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​​Stablecoin Issuers May Need Licenses in Texas, Unlike Most Crypto Startups

Stablecoins may qualify as “money” under Texas law, according to updated guidance from the state Department of Banking.

A memo published Wednesday by Texas Banking Commissioner Charles Cooper outlines how cryptocurrencies are to be treated under local and federal regulations, in particular adding details of how stablecoins backed by sovereign, or fiat, currencies may be assessed.

The guidance builds upon a previous memo released by the state in 2014, which described how cryptocurrency companies with operations in Texas should treat the nascent asset class.

As in the previous version, Cooper notes that cryptocurrencies are not treated as money under Texas law, and exchanging cryptocurrencies for fiat does not count as “currency exchange.” As such, startups do not need to acquire currency exchange licenses to conduct transactions – making the Lone Star State one of the nation’s most permissive.

However, in the revised version Cooper adds that stablecoins may fall under existing definitions of “money” or “monetary value,” and therefore anyone who purchases the stablecoin has a claim to the sovereign currency assets underlying the tokens they possess.

This is “because the issuer has taken on the obligation to provide sovereign currency in exchange for the stablecoin at a later time,” Cooper writes.


​​A Nasdaq-powered crypto startup plans to let its clients indirectly purchase shares of major firms through a token-based platform.

Estonia-based DX.Exchange announced Thursday that it would launch its trading platform on Jan. 7, allowing its clients to purchase crypto tokens representing shares in different tech firms listed on the Nasdaq exchange. Customers will be able to use select cryptocurrencies, as well as fiat currencies to purchase the tokens.

The company will use Nasdaq’s matching engine to facilitate the trading of digital securities, as well as protect against market manipulation. DX.Exchange customers will not be purchasing ownership of shares directly, but rather, will purchase tokens which represent shares in a company, COO Amedeo Moscato told CoinDesk.

“Henceforth, when they become a token holder, they own stocks or portions of the company’s stock, as the tokens are backed 1:1 to the real-world stocks. That makes them entitled to the same cash dividends that the stocks are worth,” he explained.

MPS Marketplace Securities, Ltd, which DX.Exchange has an agreement with, will purchase the real-world stocks based on customer demand, and generate ERC-20 tokens to represent each share.

The actual shares themselves would be stored in a segregated account separate from any of MPS’ internal funds or usage. This is intended to act as a safeguard against the company having issues or filing for bankruptcy, he explained.

Moreover, MPS will fall under the supervision of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, while DX.Exchange will abide by European Union regulations and authorities.

At launch, MPS said it will purchase shares in AlphaBet, Apple, Amazon.com, Facebook, Microsoft Corporation, Tesla, Netflix, Baidu, Intel Corporation and Nvidia.


​​Huobi to Launch Crypto Exchange Dedicated to EOS

Huobi Pool, Huobi Group’s cryptocurrency mining arm, will launch a EOS-dedicated cryptocurrency exchange in Q1 2019, the company said last week. The new exchange will allow users to trade EOS against “a number of other cryptocurrencies.” Cao Fei, CEO of Huobi Pool, said launching an EOS exchange “is simply the next logical step in our …
The post Huobi to Launch Crypto Exchange Dedicated to EOS appeared first on Coinjournal.


XRP Gateway Firm Earthport Bought by Visa for $252 Million

Visa as just announced it is buying British cross-border payments processor firm Earthport, for £198 million, reported Reuters on December 27, 2018. Earthport Acquisition Visa Inc (V.N) has announced it is buying Earthport Plc (EPO.L), a British company enabling cross-border transactions for banks and financial businesses using the blockchain technology. The deal is going to cost 198 million pounds, as...Read More. The post by Nuno Menezes appeared first on BTCManager, Bitcoin, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency News


​​The Italian government has published its list of 30 blockchain high-level experts to further its integration of the technology at state level, Cointelegraph Italy reported Dec. 27.

The result of a four-month hiring and consultation process, the group will work for free advising authorities how to create a “national strategy on distributed register and blockchain technologies.”

The project is being convened by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MSE).

“Emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain are intended to radically change our lives, the society in which we live and the economic and productive fabric of the country,” deputy prime minister and minister of economic development Luigi Di Maio said in September.

Maio added:

“Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, are bound to fundamentally change our lives, the society we live in and the economic fabric of our country.”

The participants all come from Italy and are involved in mostly domestic sectors. They include trade association Assobit co-founder Gian Luca Comandini, Italtel head of marketing portfolio Angiolini Giorgio and Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab board of directors member Marcella Atzori.

Italy has sought to extend its monitoring of cryptocurrency-related activities within its borders as well as associated phenomena such as blockchain.

Authorities have released multiple warnings against illegitimate actors in the crypto this month, warning the public to exercise caution.

Italy was also one of seven European Union member states that signed a declaration to promote blockchain use earlier this month.


​​According to the report, GMO’s in-house mining business profitability took a major beating due to the declining cryptocurrency prices. Further, the company’s mining share did not increase as expected because of the rise of the global hash rate, which went well beyond GMO’s initial estimates.

