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EURS-token which is created by the Malta-based company STASIS can now be traded at the HitBTC exchange. Launched on June 27th, 2018, the EURS is aiming to be the biggest fully verified and collateralized stablecoin in the world. Similar to Tether, the EURS is fiat-collateralized and each EURS-coin is backed by a corresponding unit of Euro. The EURS token is built on...

Overview: ANKR is aiming to build a resource efficient blockchain framework enabling Distributed Cloud Computing and a user-friendly infrastructure. They are addressing issues with current cloud computing platforms such as a lack of incentivisation, security, scalability and resource in-efficiency. Using a mining scheme based on Proof Of Useful Work (PoUW), Scalable blockchain frameworks enabled through plasma sidechains + sharding and...

The past months has had so much positive and bullish news, there should be little room for FUD. Below is why some people feel the recent FUD is just FUD and holds little merit. Over the past month the market cap of all cryptocurrencies has risen about $75 billion, Bitcoin has passed $8,000 (for the first time in the last...

The Law Commission of India may have just brought its country's use of cryptocurrencies back to life, after the Supreme Court’s decision to ban its use earlier this year. In late July this year, the Law Commission of India released a report titled 'Legal Framework: Gambling and Sports Betting Including In Cricket In India’. The 140-page report attempts to recognize...

Google has updated its policy for Play Store, mining apps are no longer welcome. The new policy introduces new restrictions for apps as it attempts to make the Google Play Store a safer place for Android users. Google doesn't allow apps that mine cryptocurrencies on devices, but they allow apps that remotely manage the mining of cryptocurrencies. Earlier this year, Apple...

Can you feel the heavy doom and gloom type of rain outside? Cryptocurrency market certainly can. In the last 24 hours, the SEC once again rejected the Winklevoss brothers' ETF license request pushing BTC below $8 000. On top of that CEO of Mastercard, Ajay Banga, thinks crypto is "junk." Thus, according to CNBC "The June proposal from BATS BZX Exchange to list...

American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced on June 11 that they would soon support Ethereum Classic (ETC) on their platform. Although an exact date had not been communicated, the price of Ethereum Classic jumped over 25 percent after the announcement. After more than a month of no news, people are waiting eagerly for more clarity around the listing. Will Ethereum Classic be added soon? The...

Overview: AERGO is an enterprise ready blockchain protocol, combined with a development platform and marketplace. They are aiming to build a distributed cloud ecosystem for enterprise-grade application development - offered on public, private and hybrid blockchains. AERGO has three main functionalities, including the AERGO Chain, Hub and Marketplace. AERGO technology is based on COINSTACK from BLOCKO , which is a...

Iran is getting ready to launch its own national cryptocurrency to avoid the economic sanctions placed upon their country by U.S. President Donald Trump. In May of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would pull America out of the 2015 nuclear arms agreement with Iran. Trump also announced that he would place sanctions on Iran “at the...

Due to the inability of the CFTC to test and research blockchain technology with outside organizations, Christopher Giancarlo feels they are "years behind" other countries and regulators. The CFTC Chairman, Christopher Giancarlo, has announced that because the CFTC is held back by law, its ability to test, demo, and generate proof-of-concepts, regarding emerging technologies; he feels that they are years...