Tag Archives: Blockchain News

Binance yet again greets us as “Binancians” and announces a new project called Troy (TROY) on its Binance Launchpad platform. If you have ever participated in a lottery format token sales, then you already know how it is, but if not, let us explain. Binance already started recording user balances on November 3, 2019. Generally, Binance will record user BNB balances until December 3, 2019 (for a whole month), and the final BNB balance will determine the average BNB amount in the user account,...

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, divided the problems into three major categories. The first one is the cryptography related stuff that hasn’t been solved. Despite the industry’s rush to achieve new levels of privacy and scalability, the most important goals are still in progress. The second one is consensus theory, which makes it easy to change and upgrade mining (Proof of Work) and staking (Proof of Stake) algorithms. And finally, Vitalik explains how incentives are essential in...

As far as the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector is concerned, China has recently shot to the forefront and has been making headlines for a few consecutive weeks. The most recent, however, is an official publication that outlines related projects in the country, with a specific focus on the more illicit ones. Written by a joint team of financial and technology bodies in the country, the “Bluebook of Blockchain” was released.The agencies – the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the Chinese...

American investment banking company JPMorgan seems to believe in a blockchain every day more and more. They revealed that through the blockchain they want to keep track of the automobile register it finances for car dealers – and stop them from guaranteeing the same cars for different loans.The bank’s wholesale car financing subsidiary has therefore filed a patent application that outlines a distributed ledger-based version of floorplan lending, a revolving line of credit that enables car...

Recently we wrote about how there were some media rumors about Binance having shutdown its Shanghai following a police raid. It was then reported that Binance has relocated its 100-member Shanghai team to other offices in Singapore.However, shortly after, we reported of Binance spokesperson refuting all the claims and media reports saying that any police raid on Binance’s Shanghai office actually did not happen.Nevertheless, the story needs its closure, but also, an explanation, at least if...

The chief of Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin, whose company is planning to issue stablecoins backed by palladium by the end of this year, made a statement about the “good level of communication with the Bank of Russia,” regarding digital asset legalization.A Russian billionaire, Vladimir Potanin, promotes more active usage of blockchain technologies and digital assets in the industry. The businessman expects new laws for digital financial assets in the near future.“The industrial companies...

Bitcoin futures platform Bakkt has reached a new all-time high of $20 million or 2,728 contracts. This comes as many have been wondering if the launch of the platform by Intercontinental Exchanges (ICE) was just a fluke or an attempt at trying to take over the crypto space.The recent development shows that this trading volume observed on November 22 is 66% higher than on the previous trading day and about 30% higher than the last all-time high which occurred on November 8.According to the...

Coinspeaker World Chess to Issue Digital Tokens in ‘Hybrid IPO’ World Chess is going to issue tokens that will use blockchain ledgers to simplify the fundraising process and will be convertible to shares at a later point. World Chess to Issue Digital Tokens in ‘Hybrid IPO’ Continue reading at Coinspeaker

Congress Representatives were unhappy with Zuckerberg‘s attitude on his last hearing within a building of the House Financial Committee Services. Previously, Mark claimed that his company would not be trying to undermine the existing dollar-based economy. Yet, he wants Facebook to have its branded currency no matter what, working all over the Earth, with 200 million people as the “ready to go” audience. And even if the EU, Asia-Pacific and other tech-savvy gigs start developing much better,...

Blockchain activists used to praise Bakkt for introducing Bitcoin-settled futures. From the “OG” standpoint, any Bitcoin-alike asset looks somewhat shady if it is not backed by a government or a company with astronomical budgets and shiny names in the board of directors.But “Bitcoin free” trading is considered normal among many of the crypto activists. However, the recent announcement made by ICE regarding the Bakkt futures made traders wonder. They took an aggressive approach and asked ICE...