NEM [XEM] get one step closer to United Arab Emirates after signing a cooperation pact

NEM Foundation recently signed a cooperation pact with United Arab Emirates [UAE] Ministry of Community Development [MOCD]. The pact will allow NEM to provide its blockchain consultation service to the ministry. Furthermore, the parties have also agreed to exchange valuable information, knowledge and recent updates on the emerging technologies in the blockchain platform.

According to the Medium report, Assistant Under-Secretary – Policies Sector at UAE’s MOCD, Sana Mohammad Suhail signed a Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] with NEM Foundation Council Member and Regional Head of NEM Southeast Asia, Stephen Chia.
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Summary Key Points
• Ethbits is a registered Maltese company.
• We already have both operational banking and custody banking accounts agreed so that we can accept clients’ money. The former is opened and the latter due to be integrated via an API in the coming weeks.
• We are integrating a customer solution to allow each client to elect to have an EU IBAN in their own individual names. This will mean that they can run the account in a similar way to a checking account and will be able to receive and send money to third parties across the world.
• We are waiting for confirmation when we will be able to provide a Pre-Paid MasterCard but expect this to take place this quarter or the first quarter of 2019.
• Ethbits will also be applying for a VFA Virtual Financial Services License with the MFSA or Maltese Financial Services Authority. We are allowed to operate under transitional rules for the new VFA regulation and will eventually be authorised and regulated by the MFSA.
• This license is a comprehensive license very similar to a MFID category 4. It will allow Ethbits to operate a regulated exchange across the whole of Europe. We are able to market and operate in member states and we are also able to take on Traders and provide them with a regulated framework to work under.

Banking
To run an exchange you are legally required to have two seperate banking accounts. An operational accounts and client custody accounts. The former allows us to operate the business and the later allows us to accept client’s funds and hold these as a custodian. You are required to have both accounts as client’s funds need to be segregated and separated from the funds of the business. Many existing exchanges have had difficulty undertaking this mammoth task and subsequently customer funds are mixed and muddled with company funds.

As many of us know, just getting an operational account is hard but we have actually secured both. This is relatively unheard of for an Exchange that is not yet operating at a fully functional level and we are the first to have secured banking this early on in our formation. If you consider the company was opened in August 2018 due to a change of domicile to Malta, and we have agreed solutions across the board from accepting fiat to outwards transmission, it is a great achievement.

Key Milestones we are trying hard to deliver.
• ¬ Stage 1: Operational Accounts: Complete
¬ Stage 2: Client Custody accounts: In process of API integration expected Oct.
¬ Stage 3: Individual IBAN ability: Nov/Dec integration.
¬ Stage 4: Prepaid Credit Cards Q4 2018/ Q1 2019 integration.

Regulation
Malta has established legislation that regulates the offering of certain services know as Virtual Financial Asset Services. This includes services such as.
¬ Platform exchanges
¬ Portfolio management
¬ Investment advice

We will initially be operating under transitional rules until we apply for full regulation under a Category 4 license similar to that of a MFID Cat4 license.

Additionally, we will also be taking advantage of the Portfolio Management and Investment Advise allowances as the Ethbits directors hold all the required qualification and licenses to provide these services. This will add an additional capability that most of our competitors simply will not have or even be aware of.

Neuer Artikel von Lennart online, diesmal zu STOKR, einer von SICOS gebauten Plattform für STOs.

https://altcoinspekulant.com/2018/10/19/stokr-crowd-investment-plattform-fur-security-token-offerings-stos/

Anomalous growth of Bitcoin and decrease in the USDT on Bitfinex: what really hides behind the scenes, what does it have to do with mysterious IMMO and whose trading bots in charge of massive USDT sales? Answers seem to be found now.

We continue to work on importing new blockchains. We’re also working on real-time signals, and collaborating with a growing team of data analysts and researchers who are helping to develop machine learning algorithms for more sophisticated social analyses.

But even the Roadmap is pretty high-level, so let’s call out a couple features we’re particularly charged about:
EOS On-chain Data

Yes… EOS on-chain stats are now available in our beta SANbase Dashboards. You can see data for EOS Daily Active Addresses, Transaction Volume, Number of Active Currencies and more, all plotted against EOS/USD or EOS/BTC price.

