Cointelligence Blog

In the recent months, the company has issued a huge number of tokens and has since been extensively scrutinized as to whether these tokens are actually backed by real currency.

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, recently addressed a conference in London where she highlighted the positive changes Bitcoin and other digital currencies could bring to the current financial landscape.

Jinse.com has reported that Chinese authorities are planning on regulating the cryptocurrency market by classifying cryptocurrency a virtual assets.

The bank aims to use this new technology to handle remittances between Japan and Thailand. Ripple, used as a cross-border payment network solution, will allow the bank to transfer remittances from Japan to Thailand nearly instantaneously.

A long-time developer of Bitcoin, Matt Corallo, recently questioned the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed new changes to the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT).

Architect Partners conducted a thorough research, analyzing data collected from tokendata.io to come to stark conclusions regarding the ICO market.

Overstock's blockchain subsidiary, Medici, just announced today the launching of the world's first ever Alternative Trading System (ATS). This system will provide a marketplace enabling individuals to exchange cryptographic tokens which will be categorized as securities in the US. 

The Middle Eastern country Bahrain has been considering digital currency as its main currency for the future.

Japanese bitcoin exchanges have begun receiving their formal operating licenses from the local Financial Services Agency (FSA). QUOINE and bitFlyer were some of the first exchanges to receive their formal certificate of approval from the government’s department.

The SEC has recently declared two different ICOs to be fraudulent which sparked debate about ICO regulation among Fintech experts.