Institutional investors have long been considered a key ingredient in the recipe for bitcoin’s mass adoption. However, they are also considered the least likely to gamble on a product as unpredictable as cryptocurrency. According to popular belief, hedge and pension funds would hold back from crypto investment products, until the volatility notoriously associated with virtual currencies mellowed.

Oddly enough, these investors came to crypto right as volatility began to increase.

• ICON has a bullish short-term bias, with the cryptocurrency moving back above its 200-period moving average on the four-hour time frame
• The four-hour time frame still shows the presence of a bearish head and shoulders pattern
• The medium-term time frame is neutral, with the ICX / USD pair trapped within a sideways price channel

ICON is gaining bullish momentum in anticipation of the launch of staking on its network.

• Monero has a bullish short-term trading bias, with the XMR / USD pair recovering back above its 200-period moving average on the four-hour time frame
• The four-hour time now shows the presence of a bearish head and shoulders pattern.
• The daily time frame shows an extremely large inverted head and shoulders pattern

Monero has a bullish short-term outlook, with the cryptocurrency recovering back above its 200-period moving average on the four-hour time frame.

The offices of one of TRON’s Chinese partners was the centre of a fracas today as victims of a scheme that had claimed to be affiliated with the company tried to disturb company employees as they came into work today.

Building on the blockchain isn’t easy, but a new set of developer tools might simplify the process for cost-sensitive businesses. NULS, an adaptive blockchain platform that specializes in providing fast-track solutions, has announced a beta release with new developer tools.

The Lightning Network is often touted as the solution to Bitcoin’s scaling challenges and has shown tremendous growth with total channel capacity for the off-chain payments network reaching 1100 BTC in early May, just over a year since it began operation.

The Monero Konferenco took place in Denver, Colorado last month, drawing some of the brightest minds of the privacy-oriented community. While most of the speakers presented on protocols, secure hardware and decentralization, they also shed light on a Monero  (XMR) ecosytem that’s beginning to unfold.

Ever heard of a smart chain city? If your only exposure to “crypto-cities” is from the rapper Akon or crypto millionaire Jeffrey Berns, then you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re just a PR stunt.

Zerobank is a multipurpose cryptocurrency platform designed for financial applications, like storing, spending, and trading coins and tokens. The Vietnam-based project is created by Zero Exchange, LTD, which also has offices in the U.K. and Singapore. It continues Bitcoin’s initial goal of removing middlemen from the traditional banking system using the ZB Token (ZB), an ERC-223 token on the Ethereum blockchain.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the interconnection of devices without human involvement. It is a surging area of growth in IT, and is likely to grow further once self-driving vehicles become a mainstream reality.

But current Internet architecture is poorly-equipped for the surge of data transfer that will accompany the growth of IoT. The centralized structure of data handling – from user to the cloud and back – is not robust or fast enough for real-time processing needs of IoT devices.