The IOTA Foundation has launched the Trinity wallet, as the organization announced in a press release on July 2. The announcement advertises the Trinity wallet as an improve to both ease-of-use and security for users conducting transactions in IOTA, with the purported goal of appealing to both new and advanced users. Reportedly, the wallet’s beta version has seen 160,000 downloads and transactions worth over $1.8 billion of IOTA. Cybersecurity firms SixGen andAccessec audited the application in advance of release. As a software wallet, Trinity is designed for compatibility with Ledger’s hardware wallets, as Ledger has worked alongside the IOTA Foundation …

Thursday, June 27 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting significant losses on the day by press time, as Bitcoin (BTC) falls under the $10,800 mark again. Market visualization courtesy of Coin360 Bitcoin is currently down about 19.67% on the day, trading around $10,695 at press time, according to Coin360. Looking at its weekly chart, the coin is up 13.28%. Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360 As Cointelegraph reported earlier today, Fundstrat Global Advisers Co-Founder Thomas Lee suggested that bitcoin’s volatility makes a long-term approach towards investing in it more appropriate for most traders. Ether (ETH) is holding …

Alyx — the luxe fashion brand founded by erstwhile Lady Gaga creative director and Kanye West collaborator Matthew Williams — is launching an IOTA-based pilot for supply chain transparency. The news was reported by industry magazine Vogue Business on June 24. Williams — who earned a 2016 LVMH Prize finalist nomination for his work at Alyx, and spearheaded brand partnerships with Moncler, Nike and Dior Men — has launched the blockchain pilot together with manufacturing giant Avery Dennison and London-based internet of things (IoT) software firm Evrythng. As reported, IOTA is an IoT-focused distributed ledger technology firm, which has created …

Monday, June 17 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day by press time, as bitcoin (BTC) passed the $9,300 mark again. Market visualization courtesy of Coin360 Bitcoin is currently up about 2.5% on the day, trading around $9,358 at press time, according to Coin360. Looking at its weekly chart, the coin is up around 12.7%. Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360 Yesterday news broke that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group has released data showing that open interest in Bitcoin futures is rising. Ether (ETH) is holding onto its position as the largest …

Non-profit blockchain organization Iota Foundation has teamed up with digital food safety management firm Primority to track food allergens via blockchain, Iota tweeted on June 20. The new partnership aims to reduce risks associated with potentially fatal food allergens, targeting 220 million people with food allergy worldwide, as Iota noted in the tweet. The collaboration includes the development of a prototype of an application that would enable consumers to check food products for allergens, particularly those that go under usual radars for a number of reasons, including cases when products share production lines with allergen-containing products, according to a blog …

Tuesday, June 18 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day by press time, as bitcoin (BTC) falls Near $9,000 mark again. Market visualization courtesy of Coin360 Bitcoin is currently down about 3% on the day, trading around $9,045 at press time, according to Coin360. Looking at its weekly chart, the coin is up around 11%. Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360 As Cointelegraph reported earlier today, bitcoin surpassed one million daily active addresses on June 14, according to blockchain statistics website CoinMetrics. Ether (ETH) is holding onto its position as the largest altcoin …

Monday, June 17 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate gains on the day by press time, as bitcoin (BTC) passed the $9,300 mark again. Market visualization courtesy of Coin360 Bitcoin is currently up about 2.69% on the day, trading around $9,341 at press time, according to Coin360. Looking at its weekly chart, the coin is up around 18%. Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360 As Cointelegraph reported earlier today, bitcoin surpassed one million daily active addresses on June 14, according to blockchain statistics website CoinMetrics. Ether (ETH) is holding onto its position as the largest altcoin …

On May 30, Tezos implemented the amendment Athens A, as the result of a voting process that involved its baker nodes (the Tezos equivalent of “miners”) from Feb. 28 to May 30. Although the actual relevance of the upgrade was quite small (see below), the Tezos community underlines that the test was a milestone. The smooth shift to Athens A indeed demonstrated the capability of Tezos to evolve without forking, thanks to the features of proposal/selection/voting/test/implementation this blockchain itself encompasses. On the very same day, another fast-growing young company backed by a cryptocurrency, Iota, announced an important step toward total …

Tuesday, June 4 — virtually all of the top cryptocurrencies are today seeing deep red in a market-wide correction, with bitcoin (BTC) dropping back below the $8,000 price point, as Coin360 data shows. Market visualization courtesy of Coin360 Having bullishly broken through the psychological price point of $9,000 at the end of May, bitcoin has gradually corrected downwards in subsequent days. To press time, the top coin is trading at $7,950 — roughly 6.7% down on the day and losing its hold on the $8,000 mark, according to CoinMarketCap data. Bitcoin’s sharp tumble started very early trading hours, with the …

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Thursday, May 30 — in the latest milestone of its renewed bull run, bitcoin (BTC) today broke past $9,000, soaring to its highest price point in over a year. Most of the top 50 cryptocurrencies are seeing solid green, as Coin360 data shows. Market visualization courtesy of Coin360 Bitcoin broke the psychological price point of $9,000 earlier today, hitting a high last seen in early May 2018. To press time, the top coin is up 1% on the day and is trading at $8,802, according to CoinMarketCap data. In recent days, bitcoin had been comfortably trading in the $8,600-800 range. …

Internet of Things (IoT) blockchain network Iota (IOTA) has completed preparations to further decentralize its transaction validation, Cointelegraph Auf Deutsch reported on May 28. According to a press release and blog post from the company, its Coordinator mechanism will now give away to a new tool dubbed “Coordicide.” Like its predecessor, Coordicide will manage transaction security, ensuring transactions process and that the same funds are not spent twice (so-called double spending). According to executives, the move marks a major step towards complete decentralization for IOTA, which had previously stressed its Coordinator was a temporary fixture. “We have been working towards …