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Colorado Lottery, ETHDenver, IGT and Chainlink Back First-Ever GameJam Hackathon to...

Richard Kastelein - 31 July 2020

The Colorado Lottery is launching its GameJam hackathon for new game development on Friday, July 31 at 6 p.m — in partnership with the tech and...

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Panxora Backs Clintex To Raise $7 Million USD And Provide Faster...

Richard Kastelein - 31 July 2020

Digital asset treasury management service Panxora says it will support ClinTex, a pharmaceuticals industry solutions provider, in raising and managing $7 million USD for a blockchain-powered...

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ConsenSys Labs and Protocol Labs Launch Filecoin Accelerator Program

Richard Kastelein - 30 July 2020

Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized storage network, is collaborating with ConsenSys Labs, the venture arm of ConsenSys, to launch the Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator (FLA). Powered by Tachyon,...

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Netherlands Regulators Greenlight Blockchain-Powered Real Estate Security Token Exchange

Richard Kastelein - 30 July 2020

The Financial Markets Authority in the Netherlands (AFM) has green-lighted Max Property Group (MPG), a real estate investment specialist, to launch Max Crowdfund, an international real...

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Coinbase Report — More Intitutional Investors Entering Digital Asset Market Despite...

Richard Kastelein - 30 July 2020

Despite the global economic stranglehold of COVID-19, the digital asset investor market continues to mature from its retail and crypto-fund roots any larger and more conservative...

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Telecoms Giant MyRepublic Teams Up With Marketing Technology Provider Aqilliz To...

Richard Kastelein - 30 July 2020

Multinational internet service and telecommunications provider, MyRepublic has teamed up with blockchain digital marketing company Aqilliz to pilot a new blockchain-based loyalty programme pilot. Entitled MyRewards, the...

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Accenture, Digital Asset, Microsof, Nasdaq and Others Team Up To Develop...

Richard Kastelein - 30 July 2020

The auditing and accounting of carbon credits and offsets have not been solved to date and a group of leading global companies and organisations are planning to take on...

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US Health Department COVID-19 Tracking System To Use CIA-Backed Palantir Technologies

Richard Kastelein - 29 July 2020

In what was regarded as a highly political move, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently took over control of COVID-19 reporting by hospitals from the...

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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Launches Blockchain Securities Lending Platform

Richard Kastelein - 29 July 2020

The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: TASE) announces the first-ever launch in Israel of a Central Blockchain Securities Lending Platform, an innovative and groundbreaking financial technology. Orly Grinfeld, EVP and Head of Clearing...

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Gavin Wood's Ethereum Blockchain Challenger Polkadot Raise$43.3m in Quiet Private...

Richard Kastelein - 29 July 2020

According to a Bitcoin address associated with Polkadot made public yesterday, the Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies were flooded with some 3,982.07 bitcoin (BTC) worth an estimated $43.3 million...

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DataArt and IntellectEU Join to Bring DAML Protocol and Smart Contracts...

Richard Kastelein - 29 July 2020

Open-source blockchain protocol DAML smart contracts are now available on R3's Corda after system integrators DataArt and IntellectEU teamed up to deliver native integrations that allow developers to run...

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Prominent Institutional Investors Back Injective Protocol Decentralized Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange for$2.6M

Richard Kastelein - 29 July 2020

Decentralized derivatives exchange Injective Protocol raised $2.6 million dollars in a seed funding round led by Pantera Capital with participation from world-renowned institutional investors including QCP's investment arm QCP...

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Blockchain-Backed Investment Startup Fasset Launches — Plans To Accelerate Investments and...

Richard Kastelein - 28 July 2020

UK blockchain startup Fasset wants to bridge the US$15 trillion gap in sustainable infrastructure development by launching the world’s first comprehensive operating system dedicated to the ethical financing of...

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The Graph Launches Mission Control — Incentivised Testnet Launched

Richard Kastelein - 28 July 2020

Blockchain startup The Graph has launched a new incentivised testnet called Mission Control — where indexers will operate nodes, compete in missions and contribute to improving The Graph Network. Wolfgang...

