What Crypto insiders are reading. We have some exciting new content coming out in the next few weeks, stay tuned. Additionally, our podcast with GBIC is coming up this Saturday with Crypto investors Richard Lee , founding partner of GBIC, and Mike Chen , founding partner of GBIC and CEO of Block72. Both Richard and Mike have been seasoned crypto investors, and they look at companies from both Asia as well as the US. In the podcast, we talk about the current market environment, investor sentiment from both sides, and how to identify and invest in Chinese crypto companies. To hear our conversations recently with Cryptokitties co-founder Benny Giang on his takeaways from his recent Asia trip, ch e ck it out here ! 🎊 We also have shared our main takeaway notes . Subscribe now 🌟 Top News in Asia from Monday through Wednesday China has released its blockchain rankings for August, rating EOS first, similar to last time, and then Ethereum 2nd, Komodo 3rd. http://bit.ly/2PqikRT **Blockchain and cryptocurrency media accounts in China have been banned on WeChat,**the messenger app owned by Tencent. This includes Huobi News, Caijing Jinse, Deepchain, and CoinDaily. http://bit.ly/2Bvj9FY NYTimes- After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors — some anecdotes from Korea. https://nyti.ms/2wfwHzO Few Days After SoftBank, Tencent’s Involvement Called Into Question. DST Global Denies Bitmain IPO Investment http://bit.ly/2nZmZO5 , which will be used for interbank fund transfers, is expected to be completely developed by the first quarter of next year. The first phase of the Bank of Thailand’s wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) http://bit.ly/2Pvxsxu at the project he started nearly two decades ago following its acquisition by Justin Sun. BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen has called it quits http://bit.ly/2nZVYdz 💰 Deals *China Media* Starway Protocol ATP (星图协议) aims to address blockchain companys’ marketing problems and to fix the information asymmetry issue amongst blockchain companies. It recently raised $3mn equity round from . Softbank China Venture Capital, Baidu Ventures, Danhua Capital and Fenbushi Google translation Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings had made a second investment in troubled cryptocurrency exchange LastRoots. http://bit.ly/2Pswwtp 💰 Coin and Token News EOS Foundation has announced the launch of a on the board. non-profit governance group, ‘EOS Alliance’ with popular R&B Singer Akon http://bit.ly/2o1cav6 Justin from TRON asking Venezuela president: “ to actual use, at least build on some faster technology like TRON.” If you really care about your people and want them to put $PETRO http://bit.ly/2nZTImB . HitBTC has listed Binance Coin in pairs with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether http://bit.ly/2nZFmT2 💸 Exchange News the first sub-token in the Huobi Token ecosystem. Huobi Pool will issue about 10 billion Huobi Pool Tokens (HPTs), https://prn.to/2o1rSGu 🎌 Regulation News in cryptocurrency. China’s biggest-ever bitcoin heist: three held over theft of US$87 million http://bit.ly/2wgYrns involving an actor. Thai Central Bank Defends Cryptocurrencies over high-profile Thai crypto fraud case http://bit.ly/2Btc0G8 of Korea’s National Assembly Extraordinary Session. ICOs, Blockchain High on Agenda http://bit.ly/2nVEIGj 💼 Business News to launch a joint initiative aimed at improving the country’s insurance and pension industries through blockchain. Shanghai Stock Exchange has partnered with the Insurance Management Association of China http://bit.ly/2wfGLsp Zheshang Bank, one of the largest privately held commercial banks in China, has . completed an issuance of securities worth $66 million using its proprietary blockchain platform http://bit.ly/2nYyO75 Mass Vehicle Leger, a Korean company that provides ride-hailing service TADA in Singapore, . has gathered 50,000 users and 12,000 drivers one year after the service launch in July 2017 http://bit.ly/2PsVyJe working in fields like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, AR/VR, Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data Analytics. Techstars accelerator in India will invest $120,000 each in 10 startups http://bit.ly/2nVCZ3N 🌹🌹🌹 What did you guys think of our thus far? What do you want to read or learn more about on Asia? Global Coin podcast
