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⁠Major crypto exchange Poloniex is delisting six digital currencies: Clams, Pascal, Steem, Navcoin, GameCredits and LBRY Credits

⁠Bitcoin’s Lightning Network dev ACINQ raises $8M in a new funding round

⁠Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance launches peer-to-peer trading for Bitcoin, Ether and Tether against the Chinese Yuan

⁠Visa, Mastercard and Stripe “should be concerned” about Libra, say U.S. senators

⁠UNICEF states that it became the first U.N. organization to hold and make transactions in cryptocurrency

⁠University of Michigan student may have tried to hack West Virginia’s blockchain-based voting app as part of an election security course

⁠OmiseGo has become a member of Universal Protocol Alliance, a coalition of blockchain and crypto-focused firms

⁠Chainlink (LINK) is looking toward its all-time high of $4.59, performing as an outlier against the rest of the crypto space. Will other alts follow?

⁠Forbes chairman Steve Forbes discusses cryptocurrencies on the ARK Invest podcast

⁠Most traders have no idea how to maximize their investments. Veteran investor Scott Melker shares a few secrets on how to make your money to work for you

⁠6.7% of the entire circulating supply of Bitcoin is held in wallets belonging to eight major cryptocurrency exchanges

⁠Binance announces the launch of the eighth phase of its lending product

⁠With the emergence of blockchain in the exchange trading market, traders can succeed in trading cryptocurrencies without having much experience and time

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⁠The Swiss National Bank and SIX Group to research digital central bank money within new BIS Innovation Hub

⁠New York-based crypto custody startup Casa has released Casa Node 2, a new version of its flagship Bitcoin full node product

⁠Bitcoin continues to trade above $8,000, with other top-20 coins reporting mixed signals

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⁠Telegram publishes terms of service for its native cryptocurrency Grams Wallet

⁠Kim Dotcom’s proposed platform forms a partnership with Bitfinex to launch a token that is said to be the “easiest way to generate revenue with digital content”

⁠Japanese politicians are barred from accepting cash and security donations but can receive crypto assets, says internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi

⁠Blockchain platform NuCypher closes a funding round of over $10.675 million led by capital market firm Polychain Capital with Bitmain, Y Combinator participating

⁠Anchorage Trust Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of California-based Anchor Labs, states that it became the first qualified custodian of Telegram’s Gram token

⁠Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell criticizes the “attractive mystery” that fear of a 51% attack on Bitcoin entails

⁠Wallet producer Ledger plans to integrate cryptocurrency atomic swaps powered by cross-blockchain transfer protocol SWFT into its companion app Ledger Live

⁠Hdac Technology, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group, plans to set up a $10 million blockchain investment fund in 2019

⁠Well-known startup accelerator Techstars says that it was “necessary” to halt a joint program with Steven Nerayoff’s firm Alchemist

⁠Grant Thornton, the firm liquidating hacked New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, discusses how best to do so with the platform’s developers

⁠The European Union’s finance commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis pledges to propose new rules to regulate digital currencies such as Facebook’s Libra

⁠Facebook will fail to launch Libra in the next three years, says Ripple CEO