The global blockchain technologies market was valued at about $2.01 billion in 2018, and is expected to grow to $9.97 billion at a rapid annual growth rate of more than 49% through 2022. Companies across various industries are increasingly investing in block chain technology due to its high efficiency in data management. Blockchain technology is growing strongly in major sectors such as healthcare, banking and finance, digital assets, and also in several government departments.

Crypto.com, the pioneering payments and cryptocurrency platform, announced today that it has added EOS to Crypto Earn, allowing users to enjoy up to 8% p.a. on their deposits. In addition to having EOS available in Crypto Earn, deposit and withdrawal of EOS is also enabled on the Crypto.com App.

Penta Security and blockchain software firm R3 today announced that they have entered into a global strategic partnership for digital asset management and MPC (Multi-Party Computation) technology, combining Penta Security's technologies and R3's extensive enterprise blockchain platform, Corda.

Riot Blockchain, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT) ("Riot" or the "Company"), one of the few Nasdaq listed public cryptocurrency mining companies in the United States, announced the purchase of an additional 1,000 next generation Bitmain S17 Pro Antminers for approximately USD $1.35 million from BitmainTech PTE. LTD. ("Bitmain"). On December 4, 2019, Riot announced that it had purchased 3,000 S17 Pro miners.

PrimeXBT, a Bitcoin-based margin trading platform offering up to 1000x leverage across forex, stock indices, commodities, and cryptocurrencies, has announced the debut of a new Telegram bot designed to provide traders with up-to-the-minute market and position data – a first-of-its-kind tool among cryptocurrency exchanges.

DGLD, a network with more than $20M in investment grade gold allocated in Swiss vaults and secured using Bitcoin, has launched and is now available for purchase exclusively on The PIT, Blockchain.com's cryptocurrency exchange. DGLD is a digital asset (token) created by CoinShares, Europe's Largest Digital Asset Manager, Blockchain.com, the most trusted platform for cryptocurrency products, and MKS (Switzerland) SA, part of the world's most trusted gold group.

OKEx, the world's largest spot and futures digital asset exchange by trading volume, today announced a partnership with FirmaChain, a blockchain-based electronic contract platform. Through this partnership, customers can use OKEx's global utility token, OKB, for purchases on FirmaChain. In addition, FirmaChain's FCT token will be listed on OKEx on December 18, 2019

On Dec 10 2019, the world leading crypto exchange OKEx launched OKB Ecosystem Monthly Report. According to the report, OKB ecosystem made great progress mainly on two aspects: transaction and new use cases expanding. OKB is newly listed on five C2C exchanges covering major countries and areas recently. In addition to that, the number of OKB new use cases reached 36, including 11 platform-empowered use cases and 25 external use cases.

As a founding co-organizer of the Hainan Free Trade Zone & Global Digital Economic Forum, Huobi Group today shared key takeaways from the forum which commenced on the morning of December 5th. During the forum, notable Chinese government officials gave opening speeches commenting on the development of blockchain in mainland China. Prominent government officials expanded on details of Hainan and Greater China as a whole.

Fight to Fame BMS has successfully signed a contract with BKEX, one of the top crypto exchanges in the world. BKEX is designated as the world 's first exchange to launch FF Tokens, and it is a highlight in the global cryptocurrency industry. This has caused many investment institutions in the global cryptocurrency industry to pay close attention to the cooperation between Fight to Fame BMS and BKEX.