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When Facebook‘s cryptocurrency Libra started struggling with keeping its co-workers to keep partners on board and all of the institutions happy, an alternative called OpenLibra came to address some of Libra’s potential flaws.OpenLibra is described as an “open platform for financial inclusion,” with a tagline: “Not run by Facebook” and it was announced at Ethereum Foundation‘s Devcon 5 conference in Osaka, Japan.Be it as it may, thirty blockchain companies and nonprofit organizations decided...

New claims are beginning to emerge that Apple is planning to introduce augmented reality glasses to the marketplace early next year. Sources indicate that popular Apple research analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released a research note from TF International Securities with the information. In the note, Kuo observed that Apple will be working with several different companies to make this happen on time. Kuo also indicated that plans to get the new devices on the production lines are already in place and...

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has become the first UN agency to receive, hold and disburse aid in crypto. While the phrase ‘accepting cryptocurrency’ has become code for merely allowing payments or donations to be made in crypto while receiving dollars or other fiat currencies, contributions made to UNICEF will be held as crypto and distributed to beneficiaries without any conversion. This has been made possible through the establishment of the UNICEF...

On October 1, a new game Call of Duty: Mobile was rolled out by Activision Blizzard. The game, available in all regions that support Google Play and App Store, except China, Vietnam, and Belgium, has managed to reach 100 million installs just one week after it was launched. This incredible number of downloads in such a short period of time makes a new record in the gaming industry and allows us to consider Call of Duty: Mobile the best launch of a mobile game the world has ever seen.Call Of...

Binance Coin saw a sharp increase of around 8% over the past 24 hours and it currently trades at $17.39. BNB managed to find strong support at $14.65, which gave legs to the latest spike. This price hike pushed Binance Coin to be the highest performing cryptocurrency in the top 10 projects.Binance Coin is the eighth-largest cryptocurrency with a total market cap of $2.69 billion. The latest price rebound is largely due to BNB making some strong gains against BTC.Since our previous BNB...

MakerDAO is a protocol that is quickly gaining traction within the cryptocurrency community, especially as the concept of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has become somewhat of a hot topic throughout 2019.Believing that popular digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ether were far too volatile to be used as day-to-day currencies, the team behind MakerDAO created DAI. It is a stablecoin, the value of which is pegged 1:1 to the US dollar. Unlike other stablecoins such as USDT, DAI is completely...

According to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, investors in China can now purchase cryptocurrencies like bitcoin using local payment processors like AliPay and WeChant through Binance. The confirmation of AliPay and WeChat integration by Zhao comes a month after the announcement of Yi He, the co-founder of Binance, of a fiat-to-crypto over-the-counter trading platform launch in China. The addition of AliPay and WeChat options comes in conjunction with the launch of Binance’s P2P trading...

Before the end of October, Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, will be filing a prospectus for its intended initial public offering (IPO). According to the Wall Street Journal, the publication is expected on Oct. 25 in Arabic, with an English version to be published on Oct. 27. Owned by Saudi Arabia, this is in line with the government’s plan to publicly list the company, as it prepares to make a final decision on whether or not to continue with the offering.After the prospectus...

A long-awaited photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc., Instagram’s ‘Throwback Thursday’ finally saw the light of the day. The new feature is now a part of the new Instagram “Create” mode that launches today in Stories, and the app now works beyond the camera.Create is a feature that makes Instagram a more ‘ubiquitous’ social network. However, be it as it may, this social network has the possibility to modify to a wider range of content formats.As for now,...

In a surprise move that will spur further adoption of cryptocurrencies in Asia and globally, the Japanese can now donate unlimited amounts of cryptocurrencies to politicians and need not disclose this to the authorities. This was made known by Sanae Takaichi in a press conference two days ago. Sources indicate that she said that cryptocurrency donations don’t fall under the purview of the Political Funds Control Law and as such don’t need to be disclosed and can be donated without limit to...