#Altcoins News

MakerDAO to Rollout Multi-Collateral DAI on November 18

October 9, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

Maker Foundation CEO, Rune Christensen, announced that Multi-Collateral DAI (MCD) is scheduled to go live on November 18. In his announcement at DevCon Osaka, Christensen was talking about emerging trends in DeFi before dropping this news on the audience. MCD involves the rollout of the much-awaited DAI Savings Rate (DSR),...

ChainLink and Intel Drive Privacy Intensive Oracle Solutions

October 8, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

Blockchains have the ability to give corporations privacy and scalability in their transactional layers. However, public blockchains are currently sub-par in terms of privacy. ChainLink has devised an oracle to route transactional computation off-chain to its proprietary Trusted Computation Framework (TCF), October 7, 2019. Smart Contract Privacy on Public Ledgers...

NBA Outfit Sacramento Kings Launches DLT-Powered Token for Its Predictive Gaming App

October 8, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins

In a press release issued on October 7, 2019, NBA team Sacramento Kings announced that it had launched the league’s first blockchain-powered digital token reward program in partnership with Blockparty. Sacramento Kings Going for the Blockchain Slam Dunk Sports, and in particular, the world of basketball, noticeably seems to have...

South Korea: Hyundai’s Crypto Arm Set to Launch Mainnet, dApps

October 8, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins

According to an October 6, 2019, report by South Korean media outlet The Financial News, Hyundai’s blockchain and cryptocurrency arm, Hdac, is set to invest $10 million in the industry to develop its own mainnet, decentralized applications (dApps), and fund other burgeoning startups with high potential and ceiling in the...

Facebook Man and Telegram GRAM Man Libra arm wrestle over Bitcoin

Facebook Vs. Telegram: A Decisive Battlefield of Opposite Approaches to Cryptocurrency

October 7, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

Two formidable messaging rivals meet yet again, but this time in a new arena. Facebook and Telegram are taking antithetical strategies when it comes to digital currencies. Facebook is consulting with regulators and holding their hands as they walk them through the process, and Telegram planned it's entire move in...

Guys looking at Libra on whiteboard perplexed

Speculators Heaven: CoinFLEX Launches Derivatives to Gamble on Libra Launch

October 7, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

A relatively new cryptocurrency futures exchange, CoinFLEX, has announced they are launching a product for traders to speculate on whether Libra will launch in 2020 or not. As per Bloomberg, the product is designed so that it gives a payout based on whether or not the crypto will launch, but...

Bitfinex Refutes Study Linking Tether (USDT) Issuance to Market Manipulation

October 7, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

Bitfinex has publicly stated that they have caught wind of an unpublished paper that wrongly accuses the Tether stablecoin of being a main force behind the cryptocurrency bull market. The exchange has disputed these conclusions and claims that said the study is based on cherry-picked data and unrealistic assumptions, October...

Apple Magnifying glass looking at cryptocurrency

Apple CEO Tim Cook Denies Interest in Creating an Apple Cryptocurrency

October 4, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

Apple CEO Tim Cook has publicly declared that the giant tech company is not planning to launch its own corporate cryptocurrency according to an interview on CNBC on October 3. Mr. Cooks highlighted that Apple does not believe in the idea of private corporations setting up private currencies that compete...

Meet Jeff McDonald, Council Member of the NEM.io Foundation

October 4, 2019 by Guest Post at Altcoins

Can you tell us a bit about your background? I am a former Peace Corps volunteer where I spent two years serving in Lesotho, Africa helping with HIV/AIDS education. Later I was an assistant professor teaching first year communication classes in Korea for 10 years. Now I am the co-founder...

U.S. Congress Summons Mark Zuckerberg to Testify on Libra Cryptocurrency

October 4, 2019 by Anthonia Isichei at Altcoins

Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, is scheduled to appear before the U.S. House Committee later in October to discuss the Libra cryptocurrency. However, according to a report by The Information on October 4. 2019, there is a condition that needs to be met before Sandberg’s appearance – Mark Zuckerberg...

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