A more detailed overview is here:
EOS On-chain Metrics Available on Santiment Data Platform

TIP: If you’re a researcher, student or crypto enthusiast, contact us using the form on our Dashboards page (https://santiment.net/dashboards/) and we’ll talk to you about getting an email login. Otherwise, you can get in by staking 200 SAN.

Top Token Transactions
Any ERC20 token at https://app.santiment.net

Now you can look up any token on SANbase and see the most recent top transactions for the token – just search for the token and scroll to the bottom of its detail page to find the list.

Our Top Tokens list is unique in that:

    It automatically shows the top transactions only. No need to filter.
    It’s clearly marked if an exchange address is involved.
    We now have one of the largest… if not *the* largest… database of exchange addresses out there (more than Etherscan’s).

As a bonus on our SAN token page, we’ve included our top ETH transactions from team wallets as well (if you’re interested 🙂

ERC20 Tokens: “ETH Spent”
https://app.santiment.net/projects/ethereum

This feature became hot late this past summer, when “ICO projects dumping ETH” became somewhat of a meme as ETH’s price suffered sharp declines. We’ve been tracking this metric for awhile, but it definitely saw increased attention over the last few months and could still be of interest during a project’s lifecycle.

Simply go to the Ethereum page at the link above, and scroll down past the chart to get the ETH spent list.

Eyeing “High Orbit”

These new features execute on the vision we’ve had from the beginning – bring clarity to crypto, and cut through the noise. From here, we can clearly see the path to our “High Orbit” set for 2019.

We’ve long believed the only way you can get a true picture of what’s going on in the crypto world is by looking at many aspects at once… not only on-chain data, or only social trends.

Until now people have needed to look everywhere, in many places, to find all of these metrics. We aim to be the first platform to provide meaningful, reliable and actionable sets of data/metrics on the complete “behavior elephant“: on-chain + social + traditional trading data.

It’s getting closer every day. Thanks for your continued support!

1) Beware that wiley Liquid sidechain throwing out comparisons of future values to previous baselines (Liquid takes volume off the main chain).
2) @gbdesai named the view for us, thanks.
3) Network Momentum if it was corrected for token supply expansion, would be monetary velocity, i.e. equivalent to inverse NVT. It's the same data but a new view that's useful.
4) In light of the Liquid sidechain taking hidden volume off the main chain, I think NVT will still work but we need time to recalibrate and it's now open to gaming by exchange partners if they wanted to (by load balancing onchain and sidechain volume).

Ich komme da nicht mit klar, wenn es heißt noch in diesem Jahr, spätestens im nächsten Frühling usw. Es wird vieleicht, oder wahrscheinlich irgendwann so sein, aber bestimmt erst dann, wenn eigentlich keiner so richtig damit rechnet...
Denkt nicht zu kurzfristig, sonst ist die Enttäuschung nur umso größer, wenn wir gleich oder noch tiefer stehen als jetzt...Zermürbephase oder wie nennt man das noch gleich?

The US government is slowly integrating cryptocurrency and financial technology into its regulatory ecosystem, adding legitimacy and more support for the space. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that they are launching the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub).

Hält Savedroid das eingenommene Geld in Fiat? Sorry für die Frage, habe das hier nicht weiter verfolgt, da mir das Konzept nicht so zugesagt hatte.

Wenn ja, wäre es vielleicht eine gute Idee, das Geld einfach jetzt wieder in Krypto (BTC oder ETH) zu tauschen, wo der Preis niedriger steht als im ICO. Damit würden alle doch noch mit Gewinn (in Krypto gerechnet) dort raus kommen und dem Team bliebe möglicherweise drohender Ärger erspart.  

Diese Spirituose eignet sich wohl besser als Wertanlage - und nicht als Drink: In Edinburgh soll am 3. Oktober der "wertvollste Whisky der Welt" versteigert werden. Das britische Auktionshaus Bonhams erwartet, für den "Macallan Valerio Adami 1926", einen Preis von bis 900.000 Pfund (rund eine Million Euro) zu erzielen.

Macallan ist eine Whiskybrennerei im Norden Schottlands. Der zum Verkauf stehende Whisky gehört zu einer limitierten Reihe von nur zwölf Flaschen, die im Jahr 1986 abgefüllt wurden. Er reifte zuvor 60 Jahre lang in Fässern. Die Etiketten wurden von dem italienischen Künstler Valerio Adami entworfen, dessen Werke an Comics erinnern.

