Top stories in the Crypto Roundup today:

• Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, MIT and IBM collaborate on Bitcoin data set
• Largest Ever Ethereum hackathon takes place 
• Mastercard to develop cryptocurrency wallet solution

Bitcoin (BTC) continued its momentum to push past the $11,000 mark late yesterday and is currently trading at $11,805.13 (10.37%) with a daily volume of 5.39 bn. Ether (ETH) is trading at $229.37 (4.92%) with a daily volume of $1.41 bn. The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 10 Index is currently tracking at 3,921.57 (3.97%).

Blockchain Analytics Firm Elliptic, MIT, IBM Collaborate on Bitcoin Data Set

London-based blockchain analytics startup Elliptic has partnered with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and tech giant IBM to create the world’s largest set of labelled transaction data publicly available for Bitcoin.

The dataset, which is accessible via Kaggle, maps over 200,000 bitcoin “transactions to real entities belonging to licit categories (exchanges, wallet providers, miners, licit services, etc.) versus illicit ones (scams, malware, terrorist organizations, ransomware, Ponzi schemes, etc.).”

The researchers behind the project will on Monday publish a paper entitled, ‘Anti-Money Laundering in Bitcoin: Experiments with Graph Convolutional Networks for Financial Forensics’.

Largest Ever Ethereum Hackathon Takes Place

Asia’s predominant Ethereum hackathon, ETHIndia, took place over the weekend in the city of Bengaluru. Indicative of a burgeoning level of interest from the developer community, the number of ETHIndia applications (1,927) were the most received by any ETHGlobal-hosted hackathons to date. Also, of the 175 developers, 68% had no prior experience building atop Ethereum, according to a tweet by Inblox Network’s Abhimanyu Kashyap.

Among the solutions worked on by the winning projects from ETHIndia—which was sponsored by some of the leading players in the decentralized finance (‘DeFi’) space such as Matic Network and Kyber Network—were privacy-preserving lending (i.e., Lendz) as well as open reputation (i.e., Credeth).

Mastercard to Develop Cryptocurrency Wallet Solution

Mastercard is, according to recent job postings, looking to fill three senior-level positions to lead efforts in cryptocurrency, The Block reported. The job descriptions of these three postings from Mastercard emphasise a focus on identifying and developing crypto-friendly payments and wallets solutions.

Specifically, Mastercard’s new positions are for two directors and one vice president. The director roles are titled ‘Product Development & Innovation – Blockchain Solutions Architect’ and ‘Product Management – Crypto Currency/Wallets’, while the vice president position is in the area of product management. All three positions are based out of Mastercard’s San Francisco office.

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