Coin Metrics, a cryptocurrency data provider startup, has raised $1.9 million of venture funding in a round led by Castle Island Ventures with participation from Fidelity Investments, Highland Capital Partners, and Dragonfly Capital.

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According to The New York Times, Facebook is reportedly negotiating with cryptocurrency exchanges about the possibility of listing its coin. The largest social media network’s employees are supposedly telling exchange representatives that they plan to roll out a working product in the first half of this year.

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Some still consider cryptocurrencies “suspicious” assets, citing the opinion of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). But it is impossible not to notice that the FATF shows great concern in connection with cryptocurrencies due to the fact that they interfere with the execution of U.S. sanctions against a number of states. The cryptocurrencies themselves, which work on the blockchain, provide transparency of transactions, the one that SWIFT—an organization that is a supporter of financial purity of banks’ operations in the world—is afraid of. The largest percentage of financial crimes is attributed to the U.S. dollar, given its long history as the main global currency. The blockchain of cryptocurrencies makes such financial crimes less likely. DeCenter figured who the financial future stands with—cryptocurrencies or cash.

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EOS Lynx is the first wallet application that was created on the EOS platform. As of today, the program is one of the most popular among all of the alternatives available for download. The application itself allows users to keep all their tokens in one storage on the platform and send them to the balances of games, exchanges, and other devices on EOS. We downloaded it and found out how EOS Lynx works.

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✅ The Constantinople hard fork upgrade has gone live on the Ethereum network.
via The Block

➕ Coinbase, one of the leading U.S.-based digital asset trading platforms, has added support for Ripple’s XRP token to its retail platform and mobile apps.
via Cointelegraph

🏦 J.P. Morgan Chase has been quietly testing the zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) privacy technology.
via CoinDesk

💵 U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is offering “USD 100,000 (fiat or crypto) as a reward for the tip(s) that best lead to the discovery of the missing” QuadrigaCX crypto assets.
via official blog

🇯🇵 According to a recent study, cryptocurrency amounts to less than 2% of all money laundering cases in Japan.
via Bitcoin.com

China’s Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID) released its latest ranking of major cryptocurrencies, ranking EOS first and TRON second. More info: https://ct.com/7cwx

In its (possibly) first investment in the cryptocurrency industry, a Singapore-based government-owned wealth fund GIC Private Limited backed Coinbase’s $300 million fundraise last year.

The fund has over $100 billion in assets in over 40 countries across various asset classes.

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This week we have a partnership that fell apart, a follow-up lawsuit to a previous mining-related lawsuit, and a case where Bittrex is gonna have to cough up the deets on a user.

Meet the latest #CryptoCaselawMinute!

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A popular idea among crypto enthusiasts is that large institutional investors will soon come to the market in droves of dozens, invest billions of dollars, and take the industry to the moon. This “soon” has been lasting for several years and is always being postponed. But, in February, a significant event occurred for the first time, as two U.S. pension funds invested in cryptocurrencies. What is the significance of a new venture fund for the crypto market? Does its appearance mean that institutional investors did not lose interest in the industry against the background of a prolonged bear market? DeCenter tried to figure it out.

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Auctionity 360, or AY 360, is an application for tracking lots and participating in public auctions from the cryptocurrency firm Auctionity, which is owned by the blockchain-based company DomRaider. The French company launched its website last year, and it has become quite a popular platform for holding auctions in European countries, so, for convenience, Auctionity has developed apps for smartphones that are available for download on Android and iOS.

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🗣 Coinbase’s head of sales revealed that the decision to acquire blockchain analysis startup Neutrino was made because the exchange’s previous provider was selling user data.
via Cheddar

⭕️ Cryptocurrency trading company Circle is reportedly seeking to raise an additional $250 million.
via The Information

💸 Five out of six cold wallets used by notorious Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX have been empty since April 2018.
via Bloomberg

🗞 According to a recent study from KPMG, 41% of technology leaders support the idea of adopting blockchain for business in the next three years.
via Forbes

👨‍💻 Binance has announced a $100,000 simulated trading competition that will take place on its decentralized exchange from March 7 to March 21.
via Cointelegraph

A popular financial trading charts and analysis platform TradingView has added HB10, Huobi’s cryptocurrency-based index, in the company’s debut listing of such product.

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LGO Markets, a new U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange targeting institutional investors, has launched with limited functionality. The company has already secured ten institutional clients, with another 56 currently being in the process of onboarding.

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Cryptocurrency broker Tagomi has secured $12 million in a new fundraise led by Yale-backed Paradigm Fund, with participation from Pantera Capital and a number of other digital asset investors.

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Only two months have passed in 2019, and they have already brought significant changes to the cryptocurrency market. The largest and most anticipated event among crypto investors was the decision to hold the long-awaited Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network. Positive news from the key financial centers of the planet like Wall Street and Switzerland have also maintained the stability of the highly volatile cryptocurrency exchange rates in recent weeks, as well as the latest news about the popular messenger WhatsApp which is ready to launch its own token in the first half of 2019. DeCenter figured out how these events have influenced the cryptocurrency market.

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Lumeos is a decentralized social network from Ali Ayyash, the ex-employee of Google Cloud (Snapchat and Pokemon Go) and Amazon. It is an application where users can vote and participate in polls. Users publish surveys in which other members of the platform respond and receive LUME tokens for their actions. We reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of the social network.

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👋🏻 Coinbase has fired those Neutrino employees who previously worked for Hacking Team.
via The Block

🤝 Cryptocurrency trading firm Circle has finalized the acquisition of an equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest.
via CoinDesk

💵 Tether has announced it will launch its USDT stablecoin on the TRON blockchain.
via Cointelegraph

🔎 A new pilot project, backed by dominant fashion houses, aims to use blockchain to ensure the integrity of organic cotton supply chains.
via Forbes

🏦 According to Bloomberg, companies in the cryptocurrency industry still have trouble opening bank accounts.
via Bloomberg

EY, one of the “big four” international professional services firms that is better known by its old name of Ernst & Young, has released a tool for accounting and preparing taxes on cryptocurrency holdings.

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Cryptocurrency custody company BitGo recently claimed that it started providing its customers with a $100 million cover against theft or the loss of cryptographic keys through the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.

One of the underwriters behind the newest policy has accused the company of exaggerating.

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France-based retail giant Carrefour is working to implement the distributed ledger technology in tracking milk product supply chain.

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The launch of various blockchain platforms often provokes an expected reaction. The cryptocurrency community notes that this is “one more step toward the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies”; everyone else shrugs, believing that this is “just some kind of fad.” Meanwhile, the fate of Russian oil and gas will be decided in this way, as the “unshakable” axiom that Russian gas is cheaper than American LNG, and a similar thesis about the acceptable price of oil from Russia may cease to be a reality.

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