This piece answers the question “should I buy and sell Ripple in 2019?” by providing objective analysis on the bullish and bearish cases for the cryptocurrency.
Binance decided to re-create XRP on its own blockchain – Binance Chain, and pegged it to several cryptocurrency pairs on Binance DEX.
Apple’s Tim Cook has snubbed-off any plans to launch any cryptocurrency. He said that currency matters best belong to government and regulators and private organizations should stay away from it.
Gold continues to be the safe haven for global investors when it comes to parking their money in secure assets. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has failed to win the trust of big investors at this stage.
ASR Cryptotechnology is getting ready to introduce its new blockchain that will be known under the name Fuchsia Network.
Two U.S. Congressmen have written to the Federal Reserve, on the possibility of tokenizing the dollar. The Congressmen believe that such a move is inevitable.
Vega has announced that it has received $5 million in a seed round. The company hopes to use the funds to facilitate its mission to disrupt the current financial landscape, developing decentralized derivatives protocol.
By Thursday, October 3rd, the BTC volatility ha smoothed a bit. The leading cryptocurrency is consolidating at around $8274.00.
Coinbase announced the launch of USDC Rewards program, under which eligible US customers will be able to earn 1.25% APY rewards on every USD Coin they hold on the exchange.
IKEA has completed the supply chain transaction which used e-money using smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain and via the Tradeshift platform. The company views the transaction as pivotal for the sector.
Telegram has conducted the world’s largest initial coin offering back in early 2018, netting a whopping 1.7B from a batch of accredited investors. TON Blockchain is supposed to be launch by Oct. 31. Otherwise, it will have to refund its investors.
The Libra Association mentions four key milestone to be achieved before the mainnet launch. The focus is to get at least 100 partners working as operating nodes on the Libra network.
The Internet of Value (IoV) vision has driven Ripple to establishing initiatives like Xpring, designed to become a global network for developers. Now the company announced the opening of the platform.
Bakkt platform was finally launched in September 2019 only to be greeted by a very lukewarm response from investors but analysts from Oppenheimer & Co think that it is too early to write it off.
One of the biggest blockchain payments provider BitPay, recently announced that they are going to add support for XRP later this year. The support for the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization will most likely happen at the end of the year.