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January 22, 2019 CRYPTO SQUARED: Square won a U.S. patent for a payments platform that enables seamless crypto-to-fiat transactions. The firm has also said it would be releasing a new "Lightning Development Kit” for bitcoin wallets. Full stories here and here BLOCKCHAIN LEAP: Hacker Noon is putting its money where its pen is, embedding blockchain features into its new publishing platform. Annotations on Hacker Noon’s blog-styled content will now be hosted on users' spare storage space and a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) database system. Full story SDX EXITS: Several executives, including two founding team members, have left the blockchain-based digital asset trading venue SDX owned by Swiss stock exchange operator SIX Group, since the beginning of the year. Ivo Sauter, SDX’s head of clients and products, and Sven Roth, its chief digital officer, both left their full-time positions in January. Alex Zinder, an architecture lead at SDX, also left this month. Full story WEIGHING IN: The Blockchain Association has filed an amicus brief arguing that Telegram made sufficient efforts to meet SEC criteria with its ICO, adding that the regulator's court action could harm Telegram’s investors. Yesterday, the Chamber of Digital Commerce also filed a brief supporting Telegram’s argument that “digital assets may be the subject of an investment contract without being a security.” Full stories here and here CLIMATE ROLE? Hyperledger announced a new working group that will explore how blockchain can help the world meet climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement. Launched in Davos, the climate group will enable participants to share findings on how distributed ledgers can help governments and companies coordinate on reducing emissions. Full story HEADED TO DAVOS? CoinDesk is sending a team of journalists to scrutinize the global elite as it meets for the annual World Economic Forum. It will be Davos, but through a lens of crypto and blockchain. Our daily dispatches will tell you what sessions you should attend, what you missed yesterday (or last night) and prep you for what people are talking about on the Promenade today. The CoinDesk Confidential newsletter will run for five days only, so be sure to sign up now. Subscribe here HEMMED IN: Bitcoin is confined to a narrow range defined by key support near $8,460 and newly established resistance at $8,750. An upside breakout looks likely as the longer duration charts report bullish conditions, possibly yielding a move above $9,000. Conversely, a range breakdown would allow a further drop toward $8,200. Full story CRYPTO DAD'S DIGITAL DOLLAR: Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, known as “Crypto Dad,” discusses his push to digitize the U.S. dollar in an interview with CoinDesk at the World Economic Forum. Watch here   WHO WON #CRYPTOTWITTER   Copyright © 2020 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.  Our mailing address is:  250 Park Avenue South New York, NY, 10003, US  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list