Totle, a solution for accessing the crypto decentralized exchange (DEX) market, has announced new important upgrades to the Totle Swap application. By using smart-order-routing technology, Totle automatically finds and acquires the best price across DEXs for ERC-20 swaps. Read below for more information on the enhancements: Swaps are Ranked Totle now ranks the quality of...Read More
Major phone operator China Telecom has released a white paper on blockchain-powered smartphones in the 5G Era. China Telecom introduced the white paper at the China International Intelligent Industry Expo on Aug. 27, according to a report by local finance news outlet Sina. Existing troubles In the document, China Telecom pointed out the potential benefits...Read More
Sygnum, a cryptocurrency company that claims to develop an integrated solution that enables its clients to securely issue, store, trade and manage blockchain-based cryptoassets, is seeking for a banking license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), to enable it to offer brokerage, tokenization and other crypto-related services to qualified investors in the region, reports...Read More
Bitwala, a German-based bitcoin enabled banking platform available in the EU, today announced the launch of new apps for iOS and Android. Berlin-headquartered Bitwala enables customers in 31 European countries to buy, sell, and store bitcoin. Bitwala is the only banking service presently active in the European Economic Area offering a current account with a...Read More
Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise-grade public distributed ledger platform, today announced that Open Access (OA) to its mainnet beta will occur on Monday, September 16th, 2019, allowing any developer from the general public to create an account and build decentralized applications (dApps) on the Hedera Hashgraph platform. OA also marks the beginning of Hedera’s strategic 15-year...Read More
According to a report published by U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on August 28, 2019, students are becoming more and more interested in digital currencies and the number of courses offered in University on blockchain technology and bitcoin (BTC) is increasing. Crypto Education In August 2018, Coinbase, the most popular crypto exchange, did a study on...Read More
Hedera Hashgraph, a blockchain-like public network for enterprises, is adding a U.S. financial giant to its governing council. Hedera announced Thursday that FIS Global will become the ninth addition to its 39-member council. Hedera also announced that it intends to launch its mainnet in beta on Sept. 16. The company claims its distributed ledger technology...Read More
DETROIT, MI – SEPTEMBER 10: Professional Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has had enough of Fortnite, for now. . | Source Rey Del Rio/Getty Images/AFP By CCN Markets: Popular streamer Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins has finally given up on Fortnite, or at least, temporarily. Yesterday, as a match of Fortnite came to an abrupt end due...Read More
BitTorrent, the first Binance Launchpad IEO, was issued to power the BitTorrent Speed network with a variety of use cases for the token listed in the whitepaper and subsequent analyses. But as pointed out by eminent crypto VC, Barry Dilbert, most utility tokens act as friction tokens that slow down efficiency and offer no real utility....Read More
Almost a month after getting caught misusing our Siri voice recordings, Apple says they’re sorry. Would they be sorry if they were never caught? | Drew Angerer / Getty Images / AFP Apple, who was caught listening to our data earlier this month, just apologized for their privacy violations. In a post to their site,...Read More
TSMC, the world’s largest independent semiconductor foundry and chip supplier for Bitmain, is facing multiple lawsuits from its competitor GlobalFoundries (GF). Alleged patent infringement GF, the second biggest semiconductor foundry by sales after TSMC, filed several lawsuits in the United States and Germany, accusing Taiwanese TSMC of infringing on 16 GF patents, according to an...Read More
Dubai-based fintech company Wethaq has entered into a strategic partnership with enterprise software firm R3, in order to create a platform for issuing and trading sukuk securities based on R3’s Corda offering. A platform for Islamic securities According to a press release on Aug. 28, Wethaq’s platform is built on R3’s open source enterprise blockchain...Read More
Telegram has hinted that the first batches of its Gram cryptocurrency will be available to a select group of investors by October 2019 and the Pavel Durov-led firm also plans to make the Gram wallet available to the nearly 300 million users of Telegram shortly, reports The New York Times on August 27, 2019. Telegram...Read More
New research by major cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase shows that 56% of the top 50 universities in the world offer one or more classes on cryptocurrency or blockchain tech. Metrics indicate growing interest Coinbase shared its research in an official blog post on Aug. 28 in which it used rankings from US News and World...Read More
AT&T is struggling to keep its TV customers in favor of streaming service providers, such as Netflix. Gains from other parts of the business make up for it. | AP Photo/Richard Drew, File AT&T is struggling to keep its premium TV customers from hitting the unsubscribe button in favor of on-demand streaming service providers, such...Read More
