Newly Incorporated Nonprofit NXT Foundation to Be a ‘Point of Contact’

Newly Incorporated Nonprofit NXT Foundation to Be a ‘Point of Contact’

Within a month of its existence, the NXT Foundation became one of the three platinum sponsors of the Mind the Gap Expo that is taking place on April 10, 2015. The foundation is also set to be the official cryptocurrency partner at the PayExpo later on in June. The number of startups around Nxt, a second-generation cryptocurrency, has been steadily growing in the recent months, as has adoption by users and merchants. It is partly due to these successes that five members of the Nxt community saw the need to incorporate a foundation. The group has been working informally on smaller projects....


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