THELOGICALINDIAN - In the Saturday copy of The Daily we attending at a abstruse affair with Amazons billow casework arrangement that has affected two above South Korean crypto exchanges to briefly go offline In added account Maltabased agenda asset barter Okex has launched a belvedere alms advice on antecedent bread offerings and Estonia has issued licenses to a new cryptocurrency barter alleged Serenity
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Amazon Web Services Network Failure Hits South Korea
Upbit and Coinone, two arch South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges, were afflicted to go offline Thursday morning due to an hour-long abortion of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) belvedere in the country, Zdnet reported. The abeyance additionally afflicted a cardinal of e-commerce hubs, with networks in Seoul demography the hardest hit. AWS accepted the annihilate in a account quoted by The Next Web:
AWS, whose billow casework are acclimated by some of South Korea’s better companies — including Samsung, Hyundai and Korean Air — has conducted an emergency analysis of its Asian network. According to media reports, it has assured barter the affair has been bound and that the arrangement is already operating normally.
The two exchanges were the alone cryptocurrency platforms afflicted by the abeyance of the company’s centralized billow services. Following the outage, Upbit apologized for not actuality able to acquaint users in beforehand and said it would be abandoning some trades beneath assertive conditions. Coinone abreast its barter it would abide maintenance.
Okex Sets up Information Center for ICOs
Malta-based cryptocurrency barter Okex has appear the barrage of Okex Project Info, a belvedere alms advice about badge issuers, their roadmaps, their development advance and third-party reviews. The aggregation promised austere ecology of the abstracts provided by the teams of the advised ICO projects in adjustment to ensure the accurateness and aloof attributes of the appear information. In an announcement, the barter explained:
The agenda asset trading belvedere additionally said that teams that abort to amend the cachet of their projects every 30 canicule will be removed from Okex Project Info. “We are accomplishing so to advance accuracy in the ecosystem, absolution our users apperceive what to apprehend in owning the tokens,” the barter said in a blog post.
Startups administering ICOs are acceptable to administer for listings on Okex Project Info via email. The aggregation will acquaintance applicants to affirm their capacity and adviser them through the process.
Serenity Crypto Exchange Licensed in Estonia
New agenda asset trading belvedere Serenity has acquired two licenses from the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit. They will acquiesce it to barter agenda and authorization currencies and accomplish as a provider of wallet casework in the crypto-friendly EU jurisdiction. The aggregation will officially barrage its Serenity Escrow account by the end of this month. It is currently amalgam a arrangement that will acquiesce it to action authorization bill deposits.
Revolut Crowned Europe’s Allstar Company of 2024
U.K.-based agenda coffer Revolut was crowned Europe’s Allstar Aggregation of 2018 at the contempo anniversary Investor Allstars Awards ceremony, Wired has reported. The fast-growing fintech startup, which aloft $250 actor beforehand this year, afresh appear that it now has added than three actor users. According to GP Bullhound, an advance aggregation and co-organizer of the event, Revolut has become a baton in the European tech ecosystem. A afresh appear address reveals the fast-growing area is now account about €200 billion ($230 billion).
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