Monero Beryllium Bullet software update has been released and this prepares you for the scheduled protocol upgrade, slated to happen on the October 18th 2018. This requires a database connection that may take few hours to complete. In the meantime, it will show disconnected / unable to connect from the monerod daemon.
NEM has partnered up with the OATH protocol to build a decentralized, standard, and extensible public chain-agnostic protocol that protects dApp users’ rights and assets.
WeChat does what Chinese government wants and China wants to ban all cryptocurrency related channels on WeChat. So today, WeChat, which is developed by Tencent has blocked official sales channel of Bitmain.
Navcoin team has churned out v4.3.0 and one of the major changes this core wallet brings is support for OpenAlias-ready domains to NavCoin addresses. This means you will be able to assign a user friendly and more memorable name to your Navcoin address. For instance, we assigned hello@nav.community to our address. NavCoin OpenAlias makes use of DNSSEC to prevent MITM attacks on the alias.
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.
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.
Popular cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex has announced that on August 2nd 2018 UTC +0, it will delist a number of currencies from its exchange. This includes FLO, FLDC, XVC, BCY, NXC, RADS, BLK, PINK and RIC. Users have been told to finalize all trades and close any positions in these assets prior to August 2nd. Keep in mind that once these cryptocurrencies are delisted, you will only be able to withdraw them but that too till September 2nd – no more than that.
Nebulas team has partnered with KingSoft Cloud to explore blockchain games. Nebulas, as we know is the next generation public blockchain and currently ranked sixth globally by China’s ministry of industry and IT. Under this partnership, Nebulas team will provide tech support for the development of blockchain games to KingSoft Cloud.
DADI mainnet was launched yesterday and the team is giving people around the world to become a part of the founding node programme. This programme allows you to be one of the few to lay foundation of new, fairer internet. For this, they have launched a limited edition Host which is a custom case containing a Raspberry Pi.
PivX Light Wallet is now available for your desktop and that includes Windows, Mac and Linux. The Light wallet lets you manage your PivX without downloading the blockchain. Until now, the only way to manage your PivX was by downloading the Core client on the desktop and download the multi-GB blockchain.