The payments app launched initially in Nigeria, but there are plans to expand to 30 African nations his year.
As well as helping predict the spread of COVID-19, the app could act as a digital version of government certificates permitting citizens to go to work or the store.
The bitcoin fund is being launched by micro-investment app provider Raiz Invest Australia.
Coinbase has released a new trading app for its professional trading clients.
"The SEC allows me to say that you have a potential upside in this network," said YouNow CEO Adi Sideman.
Competition among bitcoin retail apps is heating up, with the newly funded Fold App doubling down on lightning network experiments.
Messaging app giant Kakao – which launched its own blockchain in June – has teased the release of a crypto wallet dubbed "Klip" later this year.
Robinhood, a stocks, ETFs and crypto investment app, has been given the green light to operate as a broker by a U.K. regulator.
Aximetria, a firm offering a personal finance app for fiat and cryptocurrencies, has been awarded a financial intermediary license in Switzerland.
Crypto investment app Abra is cutting back the crypto options for U.S. customers citing "regulatory uncertainty and restrictions" in the country.
BitFlyer Blockchain and Japanese business giant Sumitomo Corporation will develop a blockchain app allowing users to sign rental contracts and more.
2gether, a European payment app allowing users to spend crypto via a Visa debit card, is adding dash to its list of nine supported coins.
Circle Pay, an early flagship product for Circle, is being shut down as the company focuses on its USDC stablecoin.
SBI Ripple Asia is live testing in-store payments using its Ripple xCurrent-powered Money Tap app before a full launch "this year."
Emberfund is a new mobile app that lets anyone buy into an index of cryptocurrencies that automatically balances itself over time.