Blockchain News

In early April, Italian-Cuban entrepreneur Mario Mazzola developed and expanded a decentralized p2p bitcoin exchange in Cuba. Cryptocurrencies are currently not banned in Cuba. Most global companies shy away from this country due to US sanctions. Mazzola told the media that the Qbita crypto...

Binance declared a new blockchain, based on BNB token. A blockchain named Binance Smart Chain (BSC) is going to support the functionality of smart contracts. “Ethereum is the first widely used smart contract platform. To take advantage of its relatively popular applications and community, the BSC...

BitGo announced the purchase of a startup Lumina, which contributes economic and tax reporting services. The new procurement will let BitGo extend the range of services and create a universal cryptocurrency platform for investors. Organization CEO Mike Belsh said that now BitGo customers will be...

The Enjin game platform opens access to its wallet for the Chinese region. According to a report on Monday, ENJ is now "approved and submissive with regulatory requirements in China." In a comment to CoinDesk, Brian Kortendik, vice director of marketing at Enjin, said the wallet was...

Etherscan, one of the most popular observers on the Ethereum blockchain, has launched an “illegal activity” monitoring feature. The Etherescan team will now compile and supplement the blacklist of Ethereum addresses, and the ETHProtect function will allow you to check the origin of incoming...

The Ministry of Industry and Informatization of the PRC has declared a list of affiliates of its national blockchain committee, which is going to establish rules in the field. To ensure that the federal criteria set by the team were consistent with applicable laws and additionally contributed to...

Huobi Group seeks to stop illegal activities on its platforms and therefore launches its transaction analysis instrument. Star Atlas is the new Huobi Group program that is going to block accounts with “suspicious” transactions automatically. The decision to unlock will be made by specific...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a recent interview with the South China Morning Post that the exchange reinvests approximately 25% of its profits each year on expansion and acquisitions. Zhao’s commentary answered the question about several recent acquisitions - the popular data aggregator...

Chinese tech titans Tencent and Alibaba recorded the highest quantity of blockchain patents last year. Tencent and its affiliates listed 718 applications, Alibaba Group - 470 of more than 5800 (20% of the whole number of applications)....

Chinese mining corporation Canaan Creative proclaimed a net loss of $148.6 million for 2019. On Thursday, April 9, the organization published its initial income report since the IPO on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in November. After an IPO of $90M, the value of the company's shares fell significantly...

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft decided to help hospitals and protect them from extortion attacks. Microsoft has identified dozens of healthcare facilities with vulnerable VPNs and other publicly accessible gateway applications. The company explained: “When organizations switched to remote...

Tesla, an electric car manufacturer, became one of the participants in a pilot test of a blockchain application designed to accelerate the import of goods into China. The project was led by a Hong Kong-based supplier of supply chain technology, CargoSmart Limited. In addition to Tesla, COSCO...

In honor of April 1st, April Fools' Day, CoinMarketCap analytics service placed the nonexistent Toilet Paper Token in the TOP 10 cryptocurrencies to the “zero” position, causing an ambiguous reaction from the crypto community. We’ve lifted the lid on CMC’s first digital asset, the Toilet...

Users of Opera will now have access to decentralized network resources as the browser began working with the Unstoppable Domains startup. As a result of the collaboration, the platform integrated the .crypto domain extension provided by the startup. That allows you to browse sites with...

The largest British bank HSBC used the Corda blockchain from the R3 consortium to store documents on securities offerings through a private subscription for $10 billion and does not intend to stop there. It is reported by CoinDesk. Initially, the conglomerate planned to reach a figure of $20...

Hodl Hodl became the first P2P trading platform to use the Liquid sidechain. Liquid is Blockstream’s sidechain technology, which is currently used by 45 exchanges, retailers, and financial companies. This solution allows you to make fast and confidential bitcoin transactions, as well as safely...

The developers of the privacy-oriented browser Brave intend to add the opportunity to sell, purchase, exchange, and store cryptos. To this end, the organization started a partnership with the Binance. We're thrilled to partner with @binance to bring cryptocurrency trading directly into the...

Bitfinex Bitcoin Exchange is going to introduce the Shimmer tool, intended to detect suspicious activity and provide fair conditions for the work of traders. Bitfinex launches Shimmer to monitor its own markets.Ensuring a fair and safe environment for the entire community is our...