Coinbase, the digital currency startup whose mission is to create an open financial system for the world, has raised $100 million in Series D funding.

It now has a valuation of $1.6 billion, making it the first startup in the world of crypto assets to become a unicorn, or company with a valuation greater than $1 billion.

Tom Lee, Fundstrat Global Advisors, gives his take on why bitcoin has potential to be more valuable than gold. The “Fast Money” traders weigh in.

An initial coin offering (ICO) for the blockchain data storage network Filecoin has raised an estimated $200 million from accredited investors despite being beset by technology issues.

This week the Breeze development team reached the final major milestone in their development of the Breeze Privacy Protocol, which is the Breeze implementation of TumbleBit.

Bitcoin has surged nearly 250 percent this year alone, prompting many to hop on the cryptocurrency’s bandwagon.
But Howard Marks said Thursday he doesn’t understand what is the actual value of bitcoin.

Israeli authorities have officially charged two 19-year-old teenagers for running vDos, a DDoS-for-hire service, the largest such platform at the time it went down in the autumn of last year.

After some contentious back-and-forth between miners and users, litecoin, the fourth largest public blockchain network, was able to push through SegWit three months ago. As such, many believe litecoin, a fork of bitcoin’s code, can act as a test platform for SegWit, providing real-world insight into adoption hurdles. Here’s what those close to the project have to say about the results.

Singapore’s central bank has issued an investor warning about the risks of initial coin offerings (ICOs).

Plasma is a proposed framework for incentivized and enforced execution of smart contracts which is scalable to a significant amount of state updates per second (potentially billions) enabling the blockchain to be able to represent a significant amount of decentralized financial applications worldwide.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Tim Enneking's Crypto Asset Management is today releasing a new product called CAMCrypto30 – a cryptocurrency index designed to mirror the 30 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. In addition, the firm also announced a new, investable share class for the fund, which will track the cryptocurrencies listed in the index.

And yet, in speaking with clients, advisors report that questions about Bitcoin are among the most prevalent curiosities of investors today. So with equity markets in a consistent uptrend (as of this writing at least) and bonds stuck in a narrow range with a slight bias toward higher rates, we thought to turn to the Bitcoin conundrum.

Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck is launching a new investment fund.

The firm is marketing a structured note that allows investors “to get exposure to bitcoin without actually investing in it directly.” The underlying basket consists of an equal-weighted shares of Shopify Inc., DISH Network Corp. and Microsoft Corp.