The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has appointed Coinbase vice president Dorothy DeWitt as its new market supervisor. In a press release on Tuesday, CFTC chairman Heath Tarbert named DeWitt as the new...

Publicis Sapient, the digital transformation hub of Publicis Groupe, has announced the appointment of Priya Bajoria as Senior Vice President, Financial Services Digital Transformation Leader. Bajoria has extensive...

The head of the Libra Association, the governing body of Facebooks Libra project, has said that Libra cryptocurrency would be launched in the latter half of 2020. The comment is rather startling given the continued...

Interstellar, a new company formed by Chain and Lightyear last September, has announced that it is spinning out a new app-focused company, called Pogo. As per an official announcement, Pogo has been in stealth mode for...

Cryptocurrency investor and venture capitalist Tim Draper has joined the board of MakeSense Labs, the provider of a messaging app built on the EOS blockchain. The recent appointment follows the launch of Sense.Chat on iOS...

Christine Lagarde, a nominee to take over the next president of the European Central Bank (ECB), said that central banks and financial institutions should continue to protect consumers but keep an open mind to innovations...

Blockchain startup Ripple has onboarded former political adviser Ron Hammond as its new Manager of Government Relations. Hammond confirmed the news on Twitter on Tuesday. Excited to announce that as of today, I am...

An official from the Marshall Islands has published an essay that underscores the nations goals for a national cryptocurrency project ahead of the Invest: Asia 2019 conference. The post, which is written by the...

Ethereum co-founder and billionaire crypto developer Anthony Di Iorio has announced his retirement this week from Jaxx-wallet maker Decentral to concentrate on philanthropic, educational, and health-related...

European Central Bank (ECB)s executive board member Yves Mersch warned that Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency is posing a threat to monetary policy and called it beguiling but treacherous during a speech at the ECBs legal...

An executive of Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency has asked the projects other members to show their support amid the increasing regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe. Its time for us to speak up individually and...

Craig Wright needs to turn over half of his pre-2014 bitcoin holdings worth over $5 billion and intellectual property to the estate of his former business partner Dave Kleiman, according to a judge ruling on...

A Westwood, Los Angeles-based man has pleaded guilty for running a $25 million bitcoin money-laundering scheme and selling methamphetamine. Kunal Kalra, also known as Kumar, shecklemayne, and coinman, was charged on...

Crypto lending startup Cred has announced the appointment of former PayPal executive and Bryan Cave Partner to its executive team. As per a press release, financial regulatory lawyer Dan Wheeler is joining the company...

Mark Carney, the Bank of England governor, has challenged the position of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world, saying it could be replaced by a central bank-supported digital currency. In a speech at the...