Cointelegraph

⁠The President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil has ruled to create a commission to consider cryptocurrency regulation in the country

⁠Ernst & Young’s Global Innovation Leader for blockchain said that 83% of DApps on the Ethereum network are “not in the most productive uses”

⁠Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has temporarily paused deposits and withdrawals

⁠Coinbase’s president and chief operating officer Asiff Hirji has reportedly left the company

⁠Tether’s U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin USDТ is now on the EOS blockchain, following peer review by EOS Canada

⁠Binance has launched a charity program with an NGO in Uganda that will provide supplies and infrastructure to schools in Kampala

⁠Should traders buy the dip or wait for a deeper correction to play out?

⁠The code for rendering Ethereum transactions private developed by big four auditing firm Ernst & Young has been released and open sourced

⁠Bitwise: 95% of BTC trade volume is fake, calls on SEC to acknowledge the market is stable

⁠Bitcoin and most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day by press time

⁠Users of cryptocurrency mixing service Bitcoin Blender were asked by the service’s administrators to withdraw their funds because of an imminent shutdown

⁠Stablecoin PAX will begin trading within Blockchain.info’s wallet next week

⁠A Russian subsidiary of Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International has introduced a blockchain platform for settlements by holding firms

⁠SBI Ripple Asia is launching a store settlement service affiliated with SBI Holdings and Ripple’s jointly developed consumer-focused XRP-powered payments app MoneyTap

⁠Liquidators of now-defunct New Zealand crypto exchange Cryptopia have released the first report on the state of affairs of the firm

⁠Research from U.S.-based blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis shows that only 1.3% of economic transactions for bitcoin came from merchants in the first four months of 2019

⁠Bitcoin will consolidate in the $7,000-$10,000 range, according to founder and CEO of cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital Michael Novogratz

⁠Global securities regulation standard setter, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, published a consultation paper on regulating crypto trading platforms

⁠Hackers from North Korea were reportedly behind a phishing scam targeting users of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UpBit

⁠The Japanese House of Representatives has officially approved a new bill to amend national laws that govern crypto regulation

⁠Top three cryptocurrencies BTC, ETH, and XRP are trending down and most coins are in the red following a substantial surge earlier today

⁠Ireland has a new master’s program in blockchain tech, co-developed by ICT Skillnet and Dublin City University for professionals in the IT field