Search Results for: canonical

April 9, 2017 @ 6:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Canonical had an early crowdfunding success of sorts back in 2013. The company that is the guardian of Ubuntu Linux ran a campaign on Indiegogo that raised almost $13 million. At the time, that was the most ever on Indiegogo but it was far short of… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Reports That Apple Has Purchased Sapphire Crystal Capacity. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu,  has announced they have signed agreements to ship Ubuntu phones globally this year.  To manufacturers, Spanish based bq and China based Meizu, will be the first companies bringing these new Ubuntu based… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 11:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at Le Web this week that Canonical has found a hardware partner. This means that Ubuntu Touch OS will be coming to smartphones soon, and Canonical will begin the long uphill climb of snagging marketshare from industry stalwarts like Google’s… Read More

August 21, 2013 @ 4:07 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We’re down to the wire for the Ubuntu Edge, and I have my popcorn at my side as we wait for the last 11 hours to tick away from the most ambitious crowdfunding campaign in memory. (Maybe) One interesting thing is happening right now in… Read More

August 12, 2013 @ 9:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Recently I reported on Indiegogo’s failure rate and how it ties to their open approach to rewards-based crowdfunding. In considering that open approach I was reminded of Canonical, the company that supports Ubuntu, one of the most used pieces of open-source software in the world…. Read More

July 25, 2013 @ 10:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Canonical had a huge first day of crowdfunding on Indiegogo, raising around $3.5 million for their new dual-boot smartphone. As with most campaigns, contributions tapered off after the fervor of launch day subsided. That tapering was exacerbated by a limited-time-only reward tier at $600. Contributors… Read More

July 23, 2013 @ 10:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Yesterday we reported on the Indiegogo campaign for the Ubuntu Edge. The campaign has set a $32 million goal for the new dual-boot smartphone running Ubuntu and Android. It’s the most ambitious campaign in Indiegogo’s history, and short of some Star Wars spoof campaigns it’s probably… Read More

July 22, 2013 @ 5:09 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A campaign just launched on Indiegogo has a somewhat ambitious funding goal. $32 million. I’ll let that sink in for a moment… Sound ridiculous? It might not be when you consider the project at the root of the campaign and the team bringing the campaign… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum Layer-2 roll-up platform Metis is announcing key collaborations with Chainlink Labs, EigenLayer, Renzo, Ethena, and DeFi Kingdoms. These collaborations are expected to make Metis stronger and “more accessible—a self-sustaining blockchain—by enabling better user experiences and deeper liquidity.” Many Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) networks “offer… Read More

February 21, 2024 @ 7:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A professional team of Fintech veterans have introduced Meso, a payment platform which brings crypto-assets and fiat currencies closer, thus making it seamless for clients to transfer funds on- and off-chain. In statements shared with Fortune, Meso co-founder and CEO Ben Mills explained that a… Read More

February 16, 2024 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blueprint Finance emerges from stealth with $7.5M in funding. Blueprint’s flagship product is the Concrete Protocol, an appchain purpose built for on-chain debt and credit. Concrete powers higher yields, liquidation protection, and advanced predictions across all of DeFi, starting with money markets. The financing was… Read More

September 14, 2023 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BIAN, the independent not-for-profit standards association, has announced the third iteration of its ‘Coreless Banking’ initiative, an API-based services architecture designed to resolve the challenges banks face with interoperability. Coreless Banking 3.0 builds “upon BIAN’s second iteration of its coreless banking model developed in 2021,… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 11:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Web3 software technology company, Consensys, announces the completion of the public launch of its Layer 2 blockchain solution Linea. This milestone follows the Linea mainnet “going live at EthCC in Paris.” In the first month of Linea’s mainnet going live, the L2 blockchain “saw a… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sentio has raised $6.4 million to bring modern observability to decentralized applications. The investment round was “led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from industry leaders Hashkey Capital, Canonical Crypto, Essence VC and GSR Ventures.” The Sentio team “consists of veteran engineers from Google, Linkedin,… Read More

August 5, 2022 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

App.shapeshift.com is reportedly becoming a one-stop shop for “all things DeFi.” From being able to connect to our app with 200+ wallets (including Metamask, WalletConnect, and xDefi), to having the ability to buy and sell with the industry’s leading on and off ramps一now, it is… Read More

September 30, 2021 @ 8:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The RMRK Association announced this week that the $RMRK token, the utility and governance token of an NFT protocol, is now available for purchase on Kucoin and Gate. The association said it is the very first Statemine fungible token to be available for trading globally…. Read More

June 19, 2021 @ 1:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Professor Aggelos Kiayias, a Greek computer scientist, currently a professor at the University of Edinburgh, has published a blog post titled “Stablefees and the Decentralized Reserve System.” Kiayias notes in a blog posted by IOHK, the company supporting Cardano development, that  facilitating transactions via crypto… Read More

May 13, 2021 @ 7:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

The SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA), Lehigh University’s Center for Financial Services, the University of Maryland’s Center for Financial Policy and CFA Institute will jointly host the Eighth Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation. The goal of the conference is to bring together… Read More

April 21, 2021 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Asset, the developers of the Daml multi-party application platform, revealed on Wednesday (April 21, 2021) that they have secured more than $120 million in capital through a Series D funding round from 7RIDGE and Eldridge. As stated in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider:… Read More

June 18, 2019 @ 10:20 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Rhode Island Department of Administration/Division of Purchases is soliciting, “…proposals from qualified firms to provide a limited Proof-of-Concept implementation of the use of Blockchain technology to further the State’s goal of becoming more efficient, transparent, accurate, secure and business-friendly…” Deadline for submissions is Friday, June… Read More