Category: Digital Currency

Sirin Labs partners with Simplex to allow fiat-to-crypto conversion on FINNEY
January 28, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blockchain-based smartphone FINNEY to use KoolSpan's TrustCall secure communications solution

Sirin Labs and FIH Mobile have teamed up to launch FINNEY™, the world’s first blockchain-based smartphone back in April 2018. Sirin Labs has today announced its partnership with KoolSpan, a provider of TrustCall Secure Communications, enabling FINNEY users to protect their phone calls and chat and messages with secure end-to-end encryption. FINNEY consumers will have…

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INTL FCStone’s Carsten Hils discusses the impact the current crisis has on FX markets
January 24, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

MIT's new cryptocurrency Vault - 99% more efficient than Bitcoin

Bitcoin has often been taunted as too "energy-intensive" and too "data-intensive". The top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap are sometimes "accused" of the same features. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, have now designed a cryptocurrency that is reportedly 99% more data-efficient than other cryptocurrencies. The innovative alt coin will provide a more scalable network because…

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January 15, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

A world's first - the Digital Asset Vault

Vontobel, a Swiss investment bank, has designed the first Digital Asset Vault, or in simpler words - the first regulated cryptocurrency custody solution. Wealth managers, asset managers and banks will now be able to transact with their clients' money, i.e. deposit, buy and sell cryptocurrencies in a new end-to-end Digital Asset Vault. According to the…

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January 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nexus and TradAir open up additional channels of crypto liquidity for platform users

Broctagon NEXUS, a liquidity provider specializing in crypto aggregation, has just announced that it has teamed up with trading technology solutions provider TradAir. The partnership will make it possible to have FX-style, deep multilateral ECN liquidity for cryptocurrencies and will also open up new trading platforms for NEXUS users, allowing them to utilize TradAir’s HTML5 cryptocurrency native trading…

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January 08, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

The cryptocurrency market - green all the way

In the beginning of the week, on Monday 7th, 2019, most of the top cryptocurrencies by market cap are seeing their prices go up. The gains, while moderate, have been seen in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin surpassed the $4,000 level. At the time of this writing, the price of the "people's currency" is $4,029,…

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January 02, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

2019 - a good start for the crypto market so far

If 2017 was the "cryptocurrency heaven", 2018 was the "hell". The prices of Bitcoin went from $20,000 per coin in December 2017, to $3,500 in December 2018. Now, the community is wondering what 2019 will bring to the cryptocurrency market, especially when crypto "enthusiasts" like Mike Novogratz are predicting strong bullish trends and cosmic cryptocurrency…

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