Ethereum rate dropped a little after long-awaited Constantinople and St. Petersburg updates.
Friday brought a little decrease in price for most of rating leaders: EOS -1,18%, Bitcoin Cash -0,70%, TRON -1,18%. But, despite the trend, BTC shows small growth: 0,02%.

Binance Coin is the leading coin in terms of growth now – it increased 7,58%. The total crypto market capitalization maintains at the same level – $130 billion.

The second largest crypto currency – Ethereum – decreased in price after upgrade. At press time, ETH rate is at the level of $137,33 (-0,11%). It is noteworthy that commission in the crypto currency’s network increased, approaching the results of December, 2018.
As for March, 1st, Ethereum transaction keeps growing, according to BitInfoCharts data. Bitcoin is decreasing after reaching local maximum on February, 21st.

To recap, Ethereum network was upgraded at 7,280,000 block. The community was waiting for Constantinople and St. Petersburg upgrades for a long time because the developers postponed it for several times.

Facebook has already launched negotiations for listing of a new altcoin on several major crypto exchanges.

Facebook corporation started negating with various crypto currency exchanges regarding possible listing of its own stablecoin backed by currency basket, reports The New York Times referring to anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The company is going to launch it in Q1-Q2, 2019, at least 50 developers are working on its development now, the other company employees have no access to it.

The stablecoin will be used in WhatsApp messenger, its users will be able to transfer money to each other and pay for purchases. Stablecoin is backed by dollars, Euros and some other national currencies stored on company’s banking accounts. It will probably take more than a year to integrate a new coin into Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, expanding coverage to может 2,7 billion users who use one out of three apps monthly.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that the crypto currency will appear in Indian market first, WhatsApp has 200 million users there. Information on Facebook’s stablecoin development was published last spring first. The corporation hasn’t confirmed or denied this data officially yet.

Exchange clients can use San-Francisco’s startup Ripple’s crypto currency in mobile apps running iOS and Android.

Coinbase company announced support of XRP token, now it will be available on Coinbase.com and in mobile apps iOS and Android. The users have to update the app to be able to buy, sell and convert XRP.

“XRP is launching at http://Coinbase.com and in the iOS and Android apps within the next 15 minutes. You may need to update your app to properly buy, sell or convert XRP. We will update when XRP is fully live”, – says the company in its Twitter.

Apple co-founder claimed that the first crypto currency has huge potential, but it’s not a good idea to invest in it so far.

Steve Wozniak spends bitcoin when he’s travelling, but he’s not ready to invest in digital gold. Giving an interview to Bloomberg, he told that the crypto currency’s value wasn’t ruined despite the rapid rate drop.

According to Apple co-founder, the crypto market participants experience psychological influence: fear and rash acts of inexperienced investors might have huge impact on the asset price. That’s why “digital gold” is suitable only for experiments at the moment, not for innovations, regardless to huge bitcoin’s potential.

Apple co-founder announced in the end of January, 2019, that he sold most of his crypto currencies at the peak when its price was closed to its historical all-time-high of $20 000. He bought the crypto currency when its rate was no more than $700, but then he decided to get rid of it to avoid being worried because of its volatility.

The trading platform acquired Neutrino startup. The community is sure that its managers helped to persecute the journalists, political dissenters and activists.

The users boycott Coinbase exchange and launched #DeleteCoinbase campaign. The company acquired Neutrino startup in mid-February. The startup developers products for blockchain transaction monitoring. The platform is planning to use the project systems to fight against illegal activities.

According to the information published on the network, the startup founders managed Hacking Team – an Italian organization which help to persecute the journalists, political dissenters and activists in various countries who have repressive regime, claims BreakerMag portal.

Many users claimed that this deal turned out to be the last straw because Coinbase found itself in sticky situations several times over the last month. For example, the company reported that it would allow to store private keys in cloud services. Some industry representatives called this method unsafe, it contradicts many recomendations.

Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national suspected of bitcoin fraud whose extradition is being sought by three countries, was admitted to a specialist clinic Thursday for treatment after a three-month hunger strike, his lawyer Timofey Musatov said.

Vinnik was arrested in July 2017 on a request from the United States in connection with a 4-billion-dollar bitcoin fraud case. France then sought his extradition on fraud and money-laundering charges, followed by Russia, which would like to pin some more minor fraud charges on him as well.

Greece’s Supreme Court ruled in 2017 to extradite Vinnik to the United States. However, the court later revised its decision and ruled that he must be extradited to Russia at the request of the Russian prosecutor’s office. He would then have to go to France on a European arrest warrant, which was issued in Paris.

It is worth reminding that according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Vinnik’s Russian defense lawyer Timofey Musatov maintains BTC-e is; “Just a website that allows people to use new technology and digital currency, which only recently became exchangeable for fiat [physical] money… It’s not a financial exchange similar to stock or currency exchanges. It’s simply a platform.”

A part of the missing assets of the canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX are likely to be on Poloniex and Bitfinex. This was reported report in by authors of Zerononcense blog.

