Coinbase revealed who will receive Crypto Community Fund grants

US crypto exchange, Coinbase, just announced who will be the recipients of its Crypto Community Fund grants. The grants are given to Bitcoin developers who can contribute the most to the advancement of the coin’s underlying technology.

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Why contests are better than grants for a healthy crypto community

Grant programs have their flaws — they often lack transparency and shut out good ideas. Here’s why contests are a compelling alternative.

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Hong Kong Grants First License to Cryptocurrency Trading Platform

Hong Kong now has its first regulated cryptocurrency trading platform. The Securities and Futures Commission has just given out the first-ever crypto license to OSL Digital Securities which will soon commence trading for several cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin.

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UK FCA Grants Crypto Firms Temporary Registration as It Deals With Applications Backlog

There had been fears in the industry that crypto firms might be left in no man's land as the FCA deadline looked set to pass with many applications still waiting to be processed.

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Crypto.com to Debut in Australia Following the Acquisition of a Locally Licensed Entity

Crypto. com is set to roll out its services for the Australian market following the acquisition of a licensed entity dubbed ‘The Card Group Pty Ltd’; this automatically grants the crypto exchange and debit card provider an Australian Financial Service License (ASFL).

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Chainlink (LINK) supports Ethereum’s Gitcoin infrastructure development

Decentralized oracle network Chainlink is participating in Gitcoin Grants Round 8 development of the in-demand Ethereum infrastructure project, as it announces support for the project. The crypto community has lauded this development, as so many believe both the Ethereum (ETH) and Chainlink (LINK) projects need to complement each other to grow and develop in the industry.

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US Department of Commerce Grants Crypto.com Highest Privacy, Security Rating

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Square Crypto предоставила грант дизайнеру интерфейсов биткоин-кошельков

Компания Джека Дорси Square Crypto сообщила о выделении гранта дизайнеру Мэгги Валентайн. Она сфокусирована на том, чтобы сделать кошельки удобными для пользователей без технических знаний. Giving trick-or-treaters Open Dimes and Square Crypto grants this year.

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Coinbase Builds Into Bitcoin Ecosystem With Dev Grants, Wrapped BTC

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has revealed two separate contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem today. Here’s how the top crypto platform plans to boost the future of the first-ever cryptocurrency and make it more accessible, flexible, and DeFi-ready.

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Coinbase will sponsor two Bitcoin Core developers with first Crypto Community Fund grants

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BMA grants Bittrex Global a license to run a crypto exchange in Bermuda

The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has granted Bittrex Global Ltd. a full Class F Digital Assets Business Act license. A press release unveiled this news on September 30, noting that this permit will let Bittrex Global operate its acclaimed crypto exchange in or from Bermuda under the purview of BMA.

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Can Payment Services Drive the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ in Crypto?

The legislative body of the European Union is concluding the proposal for the region’s first cryptocurrency and digital finance framework. With tokenized securities, payment solutions, and DeFi on the rise, this grants industry businesses opportunities to leverage their legitimacy and open their doors to the broader consumer market.

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UK Financial Watchdog Grants Licenses to Archax and Gemini

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has granted licenses to two crypto exchanges operating in the country, Archax and Gemini.

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Bitcoin Community Member Develops Funding Tracker

A Bitcoin community member under the alias ‘Polylunar’ has published a Bitcoin Grants Tracker. The user aims to bring additional transparency to the world of crypto funding. Due to the decentralized nature of Bitcoin, keeping track of the different funding projects is complex.

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Square Crypto, Human Rights Foundation Ramp Up Bitcoin Development Grants

Square Crypto and the Human Rights Foundation are continuing their support for an open source Bitcoin developer community with new contributor grants.

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Gitcoin Grants Round 6 Retrospective

Round 6 of Gitcoin Grants has just finished, with $227,847 in contributions from 1,526 contributors and $175,000 in matched funds distributed across 695 projects. This time around, we had three categories: the two usual categories of "tech" and "community" (the latter renamed from "media" to reflect a desire for a broad emphasis), and the round-6-special category Crypto For Black Lives.

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Swiss Financial Regulator, FINMA, Licenses Local Bank To Carry Out The Crypto Transactions

Switzerland’s top financial regulator, Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) grants local banks, InCore, the first license to transact digital currencies. This adds to the accelerated efforts from the Swiss government in the blockchain field so far in 2020 with the government looking to implement a central bank digital currency (CBDC). InCore, first Swiss bank licensed […]

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Crypto Derivatives Exchange ErisX, Opens API Service for BCH, BTC, ETH, and LTC Block Trading

ErisX has now unveiled a REST API that grants its clients access to their Block Trade. This is a facility that allows investors to make big trades, within the given array of listed spot and futures commodities, privately.

