Habiba Tahir

More than 20 companies, including Coinbase and Huobi, have agreed to support the new crypto coin (USDC) starting from today.

Coinbase has written that it currently supports BTC, BCH, ETH, ETC and LTC, but it intends to add more cryptocurrencies in the future.

According to Ripple, some of the companies that have tested xRapid include Western Union, MoneyGram, MercuryFX, Viamericas and Cuallix.

LXDX, led by a former SpaceX engineer, was built exclusively for institutional investors; but now the company is expanding its crypto services.

Out of the total 300 advertisers who took part in the survey, 66% found blockchain platforms to be suspicious and difficult to use.

The agency has 30 people overseeing crypto projects; however, 12 people will be added to the current team in 2019 in order to accelerate development in the crypto industry. 

Grayscale bought $6.3 million's worth of Zen tokens and described the fund as a "privately offered trust available exclusively to accredited investors".

Coinbase Pro's new trading pairs include ETH–GBP, ETC–GBP, LTC–GBP and BCH–GBP, along with the previous pair, BTC–GBP.

After accepting crypto mining as a separate industry, the Iranian government also plans to launch a national cryptocurrency.

Google Cloud now comprises of a software which "synchronizes the Ethereum blockchain to computers running Parity in Google Cloud".

Tsukuba is the first city in Japan to implement a voting system based on blockchain technology.

Crypto companies Bionic Coin, Sybrelabs Ltd and Global Pay Net will receive cease and desist orders from the regulators if they fail to justify their ICOs.

Fraudulent crypto projects might include a "prestigious City of London address" on their "professional-looking websites".

Binance will take care of the technical requirements of the platform while LCX will focus on legal, customer service, and AML and KYC issues.

According to the survey by software company Citrix, 20% of these companies are unprepared for potential cryptojacking attack in the future.