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Nomics Launches Free CSV Downloads On Cryptoasset & Exchange Pages

Announcements · February 20, 2020

Nomics Adds Free CSV Downloads to Cryptoasset & Exchange Pages

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added free CSV downloads to our website. Visitors to Nomics.com have always been able to view cryptoasset, exchange, and trading pair data in the timeframe and quote currency of their choice. Now that information can be downloaded as a spreadsheet for use with Microsoft Excel, R, Python, Statistica, and other data analysis tools.

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🗞 Popular Crypto #21 – FTX Bets on Trump & Bernie + How to Build a DIY Bitcoin Arcade

[Newsletter] Popular Crypto · February 14, 2020

This post was last updated on February 21st, 2020 at 12:52 am

Popular Crypto #21 - FTX Bets on Trump & Bernie + How to Build a DIY Bitcoin Arcade

Welcome to Issue 21 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.

In this issue:

Crypto derivatives exchange FTX takes bets on 2020 candidates
Etherisc and Chainlink bring fairness to flight insurance claims
myNode makes it easy to run Bitcoin & Lightning
Orchid offers on-demand online privacy
Lightning lets e-sports spectators fund live in-game power-ups

We also show you how to build a Bitcoin arcade with a Pandora’s Box, an M5Stack, a pair of Lightning wallets, and hot glue.

All that and more in this week’s issue. But first, here’s some…

🚀 Updates From Nomics

#1. Nomics Is First to List Handshake (HNS): This week, we completed an integration with Namebase, an exchange and registrar for Handshake domains. The integration made us the first crypto data aggregator to list live pricing information for Handshake’s native token, HNS. For more on Handshake and why it’s important, see our coverage in last week’s Popular Crypto.

@NamebaseHQ and @HNS are now live on @NomicsFinance! https://t.co/r2tWJ9Nzor #HandshakeDNS #cryptoexchange #metrics
— Namebase (@NamebaseHQ) February 11, 2020

#2. Nomics Adds Exchanges CoinFLEX & Bilaxy, Upgrades 4 More: Along with Namebase, Nomics added crypto exchanges CoinFLEX and Bilaxy. The former earned an “A” Transparency Rating, indicating full transparency with regard to trade data granularity and history. The latter earned a “D” for providing low-granularity non-historical ticker data. Exchanges ZBG, LBank, BigONE, and DragonEx were all upgraded to “C” Transparency Ratings. This means that each now provides us with recent candle data, which we’ve made available on Nomics.com and through our market data API. To learn more about our crypto exchange rating system, check out the following essay.

#3. New Capital Names Nomics One of Crypto’s Good Guys: In a post titled Crypto exchanges and data aggregators— the good (rare), the bad and the ugly, crypto exchange New Capital recognized Nomics as one of the few good actors in the space. They cited our Verified Exchange Program, which “serves to validate and rank the source exchanges in order to produce professional-grade market data” and our well-documented listing and integration process.

#4. Economics of Proof-of-Work Mining: We’ve recorded another episode of our live webinar series, Flippening Podcast [LIVE]. This time, we welcomed Hasu, an independent cryptocurrency researcher who writes for Uncommon Core and Deribit. We discussed why Bitcoin needs miners, what miners do, and how the economic incentives work. Catch the replay here.

To join us for future episodes, sign up for invites.

Economics of Proof-of-Work Mining webinar

And now, let’s see what the cryptocurrency world has brought us this week.

Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder

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🗞 Popular Crypto #20 – Zap Enables USD/Lightning Payments

[Newsletter] Popular Crypto · February 7, 2020

Welcome to Issue 20 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.

In this issue:

Zap lets merchants take USD over the Lightning Network
Handshake goes live allowing top-level decentralized domain ownership (and enabling decentralized income)
How to stream social money using Roll & Sablier
PoolTogether announces a daily no-loss USDC prize

We also cover Maple Loans, a protocol taking a community-based approach to undercollateralized crypto loans.

All that and more in this week’s issue. But first, here’s some…

🚀 Updates From Nomics

#1 Upgrades for Bit-Z, EXX, KKCoin, BKex, Digifinex & CoinAll: This week, crypto exchange Bit-Z was upgraded to include derivatives markets, and EXX, KKCoin, BKex, Digifinex, and CoinAll were all upgraded to “C” Transparency Ratings. This means that each now provides us with recent candle data, which we’ve made available on Nomics.com and via our market data API. To learn more about our crypto exchange rating system, check out the following essay.

#2 Ethereum’s Untold History & Defying Future: Flippening episode #69, Ethereum’s Untold History & Defying Future, is live on our blog. This time, we’re joined by Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant, a daily newsletter focused on decentralized finance or DeFi. We discuss her upcoming book on the history of Ethereum (ETH) and how DeFi has become the network’s most promising use case.

Ethereum's Untold History & Defying Future w/ Camila Russo From The Defiant

#3 HitBTC IOU Markets Removed From Tezos Trade History at the Request of Reddit Community: In response to user feedback that HitBTC IOUs were skewing historical price data for Tezos (XTZ), Nomics decided to exclude HitBTC markets from XTZ pricing. For more on the decision – and why excluding these markets was the “clearest and cleanest approach” – read the Reddit post by Nomics CTO Nick Gauthier.

Meanwhile, if you have feedback for Nomics, visit any page on our site and click the Feedback tab, located on the right-hand side.

#4 Nomics CEO Clay Collins Moderates the Traditional Asset Tokenization Panel at 0xpo: At 2:05pm PST today (February 7th) Nomics CEO Clay Collins will be moderating the Tokenizing Traditional Assets panel at 0xpo, a San Francisco conference hosted by the 0x (ZRX) Core team. The panel will feature Hart Lambur (UMA), Josh Stein (Harbor), and Michael Oved (Airswap). To learn more about security tokens, check out our 3-part documentary, Tokenize the World.

And now, let’s see what the cryptocurrency world has brought us this week.

Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder

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🎧 Ethereum’s Untold History & Defying Future w/ Camila Russo From The Defiant (Ep. 0069)

[Podcast] Flippening · February 5, 2020

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“The amount of progress, measured with actual value being created, that we're seeing in #DeFi signals that lessons from the ICO era were really taken to heart in the #ethereum community.” ~@CamiRusso, founder of The Defiant Click To Tweet “The world needs an Internet of value. We can share any type of content, but the same hasn't happened with value… #bitcoin was the first step. I think #ethereum can take it further with programmable money.” ~@CamiRusso of The Defiant Click To Tweet “We're tweeting, watching YouTube videos & doing all this stuff online, but we still need to go to an executive to open a savings account. #DeFi is so much more aligned with our digital world.” ~@CamiRusso, founder of The Defiant Click To Tweet

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BitShares, the 1st Decentralized Crypto Exchange, Completes a “Deep Data Integration” With Nomics

Announcements · February 4, 2020

This post was last updated on February 5th, 2020 at 11:16 pm

BitShares is named an “A+ Verified Exchange” by Nomics

We’re pleased to announce that BitShares, the original decentralized exchange (DEX), has completed a “deep data integration” with Nomics and is now an A+ Verified Exchange. This means that Nomics has vetted BitShares’ trade history and verifies that it meets the highest standards of reliability, consistency, and data integrity.

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