1. Crypto Exchange Binance to Launch Singapore Branch in April, CZ (not giving crypto away)Says
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of second-largest crypto exchange Binance, has announced that its branch in Singapore will open in April. A Cointelegraph correspondent reported on the development on April 4 from the Deconomy conference in Seoul.
[Source: Cointelegraph] ✩✩✩✩✩
2. dogecoin Hits the Big Leagues: Elon Musk’s Favorite Cryptocurrency Now Listed by Huobi Global
Veteran exchange Huobi announced today that it would be listing three pairs for Dogecoin: DOGE/BTC, DOGE/ETH, and DOGE/USDT. Huobi writes in their announcement:
“In a dedicated effort to provide our customers with carefully vetted and high-quality trading options, we are announcing support for a new addition to the Huobi Marketplace: Dogecoin (DOGE).”
[Source: CCN] ✩✩✩✩✩
3. Coinbase Among the LinkedIn Top 50 Most Sought after Companies in the US in 2019
LinkedIn released its top 50 companies in the US for this year that people wants to work in. Coinbase is the only company from the cryptocurrency space that made it among the top 50 that includes the likes of Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon, Salesforce, Deloitte, Uber, Apple, and Airbnb among others.
[Source: Bitcoinexchangeguide] ✩✩✩✩
4. South Korean Officials Consider Revision of Existing Crypto Regulations
South Korean officials are considering a revision of existing regulatory frameworks regarding digital currencies, local media outlet ZDNet Korea reported on April 4.
[Source: Cointelegraph] ✩✩✩✩
5. Bitcoin (BTC) Beats Mastercard in Number of Transactions, Surpasses PayPal in Tx Volume, Bests Visa’s Average Tx Sum: New Crypto Research
Cryptocurrencies data analytics platform DataLight has issued a report comparing Bitcoin as a method of payment against Visa, MasterCard and PayPal. The research weighs traditional financial indicators such as annual price changes and changes in capitalization. According to the report, Visa is in the lead among the four contenders with 124 billion transactions per year on the platform. PayPal lagged in last place with 10 billion transactions while Bitcoin posted the second highest level of transactions per year with 81 billion, higher than Mastercard’s 74 billion yearly transactions. The average Bitcoin transaction sum of $400,000, however, was the highest among the four payment methods.
[Source: The Daily Hodl] ✩✩✩
6. UN Agency President: Aviation Industry Stands To Gain Many Benefits From Using Blockchain
Olumuyiwa Benard Alu, the president of the United Nation’s specialized agency for aviation, has recently talked about the blockchain technology. He affirmed that the emergent technology can bring several kinds of benefits for the global aviation industry.
[Source: Bitcoinexchangeguide] ✩✩✩
7. Russian Gas Company Gazprom To Put Contracts And Data On A Blockchain
Alexey Miller, head of Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom, met with Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev to report the company’s findings regarding the development of a prototype blockchain platform. The new platform is said to automatically generate contracts related to gas supply agreements, improve the security of data, and allow data sharing between specific participants.
[Source: ETHnews] ✩✩✩
8. Financial Regulatory Agency in Belgium Blacklists 120 Crypto Scam Websites
Belgium’s regulatory watchdog, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) decided to update its crypto-website blacklist. In a recent statement released by the regulatory agency, they have added a few websites to the list that now has 120 sites.
[Source: Bitcoinexchangeguide] ✩✩✩
9. Cambodia and Singapore strengthen cooperation in FinTech Innovation
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen cooperation in FinTech innovation between both countries yesterday.
[Source: Monetary Authority of Singapore] ✩✩✩
10. Coinbase , Paradigm Invest $15 Million in Startup Behind Disappearing Blockchain
A blockchain that makes its blocks disappear has raised a fresh $15 million. Coda protocol, announced last May as the first project of the startup O(1) Labs, was initially backed by a seed equity round from MetaStable, Electric Capital, Polychain and AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now, investors Accomplice, Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm and General Catalyst are pumping an additional $15 million into the startup.
[Source: Coindesk] ✩✩✩
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