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David Marcus, the head of Facebook's messaging app Messenger, announced that the social media site is exploring possible applications for blockchain technology, CNBC reported May 8."I'm setting up a small group to explore how to best leverage blockchain across Facebook, starting from scratch," Marcus shared in a post Tuesday afternoon on his personal page.

At press time, Stellar Lumens is trading for about 38 cents.

The Texas State Security Board issued a cease-and-desist order May 8 to a Bitcoin investment company that reportedly offers unregistered securities and makes deceiving statements that mislead investors.

The Ukrainian National Securities and Stock Market Commission will consider recognizing cryptocurrencies as a financial instrument, according to an announcement May 8.The head of the commission, Timur Khromaev, made the announcement in a Facebook post following the annual conference of the International Organization of Securities Commissions on crypto and Initial Coin Offerings.

Social media giant Facebook is launching a team dedicated to exploring blockchain technology.

Gary Cohn, former Goldman Sachs President as well as former chief economic advisor to US President Donald Trump, believes that there will a global cryptocurrency in the future, but it will be a coin "More easily understood" than Bitcoin, CNBC reports May 8.Cohn told CNBC that he thinks there will be a "Global cryptocurrency at some point where the world understands it and it's not based on mining costs or cost of electricity or things like that." Bitcoin mining relies on miners' computers to solve hashes in order to get a block reward through a Proof-of-Work protocol.

In our Expert Takes, opinion leaders from inside and outside the crypto industry express their views, share their experience and give professional advice.

A jury will decide whether tokens issued through two allegedly fraudulent initial coin offerings count as securities, a U.S. district court judge said Tuesday.

A new version of the code behind Casper, a planned change to the way the ethereum network reaches consensus, has been published for wider scrutiny by auditors and client developers.

Lawrence Lerner pioneered systems to enable digital cash and has been building cash-less payment and financial reward systems since the late eighties.

While banking institutions' attitudes towards Bitcoin and blockchain has changed significantly, there is still a notable attitude of blockchain over Bitcoin which is still a bit counter-intuitive.

Maughan's remarks came during a wider discussion on the application of blockchain to supply chains, joining a panel of witnesses that included Maersk head of global trade digitization Michael White, UPS vice president of global customs brokerage staff Chris Rubio and Nuby Law IPR counsel Robert Chiaviello.

The Colorado Senate passed a bill on May 7 that involves using blockchain tech for government record keeping and cyber security.

Two United States House Subcommittees held a hearing today, May 8, on how blockchain tech can be used in supply chain management.

The Australian government has allocated AU $700,000 to its Digital Transformation Agency to explore blockchain applications within government services.

The Texas State Securities Board has issued cease-and-desist orders to two bitcoin investment schemes that it alleges are selling unregistered securities and making fraudulent claims to the state's residents.

BMW has completed a pilot together with crypto startup DOVU, an official blog post from DOVU outlined today, May 8.

The sudden resignation of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday night doesn't appear to have impacted that office's inquiry into more than a dozen cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Coinhive crypto mining code has been recently detected on more than 300 government and university websites worldwide, cyber security researcher Troy Mursch reported Saturday, May 5.

Kik's crypto token, kin, currently exists as an ethereum-based ERC-20 token, yet CoinDesk recently reported that'd the company would be moving to a two-chain system whereby its tokens were supported on both the ethereum blockchain and the stellar blockchain.

Intercontinental Exchange, the firm that owns the New York Stock Exchange, is the latest Wall Street giant to be mulling a move into the cryptocurrency space, according to a report.

Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure formally announced the release of its blockchain app creation service, Azure Blockchain Workbench, on May 7.In a press release, the company highlighted blockchain as a "Key topic of interest" as it also kicks of its annual Microsoft Build conference this week.

That's how much cryptocurrency users will need to participate in testing ethereum's upcoming consensus protocol, Casper, at least according to the blockchain's creator Vitalik Buterin.

Software giant Oracle is all set to publicly launch its blockchain-as-a-service platform, according to a report from Bloomberg.

A cryptocurrency startup just raised $3 million in seed funding to revamp how blockchains reach consensus.

Bitcoin dropped to four-day lows below $9,200 on Monday and now looks set to explore levels below the $9,000 mark, the technical charts indicate.

A company has launched an online advertising platform AdCoinClick that enables businesses and individuals to pay for campaigns using cryptocurrency - all the while providing publishers with an innovative way of monetizing content directly through their websites and blogs.

Bitcoin Core is an experimental currency that does not have a white paper and has only operated under its current model for two years.

The owner of the New York Stock Exchange is mulling letting customers buy and hold Bitcoin, The New York Times reported late Monday, May 7.

Despite the skeptical experts, not to mention the very public derision of talk show host John Oliver, the EOS project has raised more than $2 billion in ether from the sale of EOS tokens, which will power its forthcoming network.