Wednesday, April 24, 2019

📌 Nomics' Exchange Ratings, Flash Boys 2.0, and Binance's Blockchain

 MUST READS 

Big Corporates Back Crypto 'Plumbing' Despite Currency Caution


VC and corporate investments in crypto/blockchain startups have raced to $850 million so far this year, as shown by Reuters.

The 13 deals put the flows on track for a second straight annual record. 🚀
 

The World's Largest Crypto Exchange Has Launched its Own Blockchain


Binance launched its own digital ledger as the fast-growing company seeks to leverage its clout to get developers to switch projects from rival platforms such as Ethereum to its own native blockchain.

The distributed ledger, dubbed Binance Chain, will allow crypto startups to issue coins directly on the company's platform. It will also serve as the basis of Binance's planned decentralized exchange, which will let customers trade more directly than on centralized exchanges. The Malta-based exchange's native coin, known as BNB, will move off the Ethereum network to the new blockchain.
 

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 DEEP DIVE 

Bitcoin in Heavy Accumulation


What we have here is arguably one of the best written reports on the current state of Bitcoin for the year. Tuur Demeester and Michiel Lescrauwaet – co-founders of Adamant Capital – collectively break down Bitcoins accumulation data while drawing significant parallels between its current cycle and what we witnessed in 2014-2015.

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Nomics' Exchange Transparency Ratings


Last week, Clay Collins of Nomics shared some interesting research and commentary on crypto exchange data, transparency, and volumes – all of which stem from the Bitwise fake exchange volume report that shook the entire industry last month.

If you'd rather just jump to the ratings themselves, you can go to their exchange index page here.
 

I'm Not an International Drug Dealer... So Why Do I Need Privacy?


This one's for all the folks at home who say "I've got nothing to hide!"

"If we do not value our privacy today, and do not put into place mechanisms to protect, preserve, and enhance our privacy using technology, then we create the conditions for a future where our privacy has no value, and cannot be protected, preserved, or enhanced."
 

🤖 Flash Boys 2.0


Researchers from Cornell University recently uncovered a batch of arbitrage bots that are swiftly profiting $20,000 per day off ordinary decentralized exchange users...

We know some of these PDFs are scary lengthy, so here's a CCN article summing it all up.
 

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 REGULATORY FRONT 

🇺🇸 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Calls for 'Clear Guidelines' on Crypto


Andrew Yang, one of a number of candidates looking to take on U.S. president Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, has released a new policy statement for crypto-assets.
 

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