CANTOR EXCHANGE ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF BITCOIN SWAPS
CANTOR EXCHANGE HAS SELF-CERTIFIED A BITCOIN SWAPS CONTRACT WITH THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (“CFTC”) AND INTENDS SOON TO ANNOUNCE A START DATE FOR TRADING TO BEGIN.Continue reading
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CFTC on Bitcoin by CME, Cboe and Cantor
CFTC Statement on Self-Certification of Bitcoin Products by CME, CFE and Cantor Exchange
“Today, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) self-certified new contracts for bitcoin futures products, and the Cantor Exchange (Cantor) self-certified a new contract for bitcoin binary options.Continue reading
Nasdaq Plans to Launch Bitcoin Futures in First Half 2018 – By Stephanie Yang and Alexander Osipovich, WSJ
Nasdaq and broker Cantor Fitzgerald are looking to join the rush on Wall Street to trade bitcoin, which powered above $11,000 on Wednesday.
Nasdaq aims to launch bitcoin futures in the first half of 2018, according to people familiar with the situation.
Separately, Cantor said it is seeking to launch bitcoin derivatives on an exchange it owns, also in the first half of next year. The moves come after two major Chicago exchange operators announced similar plans for the digital currency.
The news of the bitcoin futures was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Leveraging Blockchain For The Real Estate Industry – by Jeannette Lim and Melanie Lim
“Establishing A Chain Of Title: Leveraging Blockchain For The Real Estate Industry
by Jeannette Lim and Melanie Lim
(…). Uncertainty in property ownership globally may be responsible for the loss of up to US$9.3 trillion in value. (…) Land registries powered by blockchain technology may possibly bring this lost value into the mainstream economy(…).
Furthermore, (…) the application of “smart contract” technology on a blockchain platform to automatically transfer land ownership upon certain conditions being met, could substantially enhance its real estate sector. (…)Continue reading
VLB Token – ICO is closed
“ICO is closedWe would like to thank everyone for taking part in our ICO. As it currently stands, we have not been successful in getting our message across to the broader community. At this moment we are not planning to resume it in the near future.
The smart contract of the ICO is a binding agreement that we’ve entered into with our token buyers and the ICO is continuing in accordance with the terms set in code until April 9, 2018. If the soft cap of $4 000 000 isn’t reached, we will return all the funds to our token buyers. You can find a detailed instruction here or just click on “get a refund” button.
Graphene
A New Protocol for Block Propagation Using Set Reconciliation
A. Pinar Ozisik, Gavin Andresen, George Bissias, Amir Houmansadr, Brian N. LevineContinue reading
DGX & DGD Gold tokens
Digix Gold Token – DGX is a token representing 1 gram of gold.
DGD is the DAO system governance token. System includes Digix Badges (DGB).
Digix Whitepaper describes a much interesting Proof of Asset protocol. ‘The PoA protocol utilises Ethereum and the InterPlanetaryFiles System (IPFS) to track an asset through its chain of custody’.
How to claim your DNS domain on ENS – by Nick Johnson
“How to claim your DNS domain on ENS – by Nick Johnson
[…] Forthcoming support for claiming DNS domains on the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). This will make it possible to import nearly any internet domain name into ENS, and interact with it just as you would a .eth domain. Soon, you will be able to tell people “you can pay me ether at myname.com”.
Right now, this is only deployed for one internet TLD — .xyz — on the Ethereum Ropsten test network. Support on the Ethereum mainnet, and on more internet TLDs, is coming soon. Once everything is in place, we expect to be able to support the vast majority of internet TLDs — about 96% of them.
Since this is a brand new feature, the process right now is manual and a bit involved. Claiming your ENS domain is a four step process:
- Set up DNSSEC signing for your domain.
- Add a TXT record specifying your Ethereum address to your DNS domain.
- Prove the contents of this TXT record to the DNSSEC oracle.
- Call the DNS Registrar for .xyz to claim ownership of your domain in ENS.
We’ll walk through these in order….
@gavinandresen sides with Bitcoin Cash
Gavin Andresen (@gavinandresen)
Bitcoin Cash is what I started working on in 2010: a store of value AND means of exchange.
Parity Wallet Vulnerability Security Alert
“Severity: Critical
Product affected: Parity Wallet (multi-sig wallets)
Summary: A vulnerability in the Parity Wallet library contract of the standard multi-sig contract has been found.
Affected users: Users with assets in a multi-sig wallet created in Parity Wallet that was deployed after 20th July.Continue reading
Inter-chain mediators – by Jeremy Epstein
A new layer of blockchain tech is emerging: inter-chain mediators
In the beginning was Bitcoin, the only blockchain we thought we’d need. Then Ethereum came along and launched us into a multi-blockchain world. Since then we’ve seen many new blockchains emerge with their various different protocols, financed by their various different tokens.
One of the the key doctrines of this era was Joel Monegro’s seminal “fat protocols” post, in which he explained that value creation in a protocol world happens in a very different way than in the Internet world. Specifically, in the Internet world, the protocols (think TCP/IP and HTTP) were conduits and not holders of value; it was the applications built on top of them that held the value. In the blockchain world, he argued, it’s the protocols that hold the value.Continue reading
Is Quantum Computing an Existential Threat to Blockchain Technology? – By Nathana Sharma
But as is usually the case when pondering what’s ahead, nothing is certain.
When considering existential threats to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, people generally focus on increased regulation. And this makes sense. In the medium term, greater regulation may stand in the way of cryptocurrencies and wider mainstream adoption. However, there might be a bigger threat further out on the horizon.
Much of blockchain’s allure arises from its security benefits. The tech allows a ledger of transactions to be distributed between a large network of computers. No single user can break into and change the ledger. This makes it both public and secure.
novo papel dos investidores profissionais com a ascensão dos ICOs – swapynetwork (47) in bitcoin
Dear investors,
I would like to start this letter by sharing with you a song of Bob Dylan, the first song writer to get Nobel Prize in literature:
This is my message to you: The times are changing.
We, the entrepreneurs, and you, the investors have lived in a symbiosis since the early days of venture capital. You need us to multiply your money. We need you to provide the much needed capital to invest in our dreams. The numbers of this game are very known to all of us.
For every 100 ideas you listen to, you choose 1 to invest on. For every 10 ideas that you invest on, 1 ends up being a success. So, for an average entrepreneur, our chances of success are 1% for getting initial capital and, for those who get capital, 10% for being a success. Therefore, our chances of being a success are 1/1000.
Europe’s First Blockchain Pilot to stabilize the power grid
Holland’s National Grid and Germany’s Sonnen Launch Europe’s First Blockchain Pilot
One of the richest country in Europe, in collaboration with one of the fastest growing company in Germany, has launched “the first pilot project in Europe using decentralized networked home energy storage systems and blockchain technology to stabilize the power grid.”
El Rofex empezará a custodiar Bitcoins – Olivia Goldschmidt, La Nacion
“El mercado de futuros más grande del país sigue a la CME en incorporar criptomonedas
l mercado de futuros Rofex ofrecerá el servicio de custodia de Bitcoins hacia fin de año. La noticia llega dos días después de que la CME Group (la Bolsa Mercantil de Chicago, la mayor en el mundo) anunciara el lanzamiento de los futuros para la criptomoneda más popular.
“Otro punto interesante es que los bitcoins custodiados podrían utilizarse como garantía para las operaciones de otros productos que se operen en el mercado”, aclaró Ponte….”