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Crypto News: Bitcoin Cash, Bakkt, Vechain, IOTA, Swiss ETP, Aeternity (19th – 25th of November


Crypto News: Bitcoin Cash, Bakkt, Vechain, IOTA, Swiss ETP, Aeternity (19th – 25th of November)

Crypto Exchange-Traded Product to Launch on Swiss Stock Exchange

SIX Swiss Exchange, Switzerland’s principal inventory change based mostly in Zurich, accepted the itemizing of a crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) with the ticker “HODL.”

The ETP will observe an index “the top 5 crypto assets in terms of market cap and liquidity”. The index won’t embody stablecoins, tokens which can be designed for anonymity, illiquid or very new tokens. It was ready by the crypto startup, Amun AG.

“The Amun ETP will give institutional investors that are restricted to investing only in securities or do not want to set up custody for digital assets exposure to cryptocurrencies. It will also provide access for retail investors that currently have no access to crypto exchanges due to local regulatory impediments,” Hany Rashwan, co-founder and chief government of Amun, mentioned.

This is a optimistic milestone for the business however there are some variations between ETF and ETP that means this does not actually assist ETF proposals within the USA.

Bakkt Delayed

On 20th of November Bakkt, an upcoming crypto retail cost system and futures platform, introduced that they’re delaying its launch to raised make sure the platform’s success at launch.

The new preliminary launch is being postponed till January 24, 2019. According to CEO Kelly Loeffler, the delay is supposed to provide the undertaking extra time to ensure that the platform is operationally sound at launch.

They additionally indicated that the crew continues to be working “with customer onboarding and securing regulatory approvals,” because the futures buying and selling platform continues to be “topic to regulatory approval

The market didn’t react properly since lots of people are relying on Bakkt to start out new bull run. However it is usually good that they’re guaranteeing that every little thing is polished and prepared for the discharge with none main points

Vechain and H&M utilization

It was confirmed this week that VeChain is being examined by H&M style empire for Arket – their clothes model which is making an attempt out the blockchain based mostly expertise to trace the respective merchandise. Arket has achieved a small Proof of Concept (POC) by way of a pilot testing with VeChain to make use of blockchain expertise to safe product knowledge traceability within the worth chain.

It is price stating that Arket’s collaboration with VeChain is much from a achieved deal, and merely an experiment at this level however this can be a very optimistic signal for blockchain software in delivery/logistics and really optimistic signal for Vechain.

IOTA Updates

IOTA had some important developments just lately the primary one being a creation of the IOTA Research Council. The council will oversee the work of the analysis professors, researchers and scientists engaged on the ledger applied sciences, to kind the spine of a future automated data-driven society.

The different information is collaboration between IOTA Foundation and HIGH MOBILITY. HIGH MOBILITY is an API platform used to develop apps particularly for vehicles. First stage of this collaboration by way of a sensible charging blueprint within the all-new IOTA Workspace. Both partnertship and council creation are superb indicators for long run way forward for IOTA.

Bitcoin Cash fork

On November 15th Bitcoin Cash forked into two separate cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHABC) and Bitcoin Cash SV (BCHSV). Both forks are lead by two crypto personalities (Roger Ver and Craig Wright) incorporate some totally different options and adjustments to the present infrastructure.

While there isn’t a direct proof it’s doable that the fork prompted the worth lower for many cryptocurrencies because it could possibly be one other signal that there’s some discord within the cryptocurrency world.

As at all times with fork like these the result is unpredictable however plainly Bitcoin Cash is now two blockchains. As at all times in these conditions exchanges have totally different approaches. Coinbase for instance treats ABC chain as regular BCH whereas Binance, Poloniex and Bittrex record each cash. Overall BCH misplaced nearly -50% in worth because of fork.

Aeternity Token Migration

Aeternity goes by way of their first stage of the token migration occasion. This signifies that the AE tokens on the ERC20 Ethereum platform can be transported to the æternity Mainnet.

This first section of AE Token Migration will final till November 25. The genesis block, which is the primary block of the æternity blockchain, will embody all tokens migrated by customers throughout Phase 0. The total Aeternity migration plan is split into levels thorough arduous forks. The scheduled arduous forks will embody new options and enhancements to the æternity protocol such because the governance system or the brand new digital machine.

Aeternity aspires to be a generalist answer that may be utilized to any and all conditions which may come to thoughts once you consider the time period “smart contract.”

Aeternity is at the moment round 35th place on CMC with complete mcap of round 150M.

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