The authors of the report claim that they were able to track transfers in the amount of 649 708 ETH (about $100.4 million at the time of operations).

They detected 12 Ethereum wallets, which, according to their assumption, belonged to QuadrigaCX, and noticed that the last transactions from them had been carried out on December 8, 2018, that is, the day before the death of the founder of the exchange Gerald Cotten:
0x0ee4e2d09aec35bdf08083b649033ac0a41aa75e
0xd72709b353ded6c8068cc78988613587a4cae8de
0xb6aac3b56ff818496b747ea57fcbe42a9aae6218
0x027beefcbad782faf69fad12dee97ed894c68549
0x45cab8d124fce8663581172c614f2ee08d01d48e
0x696dd748a2edd9692ed93bd592dd2f293483eada
0x0247bc4e03142079cfa2e3daf500722ed0f9a6b2
0xd543154fb94528c4fc54b9c27128c2d86c6322be
0x67fC93fD01A15D9FB02a80D0AE6207fB45625be4
0xb90a82ec61627885eab72f4253939285ba40c91d
0x79855af491352646e73bd12d7b92d6c814e71b4c
0x57b727dc48b5d9261958e0fb9f94fa02dc328bf6

However, it is impossible to guarantee that these assets are still on these exchanges.
Taylor Monahan suggested that QuadrigaCX could use the data of its own clients to register accounts on third-party exchanges.

Recall that in February it became known that the QuadrigaCX exchange lost access to user funds for $190 million ($137 million in cryptocurrencies and $53 million in fiat). This amount due to previously unaccounted obligations may, however, be higher by $6 million.

Researchers from Coinbase was able to detect clusters that more likely were QuadrigaCX’ cold storages. According to analysts, the funds were transferred manually, and the withdrawal was completed in early 2018.
In turn, the Elementus researchers argue that QuadrigaCX has never had any cold storages for Ethereum at all.
Previously, the popular bitcoin exchange Kraken announced its willingness to pay $100,000 for information that will help in the search for QuadrigaCX’ assets.

Stablecoin JPM Coin from the financial holding JPMorgan is able to destroy Ripple, which specializes in cross-border payments, said bloombergtv editor Joe Weisenthal.

WhalePanda agrees with Wiesenthal. According to him, if you listen carefully, you can hear “how Ripple coin-holders scream in agony.”

However WhalePanda called JPM Coin a “useless shitcoin”.

The new initiative from JPMorgan has found a response among other well-known representatives of the crypto community. So, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright wrote that he had a patent allegedly able to limit the right to issue JPM Coin.

CEO Ripple Brad Garlinghouse also responded to JPMorgan’s plans. He believes that there is no sense in cryptocurrencies issued by banks.

In his opinion, yhis approach is complete nonsens, because if banks want to make deals with each other, they will have to exchange their unique digital currencies for fiat.

Note that smaller financial institutions also have the plans to release their own digital assets. Thus, representatives of the New York bank Signature said that they had been using solutions based on Ethereum from the Signet platform, which allows to instantly transfer stablecoins tied to the dollar, for several months. The system is used by more than 100 people, who’s accounts have more than $250000 each.

Earlier, the head of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon has repeatedly criticized bitcoin. However, it soon became known that the financial holdin was creating its own crypto-currency strategy.

The largest by trading volume bitcoin exchange Binance still remains profitable despite the market meltdown.

According to CFO Binance Wei Zhou, the exchange does not disclose financial information to the public. Thus, media publications are based on the analysis of indirect data from open sources.

For example, recently, The Block has estimated last year’s net profit of Binance ($446 million), basing on the number of burned BNB tokens. Last July, the head of the exchange Changpeng Zhao said in a conversation with Bloomberg that in 2018 the net profit of his company would be between $500 million and $1 billion.

Wei Zhou took charge of Binance’s finances in September last year. When asked whether the exchange plans list any securities, he said that in the short term there were no such plans.

The popular bitcoin exchange Kraken announced its willingness to pay $100,000 for information that would help to find cryptocurrency assets missing from the canadian exchange QuadrigaCX.

As stated on the exchange’s website, since 2014 Kraken has invested significant resources and provided expert assistance to the trustee and investigators looking into the Mt. Gox case. It argued for returning as many bitcoins to the exchange creditors as possible.

The exchange wants to raise awareness about the QuadrigaCX case and draw attention to it. Kraken hopes to help to find at least some of the missing funds.

At the same time, the exchange held a podcast with Jess Powell, during which they spoke about the case and the alleged death of its founder and CEO Gerald Cotten.

According to the exchange, it intends to transfer the information that will help in finding the missing funds to law enforcement agencies. The reward to informants can be paid both in cryptocurrency and fiat.

According to experts, the debt of QuadrigaCX amounts to $190 million ($137 million in cryptocurrencies and $53 million in fiat). This amount due to previously unaccounted obligations may, however, be higher by $6 million.
Earlier it was reported that QuadrigaCX transferred the remaining cryptocurrency to the auditing company Ernst & Young.

