Coinpm News

— Coinbase acquires institutional crypto brokerage Tagomi — Brave rolls out encrypted video calls on Brave Nightly — Theta partners with Google — LG joins the Hedera Governing Council — Revolut sees 68% growth in crypto purchases in UK — BitGo launches BitGo Prime trading service — Bank of Lithuania completes research phase of LBChain — Goldman Sachs labels Bitcoin as “not viable investment vehicle”

— Cardano gains 3.5% as Bitcoin remains at $8900 — Raiz introduces a portfolio with 5% Bitcoin allocation — Tencent to invest $70B in new tech — Bitfury allows accredited investors to invest in its Bitcoin mining farms — Bitwage offers a Bitcoin 401k plan — Polkadot launches its mainnet after 4 years of development — ErisX rolls out block trading API — Libra rebrands its digital wallet

— Telegram withdraws from SEC appeal — CoinDCX raises $2.5M a couple of months after closing Series A — Eidoo to issue its crypto debit card in Europe — KuCoin’s OTC Trading Desk adds support for the Canadian Dollar — Binance launches Ether and XRP options trading — BTSE lists TRYB

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— Bitcoin drops by 5.5% to $8750 — Hacker claims to have stolen data from Ledger, Trezor and KeepKey — Ukraine proposes a bill allowing banks to serve crypto firms — Coinbase to act as primary custodian for FTT token — Ontology partner with Spherity to develop digital ID solutions

— Total crypto market cap drops by further 2% to $256B — Travala.com merges with TravelByBit — Blockstack unveils its non-profit Stacks Foundation — Iran is to review crypto mining regulation and taxation — Samsung to include Theta.tv to its Galaxy smartphones — Chinese media outlets form blockchain-powered news department — Blockchain.com to add support for the Russian Ruble

— Total crypto market cap drops by 3.8% to $261B — Mysterious wallet moves Bitcoin for the first time since 2009 — Shopify partners with CoinPayments — Coinbase allow employees to work from home permanently — Ethereum’s Topaz testnet hits 1M ETH milestone — Overstock airdrops security token to stockholders — Cosmos is now available for staking on Coinbase Custody

— Bitcoin remains at $9700 as price indicator suggests growth — BlockFi suffers a data breach — US Court rejects AT&T’s attempt to dismiss crypto theft lawsuit — BitMEX goes down for an hour — Bitcoin mining adjustment sees difficulty drop by 6% — Tezos partners with Digycode to offer XTZ prepaid cards in France — Atari adds Litecoin as means of payment for upcoming token — Argentina Football Association to launch own crypto token

— Total crypto market cap gains 1.5% to reach $271B — BitMEX hit with a new lawsuit — Raiffeisen Bank partner with Billon to develop a national digital currency pilot — Total value locked in wBTC doubles in 2 weeks — Thesis pauses tBTC deposits — Klaytn partners with Chainlink — Uniswap launches v2 of its protocol

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— Bitcoin retests $10,000 — Hackers attack supercomputers across Europe with crypto mining malware — Jared Tate steps down from DigiByte — JCB to create a blockchain-based payment system — Crypto.com’s MCO Visa card now available in Europe — Uniswap sees 225% spike in volume in Q1

— Bitcoin remains at $9600 — CME sees spike in the volume of Bitcoin options trading — Coinbase Pro adds support for OmiseGo — BitGo partner with CoinDCX to provide custody solutions — FTX launches Bitcoin hashrate futures — Reddit to transfer blockchain rewards to Ethereum by 2021

— Bitcoin spikes by nearly 10% to reach $9800 — Reddit to issue Ethereum-based tokens for two subreddits — Bitwala partners with Celsius Network to offer a new Bitcoin Interest Account — The Bitcoin network hashrate drops by 20% — Bitfinex partners with Koine to roll out new services — A Bitcoin fund raised $140M a week before the halving

— Bitcoin gains 1.6% to reach $9000 — IRS reaches out to third-party contractors to examine crypto traders’ tax returns — Telegram abandons its $1.7B project — JPMorgan offers banking services to crypto companies — MakerDAO shuts down SAI — Binance acquires majority share in Tokocrypto — EY reveals 16,959 people have filed refund claims from QuadrigaCX — Blockdaemon raises $5.5M — Stablecoin supply hits ATH of $10.4B

— Bitcoin gains 1.3% hours after its third halving event — Crypto.com integrates with e-commerce platform Ecwid — Lolli raises $3M in a seed round — Binance US launches an OTC trading desk for orders over $10,000 — ErisX launches physically settled ETH futures — Crypto bank SEBA partners with Tokensoft — YouTube cuts Cointelegraph’s BTC halving stream — Chainlink introduces VRF, on-chain verifiable randomness

— Bitcoin drops below $9000 days before the halving — Coinbase suffers another platform outage — Croatia approves its first Bitcoin fund — Average Bitcoin transaction fees reach 10 months high — Immutable to launch a decentralized non-custodial exchange

— Bitcoin hits $10,000 for the first time since February — Zcash plans to bring privacy features to the Cosmos ecosystem — Telegram agrees to provide ICO purchase agreements to the SEC — BlockFi releases mobile app — Chiliz partners with the UFC — Zoom acquires Keybase

— Bitcoin gains 3.6% to reach $9300 — Stellar Foundation backs Abra to launch new XLM products — Silvergate Bank reports surge in Bitcoin trading volume in Q1 — ErisX secures licenses from NYDFS — A tool by CCAF allows tracking of global Bitcoin mining power — VBit raises $1.1M — The Libra Association appoints first CEO

— The total crypto market cap remains at $253BN — bitFlyer enables instant cash deposits for US traders — CoinSwitch to launch its Kuber app in India — TokenAnalyst shuts down its operations — JUST IEO completes in less than 5 minutes — Bittrex Global to launch an exchange token this quarter — Biconomy launches beta mainnet introducing gasless transactions to Ethereum

— Bitcoin continues to hover around $9000 — Telegram asks US investors to accept 72% refund — Zcash network sees spike in fully shielded transactions — Robinhood closes a Series F funding round — NEAR raises $21.6M in a funding round led by a16z — Bitcoin’s hashrate hits ATH as halving approaches — Paradigm introduces new service RFQ Builder — Berlin-based startup Gapless raises €5.5M — Ethereum transactions surge 72% since February