The New York State Department of Financial Services and its French regulatory counterpart will work to "ease the entry" for fintech innovators into their respective markets.
Eris Clearing, the clearing and settlement arm of ErisX, has been awarded the hard-to-come-by Virtual Currency License from New York's Department of Financial Services.
Greenidge Generation, an upstate New York power plant that's using proprietary facility to mine bitcoin, has sold up to 30 percent of its computing power to institutional buyers.
NYDFS is asking all crypto firms operating in New York to prepare detailed plans in case day-to-day operations are disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.
The power plant believes it will remain profitable even after the halving event in May.
The exchange has now added the privacy-enhancing cryptocurrency zcash and its own USDC stablecoin in New York state.
Andrew Cuomo wants to give the Department of Financial Services more powers in regulating certain licensed entities, including crypto startups.
The crypto exchange will again extend its deadline for New York customers to withdraw funds from their accounts following the regulator's approval.
The specialized crypto unit of the New York Department of Financial Services is beefing up its staff with another hire.
The exchange has announced that New York residents now have access to two cryptos launched for other jurisdictions months ago.
A dark web drug dealer must forfeit $4 million in funds including bitcoin after pleading guilty in New York.
Under Lacewell's leadership the regulator granted New York's 19th BitLicense.
Five months after receiving a BitLicense, Robinhood is now offering ethereum and bitcoin trading in New York State.
New York-based users of Coinbase can now trade or store XRP on Coinbase.com or the crypto exchange's iOS and Android mobile apps.
When I visited some early bitcoin startups in Hong Kong five years ago, they were unanimous about their biggest challenge: finding a bank that would let them open an account.