Wordpress launches new platform with built-in blockchain tools

Summary:

• Belarus-based company offers tokenized securities

• Wordpress launches a platform with blockchain tools

• Bitcoin ended yesterday’s trading with some gains

Yesterday’s trading was not successful for major cryptocurrencies, but a large part of them experienced some gains. Nevertheless, Thursday has not brought livelier price movements for top cryptocurrencies, and they have seen some only slight gains and losses thus far. According to CoinMarketCap, the capitalization of the cryptocurrency market stands a little above the $121 billion handle whereas the capitalization excluding Bitcoin stands slightly below the $58 billion mark on Thursday morning.

Bitcoin (BITCOIN on xStation5) has been trading rather flatly thus far today. Source: xStation5

Another company offers tokenized securities

Currency.com, a Belarus-based company, announced the launch of its trading platform. The company’s trading platform allows to buy traditional assets using digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The platform started with an offer of 150 assets, but the company plans to offer 10 thousand of tokens tracking underlying prices of assets in the future. Moreover, Ivan Gowan, who is the CEO of Currency.com, said that his company’s platform would allow users to trade without a conversion of cryptocurrencies into traditional money. Let us remind that we wrote about the company named DX Exchange earlier this week which also offers similar opportunities of trading tokenized securities for its users.

Ethereum (ETHEREUM on xStation5), like its bigger peer Bitcoin, has faintly started Thursday’s trading. The cryptocurrency is moving in the vicinity of the $120 handle at press time. Source: xStation5.

Wordpress launches publishing platform with blockchain tools

Wordpress, the world’s most popular publishing platform, announced its new publishing platform called Newsdesk on Monday. To create a new platform, Wordpress is teaming up with some giants including Google and Consensys. Newsdesk is aimed at small and medium-sized news organizations, as Wordpress reported on its blog. Nevertheless, it also needs to be said that  Newsdesk will offer built-in blockchain tools created by Civil Media (a ConsenSys-backed company), as CoinDesk reports.