German investment firm Iconic Funds is listing a physical Bitcoin ETP on the Deutsche Boerse Xetra exchange. The digital asset exchange product is expected to expose bitcoin to institutional clients.  Bitcoin ETP will Expose Institutional Clients to Bitcoin This development was revealed by Iconic Funds today, May 12, in a press...

Money transfer giant MoneyGram would allow users in the United States to buy and sell bitcoin at its retail stores across the country.  MoneyGram Enabling Retail Bitcoin Purchase In a press release on Wednesday (May 12, 2021), the company inked a partnership deal with major cryptocurrency cash exchange Coinme to...

NFT platform Cryptomeda today announced the successful closure of its strategic funding round. Cryptomeda Closes Strategic Funding Round According to an announcement made today, the Cryptomeda team has successfully closed its seed and a private round of its token sale. The funding round was led by AU21 Capital, x21, and...

GitHub has added a "Copy" button to all code blocks, its CEO Nat Friedman revealed on May 11. The "Copy" Button The feature, which has been received positively, is part of the platform's continuous improvement. From GitHub—a code hosting platform that can assist projects to control their version and collaborate...

FNTX Capital Suisse and 355 Developments have joined forces to make it possible for hodlers of bitcoin (BTC), dogecoin (DOGE), and other cryptocurrencies to pay with crypto when they purchase luxury apartments in Portugal. Dogecoin for Real Estate In another exciting development for hodlers of popular meme crypto dogecoin (DOGE),...

A new project has long started exploring the use cases of AI for trading and is set on a mission to become a pioneer in bringing them to the cryptocurrency market. Today, we will take a closer look at how trading has evolved over the years and where the cryptocurrency...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Digital Currency Institute of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), are looking to expand the testing of China's central bank digital currency (CBDC) for cross-border payments.  Hong Kong and China Preparing for More Digital Yuan Trials According to Bloomberg on Thursday (May...

Israel is the latest country to join the increasingly competitive CBDC race. Israel Plans to Launch Digital Shekel According to a report by Ledger Insights on May 12, the Bank of Israel recently released a working paper on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) that is intended as a basis...

Total crypto market cap erased $268 billion from its value for the period since Monday and now stands at $2.21 trillion. The top ten coins are all in red for the last 24 hours with Dogecoin (DOGE) and Litecoin (LTC) losing 18.5 and 17 percent of their respective values for...

Total crypto market cap added $8 billion to its value for the period since Monday and now stands at $2.36 trillion. The top ten coins are mostly in green for the last 24 hours with Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Cardano (ADA) leading the pack with a 25 and 14 percent...

Offchain Labs has announced that its Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution, Arbitrum now comes with a transaction sequencer. The team says the Arbitrum Sequencer testnet will go live on May 14, while the Arbitrum mainnet will be opened to developers on May 28, 2021. Arbitrum Solving Ethereum’s Scalability Issues  As...

Ether (ETH) has made it to the psychological $4,100 price region for the first time in its existence. The native digital currency of the Ethereum smart contracts blockchain is now well on its way to becoming more valuable than several Wall Street firms, including JP Morgan Chase. Ethereum Surpasses $4,000...