July was marked by the growth of prices of bitcoin and some other major cryptocurrencies. There’s a chance the market’s bottom has been reached in June: Bitcoin showed noticeable growth in July, for the first time in two months rising above $ 8,000. So July is a good starting point for this new series of posts where I'll pick some interesting news of the month and follow the fates of top 30 cryptos.
Crypto News Background
- The Swiss city of Zug, known as the "Crypto Valley" thanks to its support of the crypto industry, successfully finished testing of the city's blockchain-based electronic voting system.
- A group of European banks announced the completion of a series of cross-border trade transactions through We.Trade, a jointly developed blockchain platform.
- The Litecoin Foundation, the organization behind Litecoin cryptocurrency development, acquired in partnership with TokenPay about 10% of the German WEG Bank AG.
- The developers of Opera browser announced testing a built-in cryptocurrency wallet and the support of Ethereum Web3 in the browser’s new Android version.
- Augur decentralized platform was successfully launched in the Ethereum network.
- From a recent patent won by MasterCard, it is evident that the payment giant became seriously interested in cryptocurrency payments.
- Chinese search giant Baidu launched a proprietary token dubbed Totem Point and designed to reward users of its new blockchain-based Totem photo sharing service.
- Tron acquired popular BitTorrent service.
- Japanese companies Hitachi and KDDI are jointly testing a new blockchain-based retail payments system using customers’ fingerprints.
Top 30 Cryptos: Winners and Losers
Biggest Winners
- Tezos: 1341th to 19th place
- 0x: 31th to 23th place
- BitShares: 35th to 30th place
Biggest Losers
- Ontology: 20th to 32th place
- Steem: 30th to 36th place
- ICON: 23th to 29th place
Top 30 Cryptos: Category Ratings
1. Cryptocurrencies: “better money” or “better bitcoin”
- Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Cash
- Litecoin
- Monero
- Dash
- Zcash
- Bytecoin
- Bitcoin Gold
- Decred
2. Dapp Platforms: “better blockchain” or “better ethereum”
- Ethereum
- EOS
- Cardano
- NEO
- Ethereum Classic
- Tezos
- QTUM
- Zilliqa
- Lisk
- ICON
3. Specialized Tokens or Coins
- Ripple: banking
- Stellar: banking
- IOTA: Internet of Things
- Tether: stablecoin
- TRON: content / media / entertainment
- NEM: asset management
- Binance Coin: exchange
- VeChain: blockchain-as-a-service
- OmiseGo: banking
- 0x: exchange
- Bitshares: exchange
Cryptocurrency Media Rating
Credits and Sources
- Top 30 Cryptocurrencies: according to CoinMarketCap
- Crypto News Background: according to Cryptaur News Digest
- Cryptocurrency Media Rating: according to Detailed.com
- All data are as of July, 31th, 2018
- Photo by Juja Han on Unsplash
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