Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. ____ Crypto adoption news Major crypto payment processor BitPay announced the first large international furniture brand to go live, Beliani, a Europe-based web-only international seller of furniture Read more »Pay, Trade,…
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With governments all over the world looking for ways to mitigate the financial damage of the coronavirus outbreak, many thinkers are openly asking if cash, already looking outdated before the pandemic, is the right tool for the job in a pre-vaccinated world. In South Korea, both the private and the public sector are asking if…
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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 here. _________________________________________ Bilaxy Listings: Dune Network (DUN) USD Coin (USDC) Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy…
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Hedge funds are finding new uses for cryptoassets that do not involve investment, per a new report, with litecoin (LTC) earmarked as an unlikely altcoin champion for funds. These were the findings of a joint research paper released by PwC and Elwood Asset Management and shared with Cryptonews.com, entitled the Annual Crypto Hedge Fund Report.…
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The crypto market sentiment is not having a good day, or a good week for that matter. Not only has the combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins dropped from last week’s 5.88 to 5.67/10 this week, as crypto market sentiment analysis service Omenics shows – but each coin…
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More information is out about a new trading platform that Ripple, an American blockchain company focusing on payments technologies, has in the works – and it’s coming through employment adds. Ripple is seeking a staff engineer for their "trading platform team that provides market access to Ripple products." As to what this platform is, the…
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Justin Sun. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Tron After yesterday’s reports that Tron, which maintains the Tron (TRX) blockchain, led by CEO and Founder Justin Sun, seemingly received more than USD 2 million from the US pandemic relief fund, the story’s not getting its epilogue, but rather a new development while Tron and its boss…
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Nicolás Maduro is the President of Venezuela since 2013, with his presidency under dispute since 2019. Venezuela’s troubled national cryptocurrency the petro (PTR) has gone offline, with petro transactions also apparently suspended at the small number of domestic exchanges that handle the oil-backed token. Per an announcement made on the official Instagram page run by…
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In a move likely aimed at regaining market share from competitors like Binance and Huobi, yet another crypto exchange is set to launch its own token. Announced via Twitter on Tuesday, the Lichtenstein-based crypto exchange Bittrex Global said that its “Bittrex Global Exchange Token” is set to be listed on its platform in June, and…
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Ripple, the US-based fintech company affiliated with XRP, is facing yet another lawsuit after being accused of misleading investors by conducting an “unregistered offer and sale of securities.” However, the XRP market appears to have largely dismissed the news as noise. As news started to circulate late Monday (UTC time), the Read more »Pay, Trade,…
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