SEC clarifies guidelines for classifying an ICO as an investment contract LeapRate

Crypto ICOs showing a comeback, after major drop off in 2018

April 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

SEC clarifies guidelines for classifying an ICO as an investment contract

Crypto attorneys that support Initial Coin Offering (ICO) promoters in the United States have been requesting for some time more clarification from the SEC on how it interprets current securities legislation to determine whether or not an ICO qualifies as an “investment contract”, thereby necessitating formal registration and investor disclosure requirements under the law. At…

April 10, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Bittrex Exchange's BitLicense application rejected by New York

The US-based Bittrex cryptocurrency exchange got its BitLicense application rejected by the New York Department of Financial Services on April 10th, 2019. The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) published a letter in which they explain the multiple reasons why the application of Bittrex was rejected, stating: Based on the Department's extensive review of…

April 10, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dash cryptocurrency listed on Jinance Exchange

Payments and e-commerce crypto Dash has just been listed on the Australian-based exchange, Jinance (formally known as String Exchange). The integration features the first AUD-Dash trading pair and in addition to this it incorporates Dash’s InstantSend technology, enabling fast and seamless transactions. Just several days ago, Dash reported another partnership, integrating with Daexs, one of…

Financial pundits warning that 2020 will be “The Year of the Next Big One”

April 10, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

World Economic Forum canvassing central banks about blockchain efforts

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has stepped into the crypto fray and is canvassing central banks to determine their involvement in blockchain developments. The WEF was founded in 1971 as a not-for-profit organization in Geneva, Switzerland, with the express mission of improving the state of the world. Per its website: The Forum engages the foremost…

Analyst predicts Facebook’s FaceCoin could earn up to $19 billion by 2021

April 09, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Is Facebook seeking $1 billion for its "stablecoin" cryptocurrency project?

Facebook was recently reported to have been thinking about its own digital coin, or the so called FaceCoin. As Leaprate reported earlier in 2019, "Facebook has 2.3 billion active clients located across the globe, eager to try the latest that technology has to offer, and cryptos and blockchain bring a lot to the table that…

April 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

G20 governors to push for ‘anti-anonymity’ rules for all crypto transactions

If there is one aspect about cryptocurrencies that irritates regulators and government officials more than any other, it is the anonymity afforded the criminal element of our society by the nature of blockchain distributed ledger systems. At its next meeting on June 8 and 9 in Fukuoka, Japan, the G20 central bank governors and finance…

April 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bitcoin appreciation of late reminds analysts of parabolic growth in 2017

Bitcoin is on a roll again, and analysts, clearly stumped by recent price movements, are beginning to believe that a repeat of years gone by might just be in the making. You only have to go back to January to hear every dour prediction that you could imagine for anyone brave enough to maintain a…

æternity releases a live version of its blockchain platform

April 08, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Breakthrough in property sales – a blockchain trial by Barclays, RBS and R3

The real estate market has been already disrupted by blockchain. That is true especially when it comes to real estate companies and startups that are looking for new and innovative ways to boost property sales and expand their markets. Now, some of the world’s largest financial players such as RBS and Barclays are jumping on…

Tesla plunges 10% after reporting a worse-than-expected loss, co-founder steps down

April 08, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Elon Musk’s favorite crypto – founder ready to sell the company for $4.2 billion

When Elon Musk praises your cryptocurrency, chances are the price of the digital coin will go up. However, something even more important happened. The founder of Dogecoin, Jackson Palmer, said he is ready to sell Dogecoin.com for the colossal sum of $4.2 billion. Elon Musk, after declaring his interest in the crypto, accepted to be…

Crypto Malware Alert: New widespread botnet attack empties crypto wallets

April 08, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

EOS with a universal wallet support with UAL

The EOS system got a major upgrade last week, thanks to EOSIO Labs and Block.one. On Wednesday last week, the Universal Authenticator Library, or the so called UAL, was released, an application that provides users with one, unified access to all blockchain-based apps. What this means is that users will be able to use EOS…

Category: Cryptocurrency

SEC clarifies guidelines for classifying an ICO as an investment contract

Bittrex Exchange's BitLicense application rejected by New York

Dash cryptocurrency listed on Jinance Exchange

World Economic Forum canvassing central banks about blockchain efforts

Is Facebook seeking $1 billion for its "stablecoin" cryptocurrency project?

G20 governors to push for ‘anti-anonymity’ rules for all crypto transactions

Bitcoin appreciation of late reminds analysts of parabolic growth in 2017

Breakthrough in property sales – a blockchain trial by Barclays, RBS and R3

Elon Musk’s favorite crypto – founder ready to sell the company for $4.2 billion

EOS with a universal wallet support with UAL

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