Monday, October 21, 2019

Chainpoint 19 Review

Chainpoint is a yearly conference established to introduce opportunities regarding blockchain in different industries. Chainpoint 19 was held on October 14-15 at Hotel Dvin in Yerevan, Armenia and included numerous presentations and discussions.

There was a variety of guest speakers at the event ranging from the Armenian Minister of Economics, Tigran Khachatryan, to the Head of Business Development at bitcoin.com, Christopher Emms. However, some of them stood out more than others.

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One of the most exciting discussion panels was “The Economy of Tomorrow.” The participants were Ralph Liu, The CEO of Mulechain, Nicolai Reinbold, Ecosystem director at CVVC and Yves-Laurent Kayan, CEO of CoinPlus. During the discussion, Yves-Laurent Kayan stressed the point that in order for cryptocurrency to reach mainstream adoption and become a part of the economy of tomorrow, it has to overcome numerous obstacles. Ralph Liu, on the other hand, emphasized how blockchain will help to digitize everything around us and also facilitate a more connected economy.

The most important part of this speech was Ralph Liu’s outlook on how blockchain will support the economy of the future. He emphasized four sectors: decentralization, connecting the economy, become a bridge for tokenizing assets and creating a P2P (person-to-person) shared economy.

Throughout the discussion, Reinbold talked about blockchain startups and stated which startups work. In his opinion, the startups that use the blockchain technology in a relevant manner and have a good team. He also said that startups that have the most potential nowadays are in fintech, healthcare, and real estate sectors.

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During Liu’s solo speech on Decentralized Delivery, he talked about his startup by the name of MuleChain, which brought decentralization to a whole new level. It is a Person-To-Person decentralized delivery service, where everyone is their own boss. MuleChain creates jobs around the world without them spending much money and monetizing their own resources.

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The next day, there was an interesting discussion titled “Investments In Blockchain,” which differed from others in the sense that not all speakers were fond of cryptocurrency and blockchain. Hayk Yeganyan, the CEO of the Armenian Securities Exchange, clearly showed his dislike towards Security Tokens. He didn’t feel like companies need to disclose more information to investors and become more transparent. Yet, other speakers argued that transparency would benefit small investors more and companies would disclose the information to all investors and not a few big ones.

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In the next discussion, “Regulate the Unregulated,” speakers discussed regulators and one of them made a point that people in the government are usually a lot older and the users of blockchain and crypto coins are young. Hence, people in the government are not equipt with the knowledge to regulate the crypto sphere. On the other hand, overregulation has the potential to disrupt progress and stop innovation. Due to regulations, 90 percent of the blockchain industry can be excluded.

Overall, Chainpoint 19 was an excellent event for blockchain enthusiasts and startup leaders, and it was a wonderful opportunity for meeting people in the same field, networking as well as presenting your startup ideas out there.

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Sunday, October 20, 2019

Ripple XRP Sales Down 73% in Q3

Ripple XRP Sales Down 73% in Q3

 

Ripple published the Q3 XRP Markets Report. It contains updates of the quarterly sales, announcements of Xpring & RippleNet collaborations, observation of the market developments during the previous quarter, the official announcement reports.

As indicated, within the 3rd quarter the XRP sales have considerably been reduced for 73.7% setting $66.24 mln as a consequence of the Ripple plan to move to a more moderate volume of XRP sales.

During the last quarter, the XRP market cap has decreased for 30.4% and the value of XRP has reduced for 35.4% QoQ. During this period, 3 billion XRP were released out of cryptographic escrow (1 bln every month), 2.3 billion of which were returned to escrow. At present, XRP is listed on 140 exchanges around the world.

As reported, the daily average volume of XRP was $198.1 million compared with the $429.5 million of Q2, and the volatility was 3.6% (vs Q2’s 5%), on the basis of the reported volume by CCTT. As reported, the volatility of XRP was lower than the other top cryptocurrencies’ volatility (BTC’s volatility – 3.9%, ETH’s volatility – 4.3%).

Concluding, the Report noted that the stats are a sign of the crypto market ongoing growth and that Ripple will keep taking active steps to address disinformation and FUD, as they believe dynamic communication is part of being a responsible stakeholder.

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HTC Launches a Cheaper Blockchain Smartphone

HTC Launches a Cheaper Blockchain Smartphone

The Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is launching a low-cost variant of its blockchain-friendly phone, the Exodus 1s.

The tech giant is sure the new release will stick out in the smartphone market and has an intention to attract customers who are indecisive about purchasing crypto-assets and costly smartphones.

The new device cuts the price and costs $244 or the equivalent in crypto. However, according to DCO at HTC Phil Chen, the new smartphone entirely differs from the old version. The main distinguishing factor is considered the Bitcoin blockchain storing 400 GB memory card on the smartphone, enabling users to exchange, send and receive digital assets.

“We are providing the tools for access to universal basic finance; the tools to have a metaphorical Swiss bank in your pocket.” Phil Chen states.

