Day: November 14, 2018

Tokens Continue to Drop, is SEC Preparing to go After Crypto Projects?

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Twitter Facebook LinkedIn The price of Bitcoin has dropped by 10 percent over the last 24 hours following a severe sell-off. Yet, several low market cap crypto and tokens have plunged by twice that amount, posting losses in the range of 20 percent. ERC20 tokens launched on top of the Ethereum blockchain network have performed especially poorly against both Bitcoin and the US dollar over the past several days. Waltonchain, Lisk, ICON, Ontology, Golem, VeChain, WanChain, and many other tokens backed by active developer and investor communities declined substantially in…

New Platform is Challenging Better-Known Rivals

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A digital money platform is challenging rivals by offering instant transfers from a greater number of cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies, and commodities – all with the ambition of reducing the seemingly endless costs and fees customers face. According to Uphold, it is free to open an account on its platform and transfer funds from bank accounts – and there are also low costs and no limits attached to sending or receiving money (if it is the same currency) to other Uphold members, whether they are down the street or on the…

Target’s Official Twitter Account Falls Victim to Bitcoin Scammers, Google Becomes the Next

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Although cryptocurrency is considered amidst the list of economic wonders brought on the surface up by the modern technology age, the name of digital money has been repeatedly stained with the woe of befooled investors who lost their fortune into too-good-to-be-true internet scams. Today no one seems to be surprised with the Bitcoin ads flooded one’s favorite shopping website or cooking forum, despite some of the popular social networks including Facebook and Twitter prefer to steer clear from any sort of crypto-promotion. However, crypto-scammers are iteratively developing ways to make…

Insurance Giant Ping An, Sanya City Gov’t to Build ‘Smart City’ with Blockchain

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China’s Ping An Insurance Group, one of the world’s largest insurance corporations, and the Sanya municipal government signed a strategic cooperation agreement for “Smart City” construction. The new project will be backed with blockchain tech, artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud computing, the official state run press People’s Daily reported Nov. 14. Ping An Group signed a strategic agreement with the Sanya Municipal People’s Government to carry out comprehensive cooperation on financial investment and “Smart City” construction as a part of a major strategic urban development in China. The…

US Fast-Casual Salad Chain Sweetgreen to Use Blockchain in Food Supply Tracking

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U.S. fast-casual salad chain Sweetgreen has announced a second funding round to raise $200 million, mentioning blockchain among its key development areas, according to a press release published Tuesday, Nov. 13. Throughout the first round, closed late October, the company managed to raise $200 million, becoming valued at over $1 billion. During the second round led by major asset management company Fidelity Investments, the salad chain aims to raise an equal amount. The сapital raised, in particular, will enable Sweetgreen to focus on technology and supply chain development, the release…

OKEx Notes Early Delivery of BCH Futures After Trading Stop to Avoid Market Manipulation

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The world’s current biggest crypto exchange OKEx has announced early delivery of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) futures contracts immediately after trading stop time today, Nov. 14, according a press release shared with Cointelegraph. As per the announcement, all Bitcoin Cash futures contracts have been set to stop trading at 9:05AM CET and delivered subsequently at 10:00AM CET due to the upcoming hard fork of Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin ABC, scheduled for tomorrow, Nov. 15. According to Twitter, OKEx has released a notice on early delivery of Bitcoin Cash futures eight hours ago…

Trends, Capitalization, Localization, Success Rate

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Disclaimer: This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision. The ICOmeter aims to provide the accurate and concise information about the development of the ICO market in the previous month, and its relation to the all-time statistics. The ICO market data is provided by ICObench, based upon the projects’ announcements recorded in ICObench database, which includes over 4700 ICOs since August 2015. ICO market situation in October is the result of different…

France Accounts for Minor Part of Global ICO Market, While US Leads the Industry

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The Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) industry in France represents a minor part of the global ICO market, according to a report on ICOs released by French financial markets regulator AMF (l’Autorité des marchés financiers) today, Nov. 14. According to the recent study, the global ICO market has accounted for 19.4 billion euros ($21.8 billion) since 2014. Having experienced rapid growth since 2016, most of the market share has mainly been concentrated in 2017 and during the first three quarters of 2018, with 13.4 billion euros ($15 billion) raised within this…

$5 Trln FX Settlement Giant CLS to Launch Blockchain-Based Netting Service ‘Within Days’

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Forex exchange (FX) settlement giant CLS will launch its IBM blockchain-powered netting service within “a matter of days,” according to Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Alan Manquard. The CSO made the announcement at the IBM Think Tank conference in London Nov. 14, as reported by tech news source Computer Business Review (CBR). CLS Group, which reportedly settles on average $5 trillion in payment instructions daily, is a U.S. FX settlement service supplier with high-profile members that include Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Barclays, and Citigroup. A netting service entails offsetting and determining the…

Blockchain-Based Exchanges Will Replace Traditional Ones in 10 Years

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Digital exchanges based on blockchain technology will completely replace traditional ones in ten years, Thomas Zeeb of Swiss leading stock exchange SIX told Reuters Wednesday, Nov. 14. “The existing system could be completely replaced by the digital exchange in about 10 years,” said Zeeb, who is leading securities and exchanges department at SIX. “The moment that brokers, banks, insurance companies and big asset managers really see the cost advantages [of blockchain], they’ll move relatively quickly,” he further added. Zeeb talked to Reuters in the wake of the launch of SIX’s…