Distributed ledger technology

The stratospheric rise of bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and other cryptocurrencies in recent months may be only the beginning.

The famed investment bank is set to become the first major Wall Street bank to make markets in digital currencies such as bitcoin.

The blockchain startup continues to pack its board with mainstream finance experts.

With Wall Street on board, investors look to spend coins on real estate or through bitcoin debit cards.

Rather than forming a consortium of peers to investigate blockchain technology, as many banks have done, one of the world's largest asset managers is acting on its own.

Dizzying trading in bitcoin fed the bubble argument, but now that Nasdaq is the third Wall Street player to say it is designing a financial instrument around it, banks may be forced to reassess cryptocurrencies.

It’s been month after month of record-breaking, confounding growth for the cryptocurrency, accompanied by regular warnings from banks about bubble speculation.

A recent CU Journal article misses a crucial point about credit unions and distributed-ledger technology.

Japan’s bitFlyer is expanding to the American market, even as U.S. banks remain wary of cryptocurrencies.

The digital-currency startup, which markets software to banks, appears keen to signal that it wants to play by the rules.