Forbes writes that perhaps unseen behind the nonstop news coverage of crypto price volatility, the Blockchain companies listed in the Fintech 50 are “building infrastructure—to support both public cryptocurrency markets and initiatives that could transform how current financial transactions are executed …

Forgot to get a Valentine’s Day gift for your sweetheart? There is still time to permanently etch your love on the blockchain. Startups, initial coin offerings, and other services are allowing lovebirds to immortalize their feelings using crypto technology. The blockchain is the technology on which bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built. It functions essentially […]

Newcomer Chainalysis, with just $1.6 million in capital invested, already counts the IRS, FBI and Europol as users of its tools, which allow specific crypto transactions to be traced. Meanwhile, first-time list member Symbiont is working with both incorporation capital Delaware and mutual fund behemoth …

T-Mobile has been quietly toiling away on an enterprise blockchain solution for months, and it looks primed to make a big reveal soon. The telecom giant’s interest in blockchain was most recently advanced after the company was prominently mentioned for its role in helping develop Hyperledger Sawtooth’s 1.0 version. Yet, its overarching blockchain work is not widely known. And […]

BITCOIN had a price boost yesterday as the cryptocurrency hit its highest price for a week, passing the $9,000 mark, before it saw its value once again slump. The online currency has had a torrid start to 2018 after it saw its price plunge from an all time high of nearly $20,000 in December 2017 […]

The surging popularity of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies offers a vision of a more efficient world where individuals can deal directly with each other without trusted centralised institutions. That’s the positive narrative , but technology has promised many things in the past, only for them to either fail or take a lot longer to hit critical mass. But how will it […]

It should come as no surprise that the CEOs of Blockchain and Chain, two leading companies in the bitcoin and blockchain industry, have both personally bought into cryptocurrencies. But their investing strategies sound different, and a lot more restrained, than the broader, vocal crypto crowd. On a panel at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit: Crypto on […]

Chinese payment provider LianLian International is joining RippleNet, the payment network that uses Ripple’s blockchain technology to facilitate cross-border transactions. Announced on Feb. 7, the news will see the Hong Kong-based LianLian International adopting Ripple’s xCurrent solution in an effort to bring same-day, cross-border transactions onto a blockchain for its existing customers. The product differs from Ripple’s xRapid solution, which, […]

Picture two $1 bills. One is crisp and immaculate, newly arrived from the U.S. Mint. The other is crumpled and covered with crumbs and boogers. Each is worth exactly the same as the other. It doesn’t matter if the crumply one previously belonged to a coke dealer or a Koch brother. It’s still good for […]

The distributed ledger technology which makes up the backbone of the Blockchain has already been adopted by legal firms, healthcare providers, retail and manufacturing, and even the food industry. The business value-add of blockchain is expected to grow to more than $176 billion by 2025, and to …