Ethereum Watch

The Department of Homeland Security awarded a $199,000 grant to Factom to advance IoT security devices. That was back in June 2016, so ETHNews reached out to see how the project is coming along. Advertisements UPDATED | June 18, 2018: The Department of Homeland Security announced on June 15, 2018, that it has awarded Factom […]

Hearings began Thursday in the case against My Big Coin, the cryptocurrency company that the CFTC has accused of defrauding investors of $6 million. But the attorneys for My Big Coin claim the CFTC has no authority to regulate the cryptocurrency company. Advertisements A “categorical platypus” – that’s the phrase attorney Marco Santori used to describe […]

Ripple, the cryptocurrency answer to the real-time remittance, payment, and settlement problem, admits that a blockchain global payment solution may not be ready for prime time. Advertisements Reuters reported on June 13 that Ripple’s chief cryptographer, David Schwartz, acknowledged that difficulty with scalability, along with concerns about privacy, will likely keep distributed ledger-enabled settlement systems […]

After William Hinman, director of the division of corporation finance for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), shared his view that Ether is not a security, Cboe Global Markets (Cboe) issued a statement about the potential for a financial derivative linked to the cryptocurrency. Advertisements “This announcement clears a key stumbling block for Ether futures, […]

Although it has been reported by several outlets that Walmart was just awarded a patent on a blockchain-based method and system for managing demand on an electric grid, there is no such news to report. Here’s what we actually know. Advertisements On June 14, United States Patent Application number 15/840724 was published on the US […]

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Advertisements At Thursday’s Yahoo Finance summit on cryptocurrency, the director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, William Hinman, delivered remarks entitled “Digital Asset Transactions: When Howey Met Gary (Plastic).” Today, some publications latched onto Hinman’s statements regarding Ether, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization (behind bitcoin). […]

Now that cryptocurrency laws and regulations have been put into place, Thailand’s SEC is ready to approve ICO fundraising. Advertisements The Bangkok Times reported June 13 that five new ICO projects will register for consideration by Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin fundraising procedures after regulatory laws for the cryptocurrency industry come into […]

Today the New York Department of Financial Services announced it has granted a BitLicense to Xapo and authorized settlement platform Paxos to expand the scope of its services. Advertisements The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has granted a BitLicense to the digital financial services company Xapo, bringing the total number of approved charters […]

Wouldn’t it be nice if money just fell from the sky? In the world of cryptocurrency, sometimes it happens. Advertisements Note: This article was initially published on October 9, 2017. The word “airdrop” immediately evokes images of parachutes and crates filled with vital supplies floating through the sky. When you hear “airdrop,” you might think […]

In a bid to alleviate some of the work involved in closing out contracts, the Department of Veteran Affairs is requesting information about blockchain technology. Advertisements On June 7, the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) issued a request for information (RFI) regarding how blockchain technology could be used to simplify and streamline the department’s […]