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The biggest Chinese exchange Huobi brings margin trading and interest-bearing accounts with its new internationally focused platform BitVC and Yubibao brand.

Tron will start distributing its BitTorrent Token in airdrops, to its TRX holders through the Binance Launchpad platform. The Tron Foundation plans to airdrop tokens for the next six years up to February 2025.

Kraken has acquired London’s Crypto Facilities in a strategic deal aimed at increasing the company’s presence in Europe. Kraken now becomes the first crypto exchange to provide both futures and spot trading.

While that the cryptocurrency industry is going through a very rough phase, here are the five events expected to set the growth trajectory of the crypto market in 2019.

The BTT airdrop program is set to start on February 11, 2019, and will continue until 2025, with allocations dispersed yearly. It has already received support from Binance, OKEx, Huobi, and other exchanges.

AutoSweep developed by TrustToken will let exchanges create unique TUSD deposit addresses to be automatically settled into a primary wallet.

Ethereum is preparing for its next milestone – Constantinople hard fork. The launch is planned in four stages: Frontier (beta stage to develop and test dapps), Homestead (to stabilize the platform), Metropolis (ongoing) and Serenity (upcoming).

EOS has posted the healthiest performance in the top 20 cryptos surging over 25% in one month. The EOS price activity shows that there is a big confidence developing among investors, which’s likely to grow further in 2019.

Following the recent news about Bitmain and ConsenSys, another cryptocurrency giant, Huobi, has announced its plans for reducing the company’s staff.

Crypto derivatives trading platform Huobi DM has revealed its plans to add support for EOS, the world’s fifth largest cryptocurrency by market cap.