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GCEX Partners with oneZero to Provide Liquidity Services

January 7, 2020

GCEX, a crypto trading technology provider, on Tuesday, announced its partnership with oneZero Financial Systems to offer liquidity services to its client base. Per the agreement between the two, participant...

Baidu Launches DApps Development Beta on Xuperchain

January 7, 2020

Chinese technology giant Baidu on Monday launched a blockchain-based service for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), easing the development of decentralized applications (DApps). Reported by state-owned new...

South Korean Presidential Committee Recommends Allowing Crypto-Based Financial Products

January 6, 2020

An influential South Korean committee has called for the allowance of cryptocurrency-based financial products. According to BusinessKorea, the South Korean Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial R...

Qatar Signals Hostility To Virtual Assets And Crypto Services

January 6, 2020

Qatar has just fired a shot across the bow of crypto businesses, with the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA) announcing an outright ban. The ban covers all virtual asset services conducted in ...

LAToken To Host 8th Annual Blockchain Economic Forum In Davos

January 6, 2020

From Jan. 20-24, 2020, LAToken will host the Blockchain Economic Forum (“BEF”) in Davos, Switzerland. During this eighth annual BEF event, two of the five forum days will be dedicated to panel discussions, wi...

Ethereum’s Muir Glacier Hard Fork Staves Off Ice Age, Reducing Mining Time By 25%

January 6, 2020

Ethereum’s recent Muir Glacier hard fork has apparently reduced block mining time by almost 25%. According to data on Etherscan, between the 1st and 4th January 2020, the daily average block time on the bl...

Binance Gets NY Financial Services’ Nod for Its USD-Pegged Stablecoin

January 6, 2020

Global crypto exchange Binance has received approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for its USD-pegged stablecoin BUSD. Announced today on Twitter, this will enable New York...

Horizen Warns Against Crypto Exchange Bitfare

January 6, 2020

ZEN token-issuer Horizen has warned against trading on Bitfare, alleging that the digital asset exchange is possibly running a fraudulent service and trying to scam their customers. Founded last September, t...

China’s Digital Currency Progressing But Still No Launch Date

January 6, 2020

Last week, China’s central bank held its annual work conference in Beijing, during which it touched upon numerous topics, one of which is its own CBDC. As always, the report did not go into too many details, ...

S.E.C. Demands Telegram Disclose How It Spent $1.7BN Raised In I.C.O.

January 3, 2020

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a court order compelling messaging platform Telegram to release details of how it spent $1.7 billion it raised with its ICO on 2nd January 20...