June 2019

Facebook is still working on its responses to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee’s questions about the Libra coin.

The ECB annual forum began with the idea that the Euro has increased the economic convergence in Europe, a very polemic insight that goes against the current academic consensus.

“It is out of question’’ that Facebook’s Libra be allowed to “become a sovereign currency,” says France’s finance minister.

If bitcoin doesn’t need to worry about competition from Facebook. Who does? You’ve guessed it, the banks.

Binance will issue a number of tokens pegged to leading cryptocurrencies on Binance Chain to boost the number of trading options on its platform.

2gether, a European payment app allowing users to spend crypto via a Visa debit card, is adding dash to its list of nine supported coins.

Crypto data provider CoinMarketCap says most listed exchanges have complied with its transparency-boosting mandatory data requests.

The realization that the next Prime Minister might be Boris Johnson has sent FX markets into panic mode and earlier pushed the Pound to a 5-month trough versus the Euro.

Microsoft and Salesforce have joined Hyperledger, lending their enterprise software heft to the DLT consortium.

The IBM Blockchain Platform has just been revamped, adding flexibility for deployment in different environments and new tools.