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5 ways blockchain can unlock medical supply chain for coronavirus

Should shorting be banned on crypto exchanges after rapid price drop?

Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC) have been experiencing a rapid price drop in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak opening the issue of whether shorting on crypto exchanges should be banned or not. On March 12,...

Bank of China continues anti-crypto narrative, urges people to abstain from investing

The Bank of China (BoC) is still against cryptocurrency. China is one of the countries that have been working on its own digital currency. However, according to Cointelegraph, BoC released a long anti-crypto narrative...

Binance.US CEO urges U.S. government to use stablecoins for emergency payments amid coronavirus outbreak

Binance.US CEO Catherine Coley is encouraging the United States to take advantage of the power of stablecoins amid the coronavirus outbreak. Coley was previously the Head of XRP Institutional Liquidity at Ripple. She...

Crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi support STEEM community’s hard fork

Major crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi announced support for STEEM communitys hard fork to create the Hive network, Cointelegraph reported. The STEEM hard fork for was scheduled on March 20 and the two exchanges...

Binance CEO not worried about crypto despite downward trend amid coronavirus outbreak

Binance CEO Changpeng CZ Zhao is still confident with bitcoins potential amid the coronavirus outbreak. In the past weeks, the crypto market has experienced a massive downward trend. On Thursday, bitcoin had a massive...

Asia’s leading digital asset platform launches exchange for pro traders

OSL Exchange, the leading digital asset platform in Asia launched an exchange for professional traders, Cointelegraph reported. The exchange offers a single platform login for its users and a central dashboard that...

Alibaba’s import e-commerce platform Koala adopts a full-link traceability blockchain system

China-based e-commerce giant Alibaba announced that it is adopting a blockchain traceability system, Sina Finance reported. Alibabas import e-commerce platform Koala has upgraded the full-link traceability system....

Huobi adds new futures liquidation mechanism to protect crypto traders against market volatility

Huobi DM, leading digital assets derivatives trading platform from Huobi Group, has added a new futures liquidation mechanism to hedge crypto traders against market volatility In a press release, the Singapore-based...

Ripple strengthens presence in Asia with partnership with Thai fintech Dee Money

Ripple strengthens its presence in Asia by partnering with Thai fintech company DeeMoney. In a press release detailing the partnership, Ripple announced that DeeMoney is specializing in digital cross-border money...

Business

SCB opens Ripple-powered consumer cross-border payments to businesses Tue, 31 Mar 2020, 00:35 am UTC

Thailands Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) is planning to open up its Ripple-powered consumer cross-border payments mobile app to businesses. In a press release, SCB partnered with RippleNet to connect to its banking partners...

DAIA, Ocean Protocol and SingularityNET launch decentralized AI against coronavirus

Fake Ledger Chrome extension continues to steal millions of XRP from crypto users

Digital Dollar Project names 22 new advisory group members The Digital Dollar Project has just announced its first advisory group members. Digital Dollar Project, a partnership between Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and the Digital Dollar Foundation to advance exploration of a United...

Technology

Blockchain Africa conference shows continent is enthusiastic about new technology Wed, 25 Mar 2020, 14:14 pm UTC

Africa is enthusiastic about blockchain technology. During the Blockchain Africa conference, several use cases were discussed including the challenges and solutions blockchain can deliver in the continent, Cointelegraph...

CoreWeave redirects 6K GPU from crypto mining to coronavirus research

Georgia partners with IOHK for Cardano-backed blockchain verification system for education

Cardano working on commercial infrastructure to compete with other cryptocurrencies

Investing

Interest in cryptocurrencies ‘all-time high’ amid coronavirus outbreak, people see ‘buying opportunity’ Fri, 27 Mar 2020, 00:10 am UTC

The markets have been shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the current circumstance only opens the door for digital assets. Kris Marszalek, CEO and co-founder of Crypto.com, told Coindesk that the interest in...

Crypto lending firm BlockFi increases interest rates on bitcoins and ether

Tim Draper predicts bitcoin to save the world after crisis, not government or banks Bitcoin has endured a number of crashes in the past week due to coronavirus outbreak, but Tim Draper is still very positive about the future of the cryptocurrency. In an interview with 415 Stories podcast, the Venture...

Bank of England governor warns bitcoin investors: ‘be prepared to lose all money’

Insights

MyEtherWallet founder thinks Ethereum should go mobile Mon, 30 Mar 2020, 10:48 am UTC

Almost everything can be done using smartphones and this has big implications when it comes to the future of Ethereum. Kosala Hemachandra, founder of noncustodial wallet MyEtherWallet, shared his thoughts about the...