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Bitcoin-Friendly Square Cash is Now More Popular Than Venmo
Data from app research firm Sensor Tower and Nomura Instinet have revealed that cumulative downloads of Square’s Cash App have surpassed that of its rival, Paypal’s Venmo, per a Bloomberg report. Square’s Cash App now has a cumulative total download of 33.5 million, which exceeds Venmo’s 32.9 million for the first time, after a successful July […]
Op-ed: The Real Story — How Cryptocurrency Exchanges Extract Profit from Everyone
Most companies or projects that hold an ICO or token generation event (TGE) are under enormous pressure to get their tokens listed on major exchanges as quickly as possible. Most ICOs get listed in less than 3 months. But there are a number of very important reasons why getting listed as soon as possible doesn’t […]
Movers of the Day
Tokens that moved the most in the last 24 hours: Top movers of the day are Eidoo and Scry.info. Hdac is still green. 2100NEWS Digital Assets Overall Index (DAOI) finished the day by 0.84%. Eidoo (EDO) Scry.Info (DDD) Scry.info is the world’s first blockchain-based quantitative data providing and exchanging platform for storage, verification, utilization, analysis, sharing and trading […]
Crypto Market Loses $9 Billion in Hours as Tokens Drop 10% on Average
In merely three hours, the crypto market has lost more than $9 billion of its valuation, as the price of tokens and small market cap cryptocurrencies dropped substantially. Tokens Plunge 10% Off of 2% Decline of Bitcoin After demonstrating a relatively strong corrective rally, the crypto market saw a decline in the value of tokens, […]
Chinese Retail Giant JD.com Launches Open Blockchain Platform
JD.com, China’s largest retailer and e-commerce provider, has deployed an open blockchain platform to enable customers to have their own blockchain solutions to improve the transparency, efficiency and security of their operations, the company announced on its corporate blog. The JD Blockchain Open Platform expands the company’s Retail as a Service and will allow customers to […]
Interview: Michael Dunworth, CEO of Money Transfer Service Wyre, on MakerDAO Partnership
On Tuesday, U.S. international wire transfer startup Wyre announced a strategic partnership with MakerDAO. We’ve written about Wyre several times in the past: first when they raised a $5.8 million Series A led by Chinese firm Amphora Capital. The firm went on to acquire Bejing-based Remsity as they took on China. At the time — April 2017 — we reported that they were processing $50 […]
Movers of the Day
Tokens that moved the most in the last 24 hours: Top movers of the day are Ternio and LATOKEN. 2100NEWS Digital Assets Overall Index (DAOI) finished the day by -3.79%. Ternio (TERN) Ternio created Lexicon which is a scalable blockchain verified by a 3rd party – to be able to meet the needs of any possible scenario […]
Capital One Wants to Authenticate Users on a Blockchain
Blockchain adoption continues to rise in the banking sector, with the news that Capital One has applied for a patent to potentially develop a blockchain system that authenticates new users in a secure manner. Capital One is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards and bank loans, making security a primary concern. According to documents […]
IoT Crypto VeChain Price Surges 50% Overnight, Factors Behind the Spike
VeChain, a China-based Internet of Things (IoT)-focused crypto, has surged by more than 50 percent in value within the past 24 hours. Analysts have attributed the increase in the price of VeChain to the successful series of partnerships the team has been able to secure since earlier this year and the improving momentum of tokens in the […]
Australian Cinema-on-Demand Distributor Launching Cryptocurrency To Reward Film Enthusiasts
Australian-based Demand Film has released a new virtual currency to reward users who promote and watch movie trailers. Demand Film is officially releasing the cryptocurrency, known as ‘Screencreds,’ before the company launches in Germany next Tuesday. The new digital coin is the latest example of how digital currencies and blockchain technology are making waves in the film […]