Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said that China’s research and development on CBDC outclass its peers and the digital version of Chinese Yuan could possibly bypass the Western banking system.
Nasdaq’s Defix index will offer real-time tracking of crypto assets of different blockchain projects like MakerDao, Augur, Gnosis, Numerai, 0x and Amoveo.
Binance recently launched its futures trading platform which is on an invitation-only basis. The soft launch has already raised about $150 million in less than twenty-four hours. This may mean good things for the cryptocurrency exchange.
Coinbase may launch an IEO platform and issue a proprietary exchange token. Such information has been provided by Kayvon Pirestani, Coinbase’s head of institutional sales in Asia, during Invest: Asia conference on Wednesday.
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.