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⁠BaFin has warned the public that CoinBene is neither in Germany’s commercial register nor licensed for trading financial products

⁠Bitcoin trading volumes in South Korea have recorded record highs on P2P exchange LocalBitcoins

⁠Diar’s recent report suggests that Facebook’s rumored payment token Globalcoin will face demographic challenges due to an aging user base

⁠The Russian oblast of Nizhny Novgorod is reportedly testing a blockchain-based application for public administration

⁠HDR Global Trading Limited, the owner and operator of BitMEX crypto exchange, has made a donation to support research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

⁠The Dubai Land Department and Mashreq Bank now jointly offer a blockchain-based platform for conducting mortgage sales and maintaining digital records

⁠Velocity Ledger Technology announced an early access opportunity for users to make apps for issuing, trading, and settling utility tokens with their API and testnet

⁠Cryptocurrency markets have been trading sideways, with iota seeing the most notable gains on the day, up around 12%

⁠Germany’s financial watchdog, BaFin, reports it has “no information that cyber incidents have occurred on trading platforms for cryptoassets in Germany”

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⁠The world’s second-and fourth-biggest shipping firms, MSC and CMA CGM, have joined the blockchain shipping platform developed by Maersk and IBM

⁠Ivy league university investment heads are seemingly bucking David Swensen’s investment strategy that made Yale’s endowment grow exponentially to nearly $30 billion

⁠Canadian tokenized social media startup Kik has launched a $5 million initiative to fund a lawsuit against the U.S. SEC

⁠Bitwise released a white paper claiming that fake trading volumes by crypto exchanges do not impact prices on the real bitcoin spot market

⁠Billionaire Ben Delo, who is a co-founder of BitMEX, has signed the Giving Pledge to address global challenges such as nuclear security, artificial intelligence and climate change

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⁠Indian tech firm Mphasis — majority-owned by the U.S. multinational private equity firm Blackstone Group — has partnered with Bitfury on a forthcoming trade finance project

⁠Kenetic co-founder Jehan Chu has predicted that bitcoin will surge up to $30,000 by the end of 2019, regardless of the approval of a BTC ETF

⁠While law enforcement agencies go after cryptocurrency transactions anonymizers, some stakeholders are clamoring for more on-chain solutions

⁠A new banking law drafted for Egypt’s central bank will make it mandatory to obtain licenses in advance of creating, advertising or operating platforms for issuing or trading crypto

⁠A company has launched a protocol enabling businesses to create tokens for real-world assets on the Bitcoin SV blockchain

⁠The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released an official warning against crypto project OneCoin

⁠The Indian state of Telangana plans to establish the country’s ostensibly first blockchain district by offering tax relief, resource subsidies, and financial grants to start-ups

⁠A South Korean pan-governmental meeting has reportedly been held to establish closer monitoring of the country’s crypto space amid the recent sharp uptick in crypto valuations

⁠JPMorgan Chase is reportedly poised to release an open-source extension that enhances the privacy of payment mechanisms on Ethereum-based blockchains

⁠Iran is currently actively developing a national blockchain platform that will eventually run the country’s financial market