UK Government Pilots Blockchain in Bid to Secure Digital Evidence

Jun 23, 2020 at 07:17 UTCKPMG's Chain Fusion project has been in the works for a year, said project director Sam Wyner. (Eddie Jordan Photos / Shutterstock)‘Big 4’ Auditor KPMG Launches Crypto Asset Management ToolsKPMG has built a suite of tools designed to help both traditional financial companies and fintech startups provide tightly managed crypto-asset…

(Isabelle OHara/Shutterstock)“Big Four” professional services firm KPMG has announced a new patent-pending blockchain solution intended to help organizations measure, report and offset their greenhouse gas emissions.According to a Tuesday press release, the firm describes its Climate Accounting Infrastructure (CAI) as a transparent platform that offers companies a means to trace their emissions.The CAI is intended…

Paxos has laid off 65 people as it increases its focus on tokenization.CEO Charles Cascarilla wrote in a company email that the firm is in a "very strong financial position to succeed.”Digital assets company Paxos has laid off 65 people, or 20% of its staff, according to a report from Bloomberg.In an all-hands email obtained

The votes were staggeringly in favor, but a quorum was not reached, and Uniswap’s second-ever governance proposal has been defeated.The proposal, submitted by decentralized finance (DeFi) portal Dharma, was to distribute 400 UNI tokens each to 12,619 addresses that interacted with Uniswap through third-party apps. In a surprise airdrop on Sept. 17, over 250,000 addresses…

Mar 26, 2020 at 18:33 UTCUpdated Mar 26, 2020 at 18:34 UTCWhile bitcoin (BTC) looks set to prolong its recent bullish moves, those responsible for making new bitcoin have increased their selling. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value rose from $3,867 to $7,000 in the 13 days to March 25, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price…

news Malaysia’s securities watchdog will have powers to regulate digital asset offerings and crypto exchanges as of Tuesday. According to a notice from the country’s Securities Commission (SC), the Capital Markets and Services (Prescription of Securities) (Digital Currency and Digital Token) Order 2019 will come into force on Jan. 15 following a statement from the finance minister…

markets View Bitcoin has dropped more than 25 percent in the third quarter, neutralizing the bullish setup on the monthly chart. With the weekly and the three-day charts biased bearish, the cryptocurrency risks falling to $7,500 in the short-term. A violation there would expose the next major support, currently at $7,070. A corrective bounce may…

Would-be bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuer Hashdex changed its paperwork Friday, naming BitGo as its bitcoin custodian and changing the name of its Bitcoin Futures ETF to the Hashdex Bitcoin ETF as it – and other companies – continue to hope for an approval for the U.S.'s first spot bitcoin ETF early in the new

news Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings has established a new subsidiary to manufacture cryptocurrency mining chips and systems. The new venture, SBI Mining Chip Co. (SBIMC), is a part of SBI’s strategy on digital assets-related businesses, according to an announcement on Friday SBIMC will be carrying out the development and manufacturing of cryptocurrency miners in partnership…