Daily View | Friday February 18

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【LAT】

Total issuance	Circulation	Pledge rate	Total pledge	Number of addresses
10,250,000,000	2,384,910,000	27.43%	1,291,759,430.38	78,094

Data source: https://scan.platon.network/

【Quotes】

Trading pair	24 hours high	24 hours low	24-hour trading volume
LAT/USDT	0.0640	0.0567	1,604,928
BTC/USDT	44096.06	40050.34	12,100
ETH/USDT	3138.98	2852.50	119,081

Data source: Huobi Exchange

【10 days node data】

2022	Active	Candidate	Exiting	Exited
February 18	201	19	7	136
February 17	201	20	6	136
February 16	201	19	7	135
February 15	201	19	7	135
January 21	201	19	4	131
January 20	201	19	3	131
January 19	201	19	3	131
January 18	201	19	3	131
January 17	201	22	2	130
January 16	201	20	2	130

Data source: https://scan.platon.network/

【Industry News】

Spain’s Central Bank Authorizes Bit2Me as the Country’s First Crypto Service Provider

Accroding to Golden Finance, Spanish cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me announced Thursday that it has received approval from the Central Bank of Spain to become “the first service provider to convert virtual currencies into fiat currency and host digital wallets. Bit2Me will now be able to offer a white label service to Spanish banks, allowing crypto transactions on its platform. Currently, Bit2Me is in talks with “several banks”. Bit2Me offers crypto services in more than 100 countries and has a turnover of 1.1 billion euros ($1.25 billion) in 2021, the company said in a statement.（coindesk）

JPMorgan Chase Researching the Use of Quantum Networks to Protect Blockchains

Researchers at JPMorgan Chase, Toshiba and Ciena said they have built a quantum key distribution (QKD) network that can secure blockchain applications from quantum attacks, Reuters reported Feb. 18. the QKD network is a secure two-way communication network that can instantly detect and defend against eavesdroppers. In addition, the researchers studied the impact of real-world environmental factors on quantum channel quality and used QKD-secured optical channels to deploy and secure Liink, JP Morgan’s production-grade peer-to-peer blockchain network.