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Cryptocurrency News From Japan: August 2 – August 8 in Review

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 3:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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This week’s headlines from Japan included Coincheck readying its digital shareholder meeting solution, GMO Coin announcing negative leverage trading fees, Decurret testing transactions with a power company, Japanese authorities proposing tax changes, and Japanese finance company FISCO developing apps for shareholder voting and staking. Check out some of this week’s crypto and blockchain headlines, originally reported by Cointelegraph Japan.Coincheck setting up for digital shareholder service As Tokyo-based crypto exchange Coincheck readies its new digital meeting avenue, the exchange's co-founder expressed confidence in the project. Known as Sharely, unveiled in June 2020, the

Chinese State Grid Launches Blockchain-Based Blackout Insurance Policy

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 1:30 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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A branch of China’s state-backed grid released its first blockchain-powered blackout insurance policy issued to the chairman of a local company that needed to compensate for a power outage loss suffered recently.According to Shupeidian, Zhejiang Ningbo Power Supply Company, in partnership with Yingda Taihe Property Insurance Co., Ltd., released the policy to a sprinkler manufacturing company in Ningbo, Zhejiang province.Both companies believe that the process of issuing insurance via a blockchain network provides a commercial solution to compensate for the loss caused by an electric outage in a faster and

Slow But Steady: FATF Review Highlights Crypto Exchanges’ Struggle to Meet AML Standards

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 9:00 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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In June 2019, the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) introduced its revised set of standards for virtual asset service providers. The document establishes the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements that regulated VASPs —  the term mainly referring to cryptocurrency trading platforms — must eventually implement in their day-to-day operations. The guidelines are framed as recommendations, and the FATF leaves it to the participating nations’ governments to develop their own regulations in accordance with suggested principles.The watchdog has also set a 12-month review timeframe to monitor the public and

TikTok Ban: The Beginning of a New Age in Social Networks?

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 8:28 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that forbids American companies to transact with Tencent and Bytedance. The ban comes after a long debate involving alleged data mining from apps like WeChat and TikTok. Following the ban, Tencent shares fell 5%. American companies will effectively have 45 days to stop transacting with these companies. The ban is sparking worldwide debate regarding the boundaries of national security. Is this an opportunity for decentralized social media platforms to step up? Tencent and the Yuan Plummet The announcement was immediately felt on

Major South Korean Bank Joins the Crypto Custody Business

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Time Stamp: August 7, 2020 10:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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KB Kookmin Bank, one of the largest banks in South Korea, has partnered with blockchain venture fund, Hashed, and crypto trading platform, Cumberland Korea, to establish “strategic technology cooperation” on the custody of digital assets.The companies belonging to the partnership state that their inception into the crypto custody business is a response to regulatory changes. These changes encouraged them to look into new business models — specifically ones which rely on blockchain technology.Simon Kim, CEO of the Seoul and San Francisco-based firm, Hashed, stated:"Combining our insight in the blockchain industry

Curve Finance Guide – How to Make Money with Curve (CRV)

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Time Stamp: August 7, 2020 11:59 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The Curve Protocol is one of the largest and most used projects in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. It is integrated with most DeFi protocols and has seen rapid adoption in a short window. It’s essentially the most competent automated market maker (AMM) out there for stablecoins and wrapped tokens. Curve’s most valuable accomplishment has been giving people incentive to contribute liquidity and earn rewards over their idle assets. A community-based project, the protocol innovates continuously and is now progressing towards total decentralization.  In this guide, we take a look

InstaDapp Guide: Bridge to All DeFi Platforms

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Time Stamp: August 5, 2020 11:21 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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One of the drawbacks of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols today is that you need different platforms to perform specific functions instead of having them all in one place. And that’s the problem that Instadapp is trying to solve. Instadapp is a DeFi platform that provides users and developers with a single point of integration to access all the DeFi protocols. As we are in the early days of the decentralized web, Instadapp aims to be a window into multiple DeFi services — tools that make transactions of crypto assets easier.

A befektetők az altcoinok felé mozdultak el júliusban

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Time Stamp: August 5, 2020 1:01 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Az eToro kereskedési platform most közzétett jelentése szerint júliusban az altcoinok népszerűsége rendkívül megnőtt. Habár még mindig a bitcoin a legnépszerűbb kriptovaluta, az eToro trading felület legfrissebb jelentése szerint a vezető kriptovaluta kereskedési volumene csak 7%-kal emelkedett. Az altcoinokról viszont már nem mondható el ugyanez. Júliusban valósággal szárnyaltak a kevesebb piaci kapitalizációval bíró kriptovaluták. A legjelentősebb emelkedést a binance coin érte el 521%-os növekedéssel. Júniusban még a 15. helyen állt, júliusban már a 6. helyen. A zcash is jelentős ugrást tett a 13. helyről, a 7. helyre jutott, köszönhetően annak,

dYdX Full Guide: A DeFi Margin DEX

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Time Stamp: August 5, 2020 6:52 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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DeFi protocol dYdX might seem like another trading and lending platform based on Ethereum, but that’ only the tip of the iceberg. Probing further, you’ll find out that this protocol is challenging the status quo to take Decentralized Finance to new heights. Margin trading, derivatives, and options are the relevant tools that power traders use. Unfortunately, in the crypto space, these tools are mostly available only on centralized exchanges like Binance, Huobi, and Kraken. With dYdX, the entire traditional trading spectacle is now built in a permissionless and decentralized mechanism. Table

Why Klaytn and Link Will Catalyze Blockchain Adoption in Asia

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Time Stamp: August 4, 2020 12:23 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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In the last two years, popular messaging giants in Asia and Europe have announced plans to launch a blockchain-powered cryptocurrency. In Asia, Kakao’s Klaytn and Line’s Link platform have launched and are quickly gaining momentum, but Facebook and Telegram’s cryptocurrencies have not fared so well. Messaging Giants Pushing Blockchain Adoption As it stands, Kakao is by far the most dominant mobile platform in Korea with a market share of 97% in the country. Kakao subsidiary Ground X began development of Klaytn back in 2019, after raising $90 million in both

2021-ben hat új bankkal bővül a Google Pay tábora

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Time Stamp: August 4, 2020 10:58 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Noha a legtöbb bankszámla tulajdonos valószínűleg már nagyon kevés papíralapú csekket ír, azonban a bankszámlák kezelésének továbbra is ez a kulcsa. Ugyanis ezekhez a bankszámlákhoz általában hitelkártyák vannak rendelve. Ma már számos bankkártyát össze lehet kapcsolni egy okostelefonnal vagy okosórával a digitális fizetéshez, a Google azonban felismert egy újabb lehetőséget a terület kiaknázására. Kihagyja a közvetítőt és a felhasználó közvetlenül a Google Pay alkalmazás szolgáltatásán keresztül nyithat bankszámlát és kezelheti megtakarításait. Tavaly novemberben tette lehetővé a Google az FDIC által támogatott bankokkal együtt, hogy az ügyfelek közvetlenül a platformon keresztül

mStable DeFi Guide: Ultimate Stablecoin Solution

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Time Stamp: August 4, 2020 10:44 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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mStable is a newly launched DeFi protocol aimed at streamlining the application of stablecoins in a unified ecosystem it aims to create. There are many projects that seek to increase the adoption of cryptos by linking them to traditional financial systems. Stablecoins, for one, have been created to do just that. Using blockchain and smart contracts, the crypto community has devised a way to make digital asset representation of fiat currencies. But even behind the recent developments surrounding stablecoins, a concern still remains: the assets that back the number of