A new poll from Newsweek suggests that as many as 10.8 million Texans may support legislation that makes cryptocurrency legal in the next election. According to a Sept. 20 report, a Newsweek poll that surveyed more than 9,700 eligible voters across ten U.S. states suggested that 37% of Texas residents would vote in favor of a ballot measure to make […]

El Salvador is reporting that more than half a million residents are using the new Chivo wallet system, which is designed to assist in the country’s rollout of bitcoin as an official legal tender. El Salvador Doesn’t Have Much to Brag About This would be fine and dandy except for one thing… El Salvador has more than 6.5 million residents. […]

United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced it will not be pursuing its Lend crypto lending program. In a Sept. 17 update to a blog announcing the program in June, Coinbase hinted at difficulties in regulatory clarity across the crypto industry in its decision to not bring the crypto lending product to the market. According to the exchange, “hundreds of […]

The Boston Blockchain Association, or BBA, together with Boston-based media house Media Shower and the Chamber of Digital Commerce, are working to lobby for favorable crypto regulations in Massachusetts. According to a release issued on Monday, the BBA in collaboration with Media Shower and the Chamber of Digital Commerce has released a crypto regulatory toolkit for lawmakers in the state. […]

Stratis is joining APPG Blockchain. Stratis to Guide U.K. Crypto Policy Stratis has joined the U.K.’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain (APPG Blockchain) to contribute its knowledge and experience of deploying blockchain for innovative use cases. APPG Blockchain includes organizations like Capita, the IOTA Foundation, SAP, and the British Standards Institute (BSI) who collaborate with an array of experts […]

eToro, a multi-asset investment platform, announced on Monday that it had appointed Michael Ptasznik to its Board of Directors, joining at the closing of its merger with Fintech Acquisition Tech V. According to the press release with Finance Magnates, Ptasznik also becomes a member of the Board’s Audit and Risk Committee. The executive recently led the corporate strategy, M&A, finance, […]

Cross-chain decentralized finance platform pNetwork has become the latest protocol to be targeted by hackers on Binance Smart Chain, reporting a loss of roughly $12.7 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC).  According to a Twitter thread published by pNetwork on Monday, the incursion resulted in 277 pBTC being siphoned from the exchange. The hackers made off with the majority of the […]

Turkey is eager to become a blockchain hub as a country with one leg in Europe and another in Asia. However, the same passion doesn’t apply to cryptocurrencies, as Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdoğan reiterated recently. Erdoğan hosted a question-and-answer event in Mersin, Turkey with youth from across the country. An attendant referred to the Digital Turkish Lira Collaboration Platform […]

Digital currency exchange Crypto.com has expanded its insurance policy to cover up to $750 million worth of digital assets, offering an additional layer of protection for the platform’s 10 million users.  The new policy, effective since Sept. 6, is backed by Arch Underwriting, a division with Lloyd’s Syndicate 12, the company announced Monday. The policy, which includes both direct and […]