Opera Wallet Now Sends CryptoKitties and Other Digital Collectibles
Opera now allows users to send crypto collectibles, such as CryptoKitties, directly from its recently announced in-browser crypto wallet.
Claiming the feature is a first for the industry – although other wallets do offer collectibles support, including MetaMask – the company said in a blog post today:
"We believe that as an increasing portion of our lives moves online, so will our collections of things."
As a result, users of the beta-stage wallet can send their crypto-collectibles to others, something it said previously required use of a digital marketplace and an exchange transaction to transfer ownership.
The Opera team said it believes the crypto collectibles trend is "just getting started," and that, as the tech develops and becomes more...
Alibaba, IBM and Mastercard Now Have The Most Blockchain Patents
The latest blockchain patent ranking was released recently by iPR Daily. The ranking was published on August 31st and in it you can see the clear leaders in Blockchain innovation by patents filed. The top four are the giants: Alibaba, IBM, Master Card and Bank of America. The fifth spot is taken by the People’s Bank of China, China’s Central Bank. The People’s Bank of China filed 44 patent applications related to their ambitions for a Central Bank digital currency in China. The data was consolidated by iPR Daily from across the world with the help of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the International Patent System.
Alibaba leads with 90 filed patents
The first place was taken by Alibaba with 90 filed Blockchain patents with a close second going to IBM with 89 filed Blockchain...
The Guide to Trusted and Established ICO Listing Websites
As the market of token sales getting larger, better and mature likewise ICO listing websites are mushrooming. According to the research by the HACKERNOON it is found that now more than 200 ICO listing platforms are working actively in the market. In this scenario it becomes very difficult to find trusted and established ICO listing platform where investors can make better investment decision. In this post we are highlighting few vital points that will prove helpful for investors to find right and trusted ICO listing websites.
- ICO listing website should have strong social media presence.
- The team behind the ICO listing website should be professional enough to understand the crypto market.
- The website content should be comprehensive and informative.
- The ICO listing price should remain according to the standard of crypto market.
- Website should be popular in ICO community.
ICO listing website should have strong social...
IBM Debuts 'Blockchain World Wire' Payments System Powered by Stellar
Every quarter we are seeing more Fortune 500 companies making headway into the blockchain with patents and beta testing.
IBM is taking its long-in-the-works blockchain-based payment system out of beta, with the launch of a new product called Blockchain World Wire.
Aimed at institutions and harnessing the stellar blockchain network, Big Blue says its new financial rail "can simultaneously clear and settle cross-border payments in near real-time."
Similar to other blockchain-based payment networks such as Ripple, World Wire attempts to do away with banking intermediaries that add complexity and cost to the traditional international payments systems.
According to a document provided by IBM, the product works by substituting the banking intermediaries normally needed for cross-border payments with digital assets sent over a distributed network.
The company says on its website:
"Two financial institutions transacting together agree to use a stable coin, central bank digital currency or other digital asset as the bridge asset between any two fiat currencies. The digital asset facilitates the trade and supplies important settlement instructions."
Effectively, using World Wire APIs plugged into banks' existing systems, fiat currency is exchanged into a digital asset at bank A. It is then transmitted to bank B, where it is converted into a second fiat currency. "All transaction details are...
Germany’s 2nd Largest Exchange Deutsche Borse Launched a Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
The race for crypto dominance is heating up in Germany after the country’s largest stock-exchange operator announced the creation of a new blockchain unit. The announcement came one month after Borse Stuttgart, Germany’s second-largest exchange operator, launched a new cryptocurrency trading platform.
Deutsche Borse Launches Blockchain Unit
The Frankfurt-based Deutsche Borse AG has created a centrally-steered unit dedicated to ‘DLT, Crypto Assets and New Market Structures,’ according to a press release that circulated Monday. The 24-person team, led by Jens Hachmeister, will further advance Deutsche Borse’s work in the blockchain arena.
“Deutsche Borse has been active with the technology in a first phase of ideation and exploration,” Hachmeister said in a statement. “We invested in various initiatives to create a sound understanding of the trends, the technology and its potential within the traditional segments of our value chain.
In order to use the full potential of the technology for our businesses, to generate efficiencies and create revenues, a centrally steered approach is necessary to make a greater impact,” he added.
