Key Facts of the Past 12 Hours - 14.11

News and crypto rates update from the past 12 hours to keep you informed and up to date with the latest events that shape up the cryptocurrency world.

At 07:30 (GMT) total cryptocurrency market capitalization stands at $209.88 billion.

Vakt blockchain plat­form, de­vel­oped by major oil and gas com­pa­nies BP, Shell, and Equinor, will be launched to­gether with sev­eral banks and fuel and en­ergy traders.

IMF has ex­pressed its in­ten­tion to use its on­go­ing re­search and ex­per­i­ments in the blockchain to de­fine reg­u­lat­ions for the in­dus­try.

Galaxy Dig­i­tal Hold­ings Ltd, founded by bil­lion­aire in­vestor Michael Novo­gratz will to­k­eniza­tize as­sets such as real es­tate.

Malaysian media giant Media Prima Bhd has been at­tacked by a ran­somware virus. It’s re­port that hacker de­mands 1,000 bit­coins (BTC).

The full-ser­vice blockchain tech com­pany Bit­fury has ac­quired institutional crypto com­pany Final Fron­tier.

Of­fi­cial Twit­ter ac­count of G Suite, a brand of cloud com­put­ing, pro­duc­tiv­ity and col­lab­o­ra­tion tools, soft­ware and prod­ucts de­vel­oped by Google was hacked.

HSBC has in­vested $36 mil­lion in a crypto startup Axion.

Eu­rope-based crypto ex­change Bit­straq becomes first to ob­tain Malta’s Vir­tual Fi­nan­cial Asset (VFA) li­cense.

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