Dear Community,

Our excitement is over the roof for achieving over 100K community members globally within two months, and thanks to all of you for believing in the Lead Wallet idea, the next step for us as a team is to deliver on our project mandate. To celebrate this achievement with you all and as a build-up to the next Bitcoin Halving event, we decided to launch the first-ever One Dollar Sale (https://bit.emirex.com/leadwallettg) and a huge giveaway to our community members. In addition to the airdrop, bounty, and community events' rewards, this sale event will help you to instantly unlock all your accumulated Lead token rewards until now. Don’t miss this one time opportunity to accumulate more Lead Token.
The Sale event Starts on Monday 4th May at 00:00 GMT +1

Kindly click the link below to read all the instructions:
https://medium.com/lead-blog/one-dollar-flash-sale-only-8-days-left-3f78b96a8cb0

Here's an interesting read about crypto mainstream adoption and the lockdown/social distancing effect. Lead wallet also had a mention here. Have fun reading


https://btcpeers.com/lockdowns-and-social-distancing-a-promising-outlook-for-crypto-mainstream-adoption/

Lead Token IEO and its $75,000 Affiliate Rewards to be launched on the Emirex Exchange on 20th of April!!!

We are pleased to announce that our token has been scheduled to list on Emirex exchange for an initial exchange offering. We hope that as part of our marketing efforts, this move will help the project gain wider coverage in the cryptosphere.

To know all the details about our IEO and Affiliate Reward scheme, click the link below:

https://medium.com/lead-blog/lead-token-ieo-on-emirex-exchange-75-000-affiliate-rewards-launched-32ac746c6b6f?postPublishedType=repub

When in particular are we to expect a testnet launch?

Hello, GBX GRID will be solely for utility tokens. All security token related activities will be on STACS

CEO Fortnightly Message 14/12/18

Dear Community,

This will be the last CEO Fortnightly message of 2018. We will pick up again on 11th January next year.

It has been a full-throttle year for the whole of the GSX-Group, and particularly the GBX. We have hit many personal and professional targets as a company and team. That team has grown significantly across the Group, many of those here in Gibraltar. We have reached important milestones, broken boundaries, and built new pathways toward greater blockchain adoption.

It has been an adventurous journey so far and we relish the opportunities and challenges that 2019 will bring, including STACS Protocol, while continuing to build on our fintech ecosystem, supporting a new era in blockchain powered finance.

So here are the latest developments since my last message, followed by a round-up of 2018 — a reminder of the tremendous progress we have made since the start of the year.

1. STACS Update: Whitepaper & Litepaper now live

The technical Whitepaper for the STACS Protocol and an accompanying Litepaper have been published on the stacs.io website. The Whitepaper details our intentions for the STACS Protocol and the technology behind the unique hybrid blockchain system we have developed. You can read the Whitepaper in more depth here:

https://stacs.io/images/stacswhitepaper.pdf 

2. New Insurance Policy for the GBX 

Some exciting news this week for our community and the industry as a whole. Digital assets on the GBX-DAX are now insured, including both hot and cold wallets. The insurance coverage is in partnership with Callaghan Insurance and is an important step forward for the security of our users’ assets. This news will instil further confidence amongst our users, underlining our continued commitment to the highest standards of governance and due diligence as a regulated digital asset exchange. You can read the full announcement here:

https://gbx.gi/news/gbx-introduces-new-crypto-insurance-policy-callaghan-insurance/ 

3. GSX Group Joins The Millbrook Accord

During the Blockchain South Leadership Summit 2018, the Millbrook Accord was formed — a working group that helps promote the development of an industry standard for security tokens. Members of the Millbrook Accord, including the GSX Group as a founding member, will work together to provide solutions to aid the adoption of security tokens and tokenised securities. You can find out more about the Millbrook Accord here:

https://gbx.gi/news/gsx-group-joins-millbrook-accord-founding-member/

4. Round-Up: 2018

February 2018, which feels a lifetime ago now, saw the commencement of our token sale. It was a period of hard graft and late nights, but the goal of raising $27 Million was the beginning of our journey to build a world-leading fintech ecosystem. I’m so proud of what we have accomplished in just one year.

After the sale, we launched the GBX-GRID, building an institutional-grade token sale platform that championed a framework of good governance, brought over from the Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX). The GBX-DAX followed shortly after, a robust Digital Asset Exchange committed to redefining the user experience through a trusted trading platform. We continued to grow our Sponsor Firm network (currently includes 23 Sponsor Firms across the globe), and our user base has seen a steady and consistent rise in AML/KYC cleared participants.

