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Financial services giant Visa, the Stellar Development Foundation and payments technology company Circle have all partnered with California-based fintech firm Tala to boost cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets, according to a May 5 announcement. RE

The second largest stock exchange in Germany, Boerse Stuttgart, announced this week that Cardano's ADA and Stellar's XLM have been added to their platform. READ ALSO: Stellar and Visa join forces to bank the unbanked According to Coin Techn, Boers

The "original" Ethereum, despite its security issues, beats ETH as it ascends to USD levels never seen before.

Ripple's XRP sales are up 97% in Q1, with the firm attributing the growth to its focus on RipplesNet's On-Demand Liquidity service.

Coinbase, the most prolific U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, has announced it will close the doors of its former San Francisco HQ by 2022, in its push to go 100% remote. Earlier the company had announced its intention of ditching the traditional office

Robinhood experienced a partial cryptocurrency trading outage during a spike in Dogecoin prices. This is the second time it's happened in under a month.

Ripple (XRP-USD) may still be planning for an IPO even as the cryptocurrency company deals with an ongoing lawsuit from the SEC.

More of the stablecoin is on the Tron blockchain than ever before. Here's what's happening and why it matters.

pNetwork, a cross-chain composability system that allows assets and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to move freely between blockchains, has officially partnered up with Algorand, the pure proof-of-stake blockchain focused on the convergence between decentraliz

The SEC vs Ripple lawsuit is progressing inch by inch with every passing day. Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple Labs, "feels really good" about the developments that have been made in court so far. Highlighting how other statutory bodies, including

A lawyer says Ripple would be "feeling pretty good" with comments from a judge in the SEC's case against the firm and its executives.

The increase in volume came as the price of Bitcoin rose to a new all-time high of more than $61,000 Saturday. Reported volume of top South Korean crypto exchanges surpasses that of the country's stock market

Ripple's executive chairman has asked a U.S. court to dismiss an SEC lawsuit alleging securities violations relating to sales of XRP.

Coinbase, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, moved a step closer to listing on the Nasdaq with a filing on Thursday to go public, revealing that it had swung into profit last year as bitcoin surged.

The SEC's case over allegedly unlawful sales of XRP by Ripple to retail investors is entering the discovery phase.

Canada's main securities regulator has cleared the launch of the world's first bitcoin exchange traded fund, an investment manager said on Friday, providing investors greater access to the cryptocurrency that has sparked an explosion in trading in

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen faces the first major hurdle of her tenure with the question of how to handle social media-driven security trading.

The latest target of Reddit traders provides plenty of volatility — and losses — as XRP sees a burst of volatility on Monday.

"Traditional Crypto-Pump groups are being copied and legitimized by WallStreetBets," Jehan Chu, co-founder and managing partner at Kenetic Capital, told CoinDesk.

Ripple Labs has officially responded to the complaint by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Besides explaining that the XRP cryptocurrency is not a security, Ripple accuses the securities regulator of being out of step, picking winners and