Auctionity 360, or AY 360, is an application for tracking lots and participating in public auctions from the cryptocurrency firm Auctionity, which is owned by the blockchain-based company DomRaider. The French company launched its website last year, and it has become quite a popular platform for holding auctions in European countries, so, for convenience, Auctionity has developed apps for smartphones that are available for download on Android and iOS.

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🗣 Coinbase’s head of sales revealed that the decision to acquire blockchain analysis startup Neutrino was made because the exchange’s previous provider was selling user data.
via Cheddar

⭕️ Cryptocurrency trading company Circle is reportedly seeking to raise an additional $250 million.
via The Information

💸 Five out of six cold wallets used by notorious Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX have been empty since April 2018.
via Bloomberg

🗞 According to a recent study from KPMG, 41% of technology leaders support the idea of adopting blockchain for business in the next three years.
via Forbes

👨‍💻 Binance has announced a $100,000 simulated trading competition that will take place on its decentralized exchange from March 7 to March 21.
via Cointelegraph

A popular financial trading charts and analysis platform TradingView has added HB10, Huobi’s cryptocurrency-based index, in the company’s debut listing of such product.

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LGO Markets, a new U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange targeting institutional investors, has launched with limited functionality. The company has already secured ten institutional clients, with another 56 currently being in the process of onboarding.

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Cryptocurrency broker Tagomi has secured $12 million in a new fundraise led by Yale-backed Paradigm Fund, with participation from Pantera Capital and a number of other digital asset investors.

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Only two months have passed in 2019, and they have already brought significant changes to the cryptocurrency market. The largest and most anticipated event among crypto investors was the decision to hold the long-awaited Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network. Positive news from the key financial centers of the planet like Wall Street and Switzerland have also maintained the stability of the highly volatile cryptocurrency exchange rates in recent weeks, as well as the latest news about the popular messenger WhatsApp which is ready to launch its own token in the first half of 2019. DeCenter figured out how these events have influenced the cryptocurrency market.

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Lumeos is a decentralized social network from Ali Ayyash, the ex-employee of Google Cloud (Snapchat and Pokemon Go) and Amazon. It is an application where users can vote and participate in polls. Users publish surveys in which other members of the platform respond and receive LUME tokens for their actions. We reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of the social network.

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👋🏻 Coinbase has fired those Neutrino employees who previously worked for Hacking Team.
via The Block

🤝 Cryptocurrency trading firm Circle has finalized the acquisition of an equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest.
via CoinDesk

💵 Tether has announced it will launch its USDT stablecoin on the TRON blockchain.
via Cointelegraph

🔎 A new pilot project, backed by dominant fashion houses, aims to use blockchain to ensure the integrity of organic cotton supply chains.
via Forbes

🏦 According to Bloomberg, companies in the cryptocurrency industry still have trouble opening bank accounts.
via Bloomberg

EY, one of the “big four” international professional services firms that is better known by its old name of Ernst & Young, has released a tool for accounting and preparing taxes on cryptocurrency holdings.

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Cryptocurrency custody company BitGo recently claimed that it started providing its customers with a $100 million cover against theft or the loss of cryptographic keys through the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.

One of the underwriters behind the newest policy has accused the company of exaggerating.

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France-based retail giant Carrefour is working to implement the distributed ledger technology in tracking milk product supply chain.

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The launch of various blockchain platforms often provokes an expected reaction. The cryptocurrency community notes that this is “one more step toward the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies”; everyone else shrugs, believing that this is “just some kind of fad.” Meanwhile, the fate of Russian oil and gas will be decided in this way, as the “unshakable” axiom that Russian gas is cheaper than American LNG, and a similar thesis about the acceptable price of oil from Russia may cease to be a reality.

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The Theta Wallet enables users to receive and send THETA tokens. At Theta, whose advisors include the co-founders of YouTube and Twitch Steve Chen and Justin Kan, users can create decentralized applications for esports, gambling, and entertainment industries. And Theta Wallet, in turn, will allow users to save digital network tokens and transfer them to the balance of other applications.

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👨🏽‍💻 Big four accountant PwC has found that cryptocurrency exchange WEX is linked to Iranian ransomware operators.
via CoinDesk

🏦 Cryptocurrency challenger bank BlockFi that is custodied by Gemini has launched accounts that pay interest in Bitcoin.
via Forbes

💠 Switzerland’s largest stock exchange has launched an Ethereum-backed exchange-traded product (ETP).
via Bitcoin.com

👀 Blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis has stated that it neither collects nor sells user personal data.
via Cointelegraph

👩‍⚖️ 1Broker, a platform for buying financial derivatives with Bitcoin, has settled two lawsuits with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
via The Block

According to a study conducted by Cisco security researchers, college campuses are the second-largest cryptocurrency mining sector, which is responsible for approximately 22 percent of the mining.

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SWIFT, a global provider of secure financial messaging services, has joined efforts with the Singapore Exchange and major banks to pilot a blockchain-powered e-voting platform.

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Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has added support for Ripple’s XRP token to its over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform.

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🙅‍♂️ The information about a Japanese banking giant Mizuho Financial Group launching its yen-pegged stablecoin has turned out to be fake.
via Quartz

🗣 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has doubted the J.P. Morgan Chase internal digital currency’s adoption by other banks in the future.
via CoinDesk

⭕️ Opera has announced the launch of a browser with built-in cryptocurrency wallet for iOS users.
via The Block

📲 U.S.-based startup VaultTel has released a tiny cryptocurrency hardware wallet that fits in the SIM tray of a smartphone.
via Cointelegraph

🇨🇦 The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), the country’s tax authority, is reportedly auditing investors in cryptocurrencies.
via Forbes

Germany-based securities marketplace organizer Deutsche Boerse and Commerzbank successfully trialed the blockchain technology for automating securities settlement process. A prototype transaction included the execution of a legally-binding settlement of a repo trade.

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In her op-ed, Maria Stankevich, director of business development and communications at the EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, tells about the advantages and prospects of initial exchange offerings (IEO) as a new financing tool for blockchain projects offered by market-leading crypto exchanges.

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Health Wizz is a decentralized application for the aggregation and preservation of data related to human health. The program allows the user to monitor the physical condition, find the nearest hospitals, pharmacies, and even take part in research. In a global sense, the Health Wizz project plans to collect patient information in one place: on the blockchain. The data will be available only to the patient and their doctor. And no one else.

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