Seems like Lisk is finally returning to where it should be.

Lisk was above $30 in 2018 and since it's a real team doing tools for blockchain developement I still believe that Lisk can go above $100. Who knows where it ends when than border is broken?

Right now it trades for $1.66.

We constantly get good news from Ripple. Yet another article about them has been released.

"The Sign of a Stabilizing Market: XRP Utility

Today, financial institutions are harnessing the power of blockchain and digital asset technology and seeing tangible results. 

At the 2020 World Economic Forum, Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, referenced this progress. He spoke about the impact of digital assets: “There are benefits to cross-border payment systems in lowering costs for consumers and businesses. We absolutely support companies working on this.” 

Industry research suggests blockchain adoption became widespread in 2019, with growing awareness of the added value that digital assets can play when paired with blockchain—especially for key use cases like cross-border payments. Moreover, this past year, derivatives trading in digital assets recorded remarkable growth—an important step in the maturation of these technologies.

Taken together, increased utility of digital assets in cross-border payments and the introduction of derivative trading are all contributing to a more liquid and stable market for digital assets than ever before, with no sign of slowing down. 

Growing Utility Helps Drive Market Validation
Ripple’s global network, RippleNet, provides a reliable, instant and lower-cost cross-border payments experience. Customers who use RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service are able to leverage the digital asset XRP to source liquidity as an alternative to traditional pre-funding. The network’s ODL users are driving usage and utility of XRP.

For example, money transfer giant MoneyGram leverages Bitso—the leading exchange in Latin America—as their key exchange partner into Mexico, using RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service. ODL uses the digital asset XRP as a real-time liquidity bridge between sending and receiving currencies. In addition to freeing up working capital, it offers instant settlement and guarantees the most competitive FX rates available today. MoneyGram recently revealed that it’s moving more than 10% of payment transactions between the U.S. and Mexico using ODL, and the business plans to use the service in several more corridors this year.

In this way, RippleNet is enabling financial institutions to connect with each other and also with each other’s extended networks, creating ‘network of network’ effects. As these network effects continue to increase, it will drive even more liquid markets and robust financial products around crypto, bringing new entrants into the ecosystem. 

Digital Asset Markets: Increased Build Out of Financial Infrastructure and Products 
Historically, trading in digital assets has been considered a speculator’s market, with both retail investors and larger institutional players looking to trade in deeper liquidity pools. But last year, the market shifted. Traditional institutional names—like Fidelity, TD Ameritrade and JP Morgan—entered the space, principally on the infrastructure and equity investing side. The more participants, especially established institutional players, in liquidity provisioning, the more competitive the market.  

Not surprisingly, financial product evolution has continued to evolve. These new institutional entrances, specifically for hedging instruments such as futures/derivatives, plays a big role bringing new investors into the space, thereby further stabilizing markets. In the past year, derivatives trading in digital assets recorded clear growth. 

Continued growth in derivatives will open up access to more efficient capital and drive higher trading volumes throughout 2020 and beyond. Additionally, as more and more hedging products emerge, traditional investors will see greater opportunities to trade digital assets—reducing risk and further increasing trading volumes. 

New instruments for digital asset trading are also important in this evolution. In fact, perpetual swaps are considered the most liquid and heavily traded instruments in digital assets today, creating an efficient forum to trade. A recent example of this includes the world’s leading exchange, Binance, adding XRP to its Futures trading platform and making it available in the form of XRP/USDT perpetual contract. 

Additionally, the growth potential for the digital asset borrowing/lending market is substantial, with the market now considered a $5 billion industry. This substantial momentum in the past year has been fueled in part by low interest rates for many fiat currencies, an increase in the number of digital asset market participants requiring working capital, and growth of long-term digital asset holders looking to generate yield.

The Tipping Point for Critical Mass Adoption
Despite the fact that today’s market is more liquid than ever before, digital asset values—which have been trading in correlation with each other—remain relatively low. It appears that digital asset markets are still undergoing a period whereby real-world utility and adoption are catching up with some of the speculative hype.
XRP has boasted tremendous growth as a global payment asset in the last year or two, as elaborated above in this article. However, the growth potential of transformational technologies tends to unfold exponentially. Therefore, the markets tend to overestimate the impact in the short term, but underestimate it in the long run. As institutional-grade infrastructure continues to be built, and real-world problems are increasingly solved using digital assets like XRP, the tipping point to critical-mass adoption is constantly moving closer."

https://ripple.com/insights/the-sign-of-...rp-utility

Right now Ledger has a valentines offer. Buy a Ledger Nano X and get an Ledger Nano S for free.