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Switzerland's FiCAS Pioneers the World's First Actively Managed Cryptocurrency Exchange Traded...

Richard Kastelein - 28 July 2020

FiCAS AG, a Swiss-based crypto investment management boutique, has successfully registered the Bitcoin Capital Active ETP (BTCA; ISIN CH0548689600) - the world's first actively managed crypto exchange-traded product, listed...

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The Bank of Lithuania Issues Europe's First Central Bank Digital Currency...

Richard Kastelein - 27 July 2020

The Bank of Lithuania is Europe's first central bank to produce a digital currency issued in the Euro Zone. According to local media reports, LBCOIN is a digital currency collector's...

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Panxora Backs Clintex To Raise $7 Million...

Richard Kastelein - 31 July 2020

Digital asset treasury management service Panxora says it will support ClinTex, a pharmaceuticals industry solutions provider, in raising and managing $7 million USD for a blockchain-powered clinical trials solution to accelerate access to medicines for patients. Panxora will provide a management framework, determining when capital raised is released into...

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Coinbase Report — More Intitutional Investors Entering...

Richard Kastelein - 30 July 2020

Despite the global economic stranglehold of COVID-19, the digital asset investor market continues to mature from its retail and crypto-fund roots any larger and more conservative institutional investors are allocating for the first time. According to a Coinbase report for Q1 2020, they are seeing institutional investors using Coinbase to...

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Korea's Blockchain Project BOSAGORA (BOA) Wins United...

Richard Kastelein - 22 July 2020

Public Blockchain Platform BOSAGORA recently received a ‘United Nations Solidarity Award’ recently for their voluntary work in battling COVID-19. President Inhwan Kim of BOSAGORA stated: "I am delighted to create an example of blockchain contributing to society just along with IBM Blockchain. Technology should benefit human and further resolved that he...

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COVIDathon: Worldwide Blockchain and AI Communities Join...

Richard Kastelein - 14 July 2020

The Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Alliance's recent COVIDathon online innovation contest recently announced its winners... selected from over 100 Blockchain and Artificial intelligence (AI) project proposals — and put forward by innovators over 10 weeks. Over 1,100 participants from 99 countries registered for COVIDathon, DAIA’s 1st hackathon, aimed to leverage...

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Will Coronavirus Crisis Be the Catalyst for...

Staff - 7 July 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has already changed the world in a variety of ways. One change, in particular, is a rapid increase in the speed of the global digitalization. The use of fintech apps has grown by 72%, online purchases increased by billions, and the popularity of online video conferencing...

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Avenga, Accu Reference Medical Labs and Ubirch...

Richard Kastelein - 26 June 2020

Avenga, Accu Reference Medical Labs, and data protection specialist Ubirch have joined forces and built the first secured COVID-19 test result system. This will enable employees to show that they are not infected with COVID-19 and continue or go back to work. "On the one hand, we all want to...

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Cardano(ADA)
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Marketcap : €3,682,955,055.48
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Marketcap : €3,557,036,427.42
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Volume : €2,061,855,010.96

Marketcap : €3,178,509,198.81
Binance Coin(BNB)
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BINANCE COIN

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Volume : €281,885,558.54

Marketcap : €2,774,020,139.32
Crypto.com Coin(CRO)
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Volume : €72,097,503.38

Marketcap : €2,574,195,358.28
EOS(EOS)
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Marketcap : €2,413,298,095.62
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TEZOS

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Volume : €161,872,585.61

Marketcap : €1,909,254,807.67
Stellar(XLM)
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Volume : €316,258,732.58

Marketcap : €1,796,037,974.55
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Marketcap : €1,395,717,553.67
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TRON

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Volume : €688,392,222.15

Marketcap : €1,119,097,419.51
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Volume : €12,094,706.52

Marketcap : €1,067,149,934.65
VeChain(VET)
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VECHAIN

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Volume : €179,040,531.66

Marketcap : €1,032,924,417.49
USD Coin(USDC)
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USD COIN

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Volume : €342,613,608.51

Marketcap : €941,462,560.72
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CDAI

