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Colu Open-Sources Protocol to Help Central Banks Issue Digital Currencies

Colu is open-sourcing its banking infrastructure known as Bankbox and becoming "blockchain agnostic" to ease adoption among cryptocurrency issuers.

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Deutsche Börse Reveals Three 'Pillars' of Its Pervasive Blockchain Integration

After generating €1.1bn last year, German institutional trading network Deutsche Börse reveals a three-pillared plan to blockchain.

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Blockchain Consortium Draws Enterprise Giants to Revolutionize Digital Identity

The Digital Identity Foundation is seeing interest from key players like IBM who see potential in using blockchain for seamless online identity.

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Vladimir Putin and Vitalik Buterin Discuss Ethereum 'Opportunities'

The president of Russia briefly met with ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin during an event last week.

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Are Sidechains a Better Solution for Bitcoin's Scaling Debate?

Once seen as an experimental technology, sidechains are emerging as a scaling solution that could please all sides of the debate.

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Why a Swedish MP Is Joining Bitcoin Exchange BTCX

Mathias Sundin, Swedish Parliament member – and now chairman of the board for BTCX – talks about his love of bitcoin.

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The World's Largest CSDs Are Forming a New Blockchain Consortium

Some of the world's most influential central securities depositories are uniting to build their own blockchain consortium.

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Back to Basics for Blockchain Tokens?

CoinDesk's Noelle Acheson discusses recent trends around initial coin offerings (ICOs) – and how the game seems to be changing.

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Three Thoughts on the 'Crypto Bubble'

A VC offers his insight on the price of bitcoin and ether. Even if speculators are running wild, he says, that may not mean the assets are overbought.

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A Counterargument to the Value Proposition of Ripple's XRP Token

With the price of Ripple's XRP rising, Factom's Piotr Piasecki offers a valuation based on the underlying protocol and the token's desired utility.

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