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🍀Winklevoss brothers' company has won another U.S. patent related to the creation of exchange-traded products tied to cryptocurrencies and digital assets. The patent was awarded to a firm called Winklevoss IP LLP, and both Winklevoss brothers are included as the inventors along with Evan Louis Greebel, Kathleen Hill Moriarty and Gregory Elias Xethalis. The patent details a method "for providing an exchange-traded product holding digital math-based assets" as well as the issuance of shares tied to that ETP. This week's patent is the seventh crypto-related patent the Winklevoss brothers have received.
🍀Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport announced the installation of its first cryptocurrency ATM.
🍀Stellar may be ready to launch its own decentralized trading platform known as SDEX. The SDF (Stellar Development Foundation) is in charge of the project which is on its final phases of development. According to some reports, the exchange may be ready to be launched the next month, and they have plans to make changes to the core protocol. This decision to modify the protocol would change the way in which buy and sell orders are carried out on Stellar-based trading platforms.
🍀Enigma is partnering with Intel on research and development efforts to advance development of privacy preserving computation technologies. As a part of this effort, Enigma will utilize Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) in building groundbreaking privacy technologies.
😐Tether transparency update confirms 1:1 USD backing. As usual, no audit. "We have!" Tether stated.
🍀The first Volkswagen product to use IOTA’s Tangle is expected to be released and available for its customers early in 2019. A spokesman from Volkswagen told stated that Tangle was first going to be used as part of the Volkswagen Connect feature, as a means for individual drivers to check how many miles their cars have driven.
🍀Members of US Congress will soon have to reveal their crypto assets. A new memo issued by the House Ethics Committee informs all lawmakers, officers and employees that they must disclose any and all cryptocurrency investments over $1,000 no later than 45 days after the transaction.