The Telegram Open Network development team sent investors letters promising to launch the blockchain on time (before the end of October) and instructions on how to get Gram tokens (investors need to create a special crypto wallet before October 16).
Libra Association published the first roadmap for the development of the project (no dates). Progress will depend on the number of successfully deployed full nodes. At the first stage, the company plans to attract 5 partners.
Reps French Hill and Bill Foster turned to Federal Reserve Chief Jerome Powell to issue a national cryptocurrency in response to the threat to the US dollar from private cryptocurrencies.
IKEA's Icelandic unit used the Ethereum blockchain to accept payments in tokenized kroons.
The Ohio state authorities decided to suspend taxes from companies in cryptocurrencies due to the fact that the BitPay service, which converted bitcoin into US dollars, did not receive permission to work from the attorney general, auditor and treasurer of the state.
The large state bank of China, China Merchants Bank International (CMBI), will create decentralized applications for its customers in conjunction with the Nervos public blockchain development team.
The analytical company Chainalysis launched the transaction tracking tool of ten ERC20 format tokens in its service to counter money laundering using cryptocurrencies.
The Swiss stock exchange SIX has listed its exchange-traded product (ETP) linked to bitcoin and ether. The tool was created by startup Amun AG and the crypto-custodian company Bitcoin Suisse AG. 90% of the basket of this ETP is Bitcoin, and 10% is Ethereum.
According to Forbes magazine, the list of 400 richest people in the United States includes one representative of the cryptocurrency industry - Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, who indicated digital currencies as the main source of his income and took the 388th line.
The developer and bitcoin enthusiast, Udi Wertheimer, has promised to install the Binance exchange logo on his Twitter account if it adds support for the Segregated Witness (SegWit) protocol. To which the CEO of Changpen Zhao exchanged answered: "How about the end of the first quarter of 2020?"
Russia has become a world leader in the number of tokenized transactions and electronic payments, according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group. In addition, the country ranked first among European countries in the number of transactions conducted through digital wallets.