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Tezos Price Jumps 36% in a Week, Flips Tron, Cardano
9.12.2019
After surging almost 36% in the past week, Tezos (XTZ), the best performing digital asset among the top 20 coins this week, is now ranked 11th by market capitalization (USD 1 billion), surpassing Tron (TRX) and Cardano (ADA).
At pixel time (13:02 UTC), XTZ trades at c. USD 1.64 and is up by 7.5%...
MATIC Price Up 175% in a Month; Other Binance IEOs Also Rallied
9.12.2019
MATIC, the token of blockchain scalability network, Matic Network, is up by more than 170% in the past month. However, a similar trend can be noticed in certain other Binance exchange’s IEOs (initial exchange offerings). Meanwhile, Matic has been quite busy with recent developments, events...
China to Pilot Digital Yuan With Four Banks in Two Cities - Report
9.12.2019
Shenzhen. China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is preparing to test the digital yuan in Suzhou and Shenzhen, with a pilot launch now “imminent,” per a new report.
Media outlet Caijing Magazine says it has learned details about the pilot project, which it says is being jointly...
EOS to Show its Beta Voice on Valentine’s Day 2020
6.12.2019
EOS developer Block.one says it will be ready to launch the beta version for its forthcoming Voice social networking platform on February 14, 2020.
Block.one, the company behind EOS and the EOSIO protocol, first made its social media intentions clear in June this year, when it announced it would...
Brave Triples Daily Users, Surpasses 3 Million + More News
6.12.2019
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.
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Brave, the first decentralized browser based on blockchain technology that lets users earn tokens (BAT) as they...
Huobi Token Outperforms Top 20 on China News
6.12.2019
Week-to-date, Huobi Token (HT), the ecosystem token of the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, Huobi Global, is up almost 4%, outperforming the rest of the top 20 digital assets by market capitalization.
At pixel time (12:13 AM UTC), HT trades at c. USD 2.82 and is down by 1.5% in the past...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Aligning For Next Significant Move
6.12.2019
After a fresh bearish wave, bitcoin price found support near the USD 7,100 area. BTC/USD is currently rising (10:30 UTC) and trading above USD 7,250 and USD 7,350. However, the price needs to gain bullish momentum above USD 7,400 to continue higher in the near term.
Moreover, it seems like most...
XRP the Best Performer Today; Ripple Dismisses Securities Suit Again
6.12.2019
XRP is the best-performing top 10 coin today. This coincided with Ripple's recent court filing and statement that, even if XRP were a security, the plaintiffs still brought the case against the company too late.
At the time of writing (9:19 UTC), XRP is one of only four green coins among the...
Could Central Banks’ Digital Currency Projects Be Nothing But a Big Bluff?
5.12.2019
Contrary to the public statements, insiders at the European Central Bank (ECB) reportedly say the bank has no laboratory working on a digital euro and little intention to create one any time soon.
"Most of these comments [about the digital fiat] seem designed to jolt the private sector banks into...
EU Confirms its Firm Stance on All Stablecoins, Not Facebook's Libra Only
5.12.2019
The EU has taken a firm stance on stablecoins. But a senior government official in Lithuania says the move will not stop stablecoin operators from proceeding with their plans as the EU is not against innovations and simplified payments.
Today, the Council and the commission adopted a joint...
SBI Mulling a Company-wide Cryptocurrency Shareholder Payout in XRP
5.12.2019
Source: iStock/isa_ozdere
Japanese financial giant SBI is considering issuing Ripple (XRP) tokens as company-wide shareholder rewards, says the company’s CEO Yoshitaka Kitao.
In a recent address to shareholders shared by the company on YouTube, Kitao stated that a previous XRP handout...
'Watch and Learn': Justin Sun Co-owned Poloniex Kicks DigiByte Out
5.12.2019
Tron founder and CEO Justin Sun. U.S.-based crypto exchange Poloniex, recently acquired by Justin Sun, CEO of Tron (TRX), among other investors, announced it will delist DigiByte (DGB) hours after the founder of DigiByte, Jared Tate, criticized both Tron and Poloniex.
"BTW, after careful review,...
World’s 5th Biggest Bank to Launch ‘Digital Currency’ Company in 2020
4.12.2019
One of Japan’s largest companies, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), is set to co-launch a “digital currency” and smartphone-based payment service – in conjunction with Japanese human resources network Recruit.
Per a report from Nikkei, the new joint-venture company will debut in 2020, and will...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Gaining Bearish Momentum
4.12.2019
In the past two days, bitcoin price failed to gain pace above the USD 7,350 and USD 7,400 resistance levels. As a result, BTC/USD started a fresh decline and recently broke the key USD 7,200 support area. However, the price is still holding USD 7,000 (09:00 UTC), below which there is a risk of...
Crypto Listing & Delisting Announcements: Week 48
2.12.2019
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 Drops More; 4 Coins Enter the Negative Zone
2.12.2019
The cryptocurrency market sentiment did not manage to recover from its major tumble last week, despite the situation looking greener. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure for the top 10 coins by market capitalization fell for the fourth week in a row, from last Monday’s 4.39...
Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of November, Top 10 Back in Red
2.12.2019
The green-ess was short-lived for the majority of the market, as is so commonly the case. The comparison between November and October proves once again how quickly the color of the crypto market changes. Bitcoin (BTC) too failed to see a rise in its price for the month of November. And though there...
VeChain Price Jumps 20% on Classic Game Development News
2.12.2019
The Way of Tiger: an old game cover.
Fueled by the news of a new adoption project, VeChain (VET) is today by far the best-performing coin in the top 100 by market capitalization.
The 25th coin has rallied, jumping 20.24% in the last 24 hours, but also 35.01% in the last seven days, bringing it...
CryptoBridge Shuts Down, Vertcoin Falls Victim of a 51% Attack Again
2.12.2019
The last month of 2019 has started with bad news for two relatively small projects in the Cryptoverse: a crypto exchange, CryptoBridge, ranked 187th, is shutting down, while a coin, ranked 235th, Vertcoin (VTC), experienced another 51% attack.
CryptoBridge announced on its website that they'll...
Cardano Dives Into Crypto Payments, ADA price rallies
29.11.2019
Charles Hoskinson, CEO of blockchain consultancy and research firm IOHK that is developing the Cardano platform. Source: a video screenshot, Bloomberg/Youtube
The Cardano Foundation launched a new crypto payment solution, AdaPay, aimed at merchants, making ADA, the native token of the Cardano...