South/North Korea Peace Treaty Recorded on Ethereum Blockchain
The 2018 Inter-Korean summit which marks the beginning of a new era of peace and unification on the Korean peninsula has been recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. After a long period of unrest on the Korean peninsula, both Southern and Northern leaders Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un signed a peace treaty at the 2018 Inter-Korean

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Ripple attended a UK parliament hearing on Digital Currency yesterday where it defended digital currencies. Ripple was present to answer questions about the benefits of blockchain and cryptocurrency and the debate offered a neutral view of digital currencies. Ryan Zagone, Director of Regulatory Relations at Ripple, explained to the panel how Ripple can improve the


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Abra Adds 5 New Altcoins for Mobile Investing, Monero and NEM Included
Digital wallet app and exchange platform, Abra, has announced that it will be adding 5 new altcoins to its listing. The new altcoins to be supported in the platform include NEO (NEO), Verge (XVG), Monero (XMR), NEM (XEM) and Lisk (LSK). In the press release, Bill Barhydt, founder and CEO of Abra, expressed his enthusiasm

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Mastercard Seeks to Penetrates the Crypto Space By adding New Node To Its Blockchain Network
Mastercard seeks to penetrate the cryptographic space by adding new nodes to its blockchain network. This was revealed in a patent application filed last Thursday with the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office. According to the information provided on the patent filing, the system aims to find a way to quickly add new nodes to a blockchain network to

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Coinbase Will Start Offering Block Trade to Lure Institutional Investors: Report
Coinbase, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency company, is making big moves to transform its trading platform GDAX into a first-class trading firm. According to a Business Insider report, Coinbase is now preparing to support block trading on its professional trading platform, GDAX. Block trades are conducted off an exchange’s main order book, and work to reduce

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Central Bank of Korea: Considers Adding Cryptocurrency and Blockchain-Based App for its “Cashless Society” Project.
Korea’s central bank (BoK) announced yesterday that it is considering cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based app for its “Cashless Society” project. According to local sources, the report explains that the bank has started exploring the possibilities of Blockchain and other digital virtual currency. Their ideas included applying blockchains and passwords to the bank transactions and payments. They

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Ethereum, the Second Largest Cryptocurrency in the World is Under Regulatory Scrutiny
Regulators are exploring whether cryptocurrencies including ethereum, the second-largest one by market capitalization, should be regulated as securities. The inquiry includes a focus on ether, representing a significant threat to virtual currencies, which so far haven’t been drawn into a regulatory crackdown on

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Binance Confirms Supported ECR2o Tokens Unaffected by Batch or Proxy Overflow Bugs
The world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has confirmed that all listed ECR20 tokens are safe to trade. Several cryptocurrency trading platform has temporarily halted trading after Peckshield, a Blockchain smart contract security Firm uncovered batchOverflow and proxyOverflow vulnerabilities in multiple ERC20 tokens. The two Vulnerabilities, batchOverflow and proxyOverflow, are resulting in an integer overflow, a

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US Federal Trade Commission to Host Public Workshop on Cryptocurrency Scam
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will host a workshop on consumer protection against cryptocurrency scams and fraud in June. The event titled “Decrypting Cryptocurrency Scams” will feature stakeholders from law enforcement, consumer advocacy groups and private-sector businesses “to explore how scammers are exploiting public interest in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and litecoin and to

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Bacon, the first cryptocurrency backed by Oscar Mayer Bacon’s gold standard, was introduced as Oscar Mayer distributes a limited amount of Bacon that fans can mine, track the value of and cash out for real packs of Oscar Mayer Bacon at OscarMayerBacoin.com.

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Coinbase has Hired Hunter Merghart, Former Trading Director at Barclays
Coinbase, the well-known cryptocurrency trading firm, has hired Hunter Merghart, a former director of equity trading at Barclays, according to LinkedIn. Merghart based in New York who previously worked at RBC Capital Markets and Credit Suisse, was hired as a sales trader. He updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect the move. The recent hire by

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Sopnendu Mohanty Advised The Public To Take Extreme Caution When Investing In Cryptocurrency
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has advised the public to act with extreme caution and to understand the significant risks they take when investing in cryptocurrencies. Investors in cryptocurrencies should be aware that they run the risk of losing their capital, given the volatility in prices. Cryptocurrency is not issued by any government and is

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Binance Exchange Has Greatly Increased Malta’s Cryptocurrency Trading Volumes
Morgan Stanley, the financial services company based in the United States, has gained great recognition in its research based on investment business.
An analyst and her team working for Morgan Stanley sent a note to customers this week, discussing

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Japanese Crypto Association Unveils Plans For Its Major Cryptocurrency Exchanges
The new Japanese cryptocurrency association comprising of sixteen governments has unveiled its plans for its cryptocurrency exchange. The company has set a target spearhead self-regulation in order to rebuild the public’s trust in the crypto industry. The group held a press conference on Monday and planned to fully launch a crypto exchange. The company had

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Unicef Australia Launches Cryptocurrency Mining Platform For FundRaising
Unicef Australia calls on the general public to donate computing power in order to raise funds through cryptocurrency mining. The global humanitarian and development agency has launched TheHopepage, a browser-based cryptocurrency mining platform that uses a third-party computer’s processing power to automatically generate funds. Cryptocurrency Mining involves the use of powerful computing power to perform

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Ethereum’s Founder ‘Vitalik Buterin’ to receive the 2018 LSC Genius Award
Vitalik Buterin, ethereum’s inventor, has officially being named a winner of the 2018 Genius Award by The Liberty Science Center, described by EY as one of the world’s leading centers of technology and science. Buterin, along with three other 2018 Genius Award recipients is to be honored at a creative black-tie gala at the Center

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The popularity of trading bitcoin futures contracts (XBT) continues to scale new heights. On Wednesday, CBOE, the dominant U.S. derivatives exchange providing bitcoin futures contracts, saw its highest-ever trading volume for bitcoin futures since the launch of trading in December. Wednesday’s instance broke the earlier CBOE record of 15,500 bitcoin futures contracts traded on Jan.

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New initiatives, Fintech to Speed up Blockchain Patent Approval Process In Signapore
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) has announced a new Fintech Fast Track initiative which provides expedited patent application-to-grant process for Fintech inventions.

According to a statement from the Office, the FinTech Fast Track initiative seeks to shorten that process from about two years to as little as six months. In order to be eligible for a patent, an application must be first filed in

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Binance Signs $15 Mln Agreement with Bermuda Govt for Crypto Investment, Jobs
Binance is looking to set up its new Global Compliance Base in Bermuda, Premier and Minister of Finance David Burt announced on Friday, April 27. Speaking at a joint press conference, Burt announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and partnership with the Binance Group, the “world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange according to market capitalization. According

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Director Of PBoC: Blockchain Belongs To The Public And Serves the Public Interest
A prominent Chinese researcher, the director of the Institute of Digital Currency at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), Yao Qian, has urged the country’s central bank to adopt a state-backed digital currency “as soon as possible.” While praising blockchain’s key features

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