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⁠Microsoft expands its blockchain toolkit with Azure Blockchain Service, designed to simplify network management

⁠Former chairman of the CFTC Gary Gensler said that the crypto market needs investor and consumer protection in order to grow

⁠Researchers have re-engineered the Hyperledger Fabric so it can support seven times more transactions per second

⁠A U.S. District Attorney is seeking to retain a defendant in custody in a case of shadow banking for crypto companies

⁠A New Zealand church accused of colluding with a crypto Ponzi scheme to defraud the congregation has denied participating in illegal activity

⁠Indian technology company Tech Mahindra announced it will be implementing an anti-spam call solution based on blockchain technology

⁠⁠ICE was using low prices during the “crypto winter” to buy digital assets at a discount for its affiliated crypto trading platform Bakkt

⁠Customers of major U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase can now store DOGE on its wallet app

⁠⁠A recent survey by United States-based asset management firm Fidelity Investments showed that 22% of institutional investors already own digital assets

⁠⁠Medici Ventures-backed blockchain agricultural project GrainChain partnered with the Mexican state of Tamaulipas to expand its grain tracking solution

⁠⁠Following alleged fraud accusations, Canadian blockchain firm Vanbex filed a lawsuit against its former contractor for defaming the firm

⁠⁠Recent regulation allows for digital shares and tokenized securities depositories, according to Thai SEC deputy secretary-general Tipsuda Thavaramara

⁠⁠Yesterday’s mild market movements continue, with most of the top twenty cryptocurrencies seeing mild green on the day at press time

⁠⁠Binance has partnered with blockchain monitoring solutions provider Elliptic to boost its regulatory compliance as part of its international expansion

⁠⁠Nine fintech companies, some blockchain-related, have been authorized by the South Korean Financial Services Commission to operate in the regulatory financial sandbox

⁠The World Economic Forum (WEF) has teamed up with over 100 global supply chain and logistics leaders to standardize blockchain apps in the industry

⁠Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm and high-profile crypto investor Andreessen Horowitz has raised $2.75 billion for two new funds

⁠Hong Kong-listed contractor turned blockchain investor Grandshores Technology — backed by the Hangzhou municipal government — plans to enter the medicinal and industrial cannabis market in a bid to counter the adverse i…

⁠The CEO of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges, believes that blockchain could have a use in issuing securities and settlement

​​Around 40 entities lobbied for bitcoin and blockchain-related causes in the United States in Q1 2019

​​Crypto exchange Bitfinex shareholder Zhao Dong has revealed details of the company’s reported plans to issue a native exchange token, which he claims will launch via a $1 billion initial exchange offering (IEO) in the…

​​The central banks of Singapore and Canada have successfully used their blockchain networks to send each other digital currency

​​The United States state of Washington has passed a bill that recognizes and protects the legal status of electronic records pertaining to distributed ledgers like blockchains

​​The Shellbot cryptojacking malware has gone through an update and come out with some new capabilities

​​On-chain transactions on the bitcoin network hit fresh highs not seen since 2017 in April, industry newsletter Diar noted on April 30, quoting blockchain data provider TokenAnalyst

​​Last weekend, Bart Chilton, a former commissioner of the U.S. CFTC and early advocate for cryptocurrency regulation, died at the age of 58. Here's the material about his works

​​The U.S. CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo said that the "explosion in interest" in cryptocurrencies will likely lead to new applications for clearinghouses

​​Payment platform Square saw a new revenue high from bitcoin sales through its Cash app, while profits from Bitcoin sales remained low, according to a letter to shareholders outlining first quarter 2019 financial figure…