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Algorand Foundation Launches $50 Million Developer Grants Program

The Algorand Foundation announced the launch of a 250 million ALGO grants program, providing around $50 million in stimulus for the project’s developer ecosystem. ALGO Grants Program for App Builders...The post Algorand Foundation Launches $50 Million Developer Grants Program appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Estonia Grants License to Chilean Crypto Exchange

CryptoMarket has joined the ranks of Latin American crypto companies regulated in the EU

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Swipe (SXP) crypto wallet and card integrates Chainlink for decentralized pricing

Swipe, a crypto wallet app and card platform that grants users access to buy, sell, and pay with over 20 cryptocurrencies, recently collaborated with Chainlink, the decentralized oracle network provider that offers high-security data solutions to smart contracts on any blockchain.

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Thai SEC Grants License to Asia-Pacific Crypto Exchange

Asia-Pacific crypto-fiat trading platform Zipmex has sealed a digital assets exchange license from the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission

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Cross-chain CDP platform Kava allocates $1.1M for Q1 grants

Kava Labs, the core developer of collateralized crypto loan and stablecoin platform Kava, announced this week that $1,158,500 has been allocated to its grants program for Q1 2020. Built on the Cosmos SDK, Kava’s mainnet launched back in November 2019.

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Square Crypto Awards Grant To Pseudonymous Lightning Network Contributor; Denies He Is An AI

Square crypto, a bitcoin-focused unit of card payment, has awarded grants to a lighting contributor going by the name ZmnSCPxJ. He has been contributing to lightning and C-lightning for the past two years.

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Crypto Startups to Get up to $75,000 From the Government of Ukraine

Ukrainian crypto companies can now receive up to $75,000 each in the form of government sponsored grants. A special fund set up by the authorities in Kiev is already accepting applications from startups in various high tech sectors including the blockchain industry.

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Crypto.com Announces CRO Freeze, Euro Withdrawals

Crypto. com has announced an update to its internal governance mechanisms with regard to the Crypto. com Coin (CRO).   The crypto payments wallet and DeFi player has decided to freeze CRO in their long-term incentives and reserve wallets for three years.

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Crypto DEX protocol Loopring grants WeDEX 10 million LRC

Loopring, an open protocol for building scalable, non-custodial orderbook exchanges, announced that it has granted 10 million LRC (around $350,000) from its Loopring Ecosystem Advancement Fund (LEAF) to WeDEX, a decentralized exchange founded by Loopring’s co-founder and former COO, Johnston Chen.

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Crypto DEX exchange protocol Loopring grants WeDEX 10 million LRC

Loopring, an open protocol for building scalable, non-custodial orderbook exchanges, announced that it has granted 10 million LRC (around $350,000) from its Loopring Ecosystem Advancement Fund (LEAF) to WeDEX, a decentralized exchange founded by Loopring’s co-founder and former COO, Johnston Chen.

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UNICEF Launches Cryptocurrency Fund for Disbursement of Grants

UNICEF announced, in New York City, that they are rolling out the ‘UNICEF Crypto Fund’ in order to use cryptocurrency donations received to disburse grants to projects around the world that are trying to improve the quality of infrastructure, education, and connectivity, October 9, 2019.

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Jack Dorsey’s Square Crypto To Invest $100,00 In The “Future Of Money”

The crypto initiative of payment company Square, Square crypto recently announced that they are allocating $100,000 on grants to the BTCPay Foundation. Square Crypto was founded to give back to the open-source bitcoin community.

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Square Crypto grants $100,000 to BTCPay foundation

Jack Dorsey’s Square Crypto, a Bitcoin payment processor recently announced that the company provided a grant to an open-source Bitcoin project. The BTC payment processor revealed on Twitter that it is providing BTCPay, an open-source payment processor with a grant worth $100,000.

