Current Market state
During last week the crypto market did not suffer a lot from the price fallout. Overall total market cap is $114 billion, nearly the same as a week ago.
Bitcoin had a tough week as the top coin slid 3.3% this week. The positive fact about Bitcoin is that it still holds itself close to USD 3500.
Ripple (XRP) still holds second place again with a market cap of $12,4 bln but Ethereum still stays in close vicinity. On the top, this week the prices of XRP were at USD 0.333835 and towards the bottom, it quoted USD 0.285888.
SWIFT Reveals Plans to Launch Proof-of-Concept With Blockchain Consortium R3 Major global banking payments network SWIFT announced plans this week to develop a Proof-of-Concept of a gateway that will let blockchain consortium R3 link to GPI (Global Payments Innovation) payments from their platform. According to SWIFT, users of the R3 platform will be able to authorize payments through the new GPI Link, settling GPI payments with the users’ banks, with the credit confirmation reported back to the trade platforms via GPI Link.
Iran Plans Release of Digital Currency With Aim to Avoid US Sanctions
Iran is soon planning to unveil its state-backed cryptocurrency, local sources reported this week. The so-dubbed crypto-rial would potentially serve as a way
for the country to sidestep sanctions, the most debilitating of which is the lack of access of most Iranian banks to the SWIFT payment system. Iran is also
currently reportedly in talks with eight countries to discuss the possibility of using cryptocurrency for financial transactions, but the local sources were unclear if it concerns crypto in general or a state-backed coin. Also this week, Iran released a draft of its crypto regulation plans, noting that some aspects of
crypto would be banned.
Read more news in ICObench Weekly Digest for the week #5 of 2019
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