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The altcoin markets just woke up suddenly with Ethereum and XRP leading the way adding 7% and 16% correspondingly. Despite Bitcoin price makes no major movements, this may mean that the market is starting to mature.
The U.S. arm of Binance is set to open today at 8 AM (EST). Binance US will however not be available to about 13 states in the U.S., will be free and will only list a few assets including BTC, ETH, and XRP in this initial phase.
BitPay users will be able to accept Ethereum for payments, store Ethereum in a BitPay wallet and get access to Ethereum on BitPay prepaid Visa cards.
On Sunday, the Ethereal Summit took place. At the event, Ethereum’s Joseph Lubin and Vitalik Buterin commented on the Ethereum 2.0 update and discussed possible collaboration with Facebook on its Libra currency.
Dapper Labs, the company that is known for CryptoKitties, has raised $11 mln for its Flow blockchain aimed to enable decentralized applications at scale.
If things go according to plan, Bitcoin.com would soon launch the first Bitcoin Cash derivative in the form of futures contracts. The company is looking to launch this with a CFTC-approved exchange.
The Atlantis hard fork completed by Ethereum Classic is aimed at the improvement of the altcoin’s functionality and compatibility with Ethereum.
According to MetaBlock, Waves is the top blockchain project leading by commits. Ethereum and Cardano follow Waves and take the 2nd and 3rd positions with 1847 and 1687 commits respectively.
As Buterin said, Ethereum 2.0 aims to run ‘tens of thousands of transactions per second’ and he is sure that the new network will facilitate a number of on-chain transactions while maintaining key aspects of decentralization and security.
A1 will be accepting seven different digital currencies as payments against its mobile services. During the pilot test, A1 will accept crypto payments to a few selected stores in Austria.
During his recent interview, Vitalik Buterin stressed on key factors of scalability, account security and usability which will steer ahead of the mass adoption of digital currencies.
ZenGo crypto wallet has announced the support for Facebook’s Libra testnet which gives its users a first-hand experience of using Facebook’s native cryptocurrency.
Recently it has come to light that Rakuten has managed to launch its own cryptocurrency exchange called Rakuten Wallet.
Fidelity’s charity arm, Fidelity Charitable, has received more than $100 million in cryptocurrency donations since 2015. But according to the company, this year is not the best one for crypto donations.
Some years ago there were not so many crypto enthusiasts who believed in the power of altcoins. Though Bitcoin is still a leader, some altcoins are showing quite impressive results in 2019.