Ethereum Foundation Sold $100 Million at the Top Says Vitalik Buterin

“I did get the Ethereum Foundation to sell 70,000 eth like basically at the top and that’s doubled our runway now, so it was one good decision that had a lot of impact.”

The Ethereum Foundation has seemingly sold a further $1.5 million worth of eth in the past three months, and they’re also stopping funding of some dev teams.

trustnodes.com/2019/12/13/ethereum-foundation-sold-100-million-at-the-top-says-vitalik-buterin

#Staking #Coinone

As a part of onboarding Top Tier Exchanges in Matic Mainnet Staking, Our pre-staking initiative with Coinone is going live! 🎉

Beginning tomorrow, December 18th, Coinone users will be able to lockup their $MATIC tokens during 30-day lockup periods at an interest rate of 30.29% APR!

Using these tokens locked up during the pre-staking initiative, Coinone will be running a Validator node for Matic Mainnet.

Many more global exchanges will be increasingly added to the list to support MATIC Mainnet Staking. Stay tuned for further updates as our pre-staking plans progress!

Read the full details on our blog: http://bit.ly/coinone-staking

Retweet: https://twitter.com/maticnetwork/status/1206901237947322368

We are excited to announce the Elrond MainNet bootstrapping process

Through this process we will address functionality, security, performance, and gradual decentralization in a logical order via 3 dedicated steps:

Phase 1 - tackle network security from an economical perspective
Phase 2 - deploy the code on trusted validator set, enabling progressive feature activation
Phase 3 - decentralization to the point where Elrond only operates a minimum fall-back infrastructure

Phase 1 - Start staking, earn rewards, and reach economic security threshold

- 23-29 December
- 17%-32% rewards annually
- we are aiming for 50% of circulating supply or 5 Billion ERD to be committed and pre-staked

Elrond is imminent, read all about it here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/the-elrond-bootstrapping-process-2f2a7ea7cd89

Cannan IPO

About :
Founded in 2013, Canaan is the worldwide leader in producing Blockchain servers and designing ASIC microprocessor solutions for cryptocurrency mining.

Initial IPO Amount to raise : $400 Million
Actually raised : $90 Million (-75%)

Issue price : $9 (10M shares)
Current Price : $5.19 (-42%)
Listed on : NASDAQ: CAN

https://www.coindesk.com/canaans-post-ipo-stock-plunge-reveals-sales-slump-price-war-with-bitmain

Dear RiveX community,

The RiveX Community Quest guide has been released! This guide includes all details on how to register for the quest, how to interact with our registration bot, how to navigate the quest platform and other important details you need to know before we begin.

Please take the time to read through this guide a few times to familiarize yourself with the quest registration.

Quest round one begins tomorrow, December 19th at 10pm GMT+8

Remember to follow the rules.

Goodluck and have fun!


https://medium.com/@RiveXOfficial/rivex-community-quest-guide-f5d6cad69848

POLONIEX offering 65.46% interest on USDC lending to EU customers

Is this fucking joke or what?

BTW Justin Sun owns Poloniex, so this could be another marketing stunt or fraud or scam.
Beware!!!

Check out official tweet :
https://t.co/JAMdL4xV1I

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has been granted a U.S. patent for an invention that makes sending bitcoin as easy as email, literally.

https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-ceo-armstrong-wins-patent-for-tech-allowing-users-to-email-bitcoin

Today's edition of Mumbai Mirror (Newspaper from India) about $BITCOIN

#Privacy

Matic x Incognito = Speed x Privacy for Ethereum!

We’re thrilled to announce our newest collaboration with Incognito! With Incognito, Matic holders will now be able to send, receive, and store their Matic tokens with 100% confidentiality.

Matic token holders must deposit their native MATIC tokens into the Incognito Wallet to receive pMATIC–a 1:1 privacy coin powered by zero-knowledge proofs!

Incognito is a decentralized platform for privacy tokens, powered by its own proof-of-stake side chains that can attach to other blockchains to confidentially transfer crypto assets.

Matic will also be listed on the first completely anonymous decentralized exchange - pDEX where anyone can trade in full privacy.

Learn more: https://incognito.org/blog/incognito_privacy_mode_for_matic/

In celebration of this partnership, Incognito will be hosting a pMATIC giveaway!
👉 https://gleam.io/sNdtA/turn-on-incognito-mode-for-your-matic

RT:https://twitter.com/maticnetwork/status/1207992051838537728

GOOGLE is surely acting against crypto currencies in full pledge.

