Singapore Airlines’ Blockchain-Based Loyalty Program Takes Off Singapore Airlines has officially launched its blockchain-based loyalty program for frequent customers.… Read More
BlockFi Raises $52.5 Million in Round Lead by Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Crypto-lending firm BlockFi raised $52.5 million in a fundraising round led by Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital.… Read More
SEC Delays Decision on Asset Manager’s Bitcoin ETFs Until September The SEC has delayed a decision on whether to approve five bitcoin-related ETFs, public documents reveal.… Read More
UK Central Bank Says New Payments System Will Be Blockchain Friendly The Bank of England confirmed it is going to update its Real-Time Gross Settlement system to potentially interact with blockchain-based forms.… Read More
Crypto Stock Exchange Operator Pleads Guilty to Fraud Jon Montroll, who ran the now-defunct bitcoin investment platform BitFunder, has plead guilty to securities fraud and obstruction of justice charges.… Read More
US Chamber of Commerce Calls for Clarity on ICOs The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the SEC and CFTC to provide clear guidance on initial coin offerings to encourage more token sales to launch.… Read More
Google Cloud Inks Deal With Blythe Masters’ Blockchain Startup Google Cloud is teaming up with distributed ledger startup Digital Asset to provide development tools for blockchain apps.… Read More
Mastercard Had An Outage, So Crypto Had a Field Day Mastercard suffered an outage last week that led to a hold-up for some transactions – and crypto supporters on social media quickly pounced.… Read More
Financial Exchange Patent Explores Tamper-Proof Blockchain Bidding A state-backed financial asset exchange in China is exploring how to build a secure blockchain-based system for online auctions.… Read More
A Japanese Telecom Giant Wants to Use Blockchain to Store Contracts Nippon Telegraph and Telephone is looking to invent a new contract agreements system based on blockchain technology. … Read More