​​Matic Network joins BEPSwap platform as a launch partner and will be added as a base pair. BEPSwap platform allows to swap BEP2 tokens at market prices — instantly from users wallet. BEPSwap is developed by THORChain and it is scheduled for public beta in 6–8 weeks.

​​Rakuten Group, one of the biggest Japanese corporations and owner of Viber messenger, has announced the launch of its own cryptocurrency trading app. The app will initially be released on Android, with an iOS version due to be released at a later date. Three types of crypto assets can be traded: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). There are no fees at the moment for opening or managing an account, purchasing or selling crypto assets, or depositing money.

​​It will be an active end of the week in terms of IEOs. Some of the upcoming IEO/ICOs and deadlines you should follow in order to participate.

​​Bgogo exchange will cancel its trade mining and burn 2B BGG from trade mining pool.
Bgogo platform will officially cancel the existing trading reward mechanism and burn the remaining trade mining BGG at once (the BGG tokens to be burnt will be sent to the zero address). Part of the transaction fee revenue of the exchanges will continue to be used to repurchase and burn BGG from the secondary market on a monthly basis.
Trade mining stop time: 20:00 (UTC+8), August 19
BGG tokens burn time: 14:00 (UTC+8), August 22

​​Cere Network has closed $3.5M USD private fundraising round. Binance Labs, Arrington XRP Capital, Neo Global Capital, Fenbushi Capital, and several other venture funds are among investors of blockchain customer relationship management (CRM) startup, hoping to bring enterprise big names onto the Binance Chain and accelerate enterprise blockchain adoption.
https://www.cere.network
https://t.me/cerenetwork_official

​​Arpa and Wirex will get listed on Huobi. Both projects will take part if FastTrack activity. The winner of this activity will be available for trading on Huobi as of August 21, and the runner-up will get listed on August 23.

​​David Chaum, CEO and founder of Elixxir, has introduced another startup - Praxxis. According to the statement from the team it is a new high-performance digital currency supported by a quantum-resistant blockchain. Using denominated coins and a new approach to consensus, it leverages the privacy-protecting power of its sister platform Elixxir.
The team will share more information and the full technical details of the Praxxis approach in the forthcoming whitepaper currently being prepared for release later this year.

​​IEO trend has reached new heights with IEO on futures(IOUs). After succesful IOE of Akropolis, recently launched xFutures exchange will host xPERL IEO - futures of Perlin. Participants will be able to swap xPERL future tokens for PERL tokens on a 1:1 basis as soon as the tokens will become transferable.

Futures or IOUs are yet to be released tokens that give you the right to acquire native token upon their release. Users are able to trade them but not to withdraw. Users are able to exchange IOUs for real tokens when they will become transferable.

Token sale details:

Start Time: August 20, 2019 at 12:00 (noon) EDT / NYC
End Time: August 20, 2019 at 2:00 PM EDT / NYC or whenever the supply sells out
Launcher Event Supply: 500,000 xPERLs
Start Price: $0.08
End Price: $0.32
Price Increase per Tiered Round: $0.01
Number of Tiered Rounds: 25
Listing Time: TBA after the regular Launcher Event
Available Trading Pair: TBD

​​Binance will list Cocos-BCX (COCOS) and open trading for COCOS/BNB, COCOS/BTC and COCOS/USDT trading pairs at 2019/08/21 11:00 AM (UTC). Cocos is the platform for the next generation of digital game economy. Cocos-BCX' , fully named 'Cocos BlockChain Expedition', aims to create an integrated multi-platform runtime environment for games.
Cocos is Binance Labs incubated project that had private fundraising only back in 2018 with $40M USD raised in total.

​​Agora will have IEOs on Bilaxy and Cobak together with public offering on its own website on August 23. It will be the first IEO on Bilaxy with $50K USD allocation. Bilaxy will use proportional sale model with IEO allocation based on users recent 13-days BIA average holding tiers. Minimum holding amount: 10K BIA ($70 USD). $250K allocation will be available on Cobak platform for Korean market. And finally $200K portion of public sale will be available on Agora website without any holding requirements.

