Ripple was threatened three years ago when the prices of XRP and bitcoin shot to historic highs.
An ex-employee of Australian science agency CSIRO narrowly avoided prison after he was caught using workplace supercomputers to mine cryptocurrency.
The trial of nChain chief scientist Craig Wright over his alleged billions in bitcoin has been moved to next year.
Chainlink has acquired privacy-focused oracle solution DECO from Cornell University. The data feed firm is also drafting a second white paper.