Liam Frost

Polish authorities arrest the president of controversial Panama-based payments processor Crypto Capital tied to Bitfinex and other cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Cyberspace Administration of China adds 309 more companies to its list of registered blockchain service providers.

Members of the Zcash community discover a suspicious and potentially malicious counterfeit version of Zcash Foundation’s native ZecWallet.

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Binance DEX is preparing to list BCH-1FD, a pegged token that tracks the value of Bitcoin Cash.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission once again begins accepting comments regarding the updated Bitcoin exchange-traded fund proposal by Wilshire Phoenix.

Digital asset financial services firm BitGo announces that it will provide institutional-grade custody and wallets for Tron starting on Nov. 8.

Litecoin and other alts are becoming increasaingly prevalent among crypto “sextortionists” since they allow to avoid detection more easily, a new research says.

Theta Labs announces that its blockchain video infrastructure protocol Theta Network will soon be incorporated into decentralized streaming platform DLive.

The United States prosecutors officially indict a man from Singapore for stealing Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing power to mine cryptocurrencies.

UNICEF launches a cryptocurrency fund to support open -ource technology benefiting children and young people around the world.

Ethereum-powered Reddit micropayments service TipJar shuts down, its developer urges users to withdraw their funds as soon as possible.

Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and EOSFinex announce that they successfully “chainswapped” 5 million USDT onto the EOS protocol.

Following cannabis supply chains, Æternity blockchain will also be applied to Uruguay’s internal democratic processes and voting.

Ethereum smart contract FairWin, recently accused of being the fastest-growing Ponzi scheme on Ethereum, was emptied.

Neo, a decentralized open source blockchain application platform, announced that it became the first-ever blockchain member of Microsoft’s .NET Foundation.

Binance’s United States regional trading platform Binance.US has signaled support for five new cryptocurrencies including ADA and BAT.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Jonathan Lucas, the founder of adult entertainment marketplace Fantasy Market, with orchestrating a fraudulent ICO.

The United States attorney's office for the Northern District of California has indicted two suspects for hacking crypto marketplace EtherDelta in December 2017.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance.US opens accounts registration on Wednesday, excluding New York, Washington, Florida and 10 more states.

Distributed ledger platform Hedera Hashgraph announces the launch of the public Open Access to its mainnet beta and the start of HBAR tokens distribution.

The Real Estate Institute of Queensland teams up with local tech startup Igloo to launch a blockchain-based tenancy agreement platform by the end of 2019.

Hardware cryptocurrency wallets manufacturer SatoshiLabs releases a beta version of its Bitcoin-only firmware for Trezor One and Trezor Model T devices.

Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx announces that it will soon list enterprise-focused decentralized network Hedera Hashgraph’s native token HBAR.

Digital asset cybersecurity startup Fireblocks extends its support to five more cryptocurrency exchanges, bringing the total number of covered platforms to 20.

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck’s and marketing research company Macromill’s partnership allows customers to trade survey reward points for crypto.

Cryptocurrencies news-focused website Bitcoin.com announces the launch of its own digital assets exchange, plans to compete with Coinbase and Binance.

This week from Cointelegraph auf Deutsch: German authorities’ opinion on Facebook’s Libra and Swiss crypto banks getting FINMA licenses.

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binace CEO Changpeng Zhao announces that the platform will launch futures trading in September.

Crypto exchange and brokerage ShortHop launches in seven additional U.S. states allowing its users to work with multiple platforms’ order books via a single window.

A summary of this week’s top news from Spain and Latin America, as covered by our Spanish language version, Cointelegraph en Español.