# CRYPTO (Page 17)

The Russian bank Expobank says it has issued the nation’s first-ever crypto-backed loan – despite the fact that the country has recently introduced a new law that prohibits the use of tokens as a form of payment.Per a report from media outlet Kommersant, the loan was secured by using...

In the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic, we asked several crypto/blockchain startups how they are operating in this hazardous environment.As we've seen, a number of crypto and blockchain-related companies decided to send their employees home to protect them from potential infection and...

Around one in five institutional financial firms have plans to start buying and selling digital tokens within the next 12 months, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters, an international mass media and information firm. The survey included more than 400 Thomson Reuters users.Most of the firms...

Tim Draper is a venture capitalist and one of the earliest investors in the internet, so his word carries quite a lot of weight in any and all technology-related fields. So when he says for CNBC that, “This is the most excited I've ever been as an investor, and I was right there at the...