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Volume : €13,252,197.82

Marketcap : €935,511,964.51
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HUOBI TOKEN

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Volume : €78,865,638.89

Marketcap : €934,535,793.28
Cosmos(ATOM)
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COSMOS

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Volume : €201,030,690.53

Marketcap : €810,029,581.93
Dash(DASH)
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DASH

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Volume : €504,817,156.05

Marketcap : €789,373,844.57
Zcash(ZEC)
€80.46 -1.92%24H

ZCASH

24H : -1.92%

Volume : €612,965,305.76

Marketcap : €784,625,760.48
NEO(NEO)
€10.93 -1.37%24H

NEO

24H : -1.37%

Volume : €411,354,603.94

Marketcap : €771,070,758.58
IOTA(MIOTA)
€0.271 -0.93%24H

IOTA

24H : -0.93%

Volume : €59,067,678.19

Marketcap : €753,075,234.68
Ethereum Classic(ETC)
€5.84 -4.37%24H

ETHEREUM CLASSIC

24H : -4.37%

Volume : €835,098,536.82

Marketcap : €679,595,370.89
NEM(XEM)
€0.053 -3.62%24H

NEM

24H : -3.62%

Volume : €51,388,071.53

Marketcap : €478,804,269.69
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Marketcap : €445,654,461.06

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Kelce S. Wilson PhD: Four Separate Threats Quantum Computing Poses to...

Richard Kastelein - 23 July 2020

by Kelce S. Wilson, PhD, MBA, J.D. In this article, there are four separate threats to Bitcoin by quantum computing identified, their effects are described, and a solution to delay the two most severe threats is proposed. The threats,...

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The Twitter Hacks And Battles Of Plato, Socrates And Aristotle —...

Keld van Schreven - 16 July 2020

by Keld van Schreven, Keld van Schreven, Co-Founder and Managing Director of publicly listed KR1 plc, looks at what social media might have been like 2,400 years ago and how it is can improve security and permanence. Over the years we’ve...

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Industry Insiders Pontificate on IPO and Direct Listing Rumours of US...

Richard Kastelein - 10 July 2020

American cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase has started plans for an Initial Product Offering (IPO) that might happen before 2021 - which would make it the first major cryptocurrency exchange do a public sale. The story was scooped via anonymous...

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OKEx CEO Jay Hao: Is Dogecoin Really a Signal of ‘Altcoin...

Jay Hao - 9 July 2020

by Jay Hao "Let's all get rich!” What a provocative sentence. Yet that short video on TikTok managed to double the price of Dogecoin (DOGE) in just three days. Thanks to the popularity of DOGE, the 'altcoin' keyword is about to...

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OKEx CEO Jay Hao: Stocks Are Soaring, Time to Short Bitcoin?

Jay Hao - 9 July 2020

by Jay Hao, When I woke up earlier this week, I received many messages from my friends, who told me, "Stocks have skyrocketed. Can we short Bitcoin?" Then I opened my Bloomberg and saw the following chart. The Shanghai Shenzhen...

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Will Coronavirus Crisis Be the Catalyst for Widespread Crypto Usage?

Staff - 7 July 2020

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OP-ED: The Travel Rule – Revolutionising the Cryptocurrency Regulatory Framework

Erika Federis - 1 July 2020

by Erika Federis and Dominique Simon With the implementation of the Travel Rule right around the corner, big players in the crypto scene are scrambling to come up with numerous solutions in an attempt to comply with the Financial Action...

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Michael Terpin: Halve it Your Way…

Michael Terpin - 19 May 2020

by Michael Terpin, Recently, the bitcoin halving took place. Specifically, the new supply of daily bitcoin entering the market was cut in half for the third time in history at about 7:30 pm UTC. In a prescient act of historical...

Opinion

Blockchain-Charged Browser Brave Explodes into the Internet Browser Race – Get...

Staff - 16 April 2020

Get paid to surf online? The Brave browser now has almost five million regulars and 15 million have signed up to earn BAT tokens for watching ads on their browsers and participate in a unique tokenized economy that puts...

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