📮 01-05-2020
📈MarketCap: $246 B
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1. Portugal Hunts Crypto-Friendly Status With New ‘Free Zones’ for Tech
Portugal continues to establish a crypto haven with Technological Free Zones. Portugal has recently approved a nation-wide plan to encourage digitalization in several fields. Published on April 21, the “Digital Transitional Action Plan” puts forward multiple ways, in which the Portuguese government will provide infrastructure and incentives for innovation. The initiative coupled with the tax breaks introduced a few years ago, makes Portugal a very attractive place to start and manage a cryptocurrency-related business. Read Full on cointelegraph.
2. Bitcoin Becomes Best Performing Asset of 2020
Bitcoin is increasingly being viewed as a safe haven asset. A sudden surge in the price of bitcoin has made the cryptocurrency the top performing asset of 2020, outpacing gold, silver and crude oil. Over the past four months, the price of bitcoin has risen more than 20% despite a major crash in March that wiped more than $4,000 from its value. In the same time period, gold has only risen only by 13 per cent, while silver has fallen by 14 per cent and crude oil has dropped by more than 70 per cent in value. Read Full on The Independent.
3. Bitcoin Futures Hits Highest Volume Since Black Thursday
The Bitcoin futures market had its busiest day on Wednesday since the historic Black Thursday market crash in mid-March. Per data from crypto market analytics firm Skew, April 29 futures trading surged to just over $30 billion. Crypto exchanges Bitmex, Binance and Huobi enjoyed the most volume, netting $20 billion between themselves alone. Binance saw $7.3 Billion in volume, Huobi witnesses $7.4 billion in future trading Volume and Bitmex, once the undisputed leader in the futures market, saw only $5.3 billion in volume. Read Full on Decrypt.
4. Brave Users Can Now Directly Trade Crypto On Binance
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency-friendly browser, Brave, integrated a trading widget that taps into the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance. The widget lets Brave users buy, convert and deposit cryptocurrency from Binance, as well as see how much cryptocurrency they have deposited on Binance. Any Americans using the widget must make do with Binance.US. Widget content is built into the Brave desktop browser and is not loaded from Binance or any other server, Read Full on Decrypt.
5. Nasdaq to Help Build Institutional-Grade Digital Assets
The world’s second-largest stock exchange, Nasdaq, has entered a partnership with enterprise blockchain solutions platform, R3. Nasdaq will use its blockchain software, Corda, among other services. Their intention is to help financial institutions easily build and deploy institutional-grade digital assets. Partnership will help organizations issue tokens and build digital asset marketplaces. They will also support these organizations through various processes such as issuance, trading, settlement, and custody. Read Full on cointelegraph.
6. Vitalik Says ETH 2.0 Issuance Will Be 2 Million a Year at Most
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that the reasons why we’re doing Proof of Stake is to reduce the issuance of ETH token on the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade. The theoretical maximum issuance would be something like 2 million a year if literally everyone participates. He said the current testnet participation sees around 100,000 ETH issued a year. The current Ethereum network has about 4.7 million ETH issued annually. Eth 2.0 issuance meanwhile is expected to be somewhere between 100,000 and 2 million a year. Read Full on cointelegraph.
7. Dollar Value of XRP Transactions Up 294% Since Q4
Ripple publishes the quarterly XRP Markets Report to voluntarily provide regular updates on the company’s views on the state of the XRP market. Ripple says enterprise use of its XRP-based remittance platform is on the rise. “Customers continue to see the value of XRP through significant cost-savings by eliminating the need to pre-fund international accounts. From Q4 2019 to Q1 2020, RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service tripled in transaction volume, and the dollar value transacted increased by more than 294%.” Read Full on Ripple.
8. Samsung Pay Now Supports Cryptocurrency Visa Cards
Cryptocurrency Visa card platform Swipe announced a partnership with Samsung Pay on May 1. The integration allows Samsung Pay users to make payments from their Swipe Visa card balances using Samsung Pay-enabled devices. The integration allows Swipe cardholders in the United Kingdom and European Union to make payments from their crypto balances at over 50 million locations globally. The firm claims to have become the first digital wallet platform to provide multi-national support for both Google Pay and Samsung Pay. Read Full on cointelegraph.