Blockchain-powered eKYC provider Blockpass, today released an all-new version of its proprietary mobile app and merchant dashboard. Aiming to simplify the process of completing KYC and digital identity verification, the new releases streamline the compliance process and provide simplified user onboarding. One-Click Onboarding The Blockpass app has relaunched with a cleaner design and simplified features,...Read More
Fresh off of a collaboration with Netflix’s Stranger Things, Epic Games’ Fortnite is slated for a crossover with Stephen King’s It, according to new rumors. | Source: Epic Games (i), Warner Bros. (ii). Image Edited by CCN. Fresh off of a collaboration with Netflix’s Stranger Things earlier this summer, Epic Games’ battle royale game Fortnite...Read More
Hashflow, an open protocol to bind and scale Bitcoin and Ethereum to build a scalable trust-minimized trade ecosystem, today announced it is now live. Hashflow Network Hashflow is a distributed network of open, trust-minimized, multi-centric hubs built on Bitcoin and Ethereum, each offering non-custodial, low latency trading across different markets. These hubs comprise a scalable...Read More
Algo Capital, an investment firm exclusively focusing on the Algorand blockchain ecosystem founded by the MIT professor Silvio Micali, has raised $200 million for a new fund dubbed Algo VC Fund. The company said in an announcement on Tuesday that those who committed include investors like NEO blockchain’s NGC Ventures, TechCrunch founder’s Arrington XRP Capital...Read More
George Harrap is CEO and co-founder of Hong Kong based Bitspark, a bankless money transfer ecosystem focused on Asia and Africa. This essay is presented as a part of No Closing Bell, a series leading up to Invest: Asia 2019 focused on how the Asian crypto markets are interacting with and impacting global investors. To...Read More
Eddie Murphy is back but the question is not “are we ready?” It’s more like, “is Eddie Murphy ready?” The former standup prodigy is booked to host Saturday Night Live (SNL) this December. Netflix is working on a deal with Murphy to release an undisclosed amount of standup specials. According to TMZ, those negotiations are hovering...Read More
Monday, Aug. 26 — Top cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and XRP are in the red. After trading sideways for most of the day, the market is currently seeing minor losses. Market visualization. Source: Coin360 BTC is trading at $10,350 at press time — a 1.72% price decrease on the day. BTC has been mostly...Read More
Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of major cloud computing and virtual machine company VMWare, has condemned Bitcoin (BTC) as being “bad for humanity.” Fortune spoke to Gelsinger about Bitcoin prior to VMWare’s annual conference in San Francisco on Aug. 26. According to Gelsinger, one issue with Bitcoin is its purportedly high energy consumption, which contributes to...Read More
FINMA, the financial market regulator in Switzerland, has released a guide in line with FATF rules in order to target KYC/AML compliance for blockchain payments companies and cryptocurrencies. Any party that transacts in cryptocurrencies or transmits money over the blockchain is liable to comply with existing money laundering regulation in Switzerland, August 26, 2019. Blockchains...Read More
The protracted legal battle involving self-proclaimed Bitcoin (BTC) inventor Craig Wright and the estate of computer scientist David Kleiman could go in Keiman’s favor. According to a court audience member on Aug. 26, Judge Bruce Reinhart rejected Wright’s testimony, stating that he had perjured himself by providing the court with falsified documents and recommended that...Read More
Craig Wright must turn half of his bitcoin holdings and intellectual property to the estate of Dave Kleiman, a judge ruled Monday. The ruling applies to holdings and IP from before 2014. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart recommended that plaintiffs be awarded 50 percent of the bitcoin that Wright held prior to Dec. 31, 2013, as...Read More
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is teaming up with fintech firm Digital Asset and VMWare to move its current exchange platform onto distributed ledger technology. Announced today, ASX and Digital Asset have signed a three-party memorandum of understanding (MOU) to build a replacement platform for the existing Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) onto DLT....Read More
By CCN Markets: The Dow Jones clung to gains of more than 250 points on Monday after President Donald Trump held a joint press conference with French President Emanuel Macron at the G7 in France. While the stock market edged back toward its session highs, Trump appeared unable to offer anything fresh for bulls to...Read More
A cryptocurrency exchange claiming to settle bitcoin futures contracts physically just landed $10 million in financing from Polychain Capital and Bitcoin.com chairman Roger Ver, among others. The exchange, CoinFlex, launched in February of this year and says it is the first exchange to close futures contracts in bitcoin as opposed to a cash settlement. Speaking with...Read More
The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) told investors to ditch gold for Bitcoin (BTC) just before the precious metal surged. A case of bad timing for Grayscale That was the latest observation from RT host and Bitcoin bull, Max Keiser, who on Aug. 26 concluded GBTC’s dedicated Bitcoin-not-gold campaign got its timing wrong. “$GBTC’s ‘Drop Gold’...Read More
