Mercy Corps CIO explains how NGOs can integrate blockchain to amplify their efforts

BTC price is due some "final corrections" before going on a bull run lasting at least two years, says crypto entrepreneur Michaël van de Poppe.

Nelson Minier, head of over-the-counter (OTC) trading at major cryptocurrency platform Kraken, has stated that the OTC desk’s trades per month have increased by a factor of 20 since the beginning of last year.Minier gave his remarks in an episode of The Block’s podcast, The Scoop, on Aug. 20. Minier further remarked that “Bitcoin and…

BTC price records will come thick and fast, BitQuant says — but no one can say when exactly Bitcoin will break to new all-time highs.

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have rapidly become the new hot topic in the cryptocurrency sector, as evidenced by Litecoin creator Charlie Lee comparing the current spike in NFT interest to the ICO mania of 2017. The recent pullback in the cryptocurrency market hit decentralized finance tokens (DeFi) pretty hard but as Bitcoin price recovered the $50,000, DeFi…

Stephen Moore — the economist who advised Trump on his tax cut policy and made an aborted Trump-backed bid to join the United States Federal Reserve board — has joined a cryptocurrency project that aspires to function as a new type of central bank.The development was reported by U.S. business news site Fox Business Network…

The new USDS stablecoin from Maker, now Sky, has a freeze function which the project's founder claims won't be part of the token at launch.

Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by total assets, has joined blockchain-based trade finance network, the Marco Polo Network.Standard Bank will now develop trade finance solutions alongside major global financial institutions such as French BNP Paribas and Dutch ING, according to a press release on Aug. 22.Backed by the world’s biggest bank, the Industrial and Commercial…

Swiss crypto broker Bitcoin Suisse has purchased a minority stake of CoinRoutes Inc., a provider of pan-exchange smart order routing and algorithmic trading software.The investment and a new directorBitcoin Suisse announced the news on Oct. 22, specifying that it acquired a $3 million share of CoinRoutes. Niklas Nikolajsen, the chairman of the Bitcoin Suisse Group,…

A pump in daily volume creates an 8% swing on whether Trump will complete his first term. Following reports of United States President Donald Trump’s positive test result for COVID-19, prediction markets have (perhaps predictably) seen a flurry of activity.One of the more macabre predictions gaining attention is on the centralized PredictIt market run by…