September 10, 2021 @ 12:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum-based full-stack scaling solution bringing mass adoption to the Ethereum platform, announced Aragon Client, an Ethereum-based project focused on the creation and management of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), is now live on the Polygon PoS network. The growth of Web 3.0 communities has… Read More

September 10, 2021 @ 9:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Dharma, an Ethereum wallet that directly connects with users’ banks, has completed its integration with the Polygon network. The integration will now enable users to purchase virtually any DeFi token directly from their US-based bank account without paying gas fees. Full Dharma wallet support for… Read More

September 10, 2021 @ 7:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Addi, a fintech and digital commerce startup based in Bogota and Sao Paulo, this week announced new equity funding for $75 million, led by Greycroft with participation from new investors GGV Capital, Citius Capital, and Intersection Growth Partners, as well as existing investors Andreessen Horowitz,… Read More

September 9, 2021 @ 9:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Coinbase has established Protocol, a team that will be working on scaling Ethereum by integrating it with other solutions. Its first scaling solution to be implemented will be Polygon PoS. The Coinbase Protocol team is an experienced group of engineers at Coinbase focused on contributing… Read More

September 9, 2021 @ 8:51 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain and cryptocurrency tech company DMG Blockchain Solutions has become the first Canadian Bitcoin miner to join the MaraPool mining pool. MaraPool is a U.S.-based Bitcoin mining pool that is fully audited by a third-party firm in the U.S. As of Sept. 13 DMG will… Read More

September 9, 2021 @ 8:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While most businesses have embraced the use of digital documents, they have not yet progressed to the point where they can create compelling and effective ones, third-party research from PandaDoc, an all-in-one document workflow automation platform, reveals. PandaDoc polled more than 1,000 professionals at businesses of… Read More

September 9, 2021 @ 6:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bond Financial Technologies, an enterprise-grade platform for embedded finance, has appointed three senior executives to fill the roles of chief product officer (CPO), chief sales officer, and general counsel. Helcio Nobre joins Bond as its first CPO from Rapyd, a global Fintech-as-a-service platform, where he… Read More

September 9, 2021 @ 4:02 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cardano’s price should reach $4 by the end of 2021, one industry analyst predicts. deVere Group founder and chief executive Nigel Green said he is bullish about Cardano, which is generating plenty of enthusiasm as a much-anticipated technology upgrade is scheduled for Sept. 12. Green… Read More

September 8, 2021 @ 1:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Distributed ledger technology is capable of having a tremendous impact on the efficiency of capital markets, and for Standard Bank Group, Africa’s largest bank by assets under management, it will start with its fixed-income division, DLT innovation analyst Gideon Rossouw said.  Rossouw recently listed 10… Read More

September 4, 2021 @ 2:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A look at the projects which have raised at least $1 million on crowdfunding platform Republic provides good insight into our collective psyche and how our consumption has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Topping the list is Digital Eclipse, which taps into our needs… Read More

September 3, 2021 @ 8:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Neobank Fi announced this week it is one of the first fintech companies to adopt the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Account Aggregator (AA) framework.  According to the regulations, companies must first obtain an RBI certificate of registration before operating as an account aggregator. Every… Read More

September 3, 2021 @ 2:51 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nauta Capital this week led a £2.3 million seed round in trustshare, a company offering borderless marketplace payments. Trustshare allows online marketplaces to offer high-value transactions between parties who either don’t know or don’t trust each other by using an escrow system that can be… Read More

September 2, 2021 @ 9:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain company dcSpark, which builds critical products and solutions on top of crypto projects, this week announced a sidechain project named Milkomeda. It is focused on helping non-Ethereum Virtual Machine cryptocurrencies gain wider adoption. Milkomeda said it addresses scaling issues seen in several new blockchains… Read More

September 2, 2021 @ 3:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nobody Studios, a globally distributed, high-velocity venture studio is marking its launch by committing to create 100 companies in the next five years – and, soon, offering equity across its entire portfolio through the studio’s first crowdfunding campaign. They work with investors, founders, and creatives… Read More

September 2, 2021 @ 7:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum-based full-stack scaling solution bringing mass adoption to the Ethereum platform, has launched the first round of its Polygon-Grants Hackathon on HackerLink, DoraHacks’ open-source developer incentive platform. Developers are encouraged to come up with ideas for dApps and bring them to life on… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 9:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY), a global cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain, and IoT company, has joined forces with Polygon to offer Trusted NFTs via the launch of WISe.ART NFT platform this month. Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development, as well as for networking Ethereum-compatible… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 9:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While there are a few key factors behind the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies, they are definitely becoming more familiar in society. A group of industry executives recently shared their thoughts on Qwoted. One of the reasons is the NFT craze, AlchemyNFT founder Victor Zhang said…. Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 9:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitcoin rewards and payments app Fold has committed to moving to Lightning by the end of 2022 to support the growth of the Lightning Network. The Lightning Network (LN) is a second layer scalability protocol added to Bitcoin’s network that allows off-chain transactions, enabling near-instant,… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 9:34 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum-based full-stack scaling solution, today announced Kine Protocol, a decentralized protocol that establishes general-purpose liquidity pools backed by a customizable portfolio of digital assets, will launch its cross-chain derivatives trading platform on Polygon. Polygon’s high-speed and low-gas infrastructure makes Kine’s features – including… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 9:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The vast majority of Americans are interested in having cryptocurrencies as part of their retirement investments, the results of a survey from business.com reveal. Close to 90 per cent (87 per cent) of employees expressed interest in including cryptocurrencies in their portfolio but far fewer… Read More