The launch of Ethereum futures trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange is likely to have a negative impact on the ETH price, but it may weaken the bearish pressure on bitcoin, the analyst believes.

On September 4, a two-day annual forum of the Carrier Community club will start in Almaty, which organizes meetings of CIS communication operators since 2017.

Cryptocurrencies with focus on anonymity will become the fastest-growing asset in the coming years, analysts say.

Chicago Board Options Exchange filed an application to the US regulator to launch futures, pegged to the second largest cryptocurrency by capitalization. The launch is expected before the end of 2018.

In the near future LH-CRYPTO, which successfully completed the ICO in January 2018 and collected more than $ 10 million dollars, launches the crypto-broker platform. The platform is expected to be launched not only by project investors, but also by private traders who understand that brokers offer a wider and more convenient set of tools for trading than cryptocurrency exchanges.

Following the Beijing authorities, which banned two weeks ago all cryptocurrency-related activities in one of the Chinese capital's district, Guangzhou adopts the similar decision.

Yahoo Finance has integrated a service that allows to trade bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on its platform. The service also displays statistics on other cryptocurrencies.

Trading service on Yahoo Finance now allows to buy and sell three cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH and LTC) and offers statistics on Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic and EOS, but they are not currently available for trading.

Some participants of the cryptocurrency community consider this launch as an important achievement in the development of the digital assets market. So, Anthony Pomppliano, a crypto enthusiast and founder of Morgan Creek Digital, tweeted that this launch indicates how rapid cryptocurrencies are spreading and gaining popularity in the world.

You can now buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin on Yahoo Finance.

THE VIRUS IS SPREADING 🚀

— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) 29 августа 2018 г.

Yet others demonstrate scepticism. Analyst Matt Odell draws attention to the fact that the tool offered by Yahoo Finance is just a front-end interface that requires connection to a broker account. In other words, users still need an account on the Coinbase exchange or in the Robinhood application to trade cryptocurrencies through Yahoo Finance. In this regard, Odell wonders why users should choose a third-party interface instead of the original service.

The cooperation between Yahoo Finance and Coinbase began in late 2017, when they announced their integration. Starting from December, Coinbase users have been able to check balances on their Coinbase accounts through the mobile application of Yahoo Finance for Android and iOS.

Fireplace, river, camp site and blockchain experiments: «Robonomics-2018» summer school on smart city development took place in Togliatti on Volga river bank.

Despite the sharp crash of the cryptocurrency market, the bitcoin network every day welcomes new mining facilities. In August, the hashrate of bitcoin increased by 25%, and since the beginning of the year it has jumped more than twofold.

The new system of the Russian Pension Fund will record all conditions of labor agreements in the decentralized register. This will help reduce costs of storing this data.

Russian financial authorities signed a contract to create an instrument "for analysis and detection of illegal activities involving cryptocurrencies". The instrument development is estimated at $3 million.

Legislative uncertainty regarding cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies and a lack of trust are the main obstacles to the spread of blockchain in the business environment, the study says.