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⁠Setl, a United Kingdom-based Credit Agricole backed blockchain-based settlement startup, has returned after filing for insolvency in March

⁠Decentralized blockchain platform Qtum is working with Google Cloud as a software partner to increase the ease of launching native products for users

⁠Graduates from 18 educational institutions in Singapore will receive blockchain-based digital certificates starting from 2019

⁠US derivatives market CME Group — whose BTC futures has record trading volume levels in April — has reported a 17% fall in net income for the first quarter of 2019.

⁠⁠Vietnam’s CMC Telecom and U.S. cloud provider Akamai are going to deliver security services to a blockchain-based trading floor

⁠The Central Bank of Myanmar is urging consumers to stop trading crypto amid fears they could lose money

⁠Crypto markets rally today as Bitcoin breaks multiple supports to trade above $5,800, while all the top 20 coins see a firm green

⁠Fundstrat continues its bullish stance on bitcoin with an analyst advising accumulation

⁠Facebook is attempting to net at least $1 billion for its FB Coin, according to the Wall Street Journal

⁠Global pizza delivery leader Domino's Pizza will partner with blockchain-powered AI firm SingularityNET to expand its client base in Malaysia and Singapore

⁠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