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The offer of Uphold already has 24 cryptocurrencies and 3 stablecoin.The cryptocurrencies Stellar (XLM), Cardano (ADA) and the EOS is among the inclusions.The financial services platform, cloud-based Uphold added 15 new cryptocurrencies to their portfolio, between the months of August and September of this year. The house of change, with headquarters in the United Kingdom, organized an inclusion interactive tokens, between 28 August and Tuesday 17 September.Among the new cryptocurrencies users of Uphold be able to handle are EOS, Stellar (XLM), Cardano (ADA), Tron (TRX), Iota (IOTA) and Neo (NEO), which are located in the top 20 ranking on CoinMarketCap. These criptoactivos bind to Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Dash (DASH), among others that were already available on the platform.
During #15daysofcrypto we listed 15 #digitalcurrencies that represent some of the most exciting projects in #blockchain. Learn more about each at https://t.co/eCDqU3cJrG.#TRX #Nano #Stellar #Cardano #IOTA #Chainlink #Cosmos #NEO #EOS #0x #NEM #Zilliqa #Decred #DGB #Dogecoin pic.twitter.com/IAtz4ySvgv— Uphold (@UpholdInc) September 18, 2019
According to the information, the users of Uphold have already exchanged USD 5 billion in operations around the 181 countries where it is available on the platform. This service has been popularized thanks to the fact that it offers the possibility of exchange with 22 coins fiduciary, in addition to the u.s. dollar. Its offer includes currencies of Latin american countries such as the argentine peso, the brazilian real and the mexican peso.A purpose of the inclusion of the new cryptocurrencies, Uphold conducted a promotional contest among its users, which is called “15-day Crypto Countdown Challenge”. To this end, the house of change added a new criptomoneda each day to its platform for three weeks, until the 15 inclusions.The challenge was to guess what criptoactivo would be added on a specific day, to be eligible for prizes of $ 50 referred to in that token. The challenge culminated on Wednesday with the addition of Dogecoin (DOGE) to the platform. In addition, the startup offered rates trading zero during 24 hours for each new criptoactivo included.Other cryptocurrencies added to the house of change are Chainlink (LINK), Cosmo (ATOM), Nano (NANO), 0x (ZRX), Nem (XEM), Zilliqa (ZIL), Decred (DCR) and Digibyte (DGB).Uphold has been developing several services related with the sector of the cryptocurrencies. The past year has launched two products aimed at users of criptoacivos, called Uphold Borrow and Uphold Earn. The first one is about lines of credit denominated in bitcoin and ether, with interest rates of 9%, while the second second, the users could get a return on their funds between 2% and 5%.