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Shadow Banking Explained: How Crypto Companies Play With Money in the Dark

What exactly is shadow banking? And how expansive is the web of third-party payment processes that prop up some of the space’s most popular exchanges?

The Coinbase Card Expands to Six More European Countries

Coinbase has made its crypto-powered Visa debit card available in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Ireland.

S.L. Benfica Football Club and UTRUST Partner to Accept Cryptocurrency Payments

Portugal’s most decorated football club, S.L. Benfica, has announced a partnership with the UTRUST payment platform to become the first of its kind to...

Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins: How Arwen Wants to End Exchange Custodianship

If it’s up to Boston-based startup Arwen, cryptocurrency exchange hacks will soon be a thing of the past.

Hodl Hodl Enables Mainnet Trading via Lightning Network

The peer-to-peer crypto exchange is allowing users to buy, sell and receive bitcoin directly from their Lightning wallets.

Watchtowers Are Coming to Lightning

Watchtowers, a new technical feature from Lightning Labs, will keep an eye on Lightning Network channels and potential bad actors.

Hyperloop: A New Concept by Lightning Aiming to Solve Liquidity Problems

To make managing liquidity as efficient as possible, Lightning Labs has developed a proposal called “Hyperloop," a concept that aggregates swaps so that individual transactions don’t occur on-chain with individualized signatures and outputs.

Tippin Enters Version 1.0, Promising New Feature

The Lightning Network app Tippin.me has released a version update to add new features, improve user experience and increase the user base.

Op Ed: Lightning Network Consensus Is a Marketplace and That’s Okay!

"There is no such thing as consensus on the Lightning Network; instead, we have compatibility. That means you can literally break the rules of the majority, as long as there are other people that have an incentive to break the rules with you. "

Blockstream Releases First Enterprise-Grade Product on Liquid

Security tokens are coming to Bitcoin, courtesy of Blockstream.

Flexa Enables BTC Payments at Popular Brick-and-Mortar Stores

Flexa has announced the launch of SPEDN, an app that allows users to make purchases with cryptocurrencies at stores like Whole Foods and Nordstrom.

HTC to Launch EXODUS 1s, Smartphone With Full Node Capacity

Electronics company HTC has announced "the first smartphone ever to have full node capabilities.”
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