Crypto Daily News Summary - 20th October 2018

Welcome Fellow Crypto Enthusiasts. Here is Your Daily Roundup of the Crypto News.

• Major Online Rental Platform Omni Allows Users to be Paid in Ripple

• A rare crypto-partnership that's actually real: KPN (worth $10 billion) is now officially a NEO Consensus Node.

• Crypto Margin Trading Startup dYdX Raises $10 Million From a16z and Polychain

• Crypto Writers Grab Your Pens – Win ETH and NEO in Two Competitions

• Tether Price Creeps Back to 99 Cents But Fails to Reach Dollar Parity

• Bitcoin [BTC], Ethereum, Litecoin and more accepted as payment by Marks Jewelers

• Loom SDK Projects: CryptoWars — A Strategy Game that Lets you Build a Village, Summon an Army, and Fight Enemies on the Blockchain

• nOS and Data Access Worldwide Join Forces to Bring Decentralized Applications to the Enterprise Market

• Fundstrat’s Tom Lee Calls Bitcoin Breakout, Says Stellar, EOS and Dogecoin Are 2018 Standouts, Analyzes Ethereum, Highlights XRP

• Zcash Price Analysis: ZEC Trading Comfortably Above $110 — Can The “Coinbase Effect” Push Zcash Back Above $200?

• Be Part of æternity’s Mainnet Launch: AE Token Migration

• How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech’s Hold on A.I.

• Mike Novogratz Twitter - Id like to put context to these quotes as the last thing I want to do is spread FUD. I said I thought tether has a dollar for every tether and that we actively traded it. The fact that almost $700mm has been redeemed in an orderly fashion is important.

• Spain Plans to Require Investors to Disclose Cryptocurrencies

• Token IQ Will Unveil Its Securities Token Platform At Conference

• BitMax partners with Indian cryptoexchanges Coindelta and Giottus

• EOS Creators Launch Game Tutorial To Encourage Developers

• Power Ledger Named Winner In Extreme Tech Challenge On Necker Island

• St Julian’s ‘Crypto-Tower’ is just a marketing ploy. No plans for construction of 42-storey tower

• Dutch Blockchain Prop-tech Company To Enter Asian Market

• Argentinians Can Sell Bitcoin And Get Fiat At RapiPago Bill-Paying Service

• Blockchain Hackathon Set For Moscow In November

• Litecoin Fees to be Reduced 10x to “Half a Cent” with the LTC Core 0.17 Release

• BOJ deputy governor doubts digital currency will enhance monetary policy

• XRP is not a security and the SEC will recognize it, says Ripple’s Chief Market Strategist

• Seasameseed launches a TRON-based payment card dubbed TronCard

• $571 Million Stolen In Cryptocurrency Attack By North Korean Hackers

• Will there be a SWIFT – Ripple Partnership Soon?

• Tron (TRX) Surpasses Ethereum (ETH) in Daily Transaction, Justin Sun says “It’s Just the Beginning”

• Why Are Altcoins No Longer Getting Good News Boosts

• LEDGER CEO WINS FRENCH AWARD FOR STARTUP WITH INTERNATIONAL POTENTIAL

• Veritaseum confirm expansion into African crypto space

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