Crypto Daily
21 June 2018
Index
Altcoins 1
Litecoin 1
Stellar 1
Tether 1
Wanchain 2
Enigma 2
UTRUST 2
News 3
Ledger Roadmap 3
UK Newspaper 3
Amsterdam 3
Entertainment 4
Crypto debate 4
Altcoins
Litecoin
London futures trading platform, Crypto Facilities, is launching the first LTC-dollar futures contracts on June 22.
Charlie Lee, Litecoin’s founder, is excited with its potential impact on Litecoin.
https://www.coindesk.com/a-british-crypto-exchange-is-launching-litecoin-futures-trading/
https://dailyhodl.com/2018/06/20/litecoin-founder-charlie-lee-bullish-on-new-litecoin-futures/
Stellar
Stellar is in talks to acquire Chain, a San Francisco startup building blockchain technology for the financial industry, for potentially $500 million in Stellar Lumens.
Chain, founded in 2014, raised venture funding from investors like Blockchain Capital, Pantera Capital, Nasdaq, Visa, Citi Ventures, and it has the engineering talent that can benefit Stellar.
http://fortune.com/2018/06/20/stellar-acquires-chain/
Tether
Tether announced that its bank deposits of $2.55 billion were confirmed by a law firm, as the company seeks to reassure investors that its USDT is backed by USD.
FSS, the law firm co-founded by a FBI director, didn’t conduct an official audit but had access to Tether’s accounts at two banks for weeks.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/tether-hired-former-fbi-director-s-law-firm-to-vet-finances
Wanchain
Wanchain announced that the 2.0 Open Beta is now live.
https://twitter.com/wanchain_org/status/1009580274005442560
Enigma
Over 20% price uptrend today as Enigma announces partnership with Intel.
Both are committed to solve the big challenges facing blockchains today: privacy, security, and scalability.
Enigma is a blockchain protocol that uses privacy technologies to enable scalable end-to-
end decentralized applications.
https://twitter.com/EnigmaMPC/status/1009466455631556615
UTRUST
Over 10% price uptrend today as UTRUST announces partnership with Pundi X to enable in-store payments.
Wanchain also partnered with Pundi X back in May. (May 17 report)
Pundi X offers a POS solution that facilitates cryptocurrency payments and transactions.
https://twitter.com/UTRUST_Official/status/1009619172643430400
News
Ledger Roadmap
Ledger added Tron, Ontology EOS and Aion into their support roadmap.
https://trello.com/b/5nQ1mdzt/ledger-roadmap
UK Newspaper
Special report dedicated to Cryptocurrencies on today’s UK newspaper The Times.
Amsterdam
Passengers visiting Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport will now be able to trade their Euros for cryptocurrencies through the first cryptocurrency ATM installed in a European airport.
https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/06/20/amsterdam-airport-reveals-its-first-cryptocurrency-atm/
Entertainment
Crypto debate
https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptocurrencymemes/comments/8smlrf/roger_ver_jihan_wu_debating/