Ripple, a real-time gross settlements system and remittance network, had recently announced a strategic partnership with MoneyGram, one of the world’s foremost money transfer companies. Immediately after this partnership went live, XRP/MXN volume on Bitso rose by 25%. Breanne M. Madigan of Global Institutional Markets at Ripple commented, “New (and notable) data shows that although...Read More
Binance is no stranger to cryptocurrency hacks and scams, with $40.7 million (700 BTC) being stolen from the exchange just recently. While Changpeng Zhao, the exchange’s CEO managed to alleviate concerns with informed communication, the exchange was also targetted by a leak of KYC documents. Today, Binance released an official blog post titled “Update &...Read More
According to a recent update on the Chinese social media network WeChat, a source close to the chip-manufacturing firm, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, revealed that Bitmain has reportedly placed an order for 600,000 mining chips. If true, this hige bid is likely to bring in huge profits for Bitmain. Interestingly, this batch includes the latest...Read More
Eccentric crypto-proponent, tech security expert and U.S Presidential candidate, John McAfee, today announced the introduction of a Shadow Trading feature on his latest cryptocurrency trading platform, McAfee Magic. McAfee’s tweet read, https://t.co/5jRN3sAXvG Shadow Trading is now functional. Give it a try. — John McAfee (@officialmcafee) August 23, 2019 On the FAQ section of the webpage,...Read More
The blockchain revolution starting with Bitcoin had a great impact on the world, not just because it highlighted the importance of a decentralized financial system, but mainly because it highlighted how distributed systems can put power back in the hands of consumers. A recent study by Placeholder, a New York-based investment firm, compared cost structure...Read More
Tezoz Foundation is all set to launch Tezos Satoshi’s Treasure Hunt in collaboration with the alternate reality game, Satoshi’s Treasure. According to the official release by the Tezos Foundation, Tezos Satoshi’s Treasure Hunt is a multi-player game in which players would be able to solve puzzles to receive Tez [XTZ] from a prize pool of...Read More
Trade wars are usually good news for non-sovereign, highly secure digital stores of value. With Bitcoin [BTC] registering continuous growth in adoption rate, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire pictures a scenario where individuals will convert a part of their long-term investment capital into digital assets. Circle shared the interview with Global Coin Research over its official...Read More
Securitize, a company that converts assets to tokens and manages digital securities on the blockchain, has been registered as a transfer agent with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. While this will give them the freedom to maintain records for the transfer of securities, the company also claims that being SEC-compliant will help boost...Read More
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance had launched its margin trading services on its platform, on July 11. The Changpeng Zhao-led exchange debuted its margin trading feature with only six cryptocurrencies, namely, BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, TRX, and USDT. However, over time, the exchange has added several other cryptocurrencies to the list. A few weeks ago, the...Read More
“Our view was that RMB was going to grow in the world”, said Jeremy Allaire, the CEO and founder of the digital currency company Circle, as China geared up for its first-ever government-backed digital currency. Recent reports revealed that the central bank digital currency is “almost ready” after five years of work. In a recent...Read More
Blockchain protocol EOS’s governance model and centralization have been at the center of controversies, since its inception. From Weiss Ratings lowering EOS’s grade over centralization issues to getting tangled in the alleged reversal of transactions and Dan Larimar’s comments when he “confirmed” that decentralization was not their topmost priority, stating “it isn’t what we’re after”...Read More
In an official statement from, Xinxi Wang, a board director at the Litecoin Foundation addressed the Github issue, and said “Github was updated frequently but not in the main repo”. In a recent interview published on XCong.com, Wang revealed Adrian Gallagher, the Litecoin core developer, was testing the latest 0.18.1 version. He further said that...Read More
On Aug 21, 2019, kompany announced that their API platform, BREX, had brought 5 more XRP Ledger validator nodes live, for a total of 6 nodes verifying thousands of transactions each, every day. And now there are 6 – We’re happy to announce that kompany’s #API Platform BREX has taken 5 more #RippleNet XRP Ledger...Read More
Paxful, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace established back in 2015, has decided to expand its services in East Africa after seeing significant growth in the region over the years. The expansion plan is part of Paxful’s long-term goal of providing financial services to the unbanked and underbanked across Africa. Paxful has established itself as one of...Read More
The Cameron and Tyler Wnklevoss-led cryptocurrency exchange, Gemini, was recently in the news after the exchange named David Damato as its new Chief Security Officer. The exchange is in the news again after it updated the crypto-community about its latest expansion. According to a blog post by Tyler Winklevoss, Gemini services will now be available...Read More
