Новости за 19.06.2019

The Banking Committee of the United States Senate has set a hearing on Facebook’s new cryptocurrency for July

The Phillippinegovernment has signed an agreement with blockchain firm Monsoon, hoping to improve its business and cybersecurity sectors through blockchain tech

Binance and KuCoin have partnered to offer BNB/BTC and BNB/USDT trading pairs on KuCoin’s trading platform

Facebook’s Calibra digital wallet will not be available in some of the social network’s largest markets, including India, according to a report

Fintech firm Token has received a $16.5 million injection from investors including the venture arm of banking giant BNP Paribas

Russian politician Anatoly Aksakov said that the government has no plans to legalize Facebook’s long-awaited Libra stablecoin

State-backed digital currencies are widely discussed among many countries worldwide, from China to Tunisia. Here are some major examples of CBDCs from different parts of the world

Digital currency and transactions platform Algorand raises $60 million in recent token sale

MetLife subsidiary LumenLab is using blockchain technology to automate life insurance claims

Bitcoin is trading above $9,100 threshold, while most of the top 20 coins by market cap are trading sideways

Visa joins the ranks of mainstream payment giants creating blockchain-powered settlements infrastructure for cross-border transactions among institutional clients

Web server security service company Cloudflare has launched an Ethereum gateway

$8 million from institutional investors have been raised in its Series A funding round by Ethereum-based decentralized video streaming startup Livepeer

Russian parliament will adopt the country’s major crypto bill, “On Digital Financial Assets,” in the next two weeks, according to the deputy finance minister

A cryptocurrency auditing software solution has been released by Big Four auditing firm PwC

Bitcoin could easily reach new highs, according to Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder Tom Lee

Facebook’s crypto has potential, according to the Bank of England governor

Global legislators have voiced their support for a June summit in Japan, which will discuss industry responses to forthcoming crypto sector guidance from the FATF

Eos developer Block.one has paid $30 million in cash to purchase the voice.com domain name for its new blockchain-based social media, called “Voice”

According to a new LinkedIn report, the Asia Pacific region is seeing a surge in the demand for blockchain, AI and other skills

Securitize — a compliance platform and protocol for token issuers — is partnering with the Japan Security Token Association to promote digital securities adoption in the country

Bancor is bowing to unclear regulatory forces in the U.S. by blocking trading for local users starting in July

Euroclear, one of the world’s largest securities depositories, says it will push forward with building a pilot blockchain-based platform for the issuance and settlement of ECPs

TRON says new version of MainNet will feature a check on bad actors and a more lightweight event server for DApp developers

Chair of House Financial Services Committee requests moratorium on development of Facebook’s Project Libra