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

September 1, 2021 @ 9:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Volante Technologies, a provider cloud payments and financial messaging, has revealed findings from its payments modernization survey aimed at mid-tier banks and credit unions in the U.S. with assets between $2.5 billion and $25 billion. The results show real-time payments connections are expected to triple… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 3:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency platform Okcoin and Polygon, an Ethereum scaling full-stack solution, this week announced the listing of Polygon’s native MATIC token on Okcoin as of Sept. 1. The listing is accompanied by an exclusive Polygon-minted NFT release from 10 members of The Most Famous Artist (TMFA)… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 10:05 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Founded by scientists such as Harvard Prof. George Church, Shivom, a project that developed the world’s first blockchain-powered genomics marketplace, is rebranding as the HLTH.network. This rebranding move is the first of several steps which also includes the release an all-new and inclusive ecosystem around… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 9:09 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Deeper Network launched its mainnet on Aug. 28, the next step for a decentralized infrastructure it hopes will lay the foundation for Web3.0. The mainnet launch will allow users to access an Internet that combines blockchain network security and the sharing economy. It coincides with… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 8:28 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Telos, a high-capacity blockchain network, recently announced that an audit of Telos EVM, its new Ethereum Virtual Machine, performed by the code auditing firm Sentnl has resulted in the discovery of a high severity security issue in Ethereum’s core code that demanded an emergency hot… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 8:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Investment in technology and data infrastructure sit at the top of asset managers’ priorities as they position themselves to deliver business growth in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report finds. Most, 56 per cent, say their investment will focus on these areas… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 6:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bluehelix has unveiled Bluehelix Bridge Solution (BBS), a decentralized multi-party computation-based cross-chain bridge solution that supports the decentralized cross-chain access of any public chain, any heterogeneous chain, any homogeneous chain, or any ecological native asset. As of Aug. 31, independent cross-chain addresses exceeded 1,800, cross-chain… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 5:13 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Financial Health Network today released its latest Financial Health Pulse Points for the second quarter of 2021. This regular examination of consumer transactions found that despite the economy reopening post lockdowns, most household incomes remain flat, savings are stagnant, and spending declined slightly for… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 3:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Liti Capital’s wLITI token, a wrapped version of the Swiss company’s LITI equity token, has been listed on Changelly PRO. $wLITI pairs with BTC and USDT are now available for trading. This comes less than a week after listing on Bitcoin.com Exchange and less than… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 3:28 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today sanctioned eight firms in three actions for failures in their cybersecurity policies. The companies were also penalized for faulty procedures that resulted in email account takeovers exposing the personal information of thousands of customers and clients at each… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 3:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Embedded finance platform Railsbank and Status Money, the New York-based personal finance company, are partnering to launch a cash-back credit card that automatically invests rewards in cryptocurrency. This partnership comes at a time when 45 per cent of Americans have no stock market investments, according… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 3:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week’s launch of Open Banking Excellence’s presence in Brazil could play a key role in the country’s emergence as an open banking stalwart, two executives from instant payments infrastructure provider Volt believe. CEO Tom Greenwood said Banco Central do Brazil has gone farther than… Read More

August 29, 2021 @ 11:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Taoping (NASDAQ: TAOP), a provider of blockchain technology and smart cloud services, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Taoping Digital Assets (Asia) Limited (TDAA) and a Kazakhstan company Aral Petroleum Capital (APC) have signed an MOU to establish a joint venture in Kazakhstan, of which… Read More

August 28, 2021 @ 8:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

AllianceBlock, the chain-agnostic protocol, has today unveiled a new technical roadmap. It outlines the upcoming milestones that will bring AllianceBlock’s vision of bridging the gap between DeFi and traditional finance closer by remedying issues that exist in both spheres and linking the two worlds of… Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 5:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum-based full-stack scaling solution, today announced a partnership with Showtime, an NFT-based social media platform. Showtime loins a list of Polygon partners made up of blockchain-based Web 3.0 games and NFT projects such as Decentraland, Opensea, Sandbox, Somnium Space, Animoca, and Decentral Games…. Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 5:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Those buying on the dip weren’t enough to push Bitcoin back north of $50,000, GlobalBlock sales trader Jonas Luethy said in a research note this week. After briefly trading above $50,000 earlier this week, Luethy said Bitcoin has retraced downwards, breaking down from an ascending… Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 4:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Digital Horizon Venture Fund this week was among the investors in Singapore Fintech Honest Bank’s Series A financing round. The company raised a total of $19.7 million, with the round led by Insignia Ventures Partners and Digital Horizon VC. Digital Horizon contributed $5.5 million of… Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 4:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum scaling full-stack solution, recently announced a cross-chain bridge to decentralized storage network Filecoin to accelerate Web 3 interoperability between both ecosystems. The bridge will connect Filecoin and Polygon data stores and allow ecosystem projects pro gratis usage of the bridge and storage… Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 4:24 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

CoinSwap Space, a decentralized exchange on the Binance Smart Chain, has integrated with Ramp, a move the two say will simplify DeFi activity. Ramp is a fiat onramp which does not require any proof of address to be uploaded by the customer.  This partnership will… Read More