Cost of the most popular crypto currency increased a bit after a sharp drop.

Now one coin costs $3 824,66.

The other crypto currencies followed Bitcoin and increased in price:
? Ethereum $145,695;
? Ripple $0,21975;
? Bitcoin Cash $131,64

China Electronic Information Industry Development center published a new popular crypto currencies rating, reports Bitcoin.com. This is a research department of country’s Ministry For Industry, it is updated monthly. This time, tenth rating is published. It includes 35 blockchain projects showing how Chinese see the crypto market.

The main novelty of the 10th version is Tron crypto currency. It got ranked second at once, surpassing Ethereum. EOS is traditionally ranked first.

Bitcoin (BTC) which is called “the main” in the rest of the world, fails to be the main in China. Nevertheless, Bitcoin strengthens its positions, going up from 15th to 13th place. Bitcoin was ranked 18th just two months ago, according to Chinese institute researchers.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is ranked 27th, it made a step up. Nano, Verge and Qtum are on the rise as well. Decred, Litecoin and NEM are in the end.

Tron Crypto Currency
Tron crypto currency was issued in May, last year. China Electronic Information Industry Development center describes it in the following way: ?low level public network with high capacity, extension and reliability?. It is highlighted that the crypto currency is compatible with Ethereum smart contracts. Special attention is paid to Tron ecosystem active development: ?at the moment, there’re more than 200 Tron-based dApps?.

As a result Tron, scored 145.6 points in total, it is ranked second and surpassed only by EOS.

CCID 10th Rating’s Results
Thus, Ethereum, NEO, Nebulas, Tron and Ontology hit TOP-5. The researchers also pointed out Bitshares, Gxchain and Nano.

Projects are estimated according to several criteria: technological level, innovativeness, usage value. The points are given taking into account opinions of consultants and task teams.

Binance Coin hits a new record. It is sold at 0,00299880 BTC on the first day of March. Its price in dollars is $11.61 now.

Sudden Increase Of Binance Coin
Coin’s cost increased approximately 11%over 24 hours. Token’s capitalization increased as well, reaching $1.6 billion. It is noteworthy that the coin surpassed Tron in terms of capitalization, which previously was ranked 4th.
Binance Coin is now ranked 9th on the crypto currency rating according to CoinMarketCapю Its main competitor is Stellar which grows at the moment. The coin dropped a little in the middle of the previous week, but then it reached its previous level.

Earlier, BNB hit the record on February, 11th when its cost increased 10% over 24 hours. A month ago, the token saw the greatest spike in its history: its price reached almost $24.9. It is noteworthy that the last spike took place after Binance announced a competition for traders, the main prize is 10 000 BNB.

The most popular crypto currency in the world – Bitcoin – maintains almost at the same level. As for March, 2nd, Bitcoin remains below $4000, according to Coinmarketcap.com portal data.

Thus, Bitcoin increased 0,05% and is traded at the level of $3861.

The other cryptocurrencies see variety of trends.

Ethereum rate decreased 1,36% and now it is at the level of $135.

XRP decreased 0,4% and is traded at the level of $0,31.

EOS lost 0,71%. One token costs $3,52 now.

Litecoin increased 2,66%. The token is traded at the level of $47,80.

Crypto market capitalization is $130 billion. Bitcoin’s share in the market is 52%.

At first, Exodus will support only Ethereum (ETH), but it is planned to add support of Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC).

A series of posts is published on Twitter’s page of HTC which tell about partnership with a Norwegian developer Opera – developer of Opera browser, reports Cointelegraph.

?The first world’s blockchain smartphone?, as HTC calls it, will use Opera as the main pre-installed browser.
Support of a range of DApps is also announced: Etheremon and Decentraland will operate in a software environment linked to integrated cold crypto wallet ZIONVault.

As Verge reports, new smartphone will also support Numbers dApp developed by HTC company itself. It is designed to control and manage user data and will allow to provide it to third parties and control how they use it. Management mechanism will be based on crypto tokens ensuring transparency and availability of data for companies which are interested in it.
Also, CryptoKitties DApp is still supported.

Why Opera?
Opera is implemented into Exodus smartphone to provide access to the crypto wallet built by Norwegian vendor into its product.
It is possible to make banking transactions and micropayments on the sites supporting this technology with its help.
As The Verge media outlet reports, first, Exodus will support only Ethereum (ETH), but it is planned to add support of Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC).

As the manager of HTC dApp development department claims, now it’s possible to make even micro payments, for example, 0,00002 ETH (equal to ~$0,0027). It made no sense to make such small payments earlier because of commissions. The company is also planning to implement a feature allowing every phone to become partial node in blockchain network. It will allow to implement new model of peer-to-per sales between phone owners.
According to The Verge, it will be possible to buy Exodus for fiat since March. Earlier, it was possible to buy it only for cryptocurrency.