Block.one, publisher of the EOSIO blockchain software protocol and seller of the EOS Token, a top-five cryptocurrency by market cap at approximately US$8 billion, has announced that former Jefferies Asia CEO Mike Alexander has joined as CEO of its US$1 billion EOS VC venture capital arm, effective today. Based in Hong Kong, Mike Alexander will…
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Zen Protocol, the platform that fosters secure peer-to-peer financial transactions on a public blockchain, has announced that it launches the first block on its chain, the Mainnet Genesis Block. This block will initiate the first steps towards a single global ledger of transactions with real use and real value. With it, the Zen Protocol becomes…
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Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) just announced that it has become aware of a suspicious entity, Capital Currency Trade (the Company), claiming to be an online Forex and cryptocurrency trading platform provider. BCSC has recently became aware of the Company and that it made an unsolicited offer to a British Columbia…
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Secure cryptocurrency trading platform Blockbid has today announced their partnership with BitSpread as their liquidity provider, ensuring they continue to stand by their vision of ‘Trading with Confidence’. Aligned in their values of transparency and accountability, the partnership is a significant milestone for the trading platform as they look to strengthen their offering and position…
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The Australian digital currency exchange Independent Reserve has just announced that it will commence trading in Ripple (XRP) on 7 July, 2018. All XRP trades will be discounted to 0.1% for the first two weeks. XRP is the third largest digital currency by market cap after Bitcoin and Ether. Developed by Ripple Labs, the protocol and…
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Qiwi, the Russian e-payment provider is launching a cryptocurrency investment bank. The name of the bank will be HASH, as reported by Kommersant on June 29th. The bank will be founded by Qiwi Blockchain Technologies, which is a subsidiary of Qiwi. Qiwi is the leading provider of payment services in Russia and the CIS. The…
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Russia: Russia is moving forward with cryptocurrencies and their “legalization”. According to press, digital currencies in Russia will be categorized as “digital rights”. The new term will serve as differentiation to terms like “digital money” and “digital currency”. The whole change in name will be made mainly for tax purposes, as explained by Anatoly Aksakov,…
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Binance was recently the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in respect to volume traded. CoinMarketCap’s ranking of cryptocurrency exchanges recently changed to promote CoinEx as the largest exchange by traded volume. CoinEx is currently processing a trade volume of around $1.5 billion on a daily basis, while Binance handles around $ 1.3 billion. The third place…
Read moreBitcoin just dived under $6,000, its lowest level since the winter of 2017. The reason this time might be different than the reasons why Bitcoin was down several times before. Now, Bitcoin's low volume traded is the major reason why the price of the digital currency is going down. Many experts have predicted that the…
Read moreCrypto market and portfolio analysis platform TokenAI has announced the general availability of its signature artificial intelligence assistant, Juliet. Joining the ranks of personalized AI assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, Juliet guides investors through creating a balanced portfolio with user-friendly analysis on digital assets. As an emerging sector, investing in crypto can…
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