Tag Archives: Cryptocurrencies

It is quite challenging to determine whether digital assets should be more like the traditional fiat. However, it appears like they are moving in that direction and this is a considerable step. The crypto data provider CoinMarketCap has now launched a new page. In this page, it publishes interest rates provided by different digital assets. The new data now comes in handy in helping the users compare and select a suitable product.The page, known as “Interest by CoinMarketCap”, launched on...

Telegram has informed its investors that the TON blockchain project will be launched later than it was previously planned, six months later, exactly on April 30, 2020.In an email to investors Telegram said it had a lot of problems and ‘run-ins’ with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that came by with the restraining order made to forbid this messenger app company from launching TON and issuing its Gram tokens. SEC decided to treat Grams as unregistered securities.This email...

On Wednesday, October 16, a top official from the Federal Reserve confirmed that the Central Bank of the United States is actively evaluating the possibility of issuing a digital currency. This report comes amidst the growing fear that the U.S. Dollar will lose its prestige and value of being the world’s reserve currency.Rob Kaplan, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, was speaking at a local business event in Austin, Texas. Addressing the audience, Kaplan said:“We have not at...

Some of the most important personas in FinTech and banking spoke on Wednesday at the IMF’s ‘Big Tech and the Future of Finance’ seminar, part of its annual meeting.Among them was Calibra’s CEO David Marcus, Bank of England governor Mark Carney, Infosys founder Nandan Nilekani, and Havard economic professor Jason Furman. They spoke about digital payments, stablecoins, and of, course, Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency.The role of big technological companies as is Facebook itself breaking into the...

Facebook’s Libra has faced its fair share of roadblocks since it was first announced a few months ago. Regardless, the company seems to slowly be rising out of its problems and has said that its initial plan to have at least 100 members as part of the Libra Association, would be achieved before the asset officially launches.Speaking during a phone interview with CNBC, the Libra Association’s Chief Operating Officer and provisional Managing Director, Bertrand Perez, has said the that...

It is announced that the decentralized finance (Defi) platform Kava is set to sell its tokens on the Binance Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) platform popularly referred to as Binance Launchpad. The event will start on the 23rd of October, 2019. The sales will involve a lottery and an airdrop. The IEO will feature the KAVA token at $0.46 and will also include 6.52% of the total tokens available. The event will also include an airdrop of $150,000 with a total of 326,087 tokens for the event....

As we reported earlier, the long-awaited issuance of Gram tokens from Telegram on its Telegram Open Network (TON), was hit with a surprising roadblock when the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deemed it unlawful and filed an emergency action as well as a restraining order against it.Even though the company is not based anywhere in the U.S., the SEC claims that Telegram not only failed to register properly but also was not entirely forthcoming with its investors, most of...

Now, anyone who is big on cryptocurrencies already knows that Anthony Pompliano is one of the biggest names in the crypto space and whatever he says is law. A such, he recently took to twitter to talk about HODL or keeping digital assets for a long period until such assets appreciate as the best investment strategy. The fact that he is the co-founder of Morgan Creek which is one of the premier Blockchain Venture capital partners in the world gives him credence as one of the “go-to” people...

Global investment platform eToro has announced its new sentiment-based crypto portfolio offering called TheTIE-Long-Only. For this, eToro has joined hands with a data analytics platform The TIE which can formulate an algorithm-based investment strategy.The input data for this sentiment-driven trading platform will be Twitter mentions. The social media platform Twitter has been the main platform for discussing crypto activities. Several popular analysts and companies share their trading...

Digital asset manager CoinShares decided to start working with gold meaning putting this asset on the Bitcoin blockchain.Together with Blockchain that is a wallet solutions provider and MKS (Switzerland) SA that acts as a precious metal trader this British company said on Tuesday they are making a gold-backed network that will be used for token trading and will represent digitized physical gold. The whole project took more than two years to be finalized.As per CoinShares, the network launched...