Seeing the current crypto business environment, the company has decided to record losses from the mining segment as an “extraordinary” $321.6 million on their balance sheet.

The report reads in part:

“After taking into consideration changes in the current business environment, the company expects that it is difficult to recover the carrying amounts of the in-house-mining-related business assets, and therefore, it has been decided to record an extraordinary loss.”

The company also published a summary of questions pertaining to a conference call for institutional investors held on December 25, 2018.


​​Corporate Blockchain Adoption Reaches 44%, Says Survey

Indian telecoms giant Tata Communications named the key barriers to blockchain adoption for businesses globally, in a survey published Dec. 12.

Part of a survey on emerging sectors — dubbed ‘The Cycle of Progress’ — Tata’s report noted concerns around costs, security and privacy as the “key adoption barriers for business decision makers” considering the implementation of new technologies.

The survey also highlighted a growing skills gap as one of the major challenges in the adoption of new technology, including blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

The report also noted, however, that “regardless of where their business is on its digital transformation journey, decision makers are firmly focused on the positive impact of technology.”

“The Cycle of Progress sounds a warning call for businesses, with a clear ‘perception versus reality’ gap emerging between different levels in organisations, as innovation gathers momentum,” Tata’s chief digital officer C.R. Srinivasan said, adding:

“This disparity highlights that directors and business unit heads must get better at informing the CEO of any challenges they are facing when rolling out new technologies such as IoT and AI.”


​​Bank of America (BoA) wants to patent a system using blockchain technology to improve cash handling, a new application published Dec. 25 confirms.

Originally submitted in June 2017, the patent references “banking systems controlled by data bearing records.”

“Aspects of the disclosure relate to deploying, configuring, and utilizing cash handling devices to provide dynamic and adaptable operating functions,” its abstract reads.

BoA explains there remain communication difficulties in aspects of cash handling duties across banks’ huge operations, and suggests blockchain could help ease these.

“Cash handling devices may be used in operating centers and other locations to provide various functions, such as facilitating cash withdrawals and deposits,” the patent document continues.

“In many instances, however, it may be difficult to integrate such cash handling devices with technical infrastructure that supports banking operations and other operations while also optimizing the efficient and effective technical operations of the cash handling devices and various related computer systems.”


​​Layoffs Underway Amid ‘Adjustments,’ Bitcoin Miner Bitmain Confirms

Months after it filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain is undergoing a series of business changes that extend even to its China offices, the company confirmed Tuesday.

“There has been some adjustment to our staff this year as we continue to build a long-term, sustainable and scalable business. A part of that is having to really focus on things that are core to that mission and not things that are auxiliary,” a company representative said in a statement.

The discussion of the company cutting off staff first emerged on Maimai, China’s equivalent to LinkedIn, where one anonymous user posted a thread on Dec. 17 asking if anyone had insider information about a possible layoff at Bitmain soon.

The post has generated nearly 200 replies since then, some of which came from other users that appear to be verified Bitmain employees on the social network, who indicated the layoffs would start from the week of Dec. 24.

“It’s affirmative. The layoff will start next week and involves more than 50 percent of the entire Bitmain’s headcount,” replied one verified Bitmain staff on Maimai to the thread.

“Some departments have to be let go entirely,” replied another verified Bitmain employee on the same thread.

Currently, some Bitmain employees have already taken to the social network to discuss their respective layoff compensation packages since the week began. An employee from Bitmain’s China offices, who is still with the company and who spoke to CoinDesk under the condition of anonymity, confirmed the mining giant is indeed undergoing layoff at the moment.

Since it is still an ongoing process, the source said it’s unclear how many people have been impacted so far and was not able to verify the claim of 50 percent layoff.

“But the whole thing certainly couldn’t be handled in just one day given the total number could be large,” the source said, adding:

“This is an operational adjustment. Some projects will be entirely gone so it’s hard to calculate a precise percentage at this stage.”


​​Canadian tech firm Ubique Networks Inc. has signed an agreement with Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) to launch a blockchain-based eSports platform. The agreement was signed on November 14 at the official residence of the Canadian High Commission to Sri Lanka.

The SLT eSports Platform will be powered by Ubique Networks’ Swarmio platform, a decentralized competitive gaming platform that enables eSports enthusiasts to play and organize competitions on latency optimized game servers. Swarmio is the first third-party DApp built on the company’s Q Network. It currently services over 25,000 eSports gamers across multiple geographies.

Vijai Karthigesu, CEO of Ubique Networks, said the SLT eSports Platform “will allow Sri Lankan gamers to raise their profiles to international levels.”


“SLT is using the Swarmio eSports platform and the Q network to deliver a powerful solution to the millennials in Sri Lanka,” he told CoinJournal. He added that SLT has also started, in parallel, a project to build a 5G mobile Internet-of-Things (IoT) DApp for Smart Cities using the Q Network.

The Q Network is a distributed computing network especially designed for interactive, real-time applications that uses unique, proprietary networking, latency optimization technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) to dynamically route data traffic to the point of need in real-time.


