Germany-based securities marketplace organizer Deutsche Boerse and Commerzbank successfully trialed the blockchain technology for automating securities settlement process. A prototype transaction included the execution of a legally-binding settlement of a repo trade.

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In her op-ed, Maria Stankevich, director of business development and communications at the EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, tells about the advantages and prospects of initial exchange offerings (IEO) as a new financing tool for blockchain projects offered by market-leading crypto exchanges.

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Health Wizz is a decentralized application for the aggregation and preservation of data related to human health. The program allows the user to monitor the physical condition, find the nearest hospitals, pharmacies, and even take part in research. In a global sense, the Health Wizz project plans to collect patient information in one place: on the blockchain. The data will be available only to the patient and their doctor. And no one else.

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Investments in cryptocurrency business have already gone far beyond the framework of “investing in tokens and making quick, over-one-thousand-percent returns.” That is why the current “crypto winter” did not “freeze” business activity in the field of creating a cryptocurrency infrastructure; on the contrary, investors are more willing to invest in various areas. What is most in demand?

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DDEX is an application for trading cryptocurrencies on the exchange of the same name. It was the first project based on the open Hydro protocol (the developers themselves call Hydro a “fork” of 0x). DDEX has an established asset trading venue and two smartphone applications for iOS and Android.

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🇺🇸 A bill has been proposed in Texas that, if passed, will require identity verification for using cryptocurrency.
via Cointelegraph

💵 Kakao Corp. raised $90 million in a private coin offering for its upcoming blockchain platform.
via Bloomberg

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Invesco blockchain exchange-traded fund (ETF) is launching today on the London Stock Exchange.
via The Block

🗓 Amun AG plans to list an exchange-traded product (ETP) tied to XRP, Ripple network’s native digital token, within the next two months.
via CoinDesk

🇨🇭 Online bank Swissquote will add cryptocurrency custodial service at the end of this month.
via Bitcoin.com

The Court of Justice in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo has rejected the Banco Santander’s appeal against crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin and ordered the bank to return funds to the trading platform.

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The U.S. authorities have arrested a leader of a multi-billion-dollar Bulgaria-based cryptocurrency project called OneCoin, which allegedly was a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme.

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In a recent interview, Lane Rettig told DeCenter why it doesn’t matter which cryptocurrency eventually wins, where the long-awaited killer dApp could emerge from, why PoS is not a threat to decentralization but the contrary, and what a new mysterious community of Ethereans is.

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🏝 The real estate developer company behind Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, plans to hold an initial coin offering sometime next year.
via CoinDesk

💵 According to analysts from Barclays, Facebook’s own cryptocurrency could potentially generate $19 billion in additional revenue for the firm by 2021.
via CNBC

👛 Bancor has announced a non-custodial wallet for cross-chain trading between Ethereum- and EOS-based tokens.
via The Block

🇺🇸 The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) intends to hire a contractor that will deal with custody and disposal of cryptocurrency confiscated as part of the agency’s investigations.
via Cointelegraph

💼 Law firms can accept cryptocurrency as payment or help their clients with initial coin offerings, but they must be mindful of ethics concerns, Bloomberg warns.
via Bloomberg

Crypto Integrity published a report analyzing wash trading across cryptocurrency exchanges. Below is The Block’s summary article about the findings of the study:

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Eric Piscini, a former global head of blockchain at Deloitte—one of the Big Four audit firms—talks about why he left to start his own company and how the distributed ledger technology is driving the change in supply chains.

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Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (AUSTRAC), the country’s government financial intelligence agency, has suspended the registrations of two digital currency trading platforms due to the man associated with them being involved in drug importing, trafficking, and possessing.

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Trust Wallet is an application that enables users to store and transfer cryptocurrencies from their smartphone. The company was purchased by Binance in July 2018 and is now the official application for working with the assets of the famous exchange. In addition, Trust Wallet is supported by many crypto projects and their digital assets. In the App Store and Google Play, the Wallet is rated 4.7 out of 5, so Trust is rightfully one of the most popular and sought after applications in the wallets section.

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What is the Halvening and why does it happen every four years? What will be the long-term trends in Bitcoin as the block reward gets smaller? Is the Halvening important in terms of the market activity? These are the questions that Andreas Antonopoulos answers in his latest Bitcoin Q&A session.

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🏢 Investment business Elwood Asset Management intends to attract institutional investors to digital assets.
via Bloomberg

💰 U.S.-based cryptocurrency trading venue Bittrex will start hosting initial exchange offerings (IEOs) on its platform.
via The Block

🇷🇺 Russian central bank will limit the amount of cryptocurrency a regular crypto investor can purchase.
via ccn

🇺🇸 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton stated that Ether is not a security under U.S. law.
via Cointelegraph

💠 Cryptocurrency wallet provider Abra has enabled its users to deposit and withdraw Ether directly from the application.
via CoinDesk

The Nasdaq stock exchange has granted Bcause, a new cryptocurrency ecosystem developer, the right to leverage its Financial Framework platform.

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Tech giant IBM has partnered with the NY-based investment company Shuttle Holdings to launch a crypto asset storage solution.

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Famous U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has completed its first over-the-counter (OTC) trade directly out of cold storage.

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Lumi Collect is a wallet application that supports ERC-721 tokens. The wallet can store digital collectibles and gaming assets from CryptoKitties, Blockchain Cuties, and other games. A feature of the application is that for registration, it is not necessary to provide any personal information.

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