LD Capital sees Polkadot and its environment as ripe for expansion. With this, Polkadot adds yet another piece of good news to its flow this week.

China’s LD Capital tweeted the announcement on the start of Polkadot Ecosystem Fund on Jan. 21. The fund will engage in capital support, community building, development advisory, and marketing to early stage projects focused on Polkadot. LD Capital set the fund at $10 million.

source: https://beincrypto.com/polkadot-ecosystem-gains-10-million-vc-fund-amid-activity/

Following a pending lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Ripple Labs, Coinbase has announced that it will be suspending its XRP trading books beginning in mid-January.

The suit alleges that Ripple Labs, former CEO Christian Larsen, and current CEO Brad Garlinghouse are guilty of raising $1.3 billion from XRP token sales as unlicensed securities since 2013.

Due to legal ramifications and the uncertainty of the situation, Coinbase decided that it will suspend all XRP trading beginning on Jan. 19, 2021.

Coinbase Goes on the Defensive
Coinbase went into more detail in a blog post made earlier this morning.

Until Jan. 19, 2021, when all XRP trading will be halted, Coinbase has moved its order books to limit only. The exchange did not give a definitive answer on if or when trading would be re-opened, but it will likely be determined by the development of the SEC case.



more : https://beincrypto.com/coinbase-freeze-xrp-trading-sec-lawsuit-ripple/


from the article above will it indicate that XRP will actually die

The Litecoin (LTC) price has been increasing at an accelerated rate over the past two weeks and is currently approaching the $149 resistance area.

It should reach this area and possibly break out.

LTC Long-Term Levels
The weekly chart shows that LTC has been moving upwards since the beginning of March. It’s approaching the $149 resistance area, which is the 0.382 Fib retracement level of the entire previous downward move and coincides with the June 2019 highs.

If it breaks out successfully, the next resistance area would be at $187.

Technical indicators are bullish, supporting the possibility that it will rally at least to the $149 resistance area and possibly break out.



more : https://beincrypto.com/ltc-continues-ascent-towards-150/

the LTC/USD pair is likely to continue increasing towards $149 and possibly $187.

On the other hand, LTC/BTC looks macro bullish and should slowly move towards 0.0095 and possibly 0.011

Blackpin chooses the IOTA Tangle as the strategic underlying DLT technology for its B2B communication and transaction platform

The encouragement to work in a flexible remote manner has greatly increased over the past months. Where on-site meetings were formerly seen as a main driver for trust and collaboration, and thus value creation, a new paradigm change to collaborate remotely has been proven effective and is quickly finding its part in new collaboration models.

By building a secure digital service platform for the European market, based on its GDPR/DSGVO-compliant mobile messenger, Blackpin brings together collaborators and individuals among the value chain of businesses by providing a secure and european B2B messenger alternative for digital services. Whereas corporate messaging systems are mainly focused on an internal collaboration, Blackpin works as a B2B service platform to facilitate data and information exchange, while providing the underlying solution for legally binding contracts and billing. For example to pay for legal advice per minute, based on geo-information, or facilitate a payment directly with a service provider. This reduces friction and the process overhead, providing time and cost savings for all parties involved.

We are excited to announce that with its scalable design and focus on data immutability IOTA will provide the underlying basis for Blackpin, to enable a secure data exchange, storing contractual audit relevant information. IOTA’s growing ecosystem and functionalities like Digital Identity, Smart Contracts, Digital Asset Management and Micropayments provide a digital trust infrastructure which cater to Blackpins different requirements, all integrated from within one open source technology. Especially the fundamentally different design and zero-transaction-costs is a primary factor to utilize the public infrastructure without the financial, legal and regulatory aspects for companies to acquire and manage Cryptocurrency. IOTA thus mitigates the bottlenecks of traditional blockchain technology.

"Indeed, we still have a lot to do. Similar to WeChat in China in the C2C area, our technology in the B2B area should be used throughout Europe if possible," says Sandra Jörg, CEO of Blackpin, pointing to the future. "We are therefore all the more pleased that we were able to win two such strong partners for this project. With Tobias Schmailzl as the new CTO at Blackpin, we have a very experienced and visionary expert on board, so we are perfectly positioned to make our vision a reality together. We are very much looking forward to future cooperation.”