Bitcoin Futures Volume Rises Sharply

The bear market is still a reality, but investors are steadily making moves behind the curtain. A new report from the CME  (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) shows that Bitcoin futures trading at the exchange have continuously risen throughout Q3, and the average daily volume (ADV) of BTC futures increased by 41 percent over Q2 to Q3.

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Altcoins Have No Future

A report by Bloomberg, meanwhile, states that the CME has no plans to introduce additional cryptocurrency futures as they prefer to continue analyzing Bitcoin futures. BTC futures have been a controversial topic as some believe they helped to stabilize Bitcoin $6538.02 +-0.0% as it approached extreme bubble territory in December 2017.

Others are convinced that BTC futures are directly responsible for the 2018 cryptocurrency bear market as they provided crypto-whales and institutional investors with the opportunity to short Bitcoin. Even the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggested that the “subsequent fall in the price” after the Bitcoin Futures launch does not appear to be coincidental.

Meanwhile, eToro senior market analyst, Mati Greenspan, who’s been rather bullish as of late sarcastically called the rising volume a “shocker.”

Hat das eigentlich schon jemand versucht die SNTR von der GBYTE Wallet an eine Exchange zu senden oder dergleichen? Das ist ja eigentlich ein ERC20 Token?

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/silent-notary/#charts

Das Mainnet ist jetzt ja auch in der Testphase:

https://medium.com/@silentnotary

Further, the report found that out of the top 200 cryptoassets, 157 would be classified as receiving “some sort of funding.” It further reveals that out of these 157 cryptoassets, “at least” 54.8% would be considered securities.

IOTA Foundation co-founder Dominik Sciener described his excitement for the partnership within the announcement post, stating:

   
He also pointed out that real-world applications such as this are necessary if the mass adoption of blockchain technology stands a fighting chance. For an industry that needs to handle both human and machine ID on a mass scale, the fee-less transaction capabilities of Tangle are necessary. However, whether IOTA captures a sizeable chunk of the growing IoT industry remains to be seen.

Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave IV

🎉 We are proud to announce our Wave 4 Grantees! 🎉
Scalability

    Non-Custodial Payment Channel Hub​​ – $420K. Payment upon delivery for the open source SDK release built by Spankchain, Kyokan, and Connext at Devcon 4
    Prototypal​​ – $375K. Front-end state channel research and development.
    Finality Labs​​ ​​– $250K. Development of Forward-Time Locked Contracts (FTLC).
    Kyokan​​ ​​– $125K. Development of production ready mainnet Plasma Cash & Debit plugins.
    Atomic Cross-Chain Transactions – $65K. Research led by Maurice Herlihy of Brown University.
    EthSnarks​​ ​​– $40K. Development of a cross-compatible SDK for zkSNARKS to be viable on Ethereum.

Security

    Flintstones – $120K. Further development of the Flint Language including a security focused IDE by Susan Eisenbach of Imperial College London.

Usability (DevEx)

    TrueBlocks ​​– $120K. Open source block explorer.
    Gitcoin​​ – $100K. Funding bounties on Gitcoin.
    VulcanizeDB ​​– $75K. “Community sourced” block explorer.
    Buidler ​​– $50K. Development of modular alternative to Truffle based on Ethers.js.
    Ethdoc​​ – $25K. Open source tool for organization and interaction of smart contract codebases.
    Ethers.js​​ – $25K. Support for ricmoo to continue development and maintenance of Ethers.js.
    Kauri​​ – $25K. Funding documentation bounties on Kauri.

(#BUIDL)

    Magic Money Tree (Dark Crystal) – $50K. Tool for securely storing and recovering keys and secrets through a multisig design by the Secure Scuttlebutt Team.

Hackternships

    Elizabeth Binks​​ – $10K. Ring signature implementation with nine or more keys.
    Lindsey Gray​​ – $10K. Development of C++ BLS-381 implementation.

Client Diversity

    Sigma Prime​​ – $150K. Lighthouse Eth 2.0 client in Rust.
    Prysmatic Labs – $500K. Eth 2.0 Prysm client.
    Status ​​– $500K. Eth 2.0 client in Nim.

Wird vermutlich folgendes gemeint sein.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3001173.msg45205665#msg45205665

Derzeit müssen wir ja einmal auf unsere Tokens warten, die die wir haben sind ja naja schön gesagt "ungültig"...