Investment banks and funds are adding more opportunities to offer crypto services to their clients; the capacity of Bitcoin’s main scaling solution, the Lightning network, accelerated to 1,500 BTC, traditional financial institutions getting into DeFi, and more.

Due to the upcoming public holiday on Friday, 25 June 2021, Bitstamp’s bank payment clearing system for all SEPA payments will be closed.

We’re excited to announce that instant credit and debit card purchases are now available in most states across the US, and coming to more every month!

Cryptocurrencies employ a form of cryptography known as public-key cryptography. Two cryptographic keys form the core of this system: a public key and a private key. These are strings of characters that are used for encrypting and decrypting data, as well as for signing and verifying transactions.

Major investment institutions entering crypto market, Taproot achieves activation lock-in, Invesco plans to launch crypto-focused ETF, all-time-high web traffic for cryptocurrency exchanges in May, and more.

We're excited to welcome Thomas Hook as part of Bitstamp's strategic plan for continued growth and development.

Maintaining privacy in the digital world is getting more and more difficult nowadays. But how does blockchain promote privacy and anonymity, when it also openly displays the entire history of transactions that anyone has ever made?

Since the Ethereum network congestion is no longer as severe, we are now decreasing our withdrawal fees. The Ethereum withdrawal fee at Bitstamp is now ...

We bring you another batch of eagerly-anticipated cryptocurrencies. In this varied group, you will find two new assets that continue to show our excitement for the DeFi market and the developing crypto ecosystem, as well as a stablecoin heavyweight!

The highest crypto exchange volume recorded in history, the amount of ether staked in ETH 2.0 broke 5 million, DeFi protocols generated more than $370 million in revenue during May, the first cryptocurrency ETP will be made available for trading on the UK market or any European MTF.