Dominik Schiener, co-founder of IOTA, confirms: "For the realization of these digital workflows, we are the right choice with our open source solution for such an innovative, technologically sophisticated and future-oriented project. We see Blackpin as the perfect front-end to enable millions of users to access our technology. That's why we want to take on this challenge together as partners to build a solution for agile working of the future - independent of place and time, in a digital world of tomorrow."

more info : https://blog.iota.org/blackpin-chooses-the-iota-tangle-as-the-strategic-underlying-dlt-technology-for-its-b2b-communication-and-transaction-platform/

The Stellar (XLM) price is consolidating inside a symmetrical triangle right below a long-term resistance area. While it is possible that XLM breaks down from the triangle and reaches a slightly lower low, the long-term trend seems to be bullish and XLM is expected to eventually break out above the resistance area.

Long-Term Levels
During the week of Nov. 16-23, the XLM price price created a significant bullish candlestick in the weekly time-frame. XLM followed it up with another considerable increase the next week. It culminated with a high of $0.23; a more than 200% increase in just two weeks.

XLM trades currently only slightly below the long-term $0.19 resistance area. It has not closed above this area since it initially broke down on Oct. 2018.

more :
https://beincrypto.com/is-xlm-consolidating-before-a-breakout/

In brief:

- Approximately 62,000 BTC options expire this Friday, 28th August.
- The expiration of Bitcoin futures and options is known to have a significant impact on the price of BTC.
- A possible scenario is Bitcoin testing $11,200 or even $11,000 before or after Friday.


The last week of every Bitcoin trading month is significant in the sense that it coincides with the expiration of BTC derivatives products such as futures and options. With respect to the former, there is a widely held belief amongst crypto traders that the expiration of CME Bitcoin futures on the last Friday of every month, has a negative impact on the price of BTC.

read more : https://en.ethereumworldnews.com/bitcoins-volatility-could-spike-as-62k-btc-options-expire-friday/

Conclusion
A record 62,000 BTC options expire this Friday and significant Bitcoin volatility could accompany their expiry. Through technical analysis, a move down seems more probable given Bitcoin’s rising wedge pattern that could have BTC fall to as low as $11,000.

As with all analyses of Bitcoin, traders and investors are advised to use adequate stop losses and low leverage when trading BTC on the various derivatives platforms.

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The Bitcoin price pumped hard on Wednesday, reaching a local high of more than $9,400 on some exchanges. The price move is among Bitcoin’s largest ever single-day upswings by dollar value.

There have been a total of 14 days before now that saw the Bitcoin price gain more than $1,000 in just 24 hours. However, a look into history shows that such moves might not be as bullish as one may presume.

BTC at the Races: Historic Price Moves Lead into Month of Bitcoin Halving
Bitcoin is no stranger to volatility
We can describe volatility as how much the value of an asset changes over a given time. A volatility index... More
. In its 11-year history, the leading cryptocurrency has seen many price swings, both up and down, that make all but the most extreme moves on Wall Street look tame.

more : https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-price-rises-17-but-history-suggests-losses-could-follow/

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Tron’s CEO, Justin Sun, kick-started the year by streaming a live telecast on Tron’s newly purchased DLive. He also streamed the telecast on Periscope as well as on YouTube.

In the message, Sun touched on several issues, but what caught the attention of most viewers was his strong stance on not selling their 33 billion TRX stash (worth approx $442M). Justin equally reiterated the company’s initiated launch of the buy-back project to retrieve the circulating TRX from the market, stressing that the coin is undervalued.

Tron Against Selling 33 Billion Worth Of TRX
Contrary to the viewer's opinions, Justin said that the company doesn't intend on relinquishing the hold of the 33 billion TRX stash, and doesn’t intend to sell it off to the market anytime soon. The company wants to minimize the circulation of the coins already on the market.

more: https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/justin-sun-promises-not-to-dump-33-bln-trx-and-tron-will-kick-off-buy-back-program-to-boost-price/