Waves swept onto the shores of the blockchain scene back in 2016, thanks to a group of Russian developers who became disillusioned with NXT. They decided to launch their own platform, aiming to make it quick and easy for anyone to issue their own token.

Cryptocurrencies that feature in identity management (IdM) solutions have been among the best investments in the first half of the year.

In a webinar hosted by Digital Asset Research (DAR), analysts found that tokens in the IdM category had the largest returns in both Q2 and H1 2019. IdM is a set of practices, services and techniques used to authenticate and manage information relating to an individual’s identity.

With the rise of data breaches, fraud, and identity theft, a growing number of projects are using blockchain technology for file and identity validation. Digital files are quite easy to tamper with, as Craig Wright recently demonstrated in his court battles with the Kleiman estate.

Zilliqa (ZIL), a high-throughput sharding-based blockchain platform project, has announced the integration of decentralized oracles powered by Chainlink (LINK).

Oracles allow smart contracts to important data from outside the blockchain environment, such as other blockchains or the real world. The data that can be gathered is extremely varied, ranging from wallet balances, market prices, voting results, weather forecasts and other data sets.

If you’re investing in altcoins, you may be in for a disappointing summer. Against all forecasts, Bitcoin (BTC) is continuing to outperform its competitors. A new report shows no sign of a reversal, but at least it tells us whom to blame: institutional investors.

• Tezos has a bullish short-term bias, with the XTZ / USD pair recovering above its 200-period moving average on the four-hour time frame
• The four-hour time frame highlights that a bullish pattern is starting to take shape
• The daily time frame continues to show a large head and shoulders pattern

Tezos spiked after Coinbase Pro announced that it will be launching XTZ on it

• Zilliqa has a bearish short-term trading outlook, with the cryptocurrency still trading below its 200-period moving average on the four-hour time frame
• The four-hour time frame shows that the ZIL / USD pair still remains trapped within a wedge pattern
• The daily time frame continues to show the invalidation of a large inverted head and shoulders pattern

Zilliqa has gained bullish momentum after the project announced that it is