April 2019

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New York’s Attorney General has obtained a court order against crypto exchange Bitfinex’s operator iFinex as well as stablecoin company Tether.

MakerDAO token holders have voted again to increase issuance fees on dollar-backed stablecoin DAI.

Tobacco giant Philip Morris is working on a “public blockchain,” an executive said, though not quite in the commonly understood sense.

Nobuaki Kobayashi, the trustee for crypto exchange Mt Gox, has extended the deadline by which he must file a civil rehabilitation plan.

The non-profit entity behind ethereum’s hottest decentralized startup is wracked with infighting, a legal letter obtained by CoinDesk reveals. The letter, dated April 1, is from an attorney representing five board members of the Cayman Islands-based MakerDAO Ecosystem Growth Foundation (MEGF) who say they were pressured to resign by CEO Read more…

Genesis Global Trading’s cryptocurrency lending arm continues to grow, even as the number of short sellers dwindles.

U.K.-licensed payments platform Wirex is launching 26 fiat-backed stablecoins on the Stellar blockchain network.

Bitcoin may revisit sub-$5,000 levels in the short-term, as a widely followed technical indicator is flashing a historically bearish pattern.

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that the United States must be prepared for the consequences if they continue with their efforts to prevent Iran from selling its oil globally and blocking countries from using the Strait of Hormuz.