Just as we call letters "snail mail," in the future people may consider bank transfers snail money.

Vinny Lingham, founder and CEO of Civic, discusses the froth in cryptocurrency markets, the mania for "initial coin offerings," the right way to do token sales, the future of digital identity and the banking system's security failings.

Readers chime in on the GSE conservatorships, bitcoin’s future, regulatory relief for regional banks, a recent Supreme Court ruling on debt collection, and more.

Private companies incorporated in Delaware could start issuing and tracking shares of stock on a distributed ledger this summer.

The exchange, founded by a bitcoin pioneer in 2014, is facilitating more than $50 million worth of transactions each month, as the "gold rush" in blockchain-based assets takes hold.

Coinbase has received approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services to offer trading of the digital currency ether, along with other products.

The ICO fundraising model has already yielded more than $230 million for startups.

If the Federal Reserve and other central banks began issuing their own digital currencies, they could benefit consumers, boost the economy and fight financial crime. But not without risks to cybersecurity, individual privacy — and possibly bank profits.

U.S. regulators rejected an exchange-traded fund based on bitcoin, wiping out weeks of gains for the digital currency as investors speculated the Securities and Exchange Commission would approve the security.

The two leading contenders vying for the cryptocurrency crown both have serious backing, but the technology is still developing and the endgame is still a ways away.

The acquisition of Cryptowatch is the most recent in a series of deals struck by Kraken in the last year.

The goal of Deloitte's new blockchain-focused lab in New York is to turn proofs of concepts into real solutions.

Bitcoin may no longer be a niche currency. A growing number of merchants, seeing the advantages of Bitcoin's near real-time, low-cost payment network, are beginning to accept the digital currency. Soon, many more merchants could start drinking the cryptocurrency Kool-Aid.