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Ethereum Classic Premium Suddenly Spikes and Wanes on Coinbase Pro
29.4.2020
After a short-lived, but significant premium was seen on ethereum classic (ETC) on Coinbase Pro early Wednesday morning UTC time, traders wonder whether the exchange was subject to an organized pump-and-dump, or if there are other factors that makes ETC markets more prone to premiums developing...
Libra and Ripple Find New Friends, Dash Fights In Japan + More News
28.4.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Libra news
Checkout.com, a global payment services provider, said it joined the Libra Association. "The Libra project holds...
Hive Sees Massive Pump and Smaller Dump On Listing News
28.4.2020
Blockchain platform Hive (HIVE), which forked from the Steem (STEEM) blockchain after a controversy involving a hostile takeover by Tron’s Justin Sun, has seen both massive gains and losses in its price over the past few days, following listings on several major crypto exchanges.
As of press time...
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 17
27.4.2020
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know...
Cardano Continues Surge Higher After New Full-Node Wallet is Released
27.4.2020
Charles Hoskinson. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Charles Hoskinson
Following the announcement of a new “mainnet wallet” for Cardano, the blockchain platform’s native crypto token ADA is seeing strong gains in the crypto market, rising nearly 8% over the past 24 hours to a price of USD 0.046...
Starbucks Denies Involvement in Digital Yuan Tests
27.4.2020
American multinational chain of coffeehouses, Starbucks, has denied being involved in the testing of China's digital yuan.
"We are not participating in the digital currency trial in China," a Starbucks spokesperson told Cryptonews.com, without elaborating.
As reported, news have started...
The Freshest Binance’s IEO Shows It Still Works
24.4.2020
A newly concluded token offering on Binance is bringing hope to proponents of the initial exchange offering (IEO) model that this method of issuing new coins and tokens to the market is still working as it used too - after an initial pump, the price is dropping.
At 2 AM UTC time on April 23, a...
How Have Petro Prices Stayed Stable While Crude Oil Falls Below USD 0?
23.4.2020
The coronavirus pandemic has wrought financial chaos for all sorts of assets and commodities – including a massive crypto dip and plummeting oil prices.
But with a barrel of crude diving into the negative zone earlier this week before recovering – a crypto-related mystery is developing. How is that...
LG Pilots Facial Recognition-powered ‘Digital Token’ Payment Platform
23.4.2020
Source: Adobe/S_E
South Korean electronics giant LG’s long-awaited digital token has taken a new and innovative twist in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Per a press release shared with the Green Economic Daily, LG’s IT services arm, LG CNS, has released details about its “digital currency,”...
Dharma Launches Feature for Sending Dai Payments to Twitter Handles
23.4.2020
Dharma, an Ethereum-based crypto lender, has released a new feature that allows sending stablecoin to Twitter handles.
This peer-to-peer lending platform has announced the launch of Social Payments, which they describe as a Twitter-native financial ecosystem. They go on to say that this new service...
McDonald’s, Starbucks, Subway May Take Part in Digital Yuan Tests - Reports
23.4.2020
McDonald’s, Starbucks and Subway branches could be set to take part in the Chinese central bank’s digital yuan pilots, with Beijing’s efforts to roll out the world’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC) intensifying.
Multiple Chinese outlets, including the likes of Sina (via JRJ and Ciajing)...
New Libra Might Help Crypto Adoption - Binance Research
23.4.2020
Crypto industry might greatly benefit from Facebook's Libra coins adoption, according to Binance Research, the research arm of the major crypto exchange Binance that has its own interests in the stablecoins business.
In their analysis titled "Will Libra Live Up To Its Initial Ambitions?"...
Stablecoins Don’t Inflate Crypto Markets - Researchers
23.4.2020
Contrary to popular belief, cryptocurrency prices may not be as dependent on the issuance of the most popular stablecoin, tether (USDT) as many people have thought, according to two researchers.
Stablecoins act more like a safe haven within the crypto ecosystem that investors seek refuge in during...
Art + Crypto Tale Takes New Twist as Artist Tokenizes His Output
22.4.2020
#freetoexplore #swipelife, 2019. Exhibition view, Magasins Généraux, Pantin, France. Source: ben-elliot.com
Artists are increasingly turning to crypto-powered solutions to fundraising – and a future whereby both artists and their output are tokenized may not be far off.
In a glimpse of what might...
Ripple Sues YouTube
21.4.2020
Brad Garlinghouse. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Bloomberg Technology
Ripple, an American blockchain company focusing on payments technologies, has announced a lawsuit against the video sharing giant YouTube.
"Today, we are taking legal action against YouTube to prompt an industry...
Lendf.Me Attacker Screws Up, Returns All the Stolen Funds
21.4.2020
The person(s) that attacked Lendf.Me, the lending protocol in the "decentralized finance protocol" dForce network - actually returned the money they had stolen, allegedly because they broke the number one rule in hacking: don't reveal your identity.
As reported yesterday, Lendf.Me...
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 16
20.4.2020
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know...
Crypto Market Sentiment Ends Its Winning Streak; Bitcoin Back to Neutral
20.4.2020
The market sentiment cut its string of gradual, week-per-week growth. After four weeks of minor upward movements, and last week's break into the 5-6 score level with a sentscore of 5.27, this Monday the combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins dropped...
'Huge Blow' to DeFi as Hackers Exploit Known Vulnerability
20.4.2020
The DeFi (decentralized finance) industry just suffered another blow that reminds us that DeFi is still very much uncharted territory. What makes it worse is that the vulnerability used has reportedly been known.
A blockchain security company PeckShield offered a detailed look into the attacks...
Chinese Central Bank Makes it Official: Digital Fiat Tests to Begin
20.4.2020
The Chinese central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), has officially confirmed a number of digital currency testing reports – and has indicated that testing will soon begin in the country’s capital, Beijing.
The PBoC has also rushed to insist that a digital yuan rollout will not spark...