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.
At 32:02 in today’s Q&A, Julian of TenX confirmed that he and his team are in talks with Kraken, a very popular crypto currency exchange to add TenX (PAY) to their website. This is big news as Bittrex is the only big cryptocurrency exchange out of 15 exchanges that trade PAY token. So if Kraken adds TenX on their website that will bring the much need boost to the TenX price which went down from $5.4 to $1.6 in single month.
PivX team has released their roadmap for the quarter 2017. This includes new android wallet update; zerocoin protocol implementation; iOS wallet and multi signature integration in wallet.
Yunbi is a top 40 exchange in China and it has been ordered to shut down permanently. An announcement has been posted on the Yunbi portal where it says that it must stop trading most pairs so withdraw Chinese Yuan and other digital currencies. The shut down operation must be completed within 3-months.
Kyber Network ICO will be taking place on September 15th 2017 which is about 5 days from now. Recent tweet from the official twitter account indicates that the there was an attempt to hack KyberNetwork’s blog. The team says that they got notified early so they are taking their KyberNetwork blog down temporarily to take measure.