In addition, he notes that the 1st phone achieved the company’s sales targets:

“The Exodus 1 is still available & is hitting our internal targets. We have been delighted with the response.”

Furthermore, Chen clearly indicates that this isn’t a one-time project:

“Cryptocurrency technology is the next frontier of smartphone innovation. For the smartphone category to grow again, we need more adoption of cryptophones.”

HTC announces that during the starting period the acquisition of the new smartphones will be available online on Europe, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and in the future the market will be expanded.

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Friday, October 18, 2019

Cardano Partners with New Balance

Cardano Partners with New Balance

New Balance Athletics Inc. reported about the partnership with Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) to create the NB Realchain, a pilot program powered by the blockchain technology of Cardano.

The pilot authentication program is specifically designed to secure the authenticity of its collector’s edition shoes. The limited edition New Balance basketball athletic footwear will be launched soon featuring a new blockchain authentication verification system, which is developed with IOHK.

Ian Fitzpatrick, who is the head of Global Digital & Content at New Balance noted that they used the blockchain technology in order to innovate consumer lifecycle’s lots of points and help consumers be sure about the quality of the bought footwear.

NB Realchain app is currently available on the app store. First shoe will release “OMN1S” today.

CEO of IOHK Charles Hoskinson mentioned that they definitely believe the New Balance OMN1S is going to be only the 1st of lots of upcoming products authenticated as authentic with the blockchain technology.

IOHK has an intention to go further in developing its Cardano blockchain technology, cooperating with governments and corporations in Georgia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, with the intention to use the technology to permit the proof of products & services’ authenticity.

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Ripple Labs makes Strategic Investment in Towo Labs

Ripple incubator Xpring announced about the investment in Swedish startup Towo Labs.

Towo Labs is designing open-source firmware enabling complete support for the XRP Ledger by the market leading hardware wallets. This means that XRP owners will have the possibility to utilize all the 17 XRPL types of operation in a secure non-custodial fashion.

In accordance with the announcement of Xpring, the startup has developed exceedingly effective resource XRP Toolkit, providing a trustless, non-custodial web interface for XRP Ledger.Advisors of Towo Labs are founder of Secalot Matvey Mukha and founder of XRPL Labs Wietse Wind.

The founder & engineer of Towo Labs Markus Alvila explained how will this Xpring strategic investment help the 2 projects: enabling all XRPL types of operations on hardware wallets and up-to-date XRP toolkit with comprehensive hardware wallet support. He stated that complete XRPL support by popular hardware wallets will enable the operations be prepared from not trustworthy devices & apps before being examined and securely signed inside a hardware wallet.

Speaking about new XRP toolkit, Alvila mentioned that the new edition will have better design, landing page & user documentation as well. Furthermore, it will be carried out as a progressive web application with offline support for operating systems Windows, Linux and macOS, also for mobile operating systems Android & iOS.

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Thursday, October 17, 2019

The First Stellar Conference – Meridian on November

The first Stellar conference, Meridian, will take place on November 4-5, bringing in Stellar developers, cryptoeconomists, technologists, development banks, & regulators to create lots of possibilities for partnerships and active discussions.

“At Meridian, we’ll celebrate the work we have all done, and lay the groundwork for the exponential growth still to come,” reports the official website of the network.

The schedule of the conference includes discussion groups focused on specific themes and technical seminars. There will be discussed fundamental questions that the Stellar network faces; issues regarding inflation and transparency, problems regarding the adoption of cryptocurrencies and marketing strategies.

Among the speakers are names like Saldo.mx CEO Marco Montes Neri, Satoshipay founder Meinhard Benn, Wirex CEO Pavel Matveev and others.

In accordance with the announcement, the Stellar Development Foundation will also report new projects and services of the foundation.

The Stellar network was founded by Jed McCaleb and ex lawyer Joyce Kim in 2014. Jed McCaleb is also the founder of Mt. Gox and co-founder of Ripple. Being live for already 5 years, Stellar has seen significant price growths during these years. This network is used to make it easier cross-asset transfers of value.

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John Bollinger: “Wait for a Head Fake”

After the Bitcoin price once again dropping to $8,000 on October 17, technical analyst, inventor of Bollinger Bands indicator John Bollinger noted that at present there is a high probability for a head-fake.

A head-fake appears when the value of a particular crypto coin all of a sudden makes a huge movement in the reverse direction. It usually takes place at key breakout points, like major support or resistance levels, or closely watched moving averages.

Bitcoin has been stuck in a sideways trading range for about 3 weeks with some significant movements.

With the Bollinger Bands traders have to expect another notable price movement that will determine multi-billion dollars’ future.

Recently, co-founder at Blockroots and crypto trader Josh Rager noted that the BBs started to pinch meaning that traders will perhaps see several fireworks in the short-term. Nevertheless, the bears could find themselves in one of the biggest traps of 2019.

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