Two blockchain startups partnered up to enable Amazon consumers use Ethereum for payments. For this to come true, CLIC Technology is collaborating with Opporty for an app-like browser extension.
Even though Binance currently gets approximately 15% of traffic from U.S. customers, they announced that they will stop serving US individual and corporate customers on Binance.com in September.
Ripple along with its partners are changing lives in the South Eastern Asian Nations. Some call it the best testing grounds for blockchain and cryptos, since a lot of people are working abroad and using remittance networks to support their loved ones.
Raven Protocol has announced the first Initial Dex Offering (IDO), scheduled for June 17. Just at the same time, RAVEN will be listed on Binance DEX.
Walmart will take part in a drug-verification pilot with IBM, KPMG, and Merck. Backed by the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act and is aimed to explore how blockchain can solve issues in the drug supply chain.
Visa, Mastercard and PayPal are set to be backers of Facebook’s GlobalCoin along with a number of other companies, including Uber. Each will invest approximately $10 million into a foundation that will govern the coin.
To launch its crypto trading services in the U.S., Binance has partnered with local firm BAM Trading Services Inc. The company will release further details of the launch in the coming days.
Two huge cryptocurrency companies, Coinbase and Circle, are actively working in a joint effort to make money as easy transferable as data on the internet. Recently both firms have announced their new Stablecoin Network called CENTRE.
The hybrid applications use oracles to bridge the gap between blockchain-based smart contracts and internet cloud services thereby making automated business processes more efficient and robust.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Italy proposed a new tax on cash and other valuables held by citizens at safety deposit boxes. Thi measure could drive people towards Bitcoin as a way to keep their savings safe from cash-strapped government ministers.
Ripple CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, revealed that a remittance company, which he wouldn’t disclose, has gained +800% in clients overnight because it recently began using Ripple’s technology. The main reason in this rise in the change in transaction fee.
ICE’s Bakkt plans to set a new standard for institutional market quality for digital assets with the launch of its Bitcoin Futures platform on July 22, 2019.
Following the news on the stock exchange market’s involvement with cryptocurrencies, Cryptoindex enters into a partnership agreement with Reuters, Bloomberg and Tradingview.
On July 13, Thursday, the BTC is consolidating around $8,131 after being much active the day before.
John McAfee released his new cryptocurrency exchange called “McAfeeMagic” together with its own cryptocurrency – Freedom Coin. Interestingly enough, the exchange will allow trading cryptocurrencies on multiple exchanges within one dashboard.