Crypto related YouTube videos removed :
https://www.coindesk.com/youtube-calls-crypto-purge-a-mistake-but-many-videos-still-missing

Crypto wallet MetaMask removed from Google store :
https://cointelegraph.com/news/google-suspends-metamask-from-its-play-app-store-citing-deceptive-services

1/ Thrilled to finally be able to announce the NEW ELROND WEBSITE, with a coherent vision, branding, and staking page

This has been a long but very fruitful process of clarification, distillation, and repeated iteration

https://elrond.com

2/ Be sure to check the staking information and calculator

A step by step pre-staking guide will be published on the website in the next few hours

https://elrond.com/stake

3/ While the website and staking page are up, we are still performing several testing scenarios for the staking app

Once guides are shared with the community later today & we'll *tentatively* target 31.12 at 19:00 UTC+2 to kickstart the first wave of the staking process

4/ Whether you’re a validator, developer, business, investor or ambassador, this is the perfect time to explore Elrond and get involved

It's also the perfect time to share the @ElrondNetwork story with your friends

5/ 2020 will be the year the world discovers Elrond!
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6/ Our team has set an internal record with the effort put into this launch during the Holidays. Great way to start 2020 🔥

Will be off to get a few hours of well deserved sleep 🙌

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1211612313624698880?s=20

Elrond pre-staking goes LIVE today 17:00 UTC.

We want to make sure we accomodate everyone for this important milestone, thus we’ve prepared a schedule for what is to happen today:

Please check the complete guide here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-staking-is-ready-here-is-everything-you-need-to-do-81bcd994cb64

▶️ 15:30 UTC - Join the LIVE AMA on Elrond Telegram Channel here: https://news.1rj.ru/str/ElrondNetwork
⛔️ 16:30 UTC - Due to security measures our TG channel will be muted before and after the pre-staking process starts. Please DM your questions to @ElrondPrestakingAMA_Bot and they will be answered in the main channel
✅ 17:00 UTC - You can start pre-staking your ERD here: https://elrond.com/stake/

⚠️ PLEASE BE AWARE OF FAKE ADMINS AND POTENTIAL SCAMS - ELROND ADMINS WILL NEVER ASK FOR FUNDS AND WILL NEVER DM FIRST ⚠️

Elrond is imminent.

HAPPY NEW YEAR & DECADE!!!!

#Staking

We are thrilled to announce DeFi wallet Frontier as an official staking service provider!

Frontier is an advanced crypto wallet app which combines all of your wallets into one integrated interface without ever asking for your private key.

Our collaboration will enable $MATIC holders to use Frontier to stake their tokens seamlessly from any of their wallets (including Metamask, Trust Wallet and Coinbase Wallet) in a non-custodial manner on mobile devices.

Users will also be able to use Frontier’s user-friendly interface to track their staking positions, current rewards and staking APR rates.

We’re continuously improving user experience for MATIC stakers & Frontier is therefore a valuable new member of our staking ecosystem 🤝

Read more: https://link.medium.com/1SeOaQVUW2

RT: https://twitter.com/maticnetwork/status/1213105695056257024

HEX ROI : -100%

https://cointelegraph.com/news/richard-hearts-hex-now-trading-for-less-than-1-satoshi-after-52-drop

#Adoption

We're excited to officially welcome digital collectible merchandise platform Showcase into the Matic ecosystem!

Showcase is the first blockchain-powered platform allowing influencers to create & sell customized digital collectibles, known as 'Badges'. Over 1K influencers are already using Showcase to connect more closely with their 5m+ fans.

By utilizing Matic's infrastructure, Showcase will be able to deploy their ERC1155 NFT collectibles on our network & will therefore be empowered with the fast, low cost and high throughput transactions required for mass adoption of their unique solution.

We look forward to working with Showcase to bring a new era of digital collectible assets to the mainstream 🤝

Read more here: https://link.medium.com/upsyAqEN12

RT: https://twitter.com/maticnetwork/status/1214206971089305607

This recent in-depth analysis of the Elrond project, progress and outlook covers our fundamentals in detail and quite accurately.

While we aim to gain visibility as a fast smart contracts execution platform, the "thematic views" about staking and Elrond's place in this space make for an interesting read.

Check out this analysis by Picolo Research: https://picoloresearch.com/69/elrond-erd

Super excited to announce our Samsung blockchain app - Battle of Elrond!

A mobile multiplayer game where you fight your enemies to capture their crypto treasure.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/52590/samsung-blockchain-phones-set-to-feature-elrond-projects-gaming-app

Building useful mobile apps with just a hint of blockchain technology in the background should be the norm. This allows any consumer to enjoy cost reduction and privacy without the intricate blockchain-specific hassle.

Elrond & Samsung have entered into a partnership which will allow all Samsung users direct access to the Elrond blockchain. To demonstrate the seamless integration of blockchains into a consumer app, we’re building a mobile game with crypto microeconomics.

Up to 30% of the estimated $76bn mobile gaming market in 2020 will go to app store fees - that’s $20bn! The fast Elrond blockchain collects negligible fees and will be natively integrated with a massive consumer devices producer.

This can decrease prices, increase developer revenue and let players cash out their in-game earnings. Battle of Elrond is a promising example of how blockchain technology could help create and retain more value for gamers and developers.

Gems and stars are nice but $ERD is real.

With every game you win, you capture more $ERD.

Check out a video teaser for Battle of Elrond: https://youtu.be/sC0pnYFWBeQ

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1215559547923894272?s=20