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Another ICO Set to Close and Refund Investors, Blames Regulatory Fog
19.2.2020
Another South Korean cryptocurrency business has announced that it is set to close, citing regulatory uncertainty.
Content Protocol Token, a crypto startup and content exchange protocol built on the Watcha platform (South Korea’s answer to Netflix), has stated that they will close the doors...
50m-User Chat App Kakao Delays Its Crypto Wallet + More News
19.2.2020
A screenshot of the KakaoTalk chat app.
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The Kakao Group’s KakaoTalk chat app-linked crypto wallet Klip will debut...
Altcoins & Co Watch Closely As Telegram and SEC Cross Swords In Court Today
19.2.2020
Instant messaging giant Telegram and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are meeting today, February 19, in front of a New York federal judge in a case that may impact the future of many cryptoassets.
As reported, Telegram seeks that its digital token (Gram) sale should be allowed...
Stellar’s Jed McCaleb Says His XRP Sell-Off Won’t Disrupt Crypto Market
19.2.2020
Jed McCaleb says XRP’s price not impacted by his sale of XRP, Ripple weighs in
Chainlink and Tezos Extend Higher as Bitcoin Price Approaches $10K
18.2.2020
Chainlink and Tezos rally higher, continuing to reinforce the crypto market’s bullish trend
Ripple is Like Amazon In Its Early Days, Says Brad Garlinghouse
18.2.2020
Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon in 1999, or five years after the company was founded. Ripple was founded eight years ago, in 2012. Image: a video screenshot, Youtube, CNBC
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says his company wants people to think of it as a blockchain infrastructure builder – adding that...
IOTA Closed for 6th Day, MIOTA up 4% on Remediation Plan
18.2.2020
The IOTA (MIOTA) mainnet is closed for the sixth day now, while MIOTA is up almost 4% on the shared remediation plan.
As reported, IOTA first advised people to keep their Trinity wallets closed on February 17, while they investigate the reports of stolen funds, even turning off the Coordinator,...
Decentralized Lending Protocol bZx Hacked Twice in a Matter of Days
18.2.2020
Decentralized lending protocol bZx was hacked two times just days apart, with a total loss of about $954,000
South Korean Banks ‘Sitting on Crypto Plans in Regulatory Limbo’
18.2.2020
South Korean financial institutions have formulated crypto business plans – but cannot go public with them due to a lack of regulatory clarity, claim bankers in the country.
News outlet Hangook Ilbo quotes an unnamed “senior official” at a South Korean bank as stating,
“Banks in South Korea cannot...
DeFi Loses USD 140M in a Few Hours as bZx Suffers Another Exploit
18.2.2020
Assets locked in DeFi (decentralized finance) have dropped more than USD 142 million in a few hours as DeFi platform bZx suffered yet another attack.
Just four days ago, somebody exploited a vulnerability in tokenized margin trading and lending platform bZx, and now the reports are coming out that...
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 7
17.2.2020
Source: iStock/~UserGI15632523
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 is the Highest It's Been In a Year
17.2.2020
Despite a recent sell-off, today we find the crypto market sentiment with a score it hasn't seen in at least a year. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins is 6.23 - the highest score we've written down since starting this series a year ago....
Ledger, Binance fell "Victims" of Bull Run
17.2.2020
A recent bull run in the crypto market left some industry players struggling to deal with the increased demand for their services. A major hardware wallet producer warned that their clients will need to wait longer for help, while a crypto trading giant is also experiencing "performance...
David Marcus and His Calibrated Effort to Save Libra
16.2.2020
Calibra’s David Marcus quickly rose to prominence as one of the most important people in crypto in 2019
Binance Set to Launch NEO/USDT Futures With Up to 50x Leverage
16.2.2020
Binance will allow its users to trade a new futures product tracking crypto asset NEO on the trading platform tomorrow
MoneyGram Reveals Real-Time Remittance Tech, Based on Visa not Ripple
16.2.2020
MoneyGram’s COO told Cointelegraph that Ripple is not involved in its latest real-time settlements product
BTC’s Market Share Drops Consecutively for 14 Days – Dominance Ratio Slides to 60%
15.2.2020
Cryptocurrency markets have been climbing higher in value as coins like BTC have gained over 19% during the last 90 days. However, many other digital assets have seen much larger gains and BTC dominance has been sliding downwards consecutively for the last 14 days. Also Read: Craig Wright’s...
Five Crypto Relationships Worth Noting on Valentine’s Day
14.2.2020
Business partnerships, like romances, are fated to have their rocky moments. Facebook’s Libra project is no exception
IOHK Donates $500,000 to University of Wyoming’s Blockchain Lab
14.2.2020
IOHK donates $500,000 in ADA cryptocurrency to the University of Wyoming
IOTA Network Still Down: How the Next Bitcoin Killer Screeched to a Halt
14.2.2020
On February 13, the IOTA network came to a screeching halt and the IOTA Foundation reports that $1.6 million worth of the native currency was stolen. The following day, the IOTA network status page still shows the mainnet is “not operational” and the development team has found...