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1.  According to a recent list shared by investor Adam Cochran, over 359 projects outside of The Ethereum Foundation and ConSensys are building on the protocol. Among the list are heavy hitters and well-known brands like Nike, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, and many many more. The list is eye-opening, and really sells the fact that not only are many of the world’s biggest brands building on Ethereum, but it also shows just how much potential the asset holds in the future. Read Full on NewsBTC

2.  Agustin Carstens, head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) which acts as the bank of central banks, has stated bitcoin took them by surprise. “We are trying to avoid being surprised by innovation, as we were with bitcoin and Libra.” “Events with Libra have been a wake-up call for central banks. We central bankers were in a comfort zone, but Libra showed we needed to change. So, there has been a lot of consulting and debate with Facebook, and ourselves,” Carstens said. Read Full on Trustnodes

3.  Australian Reserve Bank (RBA) recently revealed that it simulated the use of central bank digital currency (CBDC) in a wholesale payment system based on the Ethereum network, with interesting results. Their plan was to see whether a system where banks settle customer payments between themselves would be able to operate on a permissioned Ethereum-based network.The bank discovered that CBDCs could reduce the cost of payments, and improve their speed. The payments would be made in real-time, 24/7. Read Full on Bitcoinist.com

5.  United States controls the largest share of Bitcoin ATM's globally and the push into decentralized monetary solutions is being forced by millennials. According to a recent report from LearnBonds, at the moment out of 6454 Bitcoin ATM's, 4274 Bitcoin ATM's are located in the United States that is 66.2% of all Bitcoin ATM's globally, United Kingdom has 283 ATM's, Australia has 184, and Switzerland has 84. The data indicates that millennials (25-34 years old) are 46.32% of Bitcoin community engagement. Read Full on cryptomaticatm

6.  The Smart Cities and Municipalities Congress and Exhibition will be held in October 2020 in Konya. Konya’s mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay plans to set into motion the beginnings of the ‘City Coin’ project. If successful, it would mean that Konya would be among the only cities in the world with its own cryptocurrency. The function of the crypto would allow the municipality to more easily do its duties. It would also be used to more efficiently collect sales tax.The long-term goal is to make Konya have its own, inclusive cryptocurrency-related ecosystem. Read Full on BeInCrypto

7.  New York-based RFR Holdings, owner of the Chrysler Building is selling a property in Zurich worth $135 million to BrickMark, a blockchain real-estate company, taking a fifth of the purchase price in tokenized securities. BrickMark said roughly 20 percent of the purchase price will be paid in the firm's BMT security token. The value of the token share is believed to be in the tens of millions of euros. BrickMark's ethereum-based tokens are hybrid digital securities – tokenized perpetual bonds that will be backed by property in the BrickMark portfolio. Read Full on CoinDesk

8.  Crypto asset management giant Grayscale Investment garnered $607.7 million in investments last year, Cumulative investment across the Grayscale family of products since inception reached $1.17 billion. In Q3 and Q4, Grayscale saw back-to-back quarterly investments of over $225 million. Its bitcoin trust fund also brought in $193.8 million in Q4 – the largest quarterly raise since inception. The report also showcased that in 2019, 71% of Grayscale’s total investment figure came from institutions. Read Full on The Block

9.  A third of new small businesses in the U.S. are accepting crypto payments. A recent survey by HSB revealed that about 36 percent of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises based on United States of America now accept cryptocurrency as a medium of payment for goods and services. Of the over 180 businesses already accepting crypto payment, more than half also buy crypto as part of their operations. Survey indicated that newer businesses were more likely to adopt cryptos than businesses for more than 20 years in operation. Read Full on BTCMANAGER

10.  Ripple has appeared on the list of the best small and medium-sized workplaces in the San Francisco Bay Area on Fortune magazine, based on survey with more than 33,000 employees, taking into consideration leadership effectiveness, workforce makeup, workplace culture, and other factors. Ripple, the only cryptocurrency-oriented company on the list, was ranked 25th. Ripple has made a lot of progress in 2019 with more than 300 partners and a gargantuan $200 mln funding round that bumped up its valuation to $10 bln. Read Full on U.Today