Michael McSweeney

The U.S. Federal Reserve is weighing the potential risks and rewards of a digital currency beyond the technological implications, according to statements from the president of the Boston Fed made Wednesday.

Babel Finance, the Asia-based, crypto-focused financial services firm, announced Monday that it raised $40 million in Series A funding.

Data drawn from SimilarWeb shows that the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges drew in 530 million visitors during the month of April. Per the data, the 531.12 million figure represents the second-highest monthly result, coming in just below January 2018’s 531.7 million.  Breaking the results down by individual market share, Binance increased its share of the […]

Bitfarms, a publicly traded bitcoin mining firm, announced on May 7 that it had won approval to list on the Nasdaq Global Market.

Asset manager VanEck has filed to create an ether-focused exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to public filings.

Goldman Sachs has moved to offer derivatives products tied to the price of bitcoin to its clients, according to Bloomberg.

Public records indicate that the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, which is part of the Treasury Department, is on the hunt for at least one blockchain analytics tool. 

MercadoLibre, the Latin American e-commerce and fintech company, said in a Wednesday regulatory filing that it now holds bitcoin on its balance sheet.

The long-awaited third iteration of the decentralized exchange protocol Uniswap went live on Wednesday.

Crypto data firm Coin Metrics has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Wall Street megabank Goldman Sachs.

$252 million — that's how much revenue the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem's top protocols generated during the month of April, according to The Block's Data Dashboard.

Data collected by The Block Research shows that spot trading volumes on legitimate exchanges hit a new all-time high for April.

Bitcoin miners hauled in $1.7 billion in revenue during the month of April, according to new data. The April figure represents a slight decline compared to March’s $1.75 billion, as shown in the chart below. Miners were buoyed by high prices as bitcoin traded at an all-time above $60,000 earlier this month. At press time, […]

Ethereum miners brought in more than $1.5 billion in revenue during the month of April, according to data collected by The Block.

CME Group execs discussed the firm's bitcoin futures offerings during an earnings call on Wednesday, with next week's expected launch of micro bitcoin futures predicted to open the door to a potentially wider customer base.

Mastercard's chief executive discussed the payments firm's ambitions in the area of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) during a Thursday earnings call.

Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, or BaFin, said in a translated version of a notice published Wednesday that it "has reasonable grounds for suspecting" that crypto exchange Binance may be in violation of the country's securities laws in connection with its recently announced stock tokens service.

Visa CEO Al Kelly discussed the payments giant's crypto ambitions during an earnings call on Tuesday, describing the firm as "extremely well-positioned" to do so. 

Legislation introduced earlier this year in Wyoming to create a legal link between decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and the state government is now the law of the land.