05/07/2018 - Korea to implement more lenient cryptocurrency regulation under new FSS governor, Steph Curry to launch the first celebrity-branded CryptoKitty

                                            

Korea  intends to implement more lenient cryptocurrency regulation under a new  Financial Supervisory Service governor; the new governor, Yoon  Suk-heun, will reportedly also look at revising some earlier  regulations; Yoon is reportedly intending to bring substantial reform to  the FSS - Link                

Steph  Curry, NBA superstar, is now looking to launch the first  celebrity-branded CryptoKitty; this comes as part of a push to increase  the adoption of the collectibles app, through adding branded tokens;  there will be three Steph Curry CrypoKitties to ”represent all of  Curry’s personalities”  - Link                

Spacemesh  raises $3M in seed funding round; the startup aims to build a  cryptocurrency that has fairly distributed mining power with low  barriers to entry; the blockchain’s protocols are design specifically  for running nodes on a standard desktop PC making difficult for ASIC  hardware to centralize mining - Link                

Around  20 companies currently signed to the Waves Lab accelerator; WAVES is an  incubator startup which aims to create ”disruptive solutions to  real-world problems using infrastructure from the Waves Platform”; the  Waves Lab provides seed funding of up to $300K and predominately focuses  on blockchain and cryptocurrency ventures - Link                

Blochchain startup Learning Machine has  raised $3M in seed round funding; the startup aims to put academic  diplomas on a blockchain; Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced its  partnership with Learning Machine based on open-source Blockcerts  standard; the project’s ultimate goal is to eliminate degree forgery - Link                

CoinMarketCap  eliminates bitcoin.com from its official Bitcoin page; this likely  comes following some confusion reportedly caused by bitcoin.com, as they  listed Bitcoin Cash as ”Bitcoin”, and Bitcoin as Bitcoin Core; the  change has been made sometime after May 2 - Link                

Bitcoin  Cash to undergo hard fork on May 15; this hard fork will see the block  size increase to 32MB and add some additional functionality to its  network protocol and improves smart contracts; the Bitcoin Cash  development team is reportedly already prepared for the fork, and the  community supports it - Link                

Cardano  releases a formal specification for a cryptocurrency wallet; this is  the first time that a cryptocurrency firm has done so; it is intended to  help users understand the multifaceted nature of cryptocurrency and  ”give a reasonable starting point for tests and implementations” - Link                

The  IOTA cryptocurrency company adds Porsche to its growing list of  partnerships; this cooperation, dubbed ”Program 4”, is the result of a  prior partnership with the German ”Autobahn” startup; Autobahn works on a  platform for smart mobility, which utilizes IOTA’s technology - Link                

The  fee-free cryptocurrency stock brokerage Robinhood is expanding; the  cryptocurrency trading platform has just expanded to both New Mexico and  Wisconsin, bringing the grand total of states in which the firm has a  presence to eight; this expansion gives an additional 8M Americans  access to Robinhood - Link