Alternet Systems, Inc. (USOTC: ALYI) today announced meetings in Malta this week with local legal representatives, crypto strategy experts and African electric vehicle partners to coordinate the launch of new business entity domiciled in Malta. The new Malta business is the target organization intended to launch a $100 million initial coin offering (ICO) to fund infrastructure for electric vehicle production in Africa. The company plans to release a summary of the meetings that conclude this Friday on Monday, February 2nd.

LifeFilez® LLC, a cloud-based subscription service that empowers people to effectively manage important life documents, has developed a strategic partnership with BurstIQ to further develop the blockchain capabilities of its platform. This partnership will be focused on BurstIQ's ability to segment data on-chain, which will allow the life planning platform to deliver state-of-the-art security and privacy tiers for document collaboration.

Researchers from Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), inventor of the Digimarc Platform for digital identification and detection, will present details of a system for mitigating the problem of Deepfake news videos using digital watermarking at Electronic Imaging 2020 in Burlingame, CA, on Tuesday, January 28, 2020.  

TradeStation Securities, Inc. (TradeStation), a Monex Group company and award-winning* online broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, now offers its futures clients the ability to trade options on Bitcoin futures contracts (BTC) from CME Group (CME). TradeStation futures clients can now also trade Bakkt Bitcoin (USD) futures options on the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE). By supporting the trading of these new derivative products, TradeStation clients have another way to participate in Bitcoin price fluctuations through an established futures commission merchant.

Bitcoin IRA, the world's first, largest and most secure digital asset IRA technology platform that allows clients to purchase cryptocurrencies, gold and other digital assets for their retirement accounts, today announced that it has exceeded $400 million in cryptocurrency transactions after launching their 24/7 self-trading crypto IRA platform one year ago.

New Zealand Cherry Corp. announces the launch of a new partnership with Techrock, part of the Tael ecosystem, to protect fresh cherries as they travel from the pack-house and orchards in Cromwell, in the South Island of New Zealand, to consumers in the China market. Techrock is a 'safe product' ecommerce channel for Chinese consumers. NZ Cherry Corp. will employ the unique anti-counterfeiting technology used on Techrock, and throughout the Tael ecosystem, to protect Chinese customers.

BTCMEX is a new cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that aims to bring opportunities for everyone. The platform started operating at the end of 2019 and already boasts more than $50 million USD in daily trading volume, a $120 Trading Bonus, and one of the most lucrative affiliate programs in the industry. The exchange was founded by one of the world's most famous crypto investors, and the biggest Bitcoin adopter in China, Li Xiaolai, who founded many successful crypto and blockchain projects including Steemit and BigOne exchange. BTCMEX is headquartered in Hong Kong with offices worldwide. The company's core values are people, trust, and innovations, all of which guided its team to create a fair and transparent exchange to level the playing field between aspiring and professional traders.

Algorand today announced a unique initiative where PlanetWatch, an environmental monitoring service, will build the world's first immutable air quality ledger utilizing the Algorand blockchain and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies. PlanetWatch will store data gathered from air quality sensors onto the Algorand blockchain, and subsequently reward contributions to the ecosystem by distributing the PLANET token, a utility token, to sensor owners.

CoinField is launching a global franchise network for potential new partners to help drive the adoption of cryptocurrencies worldwide. With the new franchise model, CoinField will provide business partners with access to its fully regulated and licensed fiat-to-crypto exchange based in the EU.

London-based crypto banking startup Cashaa launched a "Crypto Business/Broker" account to ensure crypto businesses/brokers are compliant with the FCA's new rules for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance and Fifth Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD).