Controversial crypto platform Tether is planning on launching a Chinese Yuan-pegged stablecoin, according to reports in China today.

The stablecoin, which will be known as CNHT, will be the fourth stablecoin in Tether’s portfolio after ones backed to the US dollar (USDT), Euro (EURT) and the Japanese Yen (JPYT). The company’s plans were revealed by Zhao Dong, a shareholder in Bitfinex, which shares the same senior personnel as Tether, via Chinese social media platform WeChat. Dong also said that his peer-to-peer crypto lending company, RenrenBit, will support trading and deposits of CNHT. It

Bitcoin is taking a hit this morning and fell over 8% to below $9,800. Here is the key driver.

Tech giant Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) announced in June that it was going to launch its own cryptocurrency named Libra and ever since the announcement, the crypto market has been in a bit of turmoil. It attracted attention from top regulators in the United States and even the United States President Donald Trump criticized the project in one of his tweets.

The uncertainty resulted in fluctuations in the price of Bitcoin and affected the wider crypto market

One of the cryptocurrencies that has quietly become one of the strongest tokens is XRP. Much of the credit for it perhaps goes to the company Ripple, which manages the cryptocurrency and has managed to sign significant deals that have XRP at its center. It has signed plenty of deals over the years, and that makes it possible to look upon XRP as a cryptocurrency which has a use case.

Some leading financial institutions are conducting pilot tests on the product while money transfer company Moneygram has already announced a deal earlier this year. The Moneygram

In the past few days, the altcoin market has taken a beating with major cryptocurrency assets such as Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) dropping to fresh lows. This has caused widespread panic in the industry, and many crypto investors are beginning to believe that a bottom for altcoins will be set.

However, one cryptocurrency analyst sees Ethereum dropping even more by over 20% and that the real altcoin capitulation will begin in two weeks. Ethereum has lost significantly since the ICO boom that brought the price per ETH to

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Victory Square Technologies Inc. (CSE:VST)(FWB: 6F6)(OTC:VSQTF) successfully filed its annual consolidated financial statements for 2018 along with its MD&A on Friday, August 16th, 2019. The Company will also be filing its interim financial report and MD&A for the quarterly period ended March 31st, 2019 on or before Friday, August

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Victory Square Technologies Inc. (CSE:VST)(FWB: 6F6)(OTC:VSQTF) successfully filed its annual consolidated financial statements for 2018 along with its MD&A on Friday, August 16th, 2019. The Company will also be filing its interim financial report and MD&A for the quarterly period ended March 31st, 2019 on or before Friday, August

INX ltd, a crypto exchange startup, has announced plans to raise up to $130 million USD through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

INX has developed a regulated platform for cryptocurrency trading and an alternative trading system for security tokens, which it hopes will become a one-stop-shop crypto services platform. The move to raise money through an IPO is quite unusual by market standards, as generally crypto startups tend to raise capital via Initial Coin Offerings (ICO). On Monday, the company filed a draft prospectus with the US Securities and Exchanges Commission to sell 130 million of

The cryptocurrency industry may be popular, but that doesn’t mean it has seen mass adoption. Even Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, agrees. Speaking to The Toronto Star recently, the 25-year old multimillionaire provided reasons why he thinks crypto adoption has yet to catch on.

Yesterday, The Star posted an article focusing on Buterin’s thoughts on why crypto adoption has yet to happen and what the industry can do to boost the adoption of virtual currencies.

One of the main issues Buterin discussed with crypto adoption is

Bitcoin enjoyed one of the strongest runs since the latter part of 2017 during the first half of this year. During those first six months, the cryptocurrency gained in each of the six months of the year, but the momentum came to an end in July, and the indecisive performance has continued into August. The token has threatened to break out plenty of times during the course of this month, but the rally eventually fizzled out, and the same thing happened again.

Over the course of the weekend, Bitcoin managed to break

Multinational consultancy firm Deloitte has announced the release of its “Blockchain in a Box” platform that hosts demonstrations and experiments of distributed ledger technology in business applications.

According to the company’s press release on August 9, the development of the “Blockchain in a Box” BIAB platform was inspired by customer interest in understanding the potential of distributed ledger technology in real-life circumstances. Business start-ups find it hard communicating to stakeholders about the unique benefits of blockchain and therefore Deloitte will be looking to fill that gap with its BIAB platform. The