The president of the US Securities and Exchange Commission UU (), Jay Clayton, has recently said that and similar may have been values in the past, but have lost that status. Last June, the head of the corporate finance division of the , William Hinman, said, “As I understand the current status of the , the network and its decentralized structure, the offers and sales of are not of any values. The application of securities laws to is of little benefit “.
Trust Wallet adds support for XRP and credit cards
The portfolio supported by Trust Wallet has just announced the inclusion of (XRP) to its list of supported assets, announced through its official blog. According to the announcement, users can not send XRP to other addresses. In addition, Trust Wallet users can buy XRP, , BCH, LTC and ETH with the main credit and debit cards through their integration with the Simplex payment processing company.
A British energy supply company invests in a blockchain firm
OVO, one of the largest energy supply companies in the United Kingdom, has just announced a strategic investment in Electron. It is an energy company that takes advantage of technology. Electron is an energy technology company headquartered in London that combines the largest distributed logging technology with energy expertise to design and build digital infrastructure for the energy industry. According to the announcement, Electron will take advantage of the investment benefits of Kaluza, OVO’s unit, to accelerate the development and deployment of its energy platforms and systems.
The SEC of Thailand gives the green light to the first ICO portal in the country
Thailand’s regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (), has just authorized the country’s first ICO portal, the local Bangkok Post reported yesterday. The regulator has given the green light to this new portal, which will allow to select ICOs, perform the due diligence, confirm the source codes of the intelligent contracts as well as perform user verification processes (KYC). Apparently, the ICO portal will be operated by a foreign company. According to Archari Suppiroj, director of the unit of the regulator, the first ICO portal in the country is almost ready and will soon be approved officially by the corresponding government institutions.
Abra cryptocurrency portfolio adds direct support for ETH
The portfolio Abra has just added native support for , as announced yesterday on his blog. From now on, users of the portfolio will be able to receive, , sell and buy directly from the portfolio. In addition, they can also use the to invest in other and fiat currencies available on the platform. Until now, Abra only supported the in the form of synthetic assets. It is a system that allowed investors to expose themselves to the without actually possessing it.
Published at Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:01:58 +0000