BTC didn’t get past our resistance or hold above $9.2k - we’re watching for a double bottom in the $7.6k range.

Bitcoin bounced around our $8800 support zone (GDAX) and moved sideways along $9k for a bit. It just dropped back to the $8800 area and looks to drop further it if can't find support at $8700.

Is this the bottom?

The last month in crypto has been bloody, to say the least - but things are looking brighter today.

The cryptosphere just experienced the worst crash since 2014 - hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped out; nobody has a clue as to where the market will settle down, but we can prepare ourselves for a few scenarios.

SPHTX - Integrating blockchain with SAP (A system used by a lot of succesful companies)

NEM hack via Coincheck estimated at $700+ million

What does this mean for the overall market?
We can’t be sure obviously but so far the news has primarily only affected $XEM value (18%).
Coincheck is a large exchange in Japan but doesn’t make up huge total market volume.

FunFair has recently been mentioned in Coinspeaker, TechCrunch, NEWSBTC, BlockchainNEWS, Coindesk, and several other news agencies. With great press attention, FunFair, in the eyes of many, will soon make sweeping changes to the global community. January is viewed to be one of the biggest months in the history of FunFair’s existence as it will submit its application to the UK Gambling Commission for a Remote Gambling Software License. With this step, FUN moves closer to disrupting the entire gambling industry - a catalyst the team views as important to both FUN and crypto space.

FunFair, founded by Jez San Obe, utilizes the exhaustive talents of Jeremy Longley, Oliver Hopton, Rob Palmer-Hole, David Greyling, Laurence Mcdonald, Paul Jackman, Dane Wiid, Will Master, Mark Ridgwell, Jas Austin, Kim Man, Steve C, Joe Blakestone, Dave Bowman, Steven Olliffe, Johan Van Der Merwe, Mark Knight, Krzyszto Krygier, Nicholas Antill, Cevile Baird, James Harrison, and Dan Grant, to successfully advance and integrate FUN into mainstream society.

In an effort to alleviate the expense, difficulty, and complications of creating an online casino, FunFair was established in 2017. By means of blockchain technology, the developers at FunFair designed FUN to allow anyone on earth to operate their own casino, without the hindrances commonly found in the centralized sphere. FUN uses the Ethereum platform, its Fate Channels, and Fun tokens to provide casino managers, game developers, affiliates, and players with a decentralized gaming experience.

FUN (FunFair) moves closer to disrupting the entire gambling industry
A decentralized world, where humans are unbound from government restrictions, ensures a borderless and permissionless way of life. In today’s centralized world, establishing a company, especially an online casino, is difficult – and will become increasingly more difficult unless cryptocurrency becomes mainstream. This is a focal reason our team was founded, to promote cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and decentralization. Through our mission, cryptocurrency will gain acceptance, find its place, and ultimately unshackle the world. With this, we would like to introduce you to FunFair (FUN).

Current’s digital token ($CRNC) uniquely rewards a person's time, money spent, and data shared during the media streaming experience. This token can be used on a broad range of products, services, and in-platform advertising.

Current already has over 200,000 users and is backed and advised by an top tier group of individuals and institutions including Billionaire Mark Cuban, The Founders of Bancor (a favorite we've discussed in a past VIP newsletter), Indiana University, and more.

If you're like most of us, you probably use internet radio, Spotify, Soundcloud, and/or YouTube to stream media content. The Current app brings all that content to one place. Seamlessly connecting to your other media platforms, Current allows you to listen to Spotify, stream YouTube content, listen to the radio and more all through one app! It's actually really user friendly and enjoyable to use.

Current is an incentivized, blockchain-enabled multimedia ecosystem that gives people more choice in how they pay for and play streaming content.
They currently have an app in the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Lastly, the Sirin Labs Token is now available to the public, but it has yet to trade on a major exchange. Our understanding is that it is currently polling on Kucoin, so we suspect it will be easier to purchase by way of Kucoin in the coming weeks.

By way of blockchain technology, the developers at Sirin Labs have created the most secure hand held device our world has come to see. With the intricacies of blockchain and the various ingenious ideas added to the FINNEY phone, Sirin Labs is one of few blockchain companies to have an official working product, which should hit shelves in the next year.

What led to such demand? What does Sirin Labs do differently?

The answers to those questions, from our perspective, are clear:

Sirin Labs has developed partnerships with several of the worlds most revered technology companies, including Google, and is disrupting the very lucrative cell phone industry.

Currently, much of cryptospace lacks a product for mass consumer adoption. Companies state their blockchain tech is disruptive, or will disrupt a specific market, but they have not yet developed a truly working model or device for that purpose.

Notwithstanding, there is one company that appears to be a front runner in the race to mass market adoption, Sirin Labs.

Sirin Labs first gained public attention in December of 2017 by announcing its ICO, which sold roughly $160 million dollars worth of Sirin Lab Tokens (SRN) within hours of release.

Developers at Sirin Labs have created the most secure hand held device.

From Idea to Reality
To function effectively in the mass market in the foreseeable future, companies will need to create tangible, working technologies for consumers to use.

Despite being only 8 months old, ANT has made a profound impact on the community, finding itself mentioned in several major media outlets, including Forbes, The Economist, Coindesk, Reuters, Nasdaq, and IBT. The team is elated to inform you that Aragon has several key catalysts this month. ANT is expected to have its 0.7 Alpha release this month, which will focus on adding basic network guidance, ANT token minting, and integrate updateability. We have found that releases of all types, from Beta to Alpha, bear great importance to the community, and with Alpha signifying a more advanced stage in Aragon’s roadmap, we suspect there to be a prodigious upward shift in ANT’s value.

Aragon successfully operates due to the ingenious work of Luis Cuende, Jorge Izquierdo, Maria Gomez, Tatu Karki, Luke Duncan, Oliver Nordbjerg, Brett Sun, and Pierre Bertet, all of whom have extensive backgrounds in technology and engineering.

Released in 2017, Aragon (ANT) is a system that attempts to dismantle third-party entities that hinder people across the globe, such as jurisdictions created by governments. ANT wishes to empower the entrepreneurial spirit in everyone through the provision of tools necessary for the creation of organizations and success. Aragon’s decentralized design, powered by Ethereum, a global blockchain for operating unrelenting applications, safeguards a way of life unaffected by the interference of third-parties or governments.