The State of The Market: The market has been stable for most major cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin at $6,529.87, gaining only 0.19% in the last 24 hours and Ethereum at $219.87, gaining 1.86%. Surprisingly, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) gained the most among the top 100 cryptocurrencies. BCH is currently priced at $569.26, gaining 25.46% in the last 24 hours. The spike was caused by Bitmain’s IPO filing, which owns a significant portion of the Bitcoin Cash supply.

1) The The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has announced that it is currently testing a blockchain platform for e-voting of listed companies. The platform is developed by Indian startup Elemential Labs, and uses Hyperledger framework. With the new framework, votes will be tokenized, which are both easy to transfer and to proxy. It also makes the entire process easy to audit for regulators (read more).

2) Recently, a Bitcoin bug was discovered which could’ve had a devastating effect on the entire Bitcoin network. Though the bug was patched in a timely manner, it still seems to exist on the testnet and someone has exploited it. The user spent 0.1 BTC twice on the testnet, resulting in a chain split. On networks that have not been updated yet, the address has two transactions, while the updated ones have 195 transactions. Bitcoin could’ve experienced the same devastating hack had the bug not been fixed on time. Bitcoin (BTC) is currently priced at $6,540.92, gaining 0.36% in the last 24 hours (read more).

3) The American telecom giant AT&T has announced that it is creating a suite of blockchain solutions aimed at helping enterprise customers to reduce risks and cut costs. The firm has said the solutions will be compatible with technologies from IBM and Microsoft. The firm believes the use of IoT will bring the much-needed automation. The solutions will be deployed across healthcare, retail, and manufacturing industries (read more).

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