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Crypto trading platform Liquid announced they are holding a public sale of Telegram Open Network’s digital token – GRAM. To list the token, the platform partnered with Gram Asia, the largest holder of the native token of TON blockchain in Asia.
Coinbase Earn announced support for DAI – the first stablecoin added to the exchange’s educational program.
Aitheon has announced the listing of its ACU token on the LATOKEN exchange and invites everyone to its Open House event.
The Sun Network expansion plan includes the developments of TRON DApp sidechains along with other cross-chain infrastructure developments.
Some big names like Galaxy Digital and Genesis Global Trading have already switched to Fireblocks to safeguard the transmission of their digital assets across exchanges, over the counter brokerages, hot wallets, and cold storage.
Norilsk Nickel’s Stablecoin backed by contracts for palladium and nickel trading, is planned for launch by the end of 2019. The pilot project will be rolled put in partnership with IBM and Hyperledger Fabric.
CBOE stops trading Bitcoin futures starting from June 19, while CME has recently enjoyed a record high volume of 33,700 contracts for cryptocurrency derivatives.
A Wyoming Blockchain regulator and so-called “crypto-mom” Caitlin Long has made some predictions on the upcoming Facebook’s cryptocurrency dubbed GlobalCoin. She predicts that Facebook could potentially pay interest to its users.
Within a span of three months, Weiss Crypto Rankings upgraded and then downgraded EOS resulting in a buzz with some calling the rankings agency deceitful for making decisions using unreliable data.
Now it’s real: Zilliqa, a high-throughput blockchain platform built on sharding, has successfully enabled smart contracts.
Following June 9 G20 meeting in Fukuoka, Japan, the G20 finance ministers, and central bank governors filed a request with the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to monitor cryptoassets-associated risks.
Thomas Lee expects a FOMO to kick-in soon as the Bitcoin price crosses $10000 levels. Besides, upcoming events like Bitcoin halving could give a further push northwards to the cryptocurrency.
Algorand, PoS permissionless blockchain network, takes a promising approach to decentralization shedding a spotlight on an area where so many other networks have failed.
Thailand’s largest commercial bank, the Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), which recently tweeted on possibility of launching an XRP-based system, decided suddenly, to issue a statement, according to which, the bank “has no plan on using XRP.”
The new Facebook’s cryptocurrency – likely to be dubbed Libra Coin – should be revealed later this month, said one of their managers adding that a white paper for the token would be published on June 18.