Stellar announces 'build challenge' worth millions of dollars
Stellar said it would grant awards in categories: Anchors, Applications, Exchanges and first time submissions.
Kraken acquires Dutch Bitcoin exchange CleverCoin anticipating strong European trade
CleverCoin is the third digital currency exchange Kraken has swallowed this year after Coinsetter and Cavirtex.
Bitcoin startups talk about Brexit price spike and government-backed currencies
IBTimes looks at the strengths and weaknesses of fixed supply currency at time of Brexit-induced volatility.
Brexit: Will London lose its fintech crown?
Ramping up government startup grants could help protect the UK's lead in technology.
Bitcoin innovator Colu looks to connect blockchains for central bank cryptocurrencies
Colu received £6.6m Series A funding from Aleph, Spark Capital, Digital Currency Group and Tom Glocer.
Toyota Financial Services joins R3 distributed ledger consortium
TFS joins over 50 major financial institutions in the R3 consortium.
Seven banks kick-off Ripple's blockchain network including Santander, UBS and UniCredit - '90 more in the pipeline'
ReiseBank, CIBC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), and ATB Financial also using Ripple.
Winklevoss twins bring gold-plated Bitcoin trading to London
Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded and run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has expanded to the UK.
Euroclear and itBit collaborate on gold market settlement blockchain
The two will explore the creation of "a next generation settlement service for the London gold market".
Legal experts examine the DAO attack and Ethereum fork
Andreas M. Antonopoulos hosted a special Let's Talk Bitcoin show with Pamela Morgan, Brian Klein and Taylor Gerring.
US Department of Homeland Security awards Factom funding for blockchain IoT project
Factom given $199,000 to advance the security of digital identity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
ChromaWay and the Swedish Land Registry test smart contracts for real estate sales
Telia and Kairos Future are also part of the blockchain-based real estate transactions proof of concept.
Credits scoops 'Best Blockchain Startup' at Europas awards
Credits beat off stiff competition from runnersup Clearmatics, Everledger and Provenance.
Blockchains, banks and zero-knowledge proofs
IBTimes UK talks to Prof Eli Ben-Sasson of Technion, Israel Institute of Technology on the Zerocash project.
Allianz pioneers Symbiont smart contracts for catastrophe swaps
Smart contracts reduce the time and costs of managing catastrophe swaps and issuing insurance linked securities.
Microsoft to be main sponsor of Ethereum Devcon2 in Shanghai
The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016.
Poker and gaming token Breakout Coin opens crowdsale on Bittrex
The cryptocurrency which powers poker and gaming sites aims to sell 6.6 million tokens over the next 24 days.
DigixDAO tokens to trade on Bittrex exchange
Trading of DigixDAO tokens is expected to begin on Bittrex on Tuesday, June 14 at 17:00 UTC.
Chinese mining giant BTCC talks about Bitcoin $700 price pop
IBTimes talked to Samson Mow of Bitcoin conglomerate BTCC at the recent Consensus 2016 conference in NYC.
WAVES blockchain raises $16m after 'tsunami of Bitcoins' floods last days of crowdsale
WAVES raised 29634 Bitcoin via the initial coin offering (ICO) website and 460 in NXT Asset Swaps.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen meets with blockchain experts in Washington DC
The Federal Reserve, IMF and World Bank heard from the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Chain and Bloq.
Ethereum prediction market Augur teams up with blockchain security experts Airbitz
Airbitz Edge Security encrypts, backs up, and synchronises private keys and account data across devices.
ConsenSys and Microsoft tackle human rights abuses with blockchain-based identity system
Ethereum-based ConsenSys rallied support for its uPort identity system at ID2020 at the United Nations.
What the European Parliament vote on cryptocurrency regulation really means
Siân Jones, of the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum explains the recent MEP vote
Santander first UK bank to do blockchain-based international payments using Ripple
The new application is currently being rolled out as a staff pilot for payments of between £10 and £10,000.
Ethereum engineering course puts accreditation on the blockchain
The course from B9Lab aims to train 1000 developers this year and five times that amount the following year.
Cross-border payments experts debate Bitcoin remittances
IBTimes heard from Align Commerce, Azimo, WorldRemit and Blockchain Technology Limited (BTL).
Jeff Garzik's Bloq runs smart contracts like an 'Ethereum plug-in for Bitcoin'
BloqEnterrpise promises Turing-complete smart contracts plugged into Bitcoin, written in JavaScript and Python
Ping An becomes first Chinese institution to join R3 blockchain consortium
Ping An joins the global network of R3 partners united in its lab environment, the R3 Lab and Research Centre,
Meet blockchain-based sovereign ID ObjectChain Collab: the 'R3 of distributed identity'
IBTimes spoke to ObjectChain Collab MD Paul Ferris, who recently presented the idea at Consensus 2016 in NYC.