THE TON NETWORK WILL BE LAUNCHED IN MARCH The presentation of the project TON will be held at a meeting with major investors during the month, and the main network will be launched in March. A source familiar with the development of…
SWISS BANK FALCON LAUNCHES CRYPTOCURRENCY WALLET WITH THE ABILITY TO WITHDRAW FUNDS TO FIAT On January 21st, the Swiss Bank Falcon Private Bank presented support for direct cryptocurrency transfers and storage services for the most used cryptocurrencies within its own digital wallet….
NEBULAS CUTS MORE THAN HALF OF ITS STAFF Engaged in the development of the Nebulas blockchain platform, the startup has cut its own staff from 80 employees to 30. The company has gone through a series of cuts, in the process of…
IN LONDON OPENS THE FIRST BLOCKCHAIN-BASED SMARTPHONES SHOP IN THE WORLD The company Sirin Labs will open “the world’s first” store selling blockchain smartphones, in London. In the store, the company, in particular, will sell its Finney device. The assortment of the…
HUOBI ANNOUNCED PLANS TO RELEASE ITS OWN STABLECOIN Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi plans to release its own stablecoin this year as part of its roadmap. During the presentation in Singapore, commercial Director Chris Lee also announced plans to update the trading platform and…
THE BEAM BLOCKCHAIN HAS BEEN STOPPED FOR A WHILE At approximately 8:00 UTC, the developers, focused on the privacy of cryptocurrency Beam on the basis of a Protocol MimbleWimble, reported about the stop of the network on the block #25709. The…
STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND IS LAUNCHING A PLATFORM FOR TRADING DIGITAL ASSETS The stock exchange of Thailand (SET) is in the process of obtaining a license to launch a platform for trading digital assets, including cryptocurrencies. It is assumed that the users…
IT IS SUPPOSED THAT IN THE DARKNET KYC-USER DATA OF BITTREX, POLONIEX, BITFINEX AND BINANCE CAN BE SOLD On the Dread darknet site, personal data of customers of cryptocurrency exchanges who have passed the KYC (Know Your Customer) procedure are offered for…
HUOBI NEXT AND HUOBI MAIN PROMISE A FREE LISTING OF PROJECT TOKENS The Russian cryptocurrency exchange Huobi Russia has announced a potential opportunity for tokens of new blockchain projects to get free access to such international trading platforms as Huobi Next and…
HARDWORK ETHEREUM CONSTANTINOPLE WAS POSTPONED TO 27TH OF FEBRUARY The Ethereum-Constantinople network update, which was scheduled for January 17th, did not take place due to the vulnerability discovered on the eve of the hard fork. On January 18th, after online negotiations Ethereum…
2018 Full Year Crypto Report by CoinGecko CoinGecko has released its 2018 Yearly Crypto Report. This is their 6th quarterly report and the second full year report after the 2017 Yearly Report. For this full year report, the team of researchers worked tirelessly to…
THE UAE AND SAUDI ARABIA ANNOUNCED THE CREATION OF A NEW CRYPTOCURRENCY The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia announced the signing of a cooperation agreement to create a cryptocurrency, the official news Agency of the UAE Emirate News Agency reported on…
IN 2018, BITPAY PROCESSED A RECORD AMOUNT OF CRYPTO-TRANSFERS (MORE THAN $1 BILLION) Despite the drop in prices for cryptocurrencies in 2018, the operator of bitcoin payments BitPay set a record for the volume of implemented crypto-transactions more than $1 billion. The…
HEAD OF CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS EXCHANGE: CRYPTOCURRENCY MARKET NEEDS BITCOIN-ETN CBOE Director Edward Tilly believes that the cryptocurrency market does not have enough existing bitcoin futures-they need to be supplemented with exchange notes based on cryptocurrencies. To continue the growth of the…
DURING THE FIRST 15 DAYS OF THIS YEAR, ICO PROJECTS RAISED $160 MILLION According to the results of a study conducted by the ICObench portal, the ICO campaigns that ended in the first half of January collected a total of about $160…
CRYPTO FUND 1CONFIRMATION ATTRACTS $60 MILLION The crypto investment firm, 1confirmation, backed by Mark Cuban, is launching a second round of funding, the WSJ reported. The WSJ source noted that the Fund hopes to raise another $60 million to invest in cryptocurrency startups in…
SATOSHILABS, TOGETHER WITH A PARTNER, RELEASED “LUX” CLASS HARDWARE WALLETS Company SatoshiLabs and Singapore Company Gray International, which specializes on the customization of the device, on iOS and Android, presented a joint product — a series of “cold storage” of a “Lux”…
SAPPHIRE HAS INTRODUCED A VERSION OF THE RADEON VIDEO CARD FOR MINING THE CRYPTOCURRENCY GRIN Sapphire company introduced a version of the Radeon RX 570 Nitro+ graphics card for mining the Grin cryptocurrency with an increased memory capacity up to 16 GB….
REDDIT DISCUSSES POSSIBLE BITTREX HACKING An unknown client of the trading platform transferred to his address 280 million Status tokens and 28 million Power Ledger coins, users suspect that this transaction may be the result of hacking. On the afternoon of January…
BLOCKSTREAM INTRODUCED A BETA VERSION OF THE SATELLITE API FOR SATELLITE BROADCASTING OF BLOCKCHAIN DATA In December, the blockchain company Blockstream announced the expansion of the coverage area of the satellite service Blockstream Satellite to the Asia-Pacific region, as well as added…