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Ashwath Balakrishnan
Ashwath is a financial market and technology junkie. He is a cryptocurrency investor, trader, and enthusiast. He has expertise in market psychology and explaining complex technology in a simple way. He aims to battle misinformation in the cryptocurrency space.
Wikipedia, the free web-based encyclopedia, has officially been onboarded as a verified publisher, August 28, 2019. Wikipedia is the world's largest online information platform, boasting over 50 million articles in 300 different languages. It is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a not for profit organization that relies on donations to...
The most awaited development in crypto is less than a month away from swinging in with full force. Bakkt will be launching their futures contracts on September 23, 2019, but have announced in a tweet on August 28, 2019, that they will open their custodial warehouse on September 6. What...
Earlier this month, China publicly confirmed that they have been working on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) and will look to roll out it sometime this year. Binance Research published a detailed review of the structure and issuance mechanism for the network and the underlying currency, August 28, 2019....
Numerai has been making strides since they first launched their outsourced analysis contest. Now, they've announced their deployment on the Ethereum blockchain, August 27, 2019. Numerai allows participants to make price predictions for stocks in the Russell 3000 index on a daily basis and be rewarded if they have a...
Alibaba, Tencent, Union Pay, and other large financial institutions are reported to be the the first receivers of China's sovereign cryptocurrency initiative, as per Forbes, August 27, 2019. Paul Schulte, the ex-head of global financial strategy at the China Construction Bank is the main spruce behind the information. A second...
The Libra Association has launched a bug bounty program for their testnet, with the goal of attracting more developers to audit their code base and reveal critical issues that could cripple the network, August 27, 2019. Rewards will go up to $10,000 depending on the severity of the bug, and...
Kain Warwick, founder of decentralized investment platform Synthetix, has succinctly organized his views on why Synthetix chose Ethereum over EOS, and what advantages Ethereum has accrued in the last 5 years of its existence, August 27, 2019. Ethereum's Monopolistic Advantages Synthetix initially looked into EOS as a way to deploy...
Crypto trading is coming to Telegram with support from Button Wallet, as per Forbes, August 26, 2019. The wallet provider unveiled it will be the first free cryptocurrency trading platform to run off Telegram's Open Network (TON), and they will be giving away Telegram's GRAM tokens to garner more users....
The court drama has finally come to an end with Magistrate Bruce Reinhart recommending that Wright must pay 5 billion dollars to Kleiman's estate as well as give up half of his intellectual property held before December 31, 2013. Details of the case have not been published for the public...
The Ethereum Foundation has updated its community via a blog post on the projects and developers who have been giving a grant for their work on ETH 2.0 and ETH 1.x, August 26, 2019. ETH 2.0 is scheduled for early January 2020, but some people have their doubts whether this...