Public sale details:
Total amount of tokens: 1B VOTE
Total % for sale: 35.1%
Total hardcap: $20M USD
Private sale allocation: $19.5M USD
Public sale allocation: $500K USD
IEO price: $0.0425 USD
Private sale price: $0.039-0.046 USD
Private sale vesting: 3 month lock+9 month vesting
Initial circulating supply: $500K USD

About Agora:
A protocol made for the purpose of voting, with a number of Decentralised Apps to enable anyone, anywhere to vote online. It will allow communities, private and public organisations to eradicate fraud and corruption, reduce costs and engage voters in a modern, convenient and accessible way.

​​IEO participation requirements are constantly changing. It is hard to compare as different sale models and participation criteria are used. KuCoin and BitMax has recently added an option to participate in IEO based on BTC, ETH, USDT holdings with proportional sale model. Bittrex and Bitfinex stick to FCFS model. Binance decreasing and increasing allocation per winning ticket and will experiment with airdrop for those who will not get in. Huobi with the highest minimum holding requirement of around $5K USD is focused on big players. Gate is the only exchange that requires 3 BTC/month minimum trading volume to participate in addition to holding rule.

​​BitMax will list Prometeus (PROM) as of August 22. PROM/USDT and PROM/BTC trading pairs will be available as of 10:00 a.m. EDT on August 22. Prometeus Labs has closed fundraising in May 2019 with around $4.85M USD raised.

​​Matic Network has introduced another Dapp in its growing Dapp ecosystem. Using Matic, Nestree will be enabled to scale their blockchain-integrated rewards based messaging application to new levels, providing their growing user base with low-cost, near-instant transactions.

​​Harmony (ONE) will get listed on KuCoin as of August 22. Supported trading pairs ONE/BTC and ONE/USDT will be available as of 18:00 on August 22 (UTC+8).

​​Cocos-BCX is already available for trading on Binance. Cocos-BCX has closed $44.9M USD private fundraising in August 2018. Initial circulating supply is 15% of total token supply or equivalent of $35M USD based on private sale 2 price.
Private sale price 1: $0.0013
Private sale price 2: $0.0023
Current price: $0.0024

​​BitMart lists the first ever BEP2 token: Agora VOTE. The trading pairs VOTE/BTC and VOTE/ETH will be available as of August 24. Agora has recently announced public fundraising event that will take place on August 23.

​​Huobi FastTrack voting has started. Arpa and Wirex will compete for first place and priority listing on Huobi.
Arpa has closed an initial exchange offering on Biss exchange and Tokenman in April this year. It is available for trading on Gate, KuCoin and Binance DEX at the moment.
Wirex has reached its IEO hardcap in July on OKEx. It is available for trading on OKEx and KuCoin at the moment.
The winner of this activity will be available for trading on Huobi as of August 21, and the runner-up will get listed on August 23. During Huobi FastTrack activity users are able to buy competing tokens with a 50% discount from the market price.

What project will you vote for?

​​Wirex has won Huobi FastTrack activity and will be available for trading on Huobi as of today. WXT/USDT, WXT/BTC and WXT/HT trading pairs will be available as of 22:00, August 21.

​​Pledgecamp is already available for trading on OKEx. Pledgecamp has reached IEO hardcap earlier today on OKEx Jumpstart platform. At the moment PLG is showing the lowest ROI on the first day of trading among all IEO projects on OKEx.
IEO price: $0.0025 USD
Current price: $0.0046 USD
Current ROI: 1.8x

​​IEOs on OKEx: Comparison of initial ROI during the first hours of trading.
PLG: 1.8x
EC: 3.5x
EM: 4.3x
WXT: 3.3x
ETM: 2.9x
ALV: 2.4x
BLOC: 12x

​​TROY raised $10M USD strategic investment by global leading investment firms. BlockVC, NGC Ventures, Signum Capital, Consensus Lab, Bixin Invest, GBIC and AlphaCoin are lead investors.

Troy Trade, derived from Troy Network, is a global prime broker specialized in crypto asset trading. Platform provides crypto brokerage services for institutional-grade capital and professional traders with revolutionary trading products. According to the announcement till now, TROY’s AUM has soared to 25,000 BTC and has achieved $100 million daily trading volume.

https://troytrade.com
https://t.me/TroyTrade_Official