Venezuelan President, Nicolas Manduro has directed airlines flying across the country's capital to pay for the fuel using its national digital currency Petro. This command is made to encourage people to adopt the currency. President Maduro during his speech to the...

BrickMarket, a real estate investment firm in Switzerland just recently owned a new building by means of tokenizing and selling on the blockchain. The firm issued bond-backed cryptocurrency tokens, which was considered to be the building ownership's "share"...

Huobi, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges joins Blockchain Turkey Platform to cooperate with local players on blockchain. On January 15, during a press release shared with Cointelegraph Turkey, Huobi confirms that it has joined the Blockchain Turkey Platform...

Former editor-in-chief at CoinDesk starts a new position at cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. Kraken announced on January 15 that Rizzo's new job as Kraken's Editor-at-Large will include responsibility for content production for the company's new products and services....

Anchorage, a cryptocurrency custody company now offers a crypto brokerage service, partners, up with Merkle Data to promote the service. According to the co-founder and CEO of Anchorage, Nathan McCauley on Anchorage's blog in January 15, Anchorage launched an...

eToro, a platform that has given its clients the chance to invest in whatever assets they want, has said that it is planning to launch its own debit card this year. According to the Co-founder and CEO of eToro, Yoni Assia: The card will expand the financial services...

Mark Cheng from Singapore was kidnapped in Thailand and tortured for a Bitcoin ransom worth $740,000 according to a report by the South China Morning Post on January 14. Cheng was with associate Kim Lee Wei and was on their way for a business trip to Thailand when a...

Travala, a hotel booking giant that accepts cryptocurrency payments announced that it is now accepting Tether (USDT) as a valid form of payment at its two million linked properties. According to Matt Luczynski, CEO of Travala: “Part of our mission is to provide our...

An online marketplace for buying, selling and even redeeming metals, OneGold, revealed that they collaborated with BitPay on January 13. The partnership will enable cryptocurrency users to buy gold and other valuable metals on the Android and iOS devices. OneGold's...

Banco Bradesco, one of the major commercial banks in Brazil, decides not to honor any agreement that poses a threat in their plan on closing cryptocurrency exchanges, according to news outlet Criptonoticias. December last year, the Council of Economic Defense (CADE)...