Dr Julian, Co-founder of TenX has confirmed that his company has indeed signed a partnership with the Wirecard to issue credit cards. While TenX is yet to make a public announcement about it, Dr Julian has confirmed in a reddit thread stating that this partnership will allow them to get the cards available worldwide. However, they do not have a concrete timeline regarding this. TenX is expected to make an announcement about this soon.
Category: Ethereum News
OmiseGo 2017/2018 Roadmap revealed: Wallet SDK, Plasma, Staking
OmiseGo has released a roadmap for 2017 / 2018 year that shows various features and enhancements that will be to OMG users. In Q4 2017, first wallet SDK prototype will be released for workshop testing and development. This is followed by release of wallet SDK public release in Q1 2018. After that, public blockchain will be released to the OMG users which will make staking possible. Then in Q3 2018, cash in/out touchpoint interface with payment gateway will be released.
Kyber Network announces partnership with Enigma, OPSkins and WAX
Kyber Network has announced its partnership with three companies, WAX (worldwide asset exchange), OPSkins and Enigma. Kyber Network will be facilitating the payments on all three platforms which are already accepting bitcoin. OPSkins also has plans to start offering buyers to pay using Ethereum. Kyber Network will allow instant buy and sell of digital assets and also provide payment APIs that will allow them to receive payment in any crypto currency.
OmiseGo Airdop Code Released: Download OMG Airdop code
OmiseGo is the most successful Ethereum ICO till date. Today, the company has released code for the airdrop that successfully completed on September 24th 2017. OmiseGo team says that it did total of 5242 transactions to send more than 7 million OMG tokens to whopping 460,000 Ethereum holders that qualified for the airdrop. Since then, there have been myriad requests to release the code to the public. OmiseGo team has listened to its community and shared the code with the public. They feel that the airdop code will be useful for the Ethereum community so that other Ethereum-based tokens can do a similar airdop for their crypto currency.
Kyber Network Burns Excess KNC Tokens: Total KNC Coin Supply Reduced by 10.3 million
Kyber Network has announced on their official block that they have successfully burnt nearly 10.3 million KNC tokens. These were sent to unspendable address that no one controls. Total KNC coin supply was 226,000,000 and after burning of tokens, it has been reduced to 215,625,348.
SoFi CEO chose Ethereum over Bitcoin
Mike Cagney, SoFi’s CEO backed Ethereum over bitcoin as it offers better infrastructure applications. He said that if the dollar did not exist then bitcoin would have been fine but since the value of bitcoin fluctuates so much, it makes it nearly impossible to be used as a currency. While bitcoin is the original blockchain and has the maximum share of attention, it is not a very practical one, Mike added.
Ethereum Added to Waves: Trade ETH on Waves
Waves Lite has a new addition – Ethereum gateway which means you can now use waves to hold and trade your ether. You can also send ETH to anyone.
Coindash website hacked: 5.5 million dollars already gone!
Coindash is a startup that focuses on the crypto currency social trading and it has just announced on twitter that their website has been hacked. It has also sent out warning to its investors that there has been a massive cyber security breach.
OKCoin International getting Ethereum Support on July 15
OkCoin International is a Hong Kong based crypto currency exchange which has announced that starting July 15th, 2017, they will start offering Ethereum Classic services. ETC has been maintained as original ethereum blockchain without any changes to its history of transactions. The company listed ethereum in may and now that the demand for Ethereum Classic is increasing, the company will be enabling that as well.
Changelly Partners with Jaxx Crypto Currency Wallet
Changelly is a very popular crypto currency exchange website and today, it has announced its partnership with Jaxx which is one of the most popular multi currency crypto coin wallet. With their partnership, Jaxx users will now be able to change between coins using Changelly service. This was one of the most asked features by users and Changelly is perfect for this job.