has developed a blockchain solution based on R3’s Corda, which is currently being tested by 18 banks

​​New Zealand police have reported that hacked exchange Cryptopia is ready to be relaunched, but the platform remains offline to date

​​With a few notable exceptions, most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap are fluctuating 2 percent in either direction on the day

​​Former JPMorgan exec, Etienne Amic, has been appointed as new CEO at Vakt, a blockchain-based commodity post-trade platform

​​Mike Novogratz, ex-Goldman Sachs partner and founder of crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital, has argued that Bitcoin occupies a unique place in the crypto landscape

⁠Zhao Dong, a reported Bitcoin billionaire in China, predicts the crypto spring will only come in 2020, while crypto summer will not arrive until 2021

⁠The prestigious United States public school, University of California, Berkeley, has launched a 12-week accelerator program for early stage blockchain startups

⁠South Korea’s “Crypto Valley” — the city of Busan — aims to create new jobs and revitalize the blockchain industry by signing an MoU with blockchain firm Hyundai Pay

⁠Crypto investors and miners are turning to derivatives such as options in an attempt to survive the protracted market downturn, Bloomberg argues

⁠Law firms will line up on Valentine’s Day for access to QuadrigaCX client representation in $200 million lawsuit

⁠XBT CEO says company will now wait before offering a basket of cryptocurrencies for traders

⁠Blockchain payment network from MUFG and Akamai will now go live around the first half of 2020

⁠Users of Coinbase Wallet are now able to store encrypted copies of their recovery keys on iCloud and Google Drive

⁠QuadrigaCX has “inadvertently transferred 103 bitcoins valued at approximately $468,675” to cold wallets that the exchange cannot access, according to Ernst & Young