1.3rd Global forum “Blockchain Life” comes to Singapore
2.Italy Unveils High-Level Experts to Help Develop Its Official Blockchain Strategy
3.OKEx Introduces Ethereum (ETH) Perpetual Swaps.
1.3rd Global forum “Blockchain Life” comes to Singapore
On April 23-24 the global blockchain and cryptocurrency industry meets at Blockchain Life 2019 Asia in Singapore.
Top managers of international blockchain companies, crypto traders and analysts, funds and investors, perspective ICO and STO projects, developers and miners will meet again to discuss current industry trends, strategies, innovations and show how to earn money in this industry.
Blockchain Life forum is an annual event that brings together international blockchain and crypto-community at the one place.
op speakers of the «Blockchain Life» forums were: Roger Ver (founder Bitcoin.com), Sergei Khitrov (founder Listing.Help, Icotop.io), Jason Hu (WBO), Miko Matsumura (Evercoin), Martin Kuvandzhiev (co-founder Bitcoin Gold), Edward Chen (Huobi Exchange), Aldrich Victorino (Okex Exchange), Charles Cai (Dalian Wanda Group) and other leading international industry professionals.
The venue for Blockchain Life 2019 Asia will be at the world’s leading hotel Marina Bay Sands, located in the heart of Singapore. Participants are able to attend speeches by world leading experts, meet international companies in the exhibition area, and communicate with like-minded people and experts in networking areas.
Get your Early Bird ticket from $149: https://asia.blockchain-life.com
2.Italy Unveils High-Level Experts to Help Develop Its Official Blockchain Strategy
The Italian government has published its list of 30 blockchain high-level experts to further its integration of the technology at state level, Cointelegraph Italy reported Dec. 27.
The result of a four-month hiring and consultation process, the group will work for free advising authorities how to create a “national strategy on distributed register and blockchain technologies.”
The project is being convened by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MSE). “Emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain are intended to radically change our lives, the society in which we live and the economic and productive fabric of the country,” deputy prime minister and minister of economic development Luigi Di Maio said in September.
Maio added:“Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, are bound to fundamentally change our lives, the society we live in and the economic fabric of our country.
Italy was also one of seven European Union member states that signed a declaration to promote blockchain use earlier this month.
3.OKEx Introduces Ethereum (ETH) Perpetual Swaps.
Hong Kong-based OKEx has announced that Ethereum perpetual swaps are now available on its trading platform.
According to the announcement, the perpetual swaps, which are virtual derivative products that are settled in ETH, launched on December 26. The swaps differ from OKEx futures contracts mainly in their delivery, funding, mark price and daily settlement, which occurs once every 12 hours at 3:00 AM and 3:00 PM (CET, UTC+1).
The swaps currently allow for up to 40x leverage and include equal weight constituents of ETH/USD and ETH/BTC trading pairs from major exchanges including Bitstamp, OKEx, Bitfinex, GDAX and Gemini.
In addition to the ETH product, OKEx revealed that it plans to launch perpetual swaps for LTC, ETC, XRP, BCH, and BSV in the near future.
