BlockFi Inc., a crypto trading and lending platform, raised $30 million in its second round of financing, led by funding from Valar Ventures, a Peter Thiel-backed venture fund.

BitPay has integrated bitcoin and cryptocurrency payments into Poynt’s Smart Terminal point-of-sale devices, reaching an addressable market of more than 100,000 retailers.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reaffirmed his agency’s skepticism of a Community Reinvestment Act plan proposed by other regulators, and said the Fed has an important role to ensure banks “are resilient against the longer-term risks from climate change.”

The bank’s former Asia investment banking co-chief is its third executive to be so punished; the agency says Telegram’s digital coin is a security.

It’s not even a month into 2020 and some analysts are already predicting a record-setting year and mass adoption for bitcoin.

CurioInvest, an investment platform, and MERJ Exchange Ltd., a Seychelles-based digital asset exchange, are partnering to offer tokens backed by collectible cars. The companies say tokenizing the luxury assets as an investment could make them widely accessible to a bigger pool of people.

The town’s 5,400 residents will be able to settle bills for taxes and other government services such as work permits using the cryptocurrency, Mayor Romy Biner-Hauser said.

Criminals are filling the void left by lax U.S. regulation of cryptocurrencies.

There is another phase of development for digital currency, waiting to take the spotlight — and it may not be driven by banks.

Facebooks’ Libra cryptocurrency project has been losing high-profile support for months, but the loss of Vodafone may be its most critical.

Square's merchants have shown early interest in cryptocurrency payments, and if merchants accept this new concept, it could exist along with other Square services to support numerous use cases, including broader financial services.

Terrorism financing schemes using cryptocurrencies are growing in sophistication, according to researcher Chainalysis Inc., which helps law enforcement track digital-coin transactions.

Terrorism financing schemes using cryptocurrencies are growing in sophistication, according to researcher Chainalysis, which helps law enforcement track digital-coin transactions.

Stable coins will extract value amid the volatility of cryptocurrency valuations, argues Bolt Global's Christel Quek.

Facebook Pay's relatively limited scope has raised less opposition than the company's crypto project, argues Infinite Convergence's Anurag Lal.

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project has drawn vast political pushback, but also more tangible government action as nations globally consider central bank supported digital currencies. It’s also sparking a potential bottom-up approach in New York.

Stablecoins, with their instant settlement and high liquidity, averts the issues that have long plagued cross-border transactions

The social network could achieve many of its goals by working within newer bitcoin protocols, says The Bitcoin Association's Jimmy Nguyen.

The largest digital token has posted gains of more than 9,000,000% since July 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The bank sees digital assets as part of the future and "we want to be there when this happens," says Ralph Achkar, head of digital product development and innovation.