Market Outlook

As the state of New York works to distribute its energy grid one company, Transactive Grid, hopes to be its blockchain-based payments network.

Beijing-based mining giant Bitmain has invested $1.6m in bitcoin data and trading services provider BitKan.

Digital currency exchange ShapeShift says it now believes that a hacking incident announced last week involved a former employee.

A new investment fund is seeking to raise as much as $100m over the next two years to fuel investments in the blockchain space.

A number of employees from the company behind bitcoin tipping service ChangeTip have been hired by travel lodgings startup Airbnb.

Coinalytics announced it has rebranded as Skry, unveiled a new logo and hired a former architect at IBM Watson and AI expert.

Blockchain startup Chain has inked a new deal with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG).

Japan’s Financial Services Agency is set to discuss blockchain tech at a policy meeting early next month.

Distributed file storage startup Storj Labs is the latest blockchain service provider to join Microsoft’s blockchain offering.

Bitcoin company itBit has ceased operation in Texas, once thought of as one of the most bitcoin friendly states in the United States.

Brave Software responds to a cease-and-desist letter it received from a newspaper association about its ad-blocking software.

The operator of the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been working with a Japanese think tank as part of a months-long exploration of blockchain technology.