Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project is seeking a Swiss payment system license, financial watchdog FINMA said, noting the breadth of the planned services would require broad oversight.
Gemini cryptocurrency exchange has announced the launch of its custody product dubbed Gemini Custody that will support 18 tokens letting traders transact instantly since it offers them credit.
David Chaum’s Elixxir has launched the xx network public alpha. The network represents the first public demonstration of cMix, the transaction network that shreds metadata and provides consumer privacy and security.
Among the list of fiat currencies released by Facebook, the company has so far exempted the Chinese Yuan as a fiat backing its Libra token.
The Stellar Foundation has partnered with Keybase to offer a $126 million in XLM airdrop scheduled to last for 20 months with the participants expecting to get monthly airdrops of 100 million XLM.
Backed by offshore yuan, the new stablecoin adds to three other Tether’s stablecoins pegged to such fiat currencies as U.S. dollar (USDT), Euro (EURT) and the Japanese yen (JPYT).
Expert web hosting services provider GeeksHosted has recently accepted Bitcoin hosting and entered the list of few web hosting companies open to cryptocurrency payment.
Bakkt’s COO, according to a recently released statement, believes that the company will be a game-changer for the crypto market in general with Bitcoin Daily & Monthly Futures will be launched on September 23, 2019.
As Binance continues to expand its crypto product offering, it has officially launched the Binance Futures platform for users.
When Telegram launches its blockchain, the go-to marketplace for the new gram tokens could be a fledgling exchange with fewer than 4,000 users. At least, that’s what Blackmoon Crypto is hoping.
The Catalonian government has decided to go on a different path and make its identity system to be blockchain-based. This creates a unique opportunity for power to return to the people rather than the state.
While SEC’s Clayton acknowledged that Bitcoin businesses are coming closer to satisfying his concerns, he stated that there is “work left to be done” on Bitcoin ETF.
According to MetaBlock, Waves is the top blockchain project leading by commits. Ethereum and Cardano follow Waves and take the 2nd and 3rd positions with 1847 and 1687 commits respectively.
Bitcoin price analysis. Most of the data is based on HitBTC exchange.
Bakkt seems to be finally approaching its ambitious goal of creating a marketplace for physically-settled Bitcoin futures, as now the company announces its Warehouse is active for futures contracts.