This news section spotlights emerging altcoins, project updates, tokenomics changes and ecosystem developments driving innovation in DeFi, Web3 and digital assets. Keep track of the next wave of digital currencies before they make headlines—and gain insights that matter in the altcoin sector.
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Citing heavy client demand, Investment advisor Wealthfront announced Coinbase integration which will allow its users to track cryptocurrency investments. Savings and checking accounts to be provided within the first few months of 2019.
The past month hasn’t been good for Ethereum and it’s co-founders’ company Consensys. With Ethereum going below $90 support line, and mainstream media attacking Consensys on all fronts, Consensyss’ image has already been tarnished.
SBI’s VCTRADE announced that they have added support for XRP, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. Ripple is excited by this announcement and believes their token, XRP, will achieve worldwide adoption due to the support.
In Coinbase they decided to end their 12 days long feature with the announcement about what crypto can do now and their hopes for a more inclusive blockchain.
The Giving Pledge has acquired another new member in Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. He has committed a significant part of his wealth to help others.
The Chainalysis report shows that a very small fraction of the total Bitcoin addresses are actually “economically relevant”.
During the last 24 hours, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has dropped more than 9 percent as the fallout of the prolonged market rout continues. Despite a recent recovery that has taken bitcoin above $4,000, miners are still finding it difficult to remain profitable.
Coinbase said Thursday it had expanded its product to several European countries and overseas territories, including Lithuania, Iceland, Andorra, Gibraltar, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
In case Cardano penetrates above the key supply zone of $0.050, then the trend has changed to uptrend and have its high at $0.06 price level.
Facebook is reportedly working on developing its own stablecoin, which initially will be focused on the remittances market in India where it will enable users to transfer money via a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency on WhatsApp.
Two U.S. congressmen Warren Davidson and Darren Soto, are introducing a bill that would exclude digital currencies from securities classification and substantially improve the tax treatment for cryptocurrencies.
As a result of the deal, newly launched TokenSoft Global Markets LLC. will enable issuers to choose whether to host a token sale themselves or work with a broker-dealer to manage the token sale on their behalf.
Despite the recent failure, a community-owned journalism network based on transparency and trust, Civil, will take another ICO chance in February 2019.
The second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, OKEx has created a Bitcoin derivative product called “perpetual swap”. However, there’s no expiry date. The lack of expiry data allows positions to be held on an ongoing basis.