I am considering joining the crypto trading/hodling for real, maybe this could be a good investment?

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-valentines-pack

Well....is this a good or bad sign for Kinesis investors?

"At Kinesis, we strive to deliver value to our clients, and Kinesis Velocity Token (KVT) holders. The value of KVTs, as outlined in our blueprint, is derived from a fully operational product suite, designed to deliver yields based on transaction fees and velocity.

Velocity is key to the success of the Kinesis Monetary System, and we have taken the position to preserve the value of the KVT until we deliver our current product road-map, which will also be made public shortly. This includes the Kinesis debit card, additional currency pairs (including BTC pairs), mobile applications and merchant integrations, which are envisaged to be primary drivers of velocity.

Therefore, trading of the KVT on the Kinesis Exchange, has now been suspended, effective immediately, until these integral pieces of the Kinesis Monetary System have been released. Please note all open KVT orders will now be cancelled.

This is a temporary suspension of KVT trading on the exchange and we will re-list them once we have met the objectives above.

Deposit and withdrawal functionality for KVT in your KMS account will remain active, meaning you can still access your KVT holdings and store them in your KMS account if you wish.

This temporary suspension has been put in place to protect KVT holders and the value of the tokens. This is a commercial decision which has been made in an evolving landscape, to protect all participants, and to align our products for delivery of the Kinesis Monetary System.

We thank you for your ongoing support of the Kinesis Monetary System.

For regular progress updates tune in to our Live from the vault episodes, filmed every two weeks. These are designed to keep our community abreast of all initiatives, developments and product releases. 

Kind regards,

The Kinesis Team"

Tether Ltd., the company that issues USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin with a market cap of over $4.6 billion, is announcing the launch of a new product, Tether Gold (XAU₮), which aims to offer the “security of a digital asset pegged to physical gold” (XAU).
Tether’s management explains in a blog post,
“Building on a track record for product innovation, each XAU₮ token represents ownership of one troy fine ounce of physical gold on a specific gold bar.” 
The company adds that XAU₮ is issued as an ERC-20 compliant token on the Ethereum network and as a TRC-20 token on the TRON blockchain. The digital asset may be sent to any supported on-chain address from the buyers’ Tether wallet address. 

FYI

Yet another quantum resistant coin:

https://theqrl.org/

I did not do any research on that because I am in Elixxir.

It can be mined: CryptoNightV7

Maybe something foor poolen.io

As you can see from this discord channel a new announcement has been made of making a pump on Thursday. The coin to be pumped is most likely a smaller one so if you care to spend time investigating you could buy them cheap  today and sell to the pumpers on Thursday to counter act what they are doing. But it is proably not easy to figure out what coin it is.

This is NOT what crypto is about. This is hurting the reputation of crypto. I don't like it at all.

Got a mail from Amon that is still alive.


"Hello Amoner!
  
As we are approaching the Card launch we will require all the users to go through a new Identity Verification. The new process will be ready in the next days and we would like you to be up for it! 
 
What benefits do I get?
 
You will get all the superpowers of the Amon Wallet: Unlimited deposits and withdrawals, Unlimited exchanges, Earn product, Card order, Cashback and much more.
 
What documents do I need to submit?
 
You will be asked to submit ID, Passport, Driver license or Resident permission + Proof of address + Selfie.
 
I already submitted KYC before, do I need to submit it again?
 
Yes, the new KYC provider requires us to re-check all the documents from all the existing users. Don't worry, the process will not take you more than 1 minute."



https://blog.amon.tech/how-to-pass-the-n...ocess-kyc/

Guys this is great. This is what I was waiting for.

Soon cryptocurrency users will no longer have to deal with complicated wallet addresses, because .crypto domains will replace these. Instead of sending a bitcoin to 34CpoxRwJzEzBg7D6DtXTbkUVvzPXyTbKQ, people will be able to send it to ‘yourname.crypto’. Software company Unstoppable Domains announced this on Friday.
Read the full story here

I subscribed to get me a domain. just have to find a good name.
If you intend to do so (I would recommend it) use my link below:

https://unstoppabledomains.com/r/f164d94a73ed4c1