Cuba studying cryptocurrency as part of economic crisis measures.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-economy/cuba-studying-cryptocurrency-as-part-of-economic-crisis-measures-idUSKCN1TY04X

Gate has announced the next IEO.
Vidy IEO will be held on July 8, 4:00 UTC.
IEO Hard Cap: $1,200,000

https://www.gate.io/startup/7
https://www.gate.io/article/16934

The Second Bibox Orbit (launchpad) Program Launching Soon.

https://bibox.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021625574--Announcement-The-First-Phase-of-Bibox-Orbit-Will-Officially-Launch-On-04-22-2019

Cred (LBA) and Hycon (HYC) have been listed on Bithumb.
Trading: July 4.

https://twitter.com/BithumbOfficial/status/1146588007018848256

Less than 4 hours left before the start of trading Elrond on Binance and Binance Dex.

https://wnbp.info/s/ElrondtotheMoon
💧 https://icodrops.com/elrond-network/

Binance Charity launched a fundraiser for a new charity program dedicated to helping women in poor countries of the world (providing personal hygiene products).

https://www.binance.charity/period-poverty

BetProtocol has announced a partnership with Ankr.

https://medium.com/@betprotocol/betprotocol-and-ankr-enabling-fully-distributed-online-gaming-49eefc9e517d
💧 https://icodrops.com/betprotocol/
💧 https://icodrops.com/ankr-network/

Elrond has been listed on Binance and Binance DEX and is now trading at ~ 13x from the IEO price, peaking at 50x.

https://www.binance.com/en/trade/ERD_USDT
💧 https://icodrops.com/elrond-network/

Binance Chain validators agree to have a scheduled hardfork upgrade at block height 20,300,000. Based on the current block generation speed, it is forecasted to be around 15th July 7:00 UTC.

https://community.binance.org/topic/487/binance-chain-mainnet-upgrade-announcement

The fourth Huobi Global's FastTrack vote starts today: 12:00-12:59 UTC.
The remaining project, Origo.Network, will be successfully listed on Huobi Global on the same day if the total votes received is equal to or more than the average number of votes received in the previous 3 rounds. (i.e. 27,546,265 HT). If the total number of votes do not meet the minimum vote count threshold, the project will rollover to the next FastTrack voting phase.

https://www.hbg.com/en-us/topic/fast-track/vote/
https://huobiglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000322361-FastTrack-4th-Round-of-Voting-Premieres-July-04
💧 icodrops.com/origo-network

Tether printed 100,000,000 USDT an hour ago.

https://whale-alert.io/transaction/ethereum/f087afe3d55249be3200ebe80a71e4576cc6276d486d0d6cb572d83d080cacf7

The fourth round of Huobi FastTrack voting has started.

https://www.hbg.com/en-us/topic/fast-track/vote/
💧 https://icodrops.com/origo-network/

Origo received the required number of votes for listing.

https://www.hbg.com/en-us/topic/fast-track/vote/
💧 https://icodrops.com/origo-network/

Origo.Network has won Huobi Global FastTrack Vote.

https://www.hbg.com/en-us/topic/fast-track/vote/
💧 https://icodrops.com/origo-network/

The second phase of Huobi Global's FastTrack vote starts 10th July 12:00 UTC.

https://huobiglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000327342-FastTrack-Phase-2-Vote-to-List-Premieres-July-10

Origo.Network has been listed on Huobi Global.
After the news, the OGO increased by ~80%.

https://www.hbg.com/en-us/exchange/ogo_usdt/

Summary on a new project on Bitmax.io - DeepCloud AI.

https://medium.com/@DeepCloud_AI/deepcloud-ai-to-enter-partnership-with-bitmax-and-launch-public-sale-token-metrics-contribution-a3ce8e8bb3c8
https://bitmaxhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026003033
💧 https://icodrops.com/deepcloud-ai/

Binance lists Dogecoin.
Trading: July 5, 12:00 UTC.
After the news, DOGE increased by ~30%.

https://twitter.com/binance/status/1147041439903125504
https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360030488211

Banco BTG Pactual S.A., Latin America’s largest standalone investment bank, together with Dalma Capital, a prominent Dubai asset manager, have announced plans to utilize the Tezos blockchain for Security Token Offerings (STOs). By utilizing the new platform for digital securities transactions, the financial institutions address a deal pipeline in excess of $1bn for existing and prospective token issuances.

https://tezos.foundation/news/btg-pactual-and-dalma-capital-to-utilize-tezos-blockchain-for-security-token-offerings-stos
💧 icodrops.com/tezos

Binance Research: 2019 Q2 Crypto-Correlations Review

✔️Cryptocurrencies have experienced the best 3-month growth since 2017.
✔️BTC correlation with other cryptoassets fell significantly in Q2.
✔️Cryptoassets with more important idiosyncratic factors such as BNB, LINK or BSV exhibited relatively low average correlations with other cryptoassets.
✔️“Binance effect”: coins not listed on Binance exhibited lower average correlations than coins listed on Binance.
✔️PoW cryptocurrency average correlations fell the most in Q2, compared to Q1.
✔️Privacy coins exhibit higher than average correlations with each other.
✔️Similar functions seem to lead to higher than average, correlations between two cryptoassets.
✔️Cryptoassets that conducted a public sale on Binance Launchpad are, on average, less correlated with others.

https://info.binance.com/en/research/marketresearch/correlations-q2-2019.html

VeChain kicks off the first phase of the $25 million VET buyback plan. Over the next quarter, VeChain will purchase no less than $5 million USD worth of VET from the open market.

https://medium.com/@vechainofficial/vechain-kicks-off-the-first-phase-of-the-25-million-equivalent-of-vet-buyback-plan-8d8e47c22799