US Border Officials to Test Blockchain for Certificate Tracking

news Samsung Electronics has just revealed the cryptocurrency wallet for its just launched flagship phone, the Galaxy S10. According to a report from CoinDesk Korea published Sunday, the Samsung Blockchain Wallet is currently compatible only with ether (ETH) and ethereum-based ERC20 tokens. Bitcoin is not yet supported, despite the logo appearing on earlier pre-release presentation…

Fidelity Investments is looking to expand its institutional crypto asset platform to include trading services for the top five to seven cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Revealed today at the Block FS conference in New York, the news came in response to a question from CoinDesk posed to Tom Jessop, head of Fidelity Digital Assets, on what…

Binance and its founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao have been treated the way they have been in the U.S. because the crypto exchange – and other centralized exchanges – represent a threat to the traditional American-led global financial system, former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes argues in a new essay posted on his Substack account.Last week, Binance

Asset management giant BlackRock (BLK) has seemingly registered an iShares Ethereum Trust in the state of Delaware, a filing from Thursday shows.iShares Ethereum Trust corporate registration (State of Delaware)An entity under the name of BlackRock Advisors submitted the paperwork. The registered agent, according to the filing, is Daniel Schwieger. A person with the same name

The Bank of England said it plans to carry out a series of experiments on a wholesale central bank digital currency and distributed ledger technology. It will also experiment to ensure that the "singleness of money" is maintained with stablecoins and tokenized deposits. The Bank of England said it's planning a series of experiments with

ConsenSys, the ethereum-focused venture studio, has just acquired Planetary Resources, a space venture hoping to mine asteroids. Planetary Resources announced Wednesday that ConsenSys conducted an asset-purchase transaction, taking over the firm, with president and CEO Chris Lewicki and general counsel Brian Israel joining the ethereum-focused startup as a result. The terms of the deal were not…

Yesterday, the company behind the Sam Altman-fronted Worldcoin project announced it had raised $115 million dollars in venture capital. The raise looks like an atavistic last gasp for the kind of prestige-driven, slot-machine structured Silicon Valley fundraising fostered by a decade of cheap money. Because whether on ethical or financial grounds, there seems little rational…

Ryan Salame, a top FTX executive who reportedly played a key role in the exchange’s political fundraising operations, pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal criminal charges tied to the exchange’s collapse.The guilty plea comes less than a month before the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX founder, is set to begin. Bankman-Fried, who has pleaded

news Cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io said Tuesday that it will absorb the loss of roughly $200,000 worth of ethereum classic – about 40,000 ETC – in light of a series of blockchain history rewrites that continue to occur. In a blog post, the exchange said it had confirmed the 51 percent attack – whereby an entity…