1. CFTC Chair: ‘Explosion of Interest’ in Crypto May Spawn New Clearinghouses
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) expects to see more companies apply to become federally-regulated clearinghouses as a result of growing interest in cryptocurrencies.
Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, testifying on “the state of the CFTC” before the U.S. House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday, said in his opening remarks that the clearinghouses his agency regulates are “critical single points of risk in the global financial system” which continue to grow and become more complex.
[Source: Coindesk] ✩✩✩✩
2. CoinMarketCap to Remove Exchanges From Calculations If They Don’t Provide Mandatory Data
Crypto market cap tracker CoinMarketCap (CMC) will remove exchanges from its calculations if they fail to provide mandatory data by June, the firm wrote in its sixth anniversary blog post on May 1.
CoinMarketCap, a major source of data about all traded digital currencies, has made a series of announcements to celebrate its sixth birthday yesterday.
[Source: Cointelegraph] ✩✩✩✩✩
3. Amazon Web Services Opens Blockchain Building Service Up for Wider Use
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing arm, has launched its Managed Blockchain service for wider use among enterprise clients.
AT&T, Nestle, Accenture and others are already using the service, AWS announced Tuesday.
[Source: Coindesk] ✩✩✩✩
4. Cryptocurrency ATM CoinFlip Delaying Tether USDT Addition Following Recent Allegations
While the marketplace for cryptocurrency appears to have given its consent to Tether and the USDT coin, with the price still hovering around 1 USD, other crypto-based companies are hesitant to engage in the currency following the most recent series of allegations.
[Source: Ethereumworldnews] ✩✩✩
5. Australia: Opposition Labor Party Commits $2.1 Million to Blockchain Academy
In a major push for the development of blockchain skills among the working populace, the Australia Labor Party has announced that it will commit $2.1 million towards the creation of Australia’s first Blockchain Academy in Perth, ZDNet reports, May 1, 2019.
[Source: BTCManager] ✩✩✩
6. Cardano Founder Launches Enterprise Blockchain Framework In Collaboration With Ethiopian Government
Former Ethereum Co-Founder, Founder of Cardano and CEO of IOHK, Charles Hoskinson, announced the launch of an enterprise blockchain framework that aims to provide financial services to billions of people living in African countries.
Known as “Atala” (named after a butterfly that resides in Florida), IOHK’s framework is intended to serve as a solutions provider for developers, companies and governments looking to implement new products.
[Source: Forbes] ✩✩✩
7. Dutch Central Bank Will Keep Embracing DLT, But To-Date Findings Are Not All Positive
The Netherlands’ central bank will continue to experiment with blockchain, but its to-date findings are “not that positive,” according to the bank’s director of payments. Finance publication The Banker reported on the comments on May 1.
[Source: Cointelegraph] ✩✩✩✩
8. Ripple Surges After Nasdaq Adds XRP Liquidity Index, Will Growing Adoption Propel It Higher?
Over the past several months many cryptocurrencies have incurred relatively large gains that have put a significant amount of distance between their current prices and their 2018 lows. But much to the chagrin of investors, Ripple (XRP) has not been one of these cryptos, as it has remained relatively stable around the $0.30 region.
Since Tuesday, however, Ripple has gained some upwards momentum after news broke regarding XRP’s Liquidity Index being added to the Nasdaq Global Index Data Service, joining Bitcoin and Ethereum, which were both added previously.
[Source: NewsBTC] ✩✩
9. New Malware, Shellbot Revealed, with the Ability to Create Crypto Using Others’ Resources, Be Aware
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, security-focused firm, Threat Stack disclosed the findings of a relatively new malware called Shellbot to TechCrunch. As per the claims made, Shellbot — which was first discovered on an unnamed US firm’s server — has the ability to infect computers with Linux servers that carry easy-to-break into passwords, and then using the resources found to create cryptocurrencies.
[Source: Bitcoinexchangeguide] ✩✩✩
10. Brave Reaches 1M Downloads Monthly, Surpassing Firefox, Coinbase, And Binance
The Brave browser, part of the Basic Attention Token (BAT) ecosystem, and which hopes to offers users better privacy and control over their data, has hit an important milestone in its already impressive growth: the browser now receives over 1 million monthly downloads.
[Source: InvestInBlockchain] ✩✩✩
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