The NEM rate went up after the announcement of the official launch of the beta version of Catapult

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Catapult is a full-featured blockchain system that includes both public and private networks with unique smart contracts that allow you to create reliable digital assets, decentralized swaps, extended account systems and business logic modeling.

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