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⁠Chair of House Financial Services Committee requests moratorium on development of Facebook’s Project Libra

⁠IBM announces its multicloud-updated Blockchain Platform, supporting deployment across diverse networks

⁠A bitcoin exchange in Brazil is being sued for retaining funds against request, citing ongoing attacks against the exchange since May as root of issue

⁠Italy’s banks plan to integrate DLT into internal processes to improve transparency and efficiency

⁠The world’s 7th biggest bank, HSBC, uses tokenization tech in its account receivable infrastructure for corporate clients in India

⁠The Litecoin Foundation, Bibox Exchange and Ternio will jointly roll out a physical cryptocurrency debit card

⁠Executives from Digital Asset, ISDA, UBS, and Barclays discussed further development of enterprise-grade versions of blockchain technology

Facebook's Libra will distance itself from BTC and have deals with traditional banks and authorities, said head of blockchain at Facebook. So, what do you think, guys? Is this the end of decentralization? Yes 👍 No 🙅‍♂️…

⁠French Minister of the Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire has raised concerns about Facebook’s forthcoming stablecoin

⁠Libra Project will distance itself from Bitcoin and will share information with authorities, said Facebook’s head of blockchain David Marcus

⁠DLT-enabled energy trading firm Power Ledger will roll out its app in Austria's second-largest city of Graz to optimize energy distribution

⁠Fidelity-backed Coin Metrics and Social Market Analytics team up to provide feed of crypto sentiment based on Twitter posts

⁠Bitcoin has fallen to nearly $9,000 as most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate gains on the day

⁠Facebook’s Libra could spark additional cryptocurrency volume, according to the research arm of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Binance Research

⁠Microsoft and Salesforce are among this month’s new Hyperledger members, Brian Behlendorf told Cointelegraph

⁠The CFTC has brought an action against now-defunct entity Control-Finance, which reportedly defrauded over 1,000 investors to launder $147 million in bitcoin

⁠The Fibonacci retracement technical analysis tool featured in popular chart analysis service TradingView reportedly contains a bug

⁠An Accenture exec says a plan to use blockchain in a tailored ID sharing scheme will become official at the end of this month in Canada and the Netherlands

⁠Blockchain software firm Digital Asset has partnered with Amazon Web Services Aurora to make its open-source smart contract language DAML more interoperable

⁠Social media giant Facebook has released the technical specs for its long-awaited cryptocurrency, dubbed Libra

⁠The IT subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Samsung is launching three new products aimed at addressing clients worries about blockchain

⁠Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency has reported that 2018 saw a 170% uptick in the number of consumer queries about cryptocurrencies as compared with the previous year

⁠Six crypto exchanges have been hacked year-to-date in 2019: An overview of the hacks and analysis of methods to address hacking attacks

⁠A Tezos Commons executive has highlighted a potential risk factor in a third party hard fork operation months before it begins

⁠A new insurance platform built on blockchain and AI tech has received new funding to apply the technologies to fraud detection and streamlining claims