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Blockchain device manufacturer startup Pundi X unveiled new specifications for its blockchain phone, which it plans to release to the public later this year.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for increased use of data technologies such as blockchain in the EU to boost the agriculture industry and address concerns over food traceability.

China's state-backed tech workgroup has released its tenth crypto rankings report, placing Bitcoin in 13th, while EOS keeps its top spot.

The city council of Moscow, Russia's capital city, has submitted a bill to use blockchain technology for an electronic voting system, major Russian news agency Tass reported on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

Reports of suspicious cryptocurrency transactions in Japan soared last year, the country's police agency has said.

Blockchain artificial intelligence platform SingularityNET has officially launched a beta version of its Ethereum-based decentralized marketplace on Thursday, Feb. 28, according to a press release obtained by Cointelegraph.

The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission has updated the list of cryptocurrencies suitable for use in initial coin offering investments and trading pairs.

Voyager, a crypto brokerage platform that launched and went public this month, has agreed to buy wallet startup Ethos.io for about $4 million.

The global demand for blockchain engineers is up by 517 percent year-over-year, according to a report released by recruitment company Hired on Feb. 28.

GIC Private Limited, a Singapore government-owned wealth fund, reportedly backed Coinbase's $300 million funding round last year.

TomoChain founder and CEO Long Vuong joined CryptoSlate for an interview to discuss how he is building a smart contract platform with high transaction throughput, low latency, and "Near-zero" fees.

View Bitcoin could end the five-year March losing streak with solid gains if resistance at $4,190 is convincingly scaled in the next week or two.

Blockchain-based home equity loan startup Figure Technologies has raised $65 million in a Series B round backed by Morgan Creek.

Mobile payments firm Square has reported over $166 million in revenue from bitcoin sales last year.

Singapore's Government Investment Corporation was reportedly one of the investors to have helped raise $300 million for major United States crypto wallet provider and exchange service Coinbase in 2018.

More than 7,000 cases of suspected money laundering tied to crypto were reported to Japanese police in 2018, a more than tenfold increase from the 669 cases over a nine month period during the previous year.

United States-based payment platform Square reported $166 million in annual Bitcoin revenue for 2018, data from its annual earnings report published Feb. 27 confirms.

Recent data shows that Bitcoin adoption has increased by over 700 percent over the past 6 years worldwide, according to Bitcoin directory service provider Coinma.

Big Four audit and consultancy firm PwC Hong Kong has published guidance for financially distressed or insolvent businesses in the crypto sector.

Hacked New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia will reopen for business on Monday next week, officials confirmed on social media on Feb. 26.

Cryptocurrency wallet Coinomi has once again become involved in a security scandal, with a security consultant claiming to have found a vulnerability in the service.

Bitcoin's lightning network has taken a big step toward a better user experience courtesy of new work by one of its principal open-source developers.

A blockchain-based home equity loan platform, Figure, has raised $65 million from various major financial and venture capital firms, tech news site TechCrunch reports on Feb. 27.The firm, which was founded by SoFi founder and former CEO Mike Cagney, reportedly raised the funds from such majors as Morgan Creek, DST Global, DCM, Ribbit Capital and Nimble Ventures.

Switzerland will host the Swiss Blockchain Hackathon later this year in a bid to help companies find real-life applications of blockchain technology, according to an announcement published on Feb. 27.The three-day event is reportedly organized by Switzerland's six leading blockchain and IT organizations - Trust Square, Bitcoin Association Switzerland, CV Labs, Crypto Valley Association, Swiss Blockchain Federation and swissICT - and will take place from June 21 to June 23, 2019.Per the announcement, the hackathon is designed to facilitate the deployment of blockchain across a wide range of industry sectors and help find the technology's tangible applications and business models.

The chairman of the European Securities and Markets Authority - the European Union-level financial markets supervisor - has said that he supports further regulations on digital assets, political news outlet Roll Call reported on Feb. 27.Delivering his speech at the FinTech Conference 2019 earlier this week in Brussels, Belgium, ESMA Chairman Steven Maijoor reportedly outlined the need to apply regulations to digital assets in order to help investors.

Brave users can now redeem Basic Attention Token for real-world rewards from over 250,000 brands including Amazon, Apple, Starbucks, and Uber.

Cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive is shutting down, as the project has reportedly become economically inviable.

The United States Department of Justice has charged a New York-based operator of a purported cryptocurrency payment services firm with a wire fraud and unlawful monetary transactions.

Coinomi Wallet denied recent claims that its software sends wallet recovery seed phrases to Google's remote spell checker servers in plain text.

Experts and industry players have said that the adoption of blockchain technology is still in its early stages at the annual meeting of The Wall Street Journal CIO Network, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 26.The regular Wall Street Journal CIO Network is a membership exclusively for chief information officers and technology experts from the largest companies around the world.