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KR1, an investment company focusing on the blockchain ecosystem, has announced it made a profit of £4.5m in the first six months of 2019. George...

Mikhail Fedorov, deputy prime minister of digital transformation in the Ukraine, is set to collaborate with the country’s finance ministry to launch a new legal framework for cryptocurrencies.

Blockchain-powered money-transfer company Ripple has acquired Icelandic Algrim, the asset trading enterprise.

Despite having been highly anticipated, the Intercontinental Exchange’s bitcoin futures contract only traded at a total value of $5m in its first week.

Cryptocurrency startup Fold has added support for fiat currencies, government issued money that is not backed by a commodity, to its service that allows people to shop and get bitcoin-back rewards.

Representatives from Libra will be interviewed by officials from 26 global central banks on Monday in a bid to ease worries about its impact on the financial market. At the same time, investor interest in crypto seems to waning.

Singapore-based Arival Bank has pulled in £1.87m in a pre-Series A equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube.

Sparebanken Øst has announced that it is investing in Norwegian Block Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange normally referred to as NBX.

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) has announced that cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the Netherlands will be supervised by the central bank from January 10 2020.

Last month, a UN report claimed North Korea had hacked banks and cryptocurrency exchanges. Now, the country denies it. The report claimed that Pyongyang’s nuclear and...