Chainalysis
Chainalysis, a firm that develops market surveillance and investigation software for cryptocurrency, has become the first blockchain company to be listed on Forbes’ “Next Billion-Dollar Startups List.” The company is best known for recovering 650,000...
Virtual Commodity Association Working Group
The Virtual Commodity Association has launched six committees to write whitepapers describing the best ways to regulate the digital asset markets and blockchain companies. The VCA’s president, Yusuf Hussain, said that these committees directly address the...
Blockstack
Blockstack has been granted approval by the SEC to host a regulated initial coin offering under Regulation A+.
tZERO
tZERO has agreed to develop a digital token, the “Bushnell token,” for the film financing company Vision Tree, in order to raise money via a token sale for a movie about Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari.
Coinsquare
Coinsquare, a Toronto-based cryptocurrency trading platform, has acquired a controlling stake in ATM manufacturer Just Cash to enable its customers to carry out cryptocurrency transactions through its ATMs.
U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is cracking down on cryptocurrency; the U.K. regulator has suggested a ban on cryptocurrency derivatives products. Senior regulator Christopher Woolard said that the FCA “will act when we see poor products being sold to...
Gemini
Gemini announced Thursday that it will open a new office in Chicago to serve as an “engineering hub.” This branch will be staffed by at least five former employees of Coinbase’s former Chicago office to start.
Coinfirm
Coinfirm, a U.K.-based company, has entered into an agreement with Ripple to improve Ripple’s AML practices – including being able to discern whether a bundle of cryptocurrency being traded has been put through a “mixer,” or online...
Bitfinex
The hackers behind the 2016 attacks on Bitfinex may have been caught. Two Israeli men, Eli Gigi and Assaf Gigi, were arrested for committing phishing scams that allowed them to steal millions of dollars worth of digital assets from Bitfinex customers.
Matt Raebel
Associate Editor
Matt Raebel is a Chicago-based writer and blogger. He is currently an associate editor with John Lothian News.
