Swipe is an amazing company with industry-leading products and an A-grade team. The impact for our token holders being able to spend anywhere in the world is a dream. Almost equally exciting is the opportunity for SXP holders to be booking travel directly from us.” said Juan Otero, CEO of Travala.com

Swipe will have its token SXP also added to Travala.com. This will provide SXP as one of the many options to pay for accommodations in over 230 countries worldwide and also booking over 2 million hotels. SXP will also have the leverage of using Travala strategic partners which includes the recent partnership with Expedia, booking.com and price line.

Travala.com is a champion of cryptocurrency adoption and we are very excited to both include AVA on Swipe and have SXP as a preferred payment method for booking travel on Travala.com.” said Joselito Lizarondo, Swipe CEO.

Investors of Tezos who decide to store their coins on BitGo will be entitled to a 6% annual return from their cold and hot wallets. Institutional investors will be able to generate block rewards staking while assets remain in a secured, insured cold storage. 

Tezos

Tezos is a peer to peer, distributed and permissionless network with the goal of making notable improvements to itself and the existing blockchains. The blockchain is capable of modifying its own set of rules with minimal disruption to the network through an On-chain governance protocol.

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“Tezos is one of the most promising projects in the blockchain space with its focus on governance, quick confirmation times, staking and security,” said Pete Najarian, Chief Revenue Officer, BitGo

Users of the Browser can start using the Nightly version of Brave to access this feature for now until its released for the general public. The official blog also noted that verified content creators can choose to store their rewards which are paid in BAT in the crypto exchange ( the Gemini Creator wallet), or in any other fiat or crypto asset supported on Gemini’s Exchange.

Brave has also partnered with Binance and Binance US and has recently partnered with Japanese Crypto exchange BitFlyer to build a Crypto wallet for it’s users. Brave native token, BAT is listed on each of those exchanges. 

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The Browser is led by Brendan Eich, a former Mozilla executive. Brave has over 5.3 million daily active users and had raised $35 million under 30 secs back in 2017 on their ICO. 

The aim of this partnership is to develop “a crypto asset wallet for Brave Browser users”. As at the time of writing, no other info regarding the wallet has been made public.

Japanese traders who use Brave Browser are not allowed to earn Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), which is a native token of the Brave Browser. They are not allowed to earn those because of regulatory laws, so currently they only earn Basic Attention Token Point (BAP) but still are not allowed to exchange for money. With the new wallet creation, it could provide a means for Japanese Brave users to earn BAT instead of BAP or at least exchange it between the two.

“At this point, we are using points to reward users but there are some limits. [Through the partnership] we think it may be possible to go beyond that”.

More details about the crypto wallet will be revealed to the public in an upcoming event in Tokyo on the 30th of July.

Brave Browser growing in Japan

Cointelegraph reported on another partnership Brave made with the BTS AKA The Bangtan Boys. They also partnered with Rush Gaming thereby allowing users to earn BAP for watching ads on the limited edition. Rush Gaming Is a Japanese esports  team that develops browsers exclusively for the citizens of Japan.

The version 1.0.0 of the Daedalus wallet will offer basic functionalities and is designed only for the stake pool operator testing. This means that more updates will come with other versions which will allow ADA holders to store and hold their coins in the wallet, for now the wallet is only for stake pool operators.

These versions released will allow stake pool operators to create, delete and restore Shelly wallets and transactions on the mainnet. The wallet can be downloaded from Github and funded using the Shelly testnet faucet.

Feedback is highly anticipated and stake pool operators are encouraged to quickly download the Daedalus wallet and give it a try. Feedback gotten from the Pool operators will help them input more development. You can find a list of what they expect you to try out on their forum.

More updates should be expected as the Shelly Mainnet rolls out, new features will be added to the testnet which would allow stake pools to be viewed, stakes can be delegated and earnings can be checked. Support for Byron Legacy wallets will be added and also allow movements of funds from the Byron wallet to the new Shelly wallet

The Samsung blockchain wallet allows users to self custody their cryptocurrencies directly on their Samsung Galaxy devices.

“Crypto is not just technology it’s a movement” Tyler Winklevoss stated.

Through the integration of both apps Samsung Galaxy users who are in the US and Canada can now buy and sell crypto, view their Gemini exchange account and also transfer their cryptos into cold storage with the Gemini custody for the highest level of security

“It’s a full integration between the two apps that is very transparent and very easy to use” – Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto, managing director of operations at Gemini.

About Companies

Gemini Trust Co. is a cryptocurrency exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss of Facebook inc. It is one of the exchanges that got partnered with JP Morgan Bank as reported by JRNYcrypto. The Exchange has had a stand-alone exchange mobile app since late 2018.

Samsung launched their blockchain wallet in 2019. It is a convenient and secure crypto wallet for handling your crypto transactions. It is designed to make it a bit easier for customers to use Decentralized Applications (Dapp) such as games that run and blockchain. The integration between the Gemini app and the Samsung blockchain wallet will be on phones such as Samsung Galaxy S20 series and Galaxy Z flip.

Gemini also confirmed that the integration will not work on Verizon communications inc.s network.

This is an innovative move to get Crypto on board Citizens of US and Canada and that with one of the most Used Mobile Phone Samsung.

The name is derived from the two Latin words “Novus meaning New and “Via” meaning Way. David Marcus , the Vice president of messaging products Facebook inc. stated on Bloomberg.

Libra aims at becoming a world payment option, and as such has been gaining partnerships or members around the globe, including the three new added members to the Association as reported by JRNY CRYPTO.

“It’s a new way to send money, and Novis new visual identity and design represent the fluid movement of digital currencies”

With Novi, sending money will be as easy as sending a message – Marcus stated.

He also revealed that the wallet app will be a stand alone application for smart phones but will be integrated into all of Facebook’s communication service – this would include Whatsapp and Messenger.

He stated that if any other wallet service providers that are interested in having Libra integrated can do that without a problem.

Libra itself has been striving to gain its grounds since issues with the SEC and some of its former members leaving the Association. Libra supporters believe that the system will help people outside the banking system by lowering costs for many kinds of payment while critics say it could disrupt the global monetary system and currency, could risk getting used for Money Laundering and could even compete with the US dollar. 

Wallet Security

In response to the critics, Facebook has stated that Novi will require verification with a government-issued ID and that the wallet app will have “fraud protections” built in. In addition to that an early version of NOVI will allow users select countries where Libra has acquired a necessary license once launched.

With NOVI being integrated into Messenger and Whatsapp, it has a higher chance of being used for funds transfer since these platforms are used by a large number of people on a  daily basis.

Whether that will happen or not, only time will tell.