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On July 9th, 2018 those who held NEO on March 1st, will receive their share of the second, ten million ONT token airdrop.

On June 26, 2018, the SEC received an application from CBOE Futures Exchange to launch the world's first Bitcoin ETF.

The seventh major cryptocurrency theft in 2018 was a hack on Bancor for $23.5 million that halted trading on July 9, 2018.

Augur, a protocol aiming to create a decentralized prediction marketplace, was successfully funded through an ICO that began in August 2015 and generated $5.5 million of ETH.

The capacity of the Lightning Network, a micropayment channel that is compatible with Segregated Witness (SegWit) and a layer two scaling solution deployed on top of the Bitcoin protocol, has increased by 68 percent in the past 30 days.

Binance calls for donations to victims of West Japan’s ongoing natural disaster, leading the relief initiative with a $1,000,000 pledge.

Bitcoin has been met with controversy since inception in 2009.

For the third time in two years, Bithumb, South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange, was hacked in June 2018. SK, the country’s telecom giant, stated that the hack was likely caused by APT attacks.

The State of Delaware awarded IBM $738,000 to create a blueprint for their blockchain based corporate filing system.

Cryptocurrency exchanges often make headlines for the wrong reasons – compromised customer accounts, security breaches etc., despite the fact they are the primary access point for many crypto investors.