Those in India will now be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with Fiat currencies

Starting 25 November, people in India will be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with fiat currencies through the Binance Fiat Gateway. The global cryptocurrency exchange and blockchain ecosystem announced its acquisition of bitcoin exchange WazirX.

In the first quarter of 2020, WazirX’s auto-matching engine will be integrated into the Binance Fiat Gateway platform, allowing users to directly place orders on Binance.com and the Binance iOS or Android app to purchase Tether (USDT) against INR. This integration will allow users to trade any digital asset available on Binance.com with the purchase of USDT from the WazirX digital asset marketplace.

“The acquisition of WazirX is another step forward in achieving the freedom of money,” said CZ (Changpeng Zhao), Binance CEO.

“The next phase of mass adoption for crypto will arise from developing nations around the world,” said Nischal Shetty, WazirX CEO.

The native WazirX token (WRX) is currently available to the community through trade mining and signups and an upcoming token sale is under consideration. About 64,000 users hold WRX.

Binance has also focused on supporting and developing the Indian blockchain system. Earlier this year, the India-based startup Matic Network successfully fundraised via the blockchain on Binance Launchpad and another project, Marlin Protocol, secured a USD$3 million seed round from Binance Labs, the investment arm of Binance.

Binance also licenses its matching engine and wallet technologies to several partner platforms, including Binance Uganda, Binance Jersey, Binance Singapore, and newly launched Binance US, which offer fiat-crypto trading functions across a variety of currency pairs.

The launch of the exchange together with a robust road map for 2019 makes StakeCube one of the most interesting projects to invest in

StakeCube’s much anticipated crypto exchange was launched on 14th May. The launch makes StakeCube the only platform with the first ever integrated pool and an exchange that stakes customer’s digital assets while they trade. Ever since its inception in June 2018, the team has put in considerable efforts to deliver a state-of-the-art staking pool to a 20,000 plus user base.

StakeCube Exchange has listed eight coins including StakeCube’s native SCC. The other prominent projects listed are PIVX, MMO, ESBC, BITG, RDD, NAV and Dash. Bitcoin is the base pair for the listed tokens. There are plans for SCC to be included as a base pair in the coming days or weeks. The new exchange developed by founder Oleg has a clean and user friendly interface, largely embraced by their customers. Currently, developers involved in building the exchange are gathering feedback from its user base on discord to improve the pool and exchange.

One thing that has worked in favour of this growing platform is team work and its positive reputation as a trustworthy network. With 29 coins listed in its pool, StakeCube has outlived some of its peers by delivering on promises as per their road map. The delivery of the exchange was one of the items included in the roadmap for 2019.

Before the exchange was opened, StakeCube also began offering 3.717% annual interest on Bitcoin deposits in customer wallets—a feature that is unique in the exchange space. No other crypto exchange offers interest to its user base for depositing bitcoin. This feature alone should make the exchange an attractive option for investors who are keen on trading with PoS projects.

StakeCube has many upcoming features planned for its community including an academy for Proof of Stake coins. As per the 2019 road map announced on discord, SC will offer coin creation for businesses this year. Many similar projects and staking pools have offered similar services in the past, however, most of them have failed to take off. The difference with StakeCube is it has a team that has been around since June 2018. The team includes Oleg, Tyolus, Chimaera, Mike, Marco, Daryl, Derek, Motor and Titanium (all discord handle names). The team have been largely accountable and available to its 20k plus user base despite a series of setbacks in the beginning.

Hoping to establish the first “marketing oriented” blockchain in the industry, Thrive is set to give global advertising bigwigs like Google AdSense/AdWords a run for their money.

Thrive, a decentralised platform, is attempting penetrate into the global advertising market by creating a network on which advertisers and content creators can seamlessly integrate digital ads on a peer-to-peer manner, without the interference of intermediaries and third party service providers.

Through the usage of blockchain technology, the Thrive team promises full transparency and data security, which are two advantages which centralised platforms like Google AdSense and Amazon Advertising cannot provide. Often, revenue shares, advertisement margins, and rates are not transparently provided to content creators as accessible data, making it difficult for content creators to plan ahead potential revenues and profits to finance their operations and daily activities.

Blockchain technology’s and its cryptographically encrypted network enables every piece of data to be accessed as public information.

This means that for the first time, both publishers and consumers willing to voluntarily share anonymous data will get monetary rewards. With Thrive, content creators will not experience similar issues they have had on platforms like YouTube, wherein content is unfairly demonetised. Recently, demonetisation of content on major platforms resulted in more than 50 per cent of their revenues were eliminated overnight.

Thrive is targeting a rapidly growing market in digital advertising. The total addressable market of Thrive is nearly $310 billion, and if it can establish itself as a key service provider within the market, it will be able to evolve into a leading advertising marketplace.

Digital advertising spending worldwide—which includes both desktop and laptop computers as well as mobile devices was estimated to be 198.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2016. This figure is forecast to constantly increase during the coming years, reaching a total of 310 billion U.S. dollars by 2020.

The token sale or initial coin offering (ICO) of the Thrive token (THRT) begins on 15 February. 53 per cent of the total supply of THRT (106 Million THRT) will be sold during the token sale. Unsold token will be burned. The initial pricing per THRT will be $0.3, and the dynamic hard cap of the token sale will be set at $30 million.

Blockchain solutions provider Tron is seeking help from its global community and partners to help those affected by the Coronavirus worldwide. “We are deeply concerned and aware of the extreme shortage of medical supplies in Wuhan, China, hence we are calling all the Tronics around the world to help those affected by sending medical necessities immediately,” said a press note from the company.

These supplies include goggles, face masks, food, water, and various medical supplies, and anything else needed to help them overcome this crisis. The company says they have already received commitments from various community members from Korea, Singapore, North America, and EU, as well as corporations within the Tron ecosystem including BitTorrent, Poloniex, DLive, and WINk, with more to be confirmed.

Tron is now coordinating with some of the largest logistics companies around the world to help deliver and distribute these supplies as soon as possible, to whoever is in need.