General Market
Outlook
The market is continuing a
significant decline overall that began yesterday. Nearly all coins
are in the red, but trading volume is climbing - a nearly $3
billion rise to around $15 billion in 24 hours. IOST (IOST) is the
major only significant stand out of the top 100 coins by market cap
- up almost 7% in the past 24 hours. Bitcoin (BTC) is right
around $6,400 for -3% and a total market dominance of 53.7%,
and Ethereum (ETH) is right at $210 for -10% change in the past 24
hours. Market cap for the overall cryptocurrency market lost just
over $12 billion now breaking the downtrend at about $207 billion
total.
Major
Headlines
Walmart Enforcing Proprietary
Blockchain System
Last year Walmart implemented a
blockchain network in partnership with IBM to track the food chain
of specific produce from farm to customer. Using blockchain systems
in this way provides a live data feed back on the items in a way
never achievable before. The company now plans to sell leafy greens
using the system, which means that their suppliers will be required
to participate in the network as the origin of the products. The
platform is called the IBM Food Trust network and will create
end-to-end traceability. This process is launched to defend against
bacterial outbreaks, such as the recent E. coli outbreak that
originated in the U.S. state of Arizona earlier this year.
Suppliers have until the end of January 2019 to initiate the
one-step back traceability."
UNICEF Accepting
Cryptocurrency Donations
In February of this year UNICEF
launched a project called “Game Changers” to incentivise video game
players to donate to children in Syria. They set a method where
gamers indirectly donated cryptocurrency by leveraging their CPU
power to a communal mining pool. By March, 85 ETH was raised. They
will begin accepting direct contributions of Bitcoin, Ethereum,
Litecoin, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Monero, EOS and Stellar.
“Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology for charitable purposes
offer a new opportunity to appeal to the generosity of the public
and continue to develop our actions…” Sebastien Lyon, executive
director of UNICEF France
Coinbase Continues
Diversifying Investment Services
Large scale, institutional stock
traders have traditionally shied away from cryptocurrency
exchanges, because of uncertain regulatory precedents. This is
being addressed by countries around the world, with many now having
novel financial regulations for the cryptocurrency industry.
Coinbase is now working with a crypto-startup called Caspian to
cater to pro traders and financial firms. Coinbase Pro will
integrate Caspian's "full stack" of tools for additional trading
and portfolio management features. The major benefit of their
platform is that it provides increased liquidity by connecting 25
other cryptocurrency trading platforms.
Top 5
Gainers
Abulaba (AAA) +471.87% at
$0.531118
Eternal Token (XET) +179.72% at
$0.682252
Cryptrust (CTRT) +172.51% at
$0.000086
OST (OST) +83.64% at
$0.062843
AVINOC (AVINOC) +43.09% at
$0.004443
Top 5
Losers
HollyWoodCoin (HWC) -36.40% at
$0.112103
LogisCoin (LGS) -32.56% at
$6.71
Elysian (ELY) -32.44% at
$0.003060
eosBLACK (BLACK) -28.43% at
$0.039040
Coin2Play (C2P) -28.39% at
$0.064586
New Coins
Listed
Bitcoinus (BITS) listed to
HitBTC
Daps (DAPS) listed to
Cryptopia
ChainLink (LINK) listed to
Bithumb
DasCoin (DASC) listed to
Coinbene
By: BGN Editorial Staff
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