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...

Vitalik Buterin, the Russian-Canadian founder of Ethereum and vocal proponent of a wealth tax,  donated Ethereum and "meme coins" worth over $1billion to India's Crypto Covid Relief Fund and a range of other charities. He contributed on Wednesday by offloading massive amounts of dog-themed meme tokens. Is Buterin Shipping Out...

Dvision Network is extending a cross-chain bridge to Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Dvision Network is Now on BSC In a bid to offer its users multiple blockchain protocols to choose from, Dvision Network announced it is enabling the bridge between Ethereum mainnet and the Binance Smart Chain. This means that...

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...

Ethereum scaling startup Metis has announced the completion of a $4M private round. The latest raise means that Metis has banked $5M to date from private investors and still has a public sale of its native token to come on May 13. Blockchain VCs clamored to write checks for Metis,...

ETH has been adding incredible returns for crypto investors over the past few months. As per data from CoinMarketCap, the second-largest cryptocurrency soared to a new lifetime high of over $3,450 on May 3. This record-breaking rally has resulted in open interest on Ethereum Futures hitting a new high of...