One of the most notable events of the year, and certainly the most significant, was the DLT Licence awarded to GBX by our regulator the Gibraltar Financial Services Commision (GFSC). The GBX now is the first regulated Digital Asset Exchange and Token Sale Platform, to be owned by a regulated stock exchange. Our position gifts us the unique opportunity to make a real impact in bridging the gap between the blockchain industry and the traditional finance sector. We have recently begun the next steps toward changing the capital markets industry through the STACS Protocol.

Never taking our eye off the GBX, we have introduced multi-fiat onboarding capabilities, while carefully evaluating all tokens and other digital assets that are brought onto the GBX ecosystem. We have also insured those digital assets, as mentioned at the beginning of my message, with the goal of providing a secure, smooth, and reliable trading experience for all.

So that is all for now. We have had a brilliant year, and I hope that like myself, you are as excited for what lies ahead for the GBX and the wider GSX Group. I would like to thank our entire community for your continued support, from those who have been with us from the start to our newest members. I wish all of you an enjoyable holiday period, we will continue to work diligently in our efforts and I’ll see you all again in 2019.

Nick Cowan

CEO - GSX Group

What does it take to rise in spite of a heavy-handed bear market that brings much bigger players down? Listing on an exchange is a good first step, at least by the example of XYO Network (XYO). The coin has jumped by more than 120% in the past week and was up by around 14% on Friday before trimming it's gains to 7% (UTC 10:20 AM). Here's more: https://cryptonews.com/news/xyo-coin-gaining-while-others-are-dropping-why-3039.htm

Dear Community,

The GAMMA Stage XYO Token Sale is officially closing tonight at midnight! Find out more about some stats in the link below

https://medium.com/xyonetwork/xyo-network-gamma-sale-mission-status-complete-f1e7144e46c1

Dear community,

As with the previous announcement, GBX DAX will be supporting BCH and BSV.

Trading has been enabled at 1530 UTC 27 Nov 2018, however both deposit and withdrawal will be disabled until further notice, and will be enabled in the following days.

The following trading pairs have been enabled:
- BCH/ETH
- BCH/BTC
- BSV/ETH
- BSV/BTC

As per the BCH balance snapshot taken at 15th November 16:40:00 UTC - BCH holders will be receiving the same number of BSV in their account.

Hi FKX Fans!! 👋🏼

The new and improved FKX Android app has now hit the play store

Features include:

- New Privacy and Security settings
- New Contact sync feature for easy connect
- New FortKnoxster ringtone
- Various UI/UX improvements to group chat
- Various performance & UI/UX enhancements to invite
- Improvements to Inbox attachments and recipients selector
- General UI/UX improvements done
- Several improvements and performance fixes done
- Various crashes fixed

You can find the app just here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fortknoxster

For those of you wondering about the IOS app, the team is working hard to make this happen and will update the community as soon as they have news 🤝

The GSX Group Blockchain Innovation Centre’s Blockchain Educational Workshop has been a huge success in Gibraltar today, in collaboration with the University of Gibraltar and London Blockchain Labs.

Over 100 people attended the event to understand more about blockchain technology, smart contracts, use cases, regulations around the world and so much more.

Nick Cowan, CEO of GSX Group, spoke with Marcelo Garcia, CEO of Maecenas, a decentralised art gallery auction market. They discussed how Maecenas is using blockchain technology to democratise access to fine art. Their ART token will be listed on the GBX Digital Asset Exchange starting Monday, 19 November.   

https://youtu.be/lMsbA3PVmFs

Marketing efforts from the team to promote Essentia and reach a wider audience are underway via social media, blog updates via Medium, and Google AdWords. The team have spent upwards of 600k Euro already in these efforts as well and they continue to promote Essentia across the globe through these efforts

I understand why you must feel this way. I would like to point that your claim about the team not caring about the price is incorrect. The team have been focusing on the tech, and recently published an overview of the consensus model for the mainnet due for release in Q4. A team dedicated to improving the protocol lays the foundation for a successful project. The team have also demonstrated ways in which they are trying to respond to community sentiment. For example, each month Essentia runs a community-wide vote to choose which project to integrate next into the platform. AmaZix has nothing to do with the market or the token price, just a Community Management Agency that works with the information given by the team to keep you updated.

We’re excited to announce that you can meet the Founders of Essentia as well as the rest of the team at Devcon4 this month! Come up and say hi! https://bit.ly/2ApN93q

Check out what Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver has to say on shopping with Elipay!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa4gCf9A3NE