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Renowned music artiste - Akon has opted to build his Akoin cryptocurrency project on top of the Stellar Lumens (XLM) blockchain. Announced by co-founder and president of Akoin - Jon Karas, they chose Stellar due its compatibility with their project goals. He explains: “Akoin selected Stellar’s distributed, hybrid blockchain
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Credit card giant Visa has granted its principal membership to US-based cryptocurrency exchange - Coinbase, allowing the crypto exchange to issue debit cards without relying on third parties. . Principal members of Visa are financial institutions that are reportedly authorized to act as “issuing bank,” meaning they could issue cards and
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The Stellar Development Foundation has announced the biggest XLM airdrop, which is set to run for about 20 months. According to the foundation, the airdrop is done in partnership with messaging service – Keybase; with users required to have their Keybase account verified and receive XLM tokens as reward every month.