Filecoin, designed as a decentralized alternative to Amazon Web Services, is now live as of block height 148,888, or 14:44 UTC.
Ian Jenkins joins fellow HSBC alum James Emmet, now the stablecoin group's CEO.
The New York Department of Financial Services intends to digitize financial reporting in a tech initiative that will initially focus on cryptocurrency companies.
The island's Financial Services Authority has set out how it will treat cryptocurrencies and crypto assets and which might be regulated as securities.
As well as making cryptocurrency transactions, the man is alleged to have bought luxury cars and property to launder funds.
Startups working with Algorand's blockchain may receive up to $500,000 in seed funding through the program.
NYDFS said cybersecurity must be treated as critical infrastructure by governments and corporations alike.
Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments has posted its best quarterly results to date, having brought in just over $1 billion in investment across all of its cryptocurrency products.
Ethereum startup Blox is introducing shared staking pools, allowing users to aggregate their ether holdings to participate in Eth 2.0.
The Global Standards Mapping Initiative is the most "comprehensive" attempt so far to survey blockchain technical standards, the WEF said.
The crypto exchange says the device is launching for the China market initially, but will expand to other countries in the next few months.
Around 5% of staff have left since CEO Brian Armstrong declared an apolitical stance at the company.
"In a world where benchmark interest rates globally are near, at, or below zero, the opportunity cost of not allocating to bitcoin is higher," the report said.
Finance officials never once named libra. But they didn't have to; the proposed stablecoin's shadow still looms large.
Paying ransomware hackers to decrypt infected computers doesn't always work, and may even be a crime in some countries.