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Square Crypto Grants $100,000 to Open-Source Crypto Payment Processor

Bitcoin-supporting payments service Square Crypto gives $100,000 grant to BTCPay Server

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Tezos Foundation Issues 14 Grants For Projects In DeFi Smart Contracts, and XTZ Block Explorers

The Tezos Foundation has released a series of grants for a number of crypto related projects that responded to the foundation’s calls for proposals. According to an announcement made by the foundation, they have issued 14 grants to various projects that are working towards furthering the interests of the Tezos project. The size of the […]

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Binance Futures Go Live on September 13, Platform Grants 50% Discount on Trading Fees

Binance announces its crypto futures launch going live and promises a 50-percent discount on trading futures for the first three months after the launch

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Japan Grants Crypto Exchange License to Messaging Giant LINE

Japanese messaging giant LINE has received regulatory approval for its new domestic cryptocurrency exchange

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Swiss Regulators Award First Banking Licenses to Blockchain Banks 

FINMA, Switzerland’s financial regulatory body, recently awarded its first banking and securities dealers’ licenses to two Swiss blockchain banks, according to a report by Finews on August 26, 2019. The license comes after the regulatory body released a guideline regarding cryptocurrency and blockchain in the country.

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Swiss Financial Regulator Grants Very-First Crypto Banking Licenses to SEBA and Sygnum

In a move that is first in the crypto market, the Swiss financial regulator has awarded the banking and securities dealer licenses to two new “crypto banks.” Two pure-play blockchain service providers Zurich registered Sygnum and Zug registered SEBA are now cleared to offer services to institutional and professional customers. FINMA, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory […]

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Estonia Grants Crypto Trading and Custody License to WEG Bank

German bank WEG Bank is now licensed to trade and hold cryptocurrency for clients in Estonia

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New York Grants Bitlicense to Institutional Crypto Exchange Seed CX

NYDFS has granted two BitLicenses to subsidiaries of Seed CX, allowing the company to offer crypto services to financial firms.

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UK Financial Watchdog Grants License to London-Based Crypto Asset Firm

London-based Prime Factor Capital has received FCA approval to operate as a cryptocurrency investment management firm

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‘Bitcoin Inventor’ Craig Wright Basks in Satoshi Glow as Court Date Looms

By CCN Markets: Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright had his fondest wish come true when the capital city of Colombia formally recognized him as Satoshi Nakamoto. Bogota Grants Craig Wright’s ‘Satoshi’ Wish Officials in Bogota presented Wright with a fancy certificate affirming him as the creator of bitcoin.

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New York Supreme Court Grants Bitfinex’s Motion to Modify Injunction

The New York Supreme Court has granted crypto exchange Bitfinex’s motion to modify an injunction by the New York Attorney General

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Australia Grants A$170K To Crypto SA To Launch Country’s First Blockchain Incubator

The Australian government has awarded A$170,000 to blockchain advisory firm Crypto SA to open the country’s first blockchain incubator, reports the Lead South Australia. Crypto SA was granted the funding as part of the Incubator Support program, which provides business incubators with grants of up to A$500,000 to assist Australian startups in gaining the capabilities […] The post Australia Grants A$170K To Crypto SA To Launch Country’s First Blockchain Incubator appeared first on Coinjournal.

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Binance Labs Awards $15,000 Each To Ironbelly, HOPR And Kitsune Wallet Crypto Projects

Investment Arm Of Binance Awards Grants To Three Startups Working On Open-Source Blockchain Tech Binance created the Binance Labs investment arm as a way for the company to invest in other projects. According to recent reports from CoinDesk, Binance Labs has found three startups working on open-source blockchain technologies – Ironbelly, HOPR, and Kitsune Wallet. […]

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NY State Financial Regulator Grants Virtual Currency License To Bitstamp

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has granted a virtual currency license to Bitstamp USA Inc. , a subsidiary of Bitstamp Ltd. , authorizing the company to offer crypto trading services in the state of New York.

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[Breaking] Bitstamp Granted 19th Virtual Currency License by New York State DFS

New York State Grants BitLicense to Bitstamp To Continue Crypto Operations Operating in the United States as a cryptocurrency exchange platform is a little complicated, considering that there are some states that vary in their policies.

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New York Grants Its 18th BitLicense to Crypto ‘Prime Broker’ Tagomi

The NYDFS has awarded its 18th BitLicense to prime broker startup Tagomi Trading.

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Government of Bermuda grants Omega One first cryptocurrency exchange license

CryptoNinjas Omega One, a company creating an off-exchange venue in crypto assets and capital market infrastructure, today announced the official launch of Omega Dark, an institutionally-focused dark pool in the digital asset marketplace.

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French Cybersecurity Agency Grants Security Certificate to Ledger Nano S Hardware Wallet

The Ledger Nano S from French crypto hardware wallet firm Ledger has received a First Level Security Certificate from France’s national cybersecurity agency

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