September 30, 2021 @ 10:16 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

ComplyAdvantage, a global data technology company with a unique approach to financial crime detection, today announced that Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB),  a specialist bank focused on lending to UK businesses, has selected the company’s award-winning anti-money laundering (AML) suite of solutions including Customer Screening and… 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

September 29, 2021 @ 9:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Peer-to-peer marketplace 4K.com, which offers digital collectibles and luxury goods powered by NFTs, this week announced its highly-anticipated marketplace launch for collectors and resellers across the world. Customers send their collectible to 4K, which authenticates, insures, and then stores it. The customer receives an NFT… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 7:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain-based app technology provider Algorand today announced the availability of the Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM). This upgrade to Algorand’s Layer-1 protocol, now available on MainNet, provides tools for developers and organizations looking to build applications of the future on fast, scalable, low cost and stable… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 6:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Genesis Global Capital, a part of Genesis, a digital asset industry participant and provider of digital currency prime brokerage services, this week announced it has executed the first-ever OTC block trade of a BTIC (Basis Trade at Index Close) transaction on CME Bitcoin futures with Akuna… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 4:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Global NFT distribution and viewing platform VUELE announced it grossed nearly six figures, bringing in 32.86267 ETH ($93,435) with the release of 11 total NFT drops of feature film thriller Zero Contact starring Oscar-winning Best Actor Anthony Hopkins.  The flick, which also stars Aleks Paunovic,… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 4:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitcoin Latinum (LTNM) will list on cryptocurrency exchange DigiFinex in the third week of October. Monsoon Blockchain, Bitcoin Latinum’s lead developer, also plans for the token to list on a number of other global exchanges in the upcoming months. Headquartered in Singapore, DigiFinex says it… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 3:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Scotiabank and Google Cloud today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the bank’s global data and analytics strategy. As a Scotiabank trusted cloud partner for data and analytics, Google Cloud will help create a more personal and predictive banking experience for Scotiabank customers in the… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 3:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While at the beginning NFTs were predominantly used by artists to claim the ownership and novelty of their digital creative work, the uses for the digital tokens are growing, a new report from Global Data suggests. Companies are now filing NFT-related patents to secure their… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Atom Foundation, which focuses on liquidity solutions on the blockchain, this week announced it is launching the Central Bank Distributed Secure Coin (CBDSC). CBDSC aims to improve current central bank digital currency (CBDC) projects that claims to remove volatility while adding flexibility to governments in… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Compute North, a provider of large-scale computing and cryptocurrency mining infrastructure, has agreed with PowerFund One, a leading Clean Energy Tax Equity Fund, to immediately begin delivering more than $100 million of green energy and tax credits to mining operations seeking to invest in and… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

EquityBee, an employee-focused stock options funding solution, today announced $55 million in Series B funding, led by existing investor Group 11, with participation from Battery Ventures, Latitude, Altair and ICON. Group 11 led EquityBee’s Seed and Series A rounds; the Series B increases EquityBee’s total… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 11:57 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Trust, a community-powered corporate card, and Plastiq, a smart payments platform, are partnering to allow businesses to pay more of their marketing expenses using their Trust card. Through this partnership, Trust members will benefit from up to 90-day payment terms and the ability to pay invoices where… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 11:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Multi-chain, community-oriented launchpad Starter this week announced it will host the launch of the IDO for NASDEX, an independently owned and operated decentralized exchange that allows users to trade tokenized stocks on the blockchain through a minting and trading mechanism.  NASDEX, which is designed to… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 10:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Yieldly.Finance, a DeFi platform built atop the Algorand blockchain, today launched four new partnerships and liquidity pools with ASA-based assets: Smile Coin Network (SMILE), the Asia Reserve Currency Coin (ARCC) from the International Blockchain Monetary Reserve, Opulous (OPUL) and Xfinite (XET). The launch of these… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 10:37 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The younger you are, the more warm you are to using social media-based payment apps, new research released this week by GoCardless suggested. The payments infrastructure provider recently surveyed 1,000 American adults about their payment preferences. They found 56% per cent of millennials and 54… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 9:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

NFT marketplace Bubblehouse today announced $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Third Kind VC with participation from SV Angel, Watertower Ventures, Soma Capital, and other angels. Bubblehouse describes itself as a social, accessible, and eco-friendly NFT marketplace where creators and collectors don’t need crypto… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 9:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Monsoon Blockchain Corporation this week announced a new digital cryptocurrency ecosystem for powering Bitcoin Latinum, an insured, asset-backed cryptocurrency. Monsoon Blockchain develops the Bitcoin Latinum network on behalf of the Bitcoin Latinum Foundation. Bitcoin Latinum will initially support up to 10,000 transactions per second and millions… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 8:38 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new survey of institutional investors and wealth managers from the US, UK, France, Germany, and the UAE who don’t currently have exposure to cryptocurrencies and digital assets, reveals 62 per cent expect to invest in these for the first time within the next year,… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 4:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Merkle Science, a predictive blockchain monitoring and investigative platform, today announced the close of its $5.75 million Series A funding round led by Darrow Holdings. Other investors in the round include Kraken Ventures, Bain-backed Uncorrelated Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Token Bay Capital, Kenetic, and Lunex Ventures…. Read More