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Securitize announced it has managed to raise a whopping $14 million in latest investment from Nomura Holdings, MUFG, and Banco Santander.
Helium, an IoT startup and crypto mining modem distributor, is expanding to more than 250 cities in the U.S. They started out from Austin, Texas, but now are shipping their units much more broadly.
Today, on September 24, crypto exchange giant Binance has announced the launch of its arm in the U.S. market. Binance.US is finally opened.
The supply chain and logistics industry seems to be doing well at the moment. However, can it do more? Blockchain technology provides a way to do this and the Quras blockchain is the solution to be applied.
IBM has indicated that it will be willing to work with Facebook on Libra. However, this does not mean that IBM may want to join the Libra Association.
After Bakkt officially launched its futures contract offering yesterday, the market seemed to lose some weight, disappointing general expectations. The market is also anxious about today’s Congress hearing.
Germany’s second-largest stock exchange Boerse Stuttgart has launched BSDEX which is a digital asset exchange currently offering Bitcoin-Euro (BTC/EUR) trading with more pairs to be added soon.
Kik Interactive CEO Ted Livingston announced today that the company is shutting down Kik Messenger to focus on its cryptocurrency Kin, the target of a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
PBoC said that there is no planned launch date for their digital currency and declined that there’s a list of member institutions coming together for it.
The SIX’s prototype platform will run test cases to demonstrate the potential of SDX’s trading model, as well as settlement on DLT.
Binance US will offer the trading facility in crypto-to-crypto and fiat-to-crypto trading pairs in 37 states across America. It also plans to offer commission-free trading from November 1st, 2019.
Popular cryptocurrency evangelist and author William Mougayar recently gave a twitter price prediction of $25,000 for Bitcoin and $1,000 for Ethereum by the end of 2019. Is he to be taken seriously?
Facebook has acquired ServiceFriend which is a startup that builds bots. Experts are speculating that this is for the new Calibra wallet support service, however, Facebook hasn’t yet approved this news.
Facebook has finally released the full list of the fiat currencies which will back Libra. While it may not come as much of a surprise, what remains yet to be seen is how France and Germany will be encouraged to accept Libra.
While more than 30 major economies around the world have announced interest rate cuts this year, it seems that Bitcoin, as well as other major cryptocurrencies, set to prosper.