Arbitrum DAO boosts ARB utility with staking and governance upgrades

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has requested, along with a number of other jurisdictions, that the companies in the Libra Association provide details on how they plan to protect user data.The ICO has released a joint statement on global privacy expectations of the Libra network on Aug. 5 that is addressed to Facebook and…

Ripple’s native token XRP was the worst performing large cap token in 2019 — and 2020 isn’t looking much better so far.Crypto analytics firm Messari this week released data showing XRP was the worst-performing crypto asset in the top 25 coins by market cap in the first quarter of 2020.XRP was also overtaken in volume…

Governments divesting themselves of their BTC is a non-event, but Bitcoin bears make sure that the market feels the heat regardless, analysis says.

Ethereum (ETH) has been on a downward trend with the $2,000 level forming a crucial resistance level in recent months.While Bitcoin (BTC) recorded 11.94% gains moving past $30,000 in June after BlackRock filed an ETF application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the upside in ETH stayed around 3.16%.In the first week of July,…

A monster 1.3M transaction block has been processed on the Bitcoin SV network. 1517 Total views 57 Total shares Blockchain service provider TAAL has processed the largest block to date on Bitcoin SV — 369MB in size and containing 1.3 million transactions.TAAL announced the milestone on Twitter. The block is an order of magnitude larger…

The Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Education and Science, (Rosobrnadzor) will implement blockchain technology in the country’s main graduation examination, major Russian news agency TASS reports Feb. 5.Starting this year, Rosobrnadzor intends to implement blockchain technology in the Unified State Exam (USE), which is the only form of graduation examinations in…

BTC price volatility is expected to accompany US macro data and the Presidential debate, while Bitcoin traders stay cautious about the recent rebound.

The Bank of England will launch a yearlong joint research project with MIT, which is already working with the Fed and Bank of Canada. 111 Total views 3 Total shares The Bank of England announced Friday that it had reached an agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative, or DCI,…

Investment bank Citi is betting on the blockchain-based tokenization of real-world assets to become the next “killer use case” in crypto, with the firm forecasting the market to reach between $4 trillion to $5 trillion by 2030.That would mark an 80-fold increase from the current value of real-world assets locked on blockchains, Citi explained in…