Multy Crypto Wallet Enables Multisignature Scheme for Android and iOS
Multy, an open-source mobile wallet for Bitcoin and Ethereum, announced enabling multi-signature scheme for wallets with more than one owner. This feature makes it easy to control company and family budgets by several owners of one wallet. Vadim Makovsky, Co-founder and CEO of Multy stated, “In Multy, we believe that using cryptocurrencies should be secure, […]
Q3 2018 XRP Markets Report
In Q3 2018, Ripple sold $65.27 million worth of XRP programmatically. This represented 0.172 percent, or 17.2 basis points of the total XRP volume traded globally in the third quarter. In addition, XRP II, LLC — a Ripple subsidiary that is a registered and licensed money service business (MSB) — sold $98.06 million worth of […]
Sony Develops Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet Technology Using IC Cards
Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. has developed a contactless IC card type cryptocurrency “hardware wallet technology *1 ” by utilizing Sony Corporation’s IC card technology. Currently, many cryptocurrency users are trading cryptocurrencies using online wallets *2 from the locations where they initially purchased their cryptocurrencies. When a user owns a cryptocurrency, what they actually own […]
Cryptocurrency Exchange Coinbase Launch Digital Dollar USDC
Cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage giant Coinbase has provided a major stamp of approval to one of several recently launched USD-pegged cryptocurrency “stablecoins” seeking to supplant tether (USDT) as the leader in this burgeoning market niche. The San Francisco-based Coinbase on Tuesday announced that beginning today, customers can buy, sell, send, and receive USD Coin, the […]
Samsung Announces Commercialization of Its 7nm Process Node
Samsung has announced it has completed all the processes involved with the 7-nanometer LPP (Low Power Plus) with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology. Now the Korean company has started the wafer production for these next-generation semiconductors. 2018 has seen a lot of sophisticated semiconductor technology, as some of the world’s leading manufacturers have been producing […]
U.S. City Ephrata Ban on New Cryptocurrency Mining
Ephrata joined the ranks of Grant County cities temporarily banning cryptocurrency development after the city council voted Wednesday to block new cryptocurrency operations for the next 12 months. “A moratorium means taking a break,” council member Kathleen Allstot said. “This is a one year break. … We wait to see what’s going, make sure this […]
ICO Portfolio is Down by 66% in the First Half of 2018
In the first half of 2018, 86% of the leading initial coin offerings (ICOs) that listed on a cryptocurrency exchange in 2017 are below their initial listing price and a portfolio of these ICOs is down by 66% since the peak of the market at the beginning of this year, according to a study from […]
NatWest to Launch R3 Corda Syndicated Lending Platform
NatWest has become the first bank to integrate with a new blockchain-based platform that aims to dramatically transform and streamline the global syndicated loans market. In 2017 syndicated loan deals worth over £3.5 trillion were brokered globally. The new platform is set to go live from November 2018. A syndicated loan is where the size […]
SimpleFX Makes CFD Trading Fast and Easy Like Never Before with the Launch of the New SimpleFX WebTrader Tool
SimpleFX, one of the fastest growing CFD platforms, has just released a new version of SimpleFX WebTrader with the goal of becoming the fastest and easiest of all trading tools available at present. The company has also joined hands with the affiliate tracking platform Unilink.io to help its clients enjoy real-time revenue tracking benefit and […]
BlockFiNow Supporting Litecoin and GUSD for Crypto-Backed Loans
BlockFi, the crypto-to-USD lender, is now supporting Litecoin (LTC) and Gemini’s GUSD stablecoin towards USD loans. This marks the company’s first expansion of accepted collateral into top-10 cryptocurrencies. Additionally, BlockFi is the first crypto-backed lender to support GUSD as a loan funding option. “We’re excited to add support for GUSD and LTC and to welcome […]
Securities Commissioner Issues Orders Against 3 Companies Promoting ICOs in North Dakota
North Dakota Securities Commissioner Karen Tyler has issued Cease and Desist Orders against 3 companies promoting unregistered and potentially fraudulent securities in North Dakota in the form of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The Orders are the result of investigations being conducted by the Department’s ICO Task Force, convened by the Commissioner to identify ICOs and […]
Litecoin Has a UTXO Problem
UTXOs, also known as “dust”, are a problem faced by all Bitcoin-based blockchains. Generally, these nominal wallet balances are swept to aggregate the leftover satoshis from previous transactions into a single wallet. In the case of litecoin, however, that’s not possible for the more than 50 percent of UTXOs that measure just one ‘litoshi’ in […]
1Broker to Start Processing Withdrawal Requests
Marshall Islands-registered contracts-for-difference broker 1pool Ltd., which operates the 1Broker brand, has announced that the company will revive some if its functions today. The team tweeted that they will start processing clients withdrawal requests. We will start processing withdrawals tomorrow at 12:00 (UTC). Thanks for your patience in the past days! — 1Broker (@1Brokerio) October […]
Indian Cryptocurrency Exchange Unocoin Launch First Crypto ATMs
Indian Cryptocurrency Exchange Unocoin is launching, perhaps country’s first, crypto ATM with more details to be revealed in a week’s time, Bengaluru-based startup’s founder Sathvik Vishwanath has confirmed. The words “instant deposit & withdrawals for your Unocoin account” are written on the machine, along with “exclusive for Unocoin customers” and “credit & debit cards are […]
Wibson Launches Blockchain-Based Marketplace
Wibson, the decentralized marketplace that enables consumers to profit from their personal data, today announced the launch of its mobile app, Wibson token (WIB), and data platform in Argentina, Spain, and the U.K. Wibson supports consumers’ ability to sell their personal data directly to data buyers, such as technology platforms, advertisers, marketers, academics and data-for-social-good […]
Bitcoin Cash Wallet Cointext Сaptures Asia
Cointext, a service which enables cryptocurrency users to transact directly over mobile SMS, has announced today that it launched support for its Bitcoin Cash (BCH) wallet to Hong Kong, as well as Israel and the Palestinian territories (Palestine). “These are important regions for us to connect because they’re financial centers,” said founder and lead developer […]
Binance Announces ‘Listing Fees’
Binance will make a change to listing fee policy. Starting immediately, and going forward, Binance will make all listing fees transparent and donate 100% of them to charity. Project teams will still propose the number they would like to provide for a “listing fee,” or now more appropriately called a “donation.” Binance will not dictate […]
US Senators Seek Stronger Sanctions on Venezuela’s ‘Petro’ Cryptocurrency
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is pushing for tighter sanctions against Venezuela’s state-backed cryptocurrency, known as the petro. The bill, known as the Venezuela Humanitarian Relief, Reconstruction and Rule of Law Act of 2018, covers a range of areas related to Venezuela, including proposed humanitarian aid to migrants from the country and efforts to […]
