January 26, 2019 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crypto Invest Summit (CIS) gained a nice accolade this week as a write-up in Inc. anointed CIS as one of the Best Blockchain Events of the year – no small praise in a sector of conferences that have been overrun by too many events… Read More

January 26, 2019 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK), began trading its very own security token on Friday. Long anticipated, the event was foreshadowed earlier in the week when Overstock founder and Blockchain advocate Patrick Byrne said he was “ready to hit the button” and turn tZero on…. Read More

January 25, 2019 @ 4:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

iFunding was an early entrant into the real estate crowdfunding sector. Once Title II of the JOBS Act became law (Reg D 506c), it opened up a new world of online promotion for securities offerings and real estate almost immediately became one of the hottest… Read More

January 25, 2019 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

OTC Markets Group has published their annual OTCQX Best 50 list. The list is a ranking of top-performing OTCQX companies in the prior calendar year which include both domestic and international firms. OTC Markets is a popular marketplace with many global companies that are headquartered outside the… Read More

January 25, 2019 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has always been an active participant in the crypto industry but typically this engagement has been more in the form of commentary. This week, researchers at MIT have dived into crypto by creating the ability to build a better… Read More

January 25, 2019 @ 7:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Syndicate Room’s bespoke investment fund for early-stage UK firms is accepting investors once again. The only HMRC approved EIS fund, investors can easily participate in the performance of an approximate basket of 28 different companies. Investing in early-stage businesses is very risky. Many, if not… Read More

January 25, 2019 @ 7:18 am By JD Alois  |  

As expected, Huobi Derivative Market (Huobi DM)  has added Litecoin (LTC) to their crypto asset contract service. Traders will now be able to go long or short the crypto. Ripple is next on their list. Huobi is making a big push to become the largest… Read More

January 25, 2019 @ 2:19 am By JD Alois  |  

The government of Ireland is showing their support for the emerging blockchain technology sector by hosting a hackathon called Blockathon Ireland. Hosted by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in association with The Department of Finance, the hackathon seeks to highlight real-life use-cases of Distributed… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 5:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, a security token offering platform, completed its first issuance of digital securities in their parent company, Fifth Force GmbH, company last month. The purchased tokens will be minted for shareholders on February 12, if everything goes as planned. The equity token raised an equivalent of €3… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 3:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

There has been a good amount of discussion about the impact of the government shutdown and the effect on government employees who are not being paid.  The shutdown is also undermining sectors of the economy that depend on furloughed public employees. One sector of finance that has… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 1:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Crowd2Fund has launched their third equity offering providing outside investors the opportunity to own shares in the company. Crowd2Fund says it hopes to grow its private ownership base from 121 high net worth individuals to 450. According to the campaign page, Crowd2Fund… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 12:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Huobi Global has dropped their fees “in order to better serve the needs of institutional and professional traders.” As of yesterday, transaction fees are as low as 0.015% for “makers” and 0.025% for “takers” for very high volume transactions. Before the drop in fees, all… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 8:41 am By JD Alois  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has shut down a security token offering (STO) for a “regulatory breach.” MAS said the issuer in question failed to comply with advertising restrictions. Specifically, the STOs legal advisors promoted the offering on LinkedIn calling attention to the offering…. Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender Albrate is raising growth capital on Crowdcube. The asset backed online lender recently opened up the offer privately raising just shy of £100,000 from 58 individual investors. Albrate has a crowdfunding target of £350,000. Ablrate is a peer to peer lender… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 10:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

In commemoration of Davos 2019, Globcoin is launching a stablecoin backed with the top 15 global currencies, weighted by their GDP and adjusted for purchasing power parity, and gold. The GLX coin is claimed to be the most stable means of payment as it is… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 5:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kadena is now offering blockchain as a service, free of charge, on the AWS marketplace. The new offering should make the tech far more accessible to a diverse group of potential users. AWS has more than a million enterprise users and is one of the… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 4:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Congressman Patrick McHenry, the Republican leader of the House Financial Services Committee, has asked Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters to move forward on hearings in “critical areas that the committee should prioritize in the first months of the new Congress.” The list of hearings requested by… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 3:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZero, a subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ: OSTK) and part of Medici Venture’s blockchain portfolio, is expected to go live within days. This is according to multiple reports of Overstock CEO and founder Patrick Byrne stating he was “ready to hit the button and go live”… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 2:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

The European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) has announced the creation of a new group entitled the ECN-Italian Strategic Group (ECN-ISG). The ECN is the leading pan-European voice for investment crowdfunding. The objective of the ECN-ISG Working Group is to foster a more robust culture of crowdfunding in… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 1:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Templum Markets, a primary issuance and secondary trading platform for blockchain based securities, and IPwe have partnered to launch a patent finance market. Templum Markets and IPwe claim they are creating an entirely new financing framework, enabling companies to efficiently finance their patented intellectual property,… Read More