Companies

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, with headquarters in San Francisco, announced on Tuesday, April 17, that it has stopped its activity on the Japanese financial market because of the high operation cost there. However, the company hinted it could come back, with Japan being one of the world’s biggest bitcoin trading centres.

On April 19, 2017, French-Chinese company, iExec, successfully closed a record breaking crowdsale of its cryptocurrency. iExec offer a new blockchain based solution to decentralized Cloud Computing. One year later, we are presented with the opportunity to look back and make an assessment of the project’s development since this initial fundraiser and look forward to what we will see next from iExec.

Chinese online shopping website Taobao, owned by financial market giant Alibaba, has published a report stating the company will place a ban on all digital currencies, various ICOs, and other ventures related to the cryptocurrency market. The new policy has come into force as of April 17.

The token presale starts April 20th.

Tech company Z-Magnetars has announced April 30th, 2018, as the likely hard fork date of the Bitcoin blockchain to make way for the all-new forked cryptocurrency, FOX BTC. Specifically, it will take place at block height 520419, expected to happen on April 30th.

A Chase credit-card holder sued a popular financial company for an enormously big charge taken from his account, as he wanted to purchase digital currencies, like bitcoin and some other altcoins. Chase Bank taxed the customer’s crypto trading activities as cash advances rather than traditional purchases.

Robots, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) are all three different ways today’s cutting edge technology is being used to gather information, make complex and accurate decisions. They are also being used to execute physical  tasks with a high level of accuracy and precision. The impact of these technologies is very substantial.

Dynatiq is a decentralized domain and website marketplace, The company is set to launch their token sale on the 25th of April 2018 and it aims to become a leading contender among the domain sales industry.

Digipharm, a blockchain venture looking to utilize innovating technology to be the pioneer of sustainable and value-based healthcare delivery, has announced their official cooperation with Swisscom Blockchain, founded by Swisscom. Digipharm wants to overcome barriers to patient access, reduce costs for stakeholders, as well as make personalized healthcare a reality.