West Virginia to Offer Blockchain Voting Statewide in Midterm Elections

news Grayscale Investments, the digital asset management firm operating under the Digital Currency Group umbrella, is adding support for Stellar lumens with a new investment product. The company announced Thursday that it was launching the Stellar Lumens Trust, a “single-asset investment product” which exposes investors to lumens (XLM), the native asset of the Stellar network.…

French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton is gearing up to release a new physical-linked non-fungible token (NFT) collection called Via Treasure Trunks, paving the way for exclusive members-only products and experiences.The new collection of “a few hundred” digital trunks will open for registration on June 8 to consumers based in the U.S., Canada, France, the…

The project has raised $11 million so far, falling short of the $300 million target. The tokens are non-transferrable which could have deterred speculative investors Trump's announcement of the project on X failed to create a notable spike in token sales. 02:01 Trump-Endorsed Crypto Project Confirms Plan for a Token; Bhutan Holds Over $780M in

Oct 15, 2020 at 08:16 UTCUpdated Oct 15, 2020 at 08:22 UTCBreitling watch (Bence Balla-Schottner/Unsplash)Breitling Goes Live With Ethereum-Based System to Put All New Watches on the BlockchainThe actual Breitling watch given to James Bond in the 1965 film “Thunderball” (it had a built-in Geiger counter) apparently wound up being sold at a car boot…

Jul 10, 2020 at 08:13 UTCCosta Rica (Debora Tingley/Unsplash)Ethereum and EOSIO Square Up Over Enterprise Blockchain Business in Latin AmericaThere may be an enterprise blockchain arms race brewing in Latin America. LatamLink, an alliance of three organizations involved in the launch of the EOS public blockchain in 2018, is now busy integrating the EOSIO software…

May 5, 2020 at 11:17 UTCUpdated May 5, 2020 at 14:53 UTCDaily chart (CoinDesk BPI)Bitcoin (BTC) failed to plant a flag above $9,000 early on Tuesday, even as on-chain data suggests spiking investor interest in the top cryptocurrency by market value. Prices rose to a high of $9,112 at 05:05 UTC, extending a recovery from Monday’s…

Dec 9, 2020 at 10:53 a.m. UTCUpdated Dec 9, 2020 at 11:01 a.m. UTCLondon, U.K.(IR Stone/Shutterstock)Coinbase UK Discloses 22% Profit Drop in 2019The British arm of the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase saw a sharp downturn in business in 2019, with annual profits dropping by nearly a quarter year on year as a result.In a filing…

Jan 30, 2020 at 17:00 UTCWith bitcoin traders looking for a move to $10,000, Markets Daily is back with news of the day and clips of Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Andrew Yang's recent crypto comments.For early access before our regular noon Eastern Time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica…

For all the noise surrounding cryptocurrency markets, crypto has always offered something fundamental to human progress: an open, democratic financial system. Despite all the meme coins and joke products, there are still many testing the power of crypto to provide the easy access to resources to the world’s 1.4 billion unbanked people.Gane, a freemium mobile…