Ledger Nano S and Ledger Blue now support three more crypto currencies that include PivX, Vertcoin and Viacoin. Both PivX and Vertcoin communities were actively involved in getting the proposal through. This has been an exciting week for all three cryptocurrencies, especially PivX that not only got Ledger integration but also got Zerocoin protocol activated and become most widely translated crypto coin as well.
Last month we posted about how the atomic swap between Komodo and Bitcoin was performed using only electrum servers. In the same article, we mentioned how this will made available to the public as “BarterDex”. The developer behind this upcoming decentralized exchange has spilled some more features on the official slack channel of barterdex.
Bittrex is one of the most popular crypto currency exchanges and lately got into a lot of heat for banning and disabling accounts on a lot of users. Bittrex has issued an official report on this saying that the cryptocurrency exchange often does compliance reviews to protect their service and prevent their users from harm. In this review, they temporarily suspend / disable / ban certain accounts. The total number of accounts were not revealed but less than 0.1 percent were affected.
Jelurida has released Ardor timeline on their website and that mentions Nxt as simple and secure crowd funding solution for the new ICOs. All this will be done in first quarter of 2018. The Ardor’s release timeline also mentions in positioning the Nxt Blockchain Creator Kit as a viable solution for new blockchain projects. A lot of security related features will be added too. Permission layer and peer communication encryption for private blockchain solutions will added in this quarter as well.
Purism has announced its collaboration with Monero crypto currency that is private by default. Purism has added Monero for payments on its online store which is a great boon for those users who value privacy over anything else. This will allow the Purism Librem 5 smartphone users to make cash-like payments in form of Monero. This will also enable users a much lower barrier to entry for leveraging the benefits of cryptocurrency.
TenX developers have updated the TenX’s android application that brings major user interface improvements and host of other updates. This includes new UX for expanding and collapsing in main screen page for multiple wallets. KYC documents submission bug has been fixed as well. The updated TenX application for Android will be available soon for download. An update for the iPhone app was pushed earlier this week that solved the email verification issue at signup.
Monaize ICO is slated to take place on November 10th 2017. This will be the first ICO that will make use of Komodo platform which was in news recently for atomic swap using electrum servers. In Monaize ICO, you get MNZ tokens. The date of ICO was recently postponed so that the Komodo team could properly test the Monaize dICO application to ensure it is able to run variety of stress tests that take time to perform and debug. This will also give time to Monaize team to properly familiarize themselves with Komodo’s new exchange BarterDEX, atomic swaps and SPV wallet.
We have some good news for the Centra Tech Card users. The team is adding support for more crypto currencies including NEO, EOS, NEM and IOTA and eight more coins in upcoming version. The team says that they have been busy collaborating with other crypto coins and are working to create a larger eco system for its users.
Few days back, Charlie Lee captured world’s attention by doing the first litecoin-to-bitcoin atomic swap. Komodo team was also hard at work and they have just announced on their official twitter that they too have done successful atomic swaps by making use of only electrum servers. Litecoin to bitcoin swap was done using local coin daemon while the Komodo-bitcoin swap was done using hosted electrum nodes. For whatever reason, they did a Komodo / Dogecoin swap too.
If you hold Qtum on myetherwallet, we highly suggest you to move them to Bittrex for the Qtum blockchain upgrade. Folks at Qtum coin will be upgrading from ERC 20 token to full mainnet blockchain that will feature EVM based smart contract platform and proof of stake consensus model. Bittrex has announced on their support page that they will be upgrading the blockchain for users.