Tech Bureau is going out of business and Zaif will see an operational shift. The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, Zaif, will see its operator switch from Tech Bureau to FISCO virtual currency exchange, according to an announcement made on August 22. As per a report from Crypto Watch Japan, Tech Bureau operated the exchange until November...Read More
The Tron Foundation entered the cryptocurrency market only in 2018, fairly late when compared to other cryptocurrencies. However, this hasn’t posed as a hindrance to the Tron Foundation’s growth as there seems to be no stopping to the Foundation’s accomplishments. Several people have speculated that Tron’s Founder and CEO, Justin Sun, and his marketing skills,...Read More
Vitalik Buterin was in the news after speaking to the newspaper, ‘Toronto Star’, and stating that “Scalability is a big bottleneck because the Ethereum blockchain is almost full.” High transaction fees are obstructing widespread adoption, he said. His words were, “If you’re a bigger organization, the calculus is that if we join, it will not...Read More
Sichuan province in China is well known for being a mining hub, thanks to the abundance of clean hydroelectricity available in the region at dirt cheap prices. However, the availability of cheap clean energy has also made the province a growing hub for illegal mining activities. Sichuan province was recently hit by flash floods which...Read More
Kraken, a San Fransisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, has been operating since 2013, making headlines consistently for its donations, funding, and issues with its site and API. OTC Head at Kraken, Nelson Minier, recently shared his journey into the cryptoverse, while also discussing the many developments in the Kraken ecosystem, in a recent podcast. Minier stated that...Read More
Even with the ongoing fluctuation in the price of Bitcoin [BTC], a lot of investors are looking forward to investing in the king coin due to the growth in its market cap over the past few months. With coin movements growing more significant by the day, more and more traders are now getting into the...Read More
Ever since Facebook announced its plans to launch its own cryptocurrency, the world’s regulatory and financial space hasn’t been the same. However, the news cycle about Libra was soon overtaken by lawmakers and regulatory bodies voicing their grave concerns about the same, while also highlighting Facebook’s own problematic history. What is missing however from the...Read More
Ripple has been touted as a disrupter in many ways to the legacy remittance service platforms; with the partnership with London-based remittance firm, Xendpay, Ripple is all set to extend the former’s initiative of ‘optional transfer fees’, where customers are given an option to waive fees with a service called Pay What You Want. According...Read More
The contentious stablecoin operator, Tether, is all set to issue a new stablecoin, CNHT, pegged to CNH, offshore Chinese Yuan Renminbi. The news was confirmed by Zhao Dong of DGroup, who spoke to ChainNews on August 21. RenrenBit, the digital asset management platform of Bitfinex shareholder, Zhao Dong, will be the first firm to invest...Read More
The ‘IAMAI Vs RBI’ case took an unexpected turn, as the Supreme Court was met with several arguments from the petitioners’ end about the RBI’s jurisdiction where the petitioner presented the court with the exchanges’ plea asking a reconsideration of the ban. Justice Nariman said Exchanges are not asking to uplift the ban, but they...Read More
The Supreme Court of India was presented with arguments that questioned Reserve Bank of India’s [RBI] jurisdiction over contemplating a ban on crypto-activity on the basis of vagueness on August 20. The case resumed its hearing on the matter on August 21, with RBI’s counsel, Shyam Divan, listing disadvantages of cryptocurrencies as highlighted in the...Read More
The virtual asset industry hardly ever remains quiet for a long period of time. However, the price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency was pretty timid, at press time. Source: trading view Bitcoin’s price went up on the back of a tremendous run which started in April, with the valuation climbing by over 180% percent. Since...Read More
R3’s Corda Settler entered into a partnership with the centralized payments network, SWIFT in January 2019. R3 also commenced testing its Corda Settler payments engine with XRP, Ripple’s native cryptocurrency. The Brad Garlinghouse-led firm is often dubbed as a potential disrupter of the SWIFT network and the collaboration has been welcomed with open arms by...Read More
In an interview with podcaster Peter McCormack, Raoul Pal, Co-founder of Real Vision and former Head of Equity and Equity Derivatives at Goldman Sachs, stated that stock markets are massively overvalued. According to Pal, central banks would do their tricks and cut interest rates, and when the interest rates become negative, people pay the government...Read More
Tezos [XTZ], the seventeenth-largest coin by market cap, has witnessed rapid growth from the time of its launch. Recently, Tezos surpassed DASH and stood in the fifteenth position briefly, before falling again. The price of the coin, at press time, was falling by 3.48% over the last 24 hours. At the time of writing, the...Read More
