Ripple wants to target the Indian market with its blockchain technology to speed up inter-country payments. Navin Gupta, Ripple’s Managing Director for South East Asia, Middle East and North Africa recently spoke in an interview with Cryptocoindaddy. Ripple opened their office in Mumbai, India last year and has been busy adding Indian banks to xCurrent.
Last week, Binance announced acquisition of Trust wallet and since Coinbase does not want to be left behind, it has announced today that it has acquired Toshi and the Toshi wallet now becomes Coinbase Wallet. This is define future of the decentralized web and make that future accessible to anyone.
Remember the NEXT wallet that we mentioned couple of months back? Well, its developer has updated it and has added support for many other cryptocurrencies that include Litecoin, PivX, Dash, Crown, Viacoin, Particl and Phore. Available for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu Linux operating systems, the NEXT is a lite wallet that lets you manage your funds without downloading entire blockchain. There is full node option available as well that lets you stake PoS coins and earn the stake – just like the Core wallet.
Red Pulse team will be swapping the current RPX tokens with the PHX tokens as they will be launching an upgraded infrastructure called Phoenix. The token swap will be done around 6PM CST (UTC+8) on August 12 at the block 2608500 of Neo blockchain.
Using phased approach, Bittrex added USD pairs for many top tier coins on their cryptocurrency exchange. Today, they have announced that they will be adding USD markets for both Ethereum Classic (ETC) and Ripple (XRP) on August 20 2018.
Coinbase has announced on its blog that they are now accepting inbound transfers of Ethereum Classic. Their testing has gone according to plan and they will be launching Ethereum classic support on Coinbase Pro followed by consumer centric, Coinbase.com.
Three days back, a reddit user spotted more than $5M worth of OMG tokens being transferred to cryptocurrency exchanges by OmiseGO key contributors. This obviously did not go well with the community as it looked like the contributors were preparing for the market to fall further. OmiseGO team came out today and addressed the issue even though the movement of those OMG tokens does not belong to them.
Charts are now available in the CEX.io application for both iOS and android phones. If you know how to read a chart, you can make better and more informed trading decisions.
People always complain about cryptocurrency exchanges. No exchange is perfect but there is one exchange that is in the lime light lately and getting a lot of ‘smack’ from people. It’s HitBTC. Several have been complaining about inability to withdraw their funds from the exchange. One user had to be wait for full four months and several tickets just to get his funds withdrawn from the exchange.
Telegram Passport has been launched which is a unified authorization method for services that require personal identification. This lets you store your identity documents and personal data in the Telegram cloud using End-to-End Encryption.