Blockchain & Digital Assets

July 30, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Peer to peer Bitcoin marketplace, Paxful claims that there’s now a growing interest in the use of P2P Bitcoin (BTC) trading platforms in Russia. According to a release shared with Crowdfund Insider, many Russians have been turning to cash and BTC during these times of… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys Labs, an organization that aims to solve real-world problems with Ethereum blockchain-based solutions for enterprises, announced on July 30, 2020 that it’s accepting applications for the Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator, which is being powered by Tachyon, an accelerator program by ConsenSys Ventures that takes early-stage… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 8:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ballet, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency wallet startup, announced on Wednesday its platform has reached $21 million in customer deposits. This milestone comes just one year after the wallet platform made its debut. Founded in 2019, Ballet claims to be the first multicurrency, non-electronic, physical crypto wallet…. Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 8:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, announced on Wednesday the offering of loans against 26 different cryptocurrencies. The platform reported every asset accepted in the Celsius Network wallet will also be approved for loan collateral. Users may now borrow stable coins and… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluzelle, which aims to serve as s “decentralized” data network, revealed on July 30, 2020, that it will be launching Phase 1 of its mainnet. The network is scheduled to officially go live on August 8, 2020. Once the network is live, Bluzelle’s BLZ token… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kelvin Lee, the Southeast (SE) Asia head for Fintech firm Ripple, notes that the more businesses that begin supporting and integrating PayID into their platforms, the better off the digital payments ecosystem will be. Ripple, which is leading the Open Payments Coalition (OPC), is reportedly… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has a market cap that is roughly equivalent to merely 1.5% of the market capitalization of the much-larger cryptocurrency market, according to data from Messari. Messari, a digital asset market analytics company, reveals that the market capitalization of all DeFi… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Injective Protocol, a “decentralized” derivatives exchange, have acquired $2.6 million through a seed funding round that was led by Pantera Capital. Injective Protocol has been incubated by Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange. Injective’s developers have also acquired investments from Axia8… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 12:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wecan Tokenize, a digital asset platform for real estate offerings, has released its first tokenization solution that includes end-to-end integration for banks and financial institutions, according to a release. The tokenization service is being facilitated with the integration of METACO‘s digital security infrastructure. Wecan Tokenize… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

  Prime Trust is a fast-growing Fintech and securities custody provider that appears to be in the midst of hockey stick trajectory. This week, in a widely distributed email, Prime Trust founder and CEO Scott Purcell outlined the transition from startup, to market traction, to… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO CEO Saum Noursalehi has published an update on progress pertaining to the digital security platform. tZERO is part of Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK), a company that has recently experienced a solid increase in its share price since the beginning of the year. Overstock is scheduled to… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain interoperability protocol Polkadot has acquired around $43.7 million in funding through a private token sale. The crypto token sale, which was conducted over the course of three days from July 24 to July 27, 2020, included participation from multiple investors, who provided 3,982 Bitcoins… Read More

July 28, 2020 @ 11:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading blockchain analysis firm, Chainalysis, which recently secured $49 million in capital through a Series B round, announced on July 27, 2020, that it has launched Market Intel, its newly designed website for asset managers and regulatory agencies. The new site may be used to… Read More

July 28, 2020 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based Matrixport, a company that aims to serve as a gateway to the digital economy where users can trade, custody, invest, and borrow digital assets through a single, unified platform, has launched Bit.com, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. Founded in February 2019, Matrixport describes itself as… Read More

July 28, 2020 @ 3:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dubai Economy (Dubai Department of Economic Development or DED) and Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT region (Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey), have announced the go-live of the UAE KYC Blockchain Platform. The project is described as an initiative that facilitates… Read More

July 28, 2020 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

SEBA Bank, a Switzerland based bank licensed by FINMA that seeks to bridge digital assets and more traditional ones, has announced that its Chairman of the Board of Directors has stepped down. According to a release, Andreas Amschwand has decided to exit the board and… Read More

July 28, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Abra, the provider of a digital asset investing app, revealed on July 28, 2020, that it has launched new Abra Interest Accounts that offer investors an opportunity to earn as much as 9% interest p.a. on their crypto deposits and certain USD backed stablecoins. As… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 11:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Dash Core Group (DCG), which is one of the organizations that work for the Dash Network (a digital currency platform), has officially announced the release of Dash Platform version 0.14. Dash, which has a market cap of over $727 million (according to CoinGecko), aims… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain-driven, social trading platform HedgeTrade will reportedly be synching up with Bluzelle’s “decentralized” database network, in order to provide blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-interoperable trading tools and features to HedgeTrade’s consumer base. Traders that use HedgeTrade are able to post predictions into a smart… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 9:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

ReitBZ, a leveraged security token backed by real estate issued by BTG Pactual, has announced the distribution of its first dividend. According to ReitBZ, the digital asset will be the first of its kind to distribute profits to investors. Everything will be handled via blockchain-based… Read More