Blockchain Daily Digest – January 23rd, 2020

1.  Blockchain and Beer: World’s Largest Brewer is Assisting Unbanked African Farmers Using Blockchain

Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the largest beer company in the world, has created a blockchain-based system in collaboration with BanQu, a blockchain-as-a-service software company, to assist small-scale African farmers to show that they are suppliers of the drinks behemoth.

2.  Which Cryptocurrency Was Most Correlated to Rest of the Crypto Market In 2019?

A report published by research projections from Binance released figures which amounted to ETH (Ether), averaging a correlation coefficient of 0.69. The research showed the following comparative values; “Ether is the highest correlated asset.

3.  OKEx Partners with Shrimpy to Foster Crypto Portfolio Automation

According to the official blogpost , cryptocurrency exchange OKEx and Shrimpy, a crypto exchange trading bot for portfolio management and market indexing, have teamed up in a strategic collaboration in order to foster crypto portfolio automation tools which are being utilized by the crypto traders.

4.  Vodafone Follows Paypal and Visa to Leave Facebook's Libra Association

Facebook’s Libra faced another blow as Vodafone announced to have quitted the association.

5.  Road to a US CBDC? Ex-CFTC Chairman Released Written Remarks on Digital Dollar in Davos 2020

J. Christopher Giancarlo, the ex-chairman of the U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission will touch upon his Digital Dollar Initiative and state the advantages of a United States’ Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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