Last month, Deutsche Borse acquired a minority stake in HQLAx, a liquidity and collateral management firm that is developing a new platform for blockchain-based securities lending.
Mainstream...
TAP Coin: Decentralized blockchain-based advertising #TokenSale
The new world of blockchain-based advertising will create a major shift at the cross-section of advertising and the internet.
HOOCH, the number top drink-a-day app that has changed the game for bargoers from New York to Hong Kong with their free drink app, is about to shake up the hospitality industry again. Not basking for long in the success of their recently-released lifestyle experience program, HOOCH Black, this next development is also set to be a surefire success.
Their new project, TAP Coin, is due to be launched soon and it’s an innovative product, to say the least. TAP Coin is more than just HOOCH. While HOOCH Black has 100,000 hotels on the platform, with discounts of up to 60% off Expedia and hotels.com rates, TAP Coin will feature more than just this. HOOCH will be the first — and only one of dozens of apps on the TAP decentralized ad network. This means that while HOOCH currently has 200,000 subscribers, other apps will have tens of millions on the network. But there’s more- the advertising potential is phenomenal with a platform like TAP Coin. Due to its decentralized nature, the network is magnitudes more efficient than advertising on a centralized platform like Facebook, Instagram or Google AdWords.
Millions of users, hundreds of thousands of venues, massive discounts and a radically new advertising model, all based on blockchain - TAP Coin is the next household name app.
Not only does TAP Coin offer major discounts on hotels, drinks and entertainment experiences, it also uses the power of blockchain to empower consumers with their own data. This means that users now have the choice to allow advertisers to collect their data or not. If users allow their data to be used by advertisers, then they are rewarded with TAP, which they can then redeem on hotels and experiences (at already discounted prices).
In this way, TAP becomes a defacto loyalty currency, which does not discriminate according to origin of the loyalty points. It solves the old...
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genEOS Next- Gen Blockchain Technology: Token Sale
genEOS Token Sale
genEOS is a next-gen technology project aimed at addressing blockchain adoption obstacles faced by the business community.
Providing its participants with an operating system-like environment, it allows for building and running decentralized applications (Dapps) at enterprise scalability, interoperability, and performance. Unconsumed bandwidth can be delegated to others who will pay the rent.
There are also strong dev and technical teams ready to develop, launch, and maintain business-critical Dapps on the platform that rivals traditional web apps for speed, versatility, and ease of use.
Key ecosystem features:
- Decentralized consensus algorithm capable of meeting enterprise-grade performance requirements.
- Higher transaction...
EveryCoin Financial Platform (EYC): #ICO Pre-Sale
EveryCoin (EYC) Pre-Sale
The Aaron EveryCoin Platform is a new financial platform for people who are financially excluded from modern finance systems for a long time. We aim to spread the free financial accounts for all people around the world and make them exchange money freely.
By combining the POW agreement method with the DPOS agreement method — in which the delegated node receives contract authorization and transaction fee in contract execution — Aaron blockchain does not waste unnecessary power or time to generate blocks. And it does not need to wait for the new block to be...
Coinbase Study Finds Blockchain Courses Popular With University Students
Crypto is making its entrance into the world’s academic scene, and students are lining up to learn.
A recent Coinbase study reveals that University students want to learn more about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Commissioned by Coinbase in partnership with Qriously, the survey sampled 675 U.S. students, and it found that students across all majors have an interest in blockchain technology.
Some have literal vested interest in the cryptocurrency market itself, while others are looking to leverage blockchain courses to break into the space’s developing job market. Of those surveyed, 18 percent reported holding some value in cryptocurrency. Another 26 percent indicated that they’re interested in taking a blockchain-related course in the future, with the most immediate interest coming from social science (47 percent) and computer science (34 percent) majors.
Benedikt Bunz, a doctoral student at Stanford, said the "tremendous excitement" around the blockchain and cryptocurrency courses is due to the ease of getting a job after graduation due to the high demand for blockchain experts.
“If you’re an expert in cryptocurrencies and cryptography you’ll have a difficult time not finding a job,” he noted.
The survey also studied the top 50 universities in the world as ranked by the U.S. News...