Huobi Indonesia today announced the launch of a local fiat gateway to enable a direct fiat-to-crypto trading facility between the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) and Tether (USDT). The new gateway will allow Indonesian investors to use the local fiat currency to trade over 250 cryptocurrencies available on Huobi Indonesia's digital asset exchange. With the highest population and largest economy of any nation in Southeast Asia, Indonesia presents a major opportunity to contribute to the growth of the greater blockchain community and help drive crypto adoption globally. Through the fiat gateway, Huobi will give local customers direct access to large amounts of liquidity available through Huobi Cloud.
Cashaa is a London-based banking platform that provides UK current accounts with Mastercard to transact up to 1 Billion GBP in each account. The company has recently also started US Dollar accounts for its clients while the Euro IBAN account is planned for the coming weeks. Cashaa also offers card processing for crypto businesses with fees as low as 2.5% for each transaction.
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Intel Corporation, and First Genesis today announced their collaborative approach in developing blockchain technologies to improve healthcare has earned the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council's (ACT-IAC) 2019 Audience Choice Award. The effort sees Leidos, Intel Corporation, and First Genesis working together to enable healthcare data exchange and inter-operability among different electronic healthcare record (EHR) or electronic record management (ERM) systems that serves the interests of patients and clinical research.
Huobi Japan (Reg. No. 00007) announces plans to raise approximately JPY 500 Million (USD 4.6 Million) in new funding. The funding was raised by issuing new stocks to the Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings (TTFH) through private placement. The stock issuance is set for Q1 2020. TTFH is a comprehensive securities firm that provides financial services such as dealing, distribution, brokerage, underwriting, and distribution of securities and investment trust.
Coldfall introduces Transmute Coins to gain support for the process of recycling carbon-based materials with Zero CO2 Emission and waste pollution. The company will utilize microwave technologies to offer substantial advancement in the recycling of tires and carbon based waste materials to generate energy.
Following the first successful listing event, Cyrpto.com is pleased to announce the next listing on The Syndicate platform will be Stellar (XLM). All Crypto.com Coin (CRO) token stakers will be able to participate in a discounted sale event for 500,000 USD worth of XLM at 50% off. The listing event will commence on Wednesday, 15 January 2020 on the Crypto.com Exchange.
CMCC Global, one of Asia's first blockchain focused venture capital funds, announced today that Zhao Chen has joined the company as a partner. Zhao was formerly the General Manager of NEO Global Development, the team behind the largest China-based blockchain platform, NEO. Prior to this, Zhao was an early employee at OnChain, one of the most reputable blockchain solutions companies in China. At CMCC Global, Zhao will be responsible for setting up a Shanghai presence and will focus on covering China's rapidly growing blockchain ecosystem.
Coinstreet Partners ("Coinstreet") today announced that it has named Samuel Reid as Group Chief Technology Officer ("CTO") and Pietro Doran as Senior Advisor of the group. Coinstreet is a leading decentralized investment banking group and digital asset consultancy firm, offering a one-stop solution and end-to-end service for asset tokenization, tokenized securities, digital assets, securities token offerings (STO) and stablecoins.
Utopia is freedom, anonymity, and censorship-free driven product designed for secure communication, anonymous payments and a truly free Internet without borders. Total surveillance, information flow control, and official deceptions are exactly what Utopia is intended to prevent. With Utopia you are able to bypass online censorship and firewalls, meaning that you are free to communicate with whoever you want whenever you want. Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Utopia ecosystem. User physical location cannot be revealed. Communication and data cannot be intercepted and read by a 3rd party.
Apollo Fintech is announcing a new addition to its advisor team, Mr. Jorge Sebastiao, a chief technology officer (CTO) of Huawei Technologies. Based in Dubai, Mr. Sebastiao brings more than 30 years of ICT experience (information and communications technology) including managed services, cloud computing, cybersecurity, blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, internet of things and ICT innovation.