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​​Launch of Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Market May Get Postponed Again

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is likely to delay the launch of Bakkt, its bitcoin futures trading and custody platform, a second time, CoinDesk has learned.

The company last set Jan. 24 as the launch date. However, ICE has yet to receive the necessary approvals from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and at the pace the agency has been moving, it is unlikely that approvals will be secured in time to hit that target.

To be clear: That does not mean the CFTC won’t ultimately approve the plan. A person familiar with the agency’s inner workings said even a Jan. 30 launch was still plausible, meaning the delay could be just a matter of days.

Specifically, the CFTC must grant an exemption for Bakkt’s plan to custody bitcoin on behalf of its clients in its own “warehouse,” according to sources familiar with regulatory discussions of the plan. CFTC regulations normally require that customer funds be held by a bank, trust company or futures commission merchant (FCM).

The agency’s staff has finished reviewing Bakkt’s exemption request and passed it to the commission on Friday, one source said. Now the commissioners have to vote on whether to put out the proposal for public comment. After the 30-day comment period, the commissioners would likely take at least a couple days to read the comments, and then vote on the proposal itself.

But here’s the deal: Monday and Tuesday are now federal employee holidays. So unless these government officials decide to work on their days off, the earliest the commissioners are likely to vote on a public comment period and thereby start the 30-day clock is Wednesday, Dec. 26, the day after Christmas.

That already would push any final vote past Bakkt’s Jan. 24 launch target, even without taking into account the time needed to read the public comments. The possibility of a U.S. government shutdown threatens to further delay the process.

The exchange is likely to issue an updated launch target date, but not until next week, another source said.


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​​Ethereum Startup Parity Launches DIY Blockchain Tool Substrate

Parity Technologies has launched Substrate, a tool that lets users create customized blockchains for decentralized applications.

The firm announced Tuesday that Substrate is now available as a beta version, adding that the open-source tech was designed to be “as generic as possible” to allow flexibility when designing blockchains. The included API also lets users create their own consensus mechanism or they can utilize “most” existing algorithms.

Substrate is integrated with the firm’s blockchain interoperability protocol Polkadot and is written in the programming language Rust, while a JavaScript implementation can run in web browsers.

Ethereum co-founder and Parity Technologies founder Gavin Wood said:

“Substrate takes all of our lessons learned in building Ethereum and Polkadot and distills that down into a stack of tooling that allows you to get all of those same rewards.”


​​The Herd and the HODLers: Recovering from Crypto’s Two-Year False Start

David Nage is the founder of Roadmap, LLC and the former Managing Director of Apeiron Ventures, a private investment office. His crypto writings can be found on Medium at @david_55389.

The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.

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This does NOT mean I am going to discuss how bitcoin was X price in December 2017 and that it has since lost Y percent since then – that, in my opinion, helps no one.

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​​Coinbase Ventures Backs $3 Million Round for Trading Data Startup Nomics

Crypto data startup Nomics just secured $3 million in funding from investors including Coinbase Ventures.

The company announced Tuesday that the Series A investment will be used to flesh out its engineering team, as well as continue working to index 95 percent of all data pertaining to how crypto assets are traded.

Led by Arthur Ventures, the round also saw CoVenture Crypto, Digital Currency Group, BitGo co-founder Ben Davenport, CityBlock Capital, King Capital, Polymath and TokenSoft participating.

Nomics CEO and co-founder Clay Collins told CoinDesk that, at present, almost every employee at the startup works on development full-time. That reflects the immense amount of data Nomics is trying to index, he said, explaining:

“While it’s a fairly trivial task to price (and have listings for) 95 percent of all cryptoassets, getting raw ticks/trades, all on-chain data, and orderbook data (including historical order book) for these assets can prove to be quite an engineering challenge.”


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​​The CEO of crypto merchant platform BitPay Stephen Pair stated that speculation on future adoption drives Bitcoin’s (BTC) price more than “actual utility,” in an interview on CNBC Dec. 13.

Speaking on the reasons behind Bitcoin’s current value, compared to its historic price highs, Pair told reporters:

“A very big component of the Bitcoin’s price is certainly speculation. It’s investors that are speculating on the future usage and adoption of this technology. I’m sure a small component of that price is the actual utility.”

When asked about a Bitcoin ETF’s potential to stimulate a price rally, Pair argued that “not just ETF adoption or ETF launches” could be catalysts for price movement, but that “adoption will push the prices higher,” adding optimistically:

“I do think we’ll see those kinds of prices at some point in the future, if history is any guide.”

Answering a question about blockchain-based currencies’ use in daily transactions, the BitPay CEO told CNBC that he expects such adoption to occur on a mass scale in under half a decade, stating that:

“I used to say 10 years, but now I think it’s more like 3-5 years until you can go into a restaurant, a retail establishment, and just everybody’s going to expect that that store will be able to accept a blockchain payment.”

Pair then further noted that he was not just referring to “Bitcoin or the various tokens that we see today but also about issuing dollars on a blockchain or euros on a blockchain.”

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