Worlds continue to converge between institutions and the nascent frontier of digital assets. GMEX is moving things forward with a little help from IBM, announcing the latest release of its Fusion Digital Capital Markets technology suite, named GMEX Fusion. The suite is built on the IBM Blockchain Platform, giving institutional investors a hybrid solution for a variety of financial instruments in the digital realm.
The Joint Research Center, the science and knowledge service for the European Commission, recently released a report which assessed the multidimensional impacts of blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies.
The report, Blockchain Now And Tomorrow, is remarkably bullish on the technology’s transformative potential. The paper asserts that:
Markets are in a state of flux, with several cryptocurrencies rising by double digits. After several months of dashed hopes, many investors are wondering if today’s gains are the beginning of a long-postponed altseason. Those hopes are stoked by the fact that Bitcoin remains range-bound, after several weeks of uninterrupted increases for BTC dominance.
In this series on Bitcoin and money, Crypto Briefing takes a deep dive into the complexities of the modern monetary system and how Bitcoin, as the ultimate hard money, can serve as a solution to many of its problems.
Stellar‘s price action today is…pretty stellar. XLM is leading the markets, having surged by as much as 40% since yesterday morning. After trading for around six cents for most of the past month, the fast-payments token has broken out of its tight range, to surge past $0.09 before starting to decline.
The IOTA Foundation is taking a major step towards ensuring permanency in the Tangle, announcing a “Permanode” technology called Chronicle.
IOTA is designed as a protocol for the permissionless and frictionless exchange of value between machines and humans, with the Tangle acting as a distributed ledger. Using the new permanode technology, users will be able to securely store data, where it will be “verifiable to third parties for free.”
XRP has finally made an upside recovery after spending close to five weeks trading under the psychological $0.3000 level. A broad-based rally in the altcoin space inspired the XRP / USD pair to move to its highest trading level since August 8th this year.
In 2017, China dominated cryptocurrency headlines – but to many observers, it’s now all quiet on the eastern front. But don’t let the diminished focus fool you – Chinese blockchain projects continue to innovate and build; and some are moving ever-closer to major global adoption.
Venture capital and crypto are now colliding in ways that were unthinkable only a few years ago. When Tim Draper began his career, he would often see periods of too much VC money chasing too few ideas.
That dynamic has now shifted with the emergence of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, giving Draper Associates the ability to pick and choose among the best implementations of the new tech.
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