# XEM News

2013 marked the year Bitcoin was first propelled into the limelight. Back then, the digital currency was deemed by the public as shady and the mere currency of the internet’s underbelly. The Silk Road was taken down, and U.S authorities confiscated millions of dollars in bitcoin. But today, the tech...

There might be a silver lining looming for victims of the Japanese Coincheck heist. For many, getting robbed might ultimately prove to be a blessing in disguise. Looking at a reimbursement of around $440 million Coincheck’s COO Yusuke Otsuka said on Thursday, March 8, 2018, that the hacked users would...

In late January, Coincheck suffered a massive hack that left 260,000 of their investors without their NEM. As one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in Asia, it was a blow to the trust in exchanges when a vast amount of NEM went missing. Now it seems the stolen funds have...

On August 3, TechBureau announced the release of COMSA, which is described as, ‘a complete Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fundraising platform built on the NEM protocol meant for the streamlining of cryptocurrency funding.’ The COMSA platform hopes to address uncertainties that go with Initial Coin Offerings by linking ICO funds...

Fueled by a theme known as the “New Economy Movement,” the Singapore-based non-profit organization NEM Foundation is on an ambitious quest to promote their blockchain technology throughout the world. NEM sprouted via an alpha version in June of 2014, before eventually pursuing an official beta launch in of March 2015....