Spotcoin, an upcoming NEO based exchange (and more), has been working very hard with their private funds raised over the past few months, and now they revealed they will be launching their product, the SPOTCOIN exchange, within 2 months instead of somewhere next year (read the full update here). The good part, owning their tokens mean you get two types of dividends. One is related to the exchange fees. The other to their secondary sources of revenue (hydro-mining, otc). Another thing I like is that they are from Georgia (the country) and they are working hard to get the crypto adoption ball going....and are succeeding in it. Another huge aspect that will drive adoption? They will offer 10 fiat currencies from the start, so it will be easy to many to buy crypto....make it as easy as possible .

The fun thing about this all? They they started their ICO last week and it runs until the 27th of October. Yes, they may not be getting the many millions some projects easily got back in January, but still they are doing great, so many people actually believe this could go somewhere .

Another great thing? NEO based projects to adhere by the City of ZION's guidelines for responsible token sales will be able to list for free, and many or most are, so immediately trading will take place for sure .

They recently cancelled their entire crowd sale. They already reached (or almost reached) their hard cap through their private sale and presale, a big chunk of tokens reserved for the crowd sale are now put into an airdrop (for presale participants only) and a bounty program (still running at the moment). Their bounty is not your typical bounty, it is purely focused on getting a bigger community (so not simply plugging the project, but actually getting involved).

They are now wrapping up their ICO. After the bounty has finished all tokens will be distributed. I expect pretty good exchanges soon after, but as usual nothing has been disclosed yet. Uchain is starting to pick up some nice hype, so maybe they are listed at one of the bigger exchanges (if needed, they have the budget for that).

Here's a nice recap of the project: https://steemit.com/blockchain/@mrblueberry/restoring-trust-and-preventing-data-abuse-in-the-sharing-economy-with-uchain

What are you talking about, if a project uses Medium to publish their press releases, it is a press release ?

Or can it only be news if it is published on a specific 'medium' ?

Anyway. My title could indeed be seen as a way to entice you to read, but it doesn't mean it is 'wrong'...I changed the way the link was presented btw...since it wasn't about whether I called it a press release or not

I am stoked . Soon there will be a new trading platform that offers a one-stop shop for all your needs. Though I am not so much into OTC (off the counter trading) and mining services, Spotcoin offers quite a few other things that still got me very excited. First off, their trading platform will offer a regular trading solution. There are several similar solutions of course, but together with the other main pillars Spotcoin really stands out imo. As it is a $NEO project (Jay, I love $NEO!) all NEO projects can get listed foc. This is awesome news, as it means several popular NEO projects that currently lack high volume exchanges, can immediately be traded at Spotcoin.

They will offer several fiat pairs, besides the pretty common trading pairs (with BTC, ETH, NEO etc). Fiat pairs will be USD and EUR, but also numerous local currencies from the Black Sea Region, as this is where the project finds its origin, in Georgia to be precise (did you know Georgia is one of the most crypto forward countries in the world?).

So Spotcoin will offer the following:

1) OTC
2) Mining services
3) Fiat pairs
4) Regular trading
5) Spotpay payment system
6) Dividents to $SPOT holders

And:

- Massive regional blockchain awareness
- Educational activities
- Mass adoption of cryptocurrencies by the Black Sea Region
- Several (mostly NEO based) partnerships
- Another $NEO exchange (Jay!

Some token details may be in order. The $SPOT token will become their exchange base token. Only 99m will ever come into existance. Presale ran for 2 days before being sold out. Main sale can start at any moment now. The project is starting to get some nice traction. I will definitely keep an eye out .

Check out their latest press release Spotcoin's place within the NEO universe: https://medium.com/spotcoin/spotcoins-place-in-the-neo-universe-9c6688696c23

So I've been hearing it more and more. Big exchanges all want a piece of the pie in Europe. After Binance's move to Malta, one of the other top5 exchanges, Huobi is also trying hard to set up shop in Europe.

Recently they held their Huobi summit in Amsterdam, where several blockchain start-ups were able to present themselves. It was an interesting afternoon of 'crypto knowledge and world-class networking' . Their Huobi European Quant Trading Summit 2018 was held in the stunning Nemo Science Museum Amsterdam.

An introduction to Huobi: "Huobi Group has built the world’s largest blockchain and digital asset ecosystem. Established in 2013, Huobi’s digital asset exchange has accumulated a trading volume of US $1 trillion, and serves more than five million users in over 130 countries."

I read that Chris Dawe, CEO of Dutch start-up Effect.AI, hosted the panel on Quant Trading at the Huobi summit. Great developments, since Effect.AI is an amazing project that could surely benefit with a listing at an exchange like Huobi .

Check out their latest recap by their lovely social media manager Polina:



I think this is a great moment for European start-ups to get in the picture with Huobi. Maybe they'll even get a listing out of it, since a listing at one of the top 5 exchanges can be an arduous thing .