Highlighting what went right, and what went wrong, in this week’s crypto news analysis.

New York Blockchain Week did not disappoint. There were thousands of meet-ups, hundreds of sessions, and countless announcements, but surely none bigger than the news SWARM has partnered with Copper in an exclusive custody arrangement. You can read more about that below in the Finance Magnates article, or on our site here.

The team at Copper now look ahead to our next big event, which will be held in London in conjunction with AiX Trade and HFM Week. The breakfast briefing will be open only to HFM members, however Copper will have an extremely small number of passes to give away.

In the meantime, stay tuned as Copper will have more announcements, and CEO Dmitry Tokarev will be on the podcast circuit to discuss how our infrastructure is creating the plumbing for financial services 2.0

Below we have our weekly roundup of industry and coin specific news. If you’d like to get in touch with us about any of our products or services, we look forward to hearing from you. Just send us a note.

Latest Industry News

SWARM selects Copper

• Copper has been appointed the Exclusive custodian for all digital assets being sent to the SWARM platform
• And has been designated the preferred custodian for all digital securities leaving the platform

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Bitfinex IEO tomorrow

• The new exchange utility token, UNUS SED LEO, will go live on 20 May and trade initially against USDT, BTC, ETH, EOS, and US dollars
• The coin was announced in a white paper on the 8th of May, with a private sale concluding on the 11th, which raised upwards of $1bn USDT

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Facebook registers in Switzerland

• A new fintech firm was registered on the 2nd of May called Libra Networks, the codename given to the secretive crypto project back in June
• The filing describes a range of services, including development and production of software and related infrastructure, in particular in connection with investment activities…

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Latest Coin News

BTC

• Price analysis
• Bakkt announced a hard deadline to launch
• in July
• BoE

ETH

• Price analysis
• ETH New York hackers built
• Terms agreed in famous
• between Joe Lubin and Jimmy Song

XRP

• Price analysis
• Ripple CEO
• TipBot creator comments on more coins, and
• to Upbit

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