Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Canada’s largest bank, is expected to open its own cryptocurrency exchange and accounts for storing digital assets. This is evidenced by the fact that the bank has filed several applications for patenting technologies for integrating cryptocurrencies into its services.
HTC will add Binance Chain support to its new EXODUS 1 blockchain smartphone so that users can access the non-custodian Binance DEX exchange and use the BNB token through the built-in Zion Vault wallet.
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, together with the Lolli platform in honor of the sale on November 11, launched the opportunity for US users to receive 5% cashback from purchases in bitcoins. In addition, Alibaba set a sales record of $ 38.4 billion on Bachelor’s Day (as they call it November 11 in China).
A representative of the People’s Bank of China (NBK) department explained that the digital yuan project is not an attempt to establish total control over the country's citizens. NRB has promised to ensure the level of transaction anonymity corresponding to user requests.
Banker Benoit Kere, a member of the board of the European Central Bank and known for his statements about bitcoin as a “diabolical offspring,” will take over as head of the Innovation Center at the Bank for International Settlements from January 2020, where he will study such trends that affect the activities of European central banks, like cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and other financial technologies.
The Central Bank of Tunisia has denied the rumor recently the release of a digital dinar on the Russian blockchain platform Universa. The rumor was a demonstration by a startup with the similar name Universa Hub Africa of the possibility of issuing digital currencies at the FOREX Club Tunisia event.
Ant Financial, a fintech division of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has begun testing its blockchain platform for small and medium-sized businesses. The Ant Blockchain Open Alliance will be launched within three months after the end of the testing period.
The Kava cross-platform project, which posted its tokens on the Binance Launchpad site, announced another postponement of the project launch until November 15 due to the discovery of vulnerabilities and the integration of an important solution.
The Bithumb exchange wants to issue a token called BT on its own Bithumb Chain blockchain. Part of the token issue will be distributed among users for payment of transaction fees, exchange fees and rights to use the Bithumb blockchain, as well as voting and blockchain management.
Starting November 12, CoinMarketCap service will compare trading floors and cryptocurrency pairs in a new way, using a liquidity indicator rather than trading volumes. During the day, the service will collect data from 3000 exchanges at random intervals, and at the end of the day, calculate the average result in US dollars.