Months after announcing the launch of Uganda’s first-ever fiat-crypto exchange, Binance has made another step towards facilitating cryptocurrency trading in the East African country.

Beginning October 17, users will be able to make deposits to Binance Uganda in the leading cryptocurrencies bitcoin and ethereum as well as in Ugandan Shillings. This will allow trading in bitcoin to Ugandan shillings and vice versa as well as ethereum to Ugandan shillings and vice versa. However, trading in the BTC/UGX and ETH/UGX pairs will not commence immediately and will be announced at a later date.

“Trading on Binance Uganda will open soon with BTC/UGX and ETH/UGX trading pairs. The start time for trading will be released in a later announcement,” the cryptocurrency exchange wrote in a statement.

https://www.ccn.com/binance-uganda-to-begin-accepting-deposits-in-ugandan-shilling-btc-eth/

A major cryptocurrency exchange in India, Unocoin, has confirmed that it is launching crypto ATMs. While a formal announcement has not been made, an image of one of the exchange’s ATMs spreading on social media suggests that the machines support at least five cryptocurrencies.

Unocoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in India with over 1.2 million customers, is preparing to launch its own line of crypto automated teller machines (ATMs). An image of one of the exchange’s machines has been extensively shared on social media since Tuesday.

https://news.bitcoin.com/indian-exchange-unocoin-atms/

On Oct. 8, 2018, the blockchain firm and mining pool Viabtc finished the first high-value initial coin offering (ICO) using the Wormhole protocol and Bitcoin Cash chain. According to exchange data, the Viabtc Token ICO raised US$3,700 per second capturing a total of $30 million in 2.2 hours.

The firm Viabtc had recently launched a new token called the Viabtc Token (VIAT) using the Wormhole protocol. The company refers to viat as a value-added service and privilege token that can be used as “gas” or a method of value transfer. When viat was issued on the Wormhole network a fixed supply of 2 billion tokens was set by the developers. On Monday Viabtc raised $30 million during the first major ICO issued on top of the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Then on Oct. 9, Coinex users who trade the viat token will receive an airdrop from the firm’s stash of CET tokens.

https://news.bitcoin.com/first-major-bitcoin-cash-ico-raises-30m-in-record-time/

Russia is preparing for the long-awaited legislation tailored to regulate its crypto space. According to the latest reports from Moscow, the term “cryptocurrency” has been taken out of the legal texts. Nevertheless, Russians have no reasons to doubt the existence of the decentralized electronic cash. They have many options to get involved in cryptocurrency, regardless of what the law says about it.

https://news.bitcoin.com/russian-law-wont-mention-cryptocurrency-russians-wont-stop-trading/?utm_source=OneSignal%20Push&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=Push%20Notifications

Is the betting record here?

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Here's something you don't see every day: an ICO that has actually led to a shipped, working financial product.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Argentinian startup Ripio is making peer-to-peer microloans available today to all its 200,000 bitcoin wallet users in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil. The Buenos Aires-based company raised $37 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) last year to build the Ripio Credit Network, which matches individual lenders and borrowers across the globe through ethereum smart contracts.

Buterin talked about the Ethereum developer community is working on proposals to make gas payments in ETH at the protocol level, which could prevent the ETH price collapse.

The recent post on TechCrunch titled ‘The Collapse of ETH is Inevitable’, by crypto entrepreneur Jeremy Rubin, has caused a major uproar in the Ethereum community. Jeremy in his blog post wrote that a price collapse is soon to follow due to the failure to scale and adopt better and secure contract authoring practices.


https://www.coinspeaker.com/2018/09/04/is-ethereum-actually-heading-for-a-collapse-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-opens-up-his-views/

Japanese crypto firm FXcoin has recruited Deutsch Bank’s former foreign-exchange dealer, Yasuo Matsuda as a senior strategist for the cryptocurrency startup.

According to Business Times. the Japanese cryptocurrency startup which was founded by Deutsch Bank AG veteran, Tomoo Oshi, hired the alumnus of the German lender to furnish the startup with daily reports on market speculations beginning from this month, September 2018.

https://www.ccn.com/japanese-crypto-firm-snaps-up-a-deutsche-bank-heavyweight-for-strategist-role/

While South Korea is fast becoming a formidable force to reckon with in the global cryptospace, it’s North Korean brother has been more interested in using its distributed ledger technology expertise to wreak havoc on the world.

In similar, more law-abiding news, a report from Yonhap on August 27, 2018, indicated that North Korea may be looking towards launching a cryptocurrency exchange rather than the next Ransomware.

https://btcmanager.com/north-korea-moving-crypto-exchanges-mining/

With regulations on the horizon, high-ranking officials in Russia have come up with ideas on how to harness cryptocurrencies when, hopefully, they are finally legalized. The need of finding ways to circumvent sanctions on several fronts seems to be the main incentive for the ingenuity in the corridors of power in Moscow.

https://news.bitcoin.com/investments-offshores-foreign-trade-russia-planning-for-crypto/

TD Ameritrade, an Omaha-based brokerage firm, announced on Sunday that its clients in Singapore can now make trades and access market information through Facebook Messenger. This is due to the firm launching an artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot on the messaging app.

https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/brokers/td-ameritrade-launches-trading-functions-through-messenger-in-singapore/

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has launched a blockchain explorer built on Ethereum. According to a news release, the organization said the blockchain explorer application, dubbed Catena, was developed by Bitaccess and will be hosted by its Industrial Research Assistance Program on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

https://www.ccn.com/canadian-government-launches-ethereum-block-explorer/

According to BTCmanager reported on August 21, according to the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the investment risk of ICO and cryptocurrency is much higher than traditional assets such as stocks and bonds. FINRA pointed out that there is a lot of uncertainty in cryptocurrency, and it may even be fraudulent.

https://www.tuoniaox.com/49183.html

According to DappRadar data, as of 10:20 on August 20, the top five of Ethereum Dapp's 24-hour rankings are: 1. IDEX (Exchange), 24-hour user volume is 1008, Ethereum trading volume is 1628.27 2. ForkDelta (Exchange), 24-hour user volume is 968, Ethereum trading volume is 1431.16 3.Etheremon (game), 24-hour user volume is 462, Ethereum trading volume is 17.32 4.Fomo3D (gaming), 24-hour user volume For 423, the Ethereum trading volume is 20.50 5.CryptoKitties (game), the 24-hour user volume is 390, and the Ethereum trading volume is 76.85.

The “Binance LCX” exchange between LCC and the Liechtenstein Principality of LCX (Cyprus Cryptoassets exchange) was a partnership. It is possible to use virtual currency transactions in legal currency, the legal currency is Swiss Franc (CHF) and Euro (EUR). We will clarify that the corresponding fiat currency will increase further after obtaining regulatory approval.

https://bitdays.jp/news/11409/