Crypto Weekly News Roundup, June 24 -June 30: IMF Believes That Central Banks May Issue Digital Currencies In The Future

[Policy]

1. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned that Facebook's planned cryptocurrency project, Libra, could harm the banking sector;
2. Brian Quintenz, a CFTC Commissioner has a positive attitude towards the zero-knowledge proof protocol, despite AML problems;
3. The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) is leaning on the view that the US Facebook Libra "is likely not to be a crypto asset (virtual currency).”
   [Cryptocurrency]
4. Grin's founder Ignotus Peverell parted his way from the Grin community for personal reasons;
5. Mark Zuckerberg defends Libra, and says Facebook only has one vote in the Libra Foundation;
6. tZERO announced on June 28 that the Digital Voting Series A-1 Preferred Stock is the second digital security available for trade on its PRO Securities ATS, an SEC-registered alternative trading system;
7. The latest Polkadot token sale has distributed 500,000 DOT at a 'successful' value, the protocol's managing partner Web3 Foundation (W3F) confirmed;
8. EOSIO v.1.8.0 is officially debuted;
9. According to Justin Sun, on July 1, TRON will celebrate the testnet launch of BTFS, and on July 8, BitTorrent Speed will become available;
10. Libra's head David Marcus denied that banks have declined to join the Libra Association;
11. Ethereum 2.0 is likely to debut in 2020.
    [Exchange & Wallet]
    1.Kraken has concluded its sales of equity on June 22, claiming approximately $13.4715 million, which is about 86.6% of its target at $15.54 million;
    2.The India-based Koinex announced to permanently disable all digital assets trading services on all Koinex platforms from 07:30 UTC on June 27;
    3.Swiss security token firm BlockState plans to "passport" half a dozen ERC-20 tokens from Ethereum;
    4.ZG.com will list NEC and GM.
    [Others]
12. A researcher at the University of Cambridge proposed a new type of money, dubbed 'S-Money;'
13. PwC has added cryptocurrency auditing to its list of services;
14. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon doesn't see Facebook's Libra as an existential threat;
15. Daniel Fitzwilliam claimed that he was one of the early participants of Facebook's Libra and repeatedly criticized Libra for plagiarizing his team's ideas, while introducing his new project called "SilkPay;"
16. Vitalik Buterin said that Libra is unlikely to have an impact on Ethereum's DeFi ecosystem in the short term;
17. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes that central banks may issue digital currencies in the future.

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