Blockchain & Digital Assets

June 18, 2020 @ 8:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

tZERO, a blockchain subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ: OSTK), recently announced the tZERO ATS recorded its strongest month ever, transacting over 423,000 digital securities, a four-time increase compared to May 2019. Year-to-date through May, the volume is up nearly 50% compared to the same period last… Read More

June 18, 2020 @ 8:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

AlphaPoint, a blockchain company focused on enabling institutions to launch, scale, and operate digital asset exchanges, is celebrating its seventh birthday. The company was founded in June 2013, with a mission to play a part in that change by enabling access to this new asset… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Six new partners have joined South Korea’s MyIDAlliance, a leading collaborative organization focused on establishing a blockchain-based digital ID ecosystem that places “MyID” at the center. Leading security firm “AhnLab”, payments provider “NHN KCP”, electronic trade and logistics firm “KTnet”, exchange lending Delio, AI and… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jake Chervinsky, General Counsel at Compound, an open-source, autonomous interest rate protocol, confirmed that Compound Labs achieved an important milestone “in our pursuit of progressive decentralization.” Chervinsky, a former Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and also former Associate at Kobre & Kim,… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Li Jun, the founder of Ontology (ONT), a high-performance enterprise blockchain platform developed in 2017 with technical support from Chinese firm called OnChain, which is headed by Erik Zhang and Da HongFei, the developers of the NEO Blockchain (which was… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 1:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Civic Technologies, the premier blockchain-powered identity and payment solution provider, announced on Wednesday its  Civic Wallet, previously only available in private beta, is now generally available. Civic claims that Civic Wallet offers a safer way to store and transact with digital identity and currency. Civic… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 12:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

  As part of their “master plan,” Coinbase has announced today the launch of Rosetta. In a blog post, Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee said the open-source specification and set of tools making the integration with different blockchains simpler, faster, and more reliable. Rosetta… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

River Financial, a financial service firm focused on Bitcoin investing, has closed on a sizeable $5.7 million seed round, according to a note from the company. Big name investors in the blockchain sector participated in the round, including Polychain Capital, Slow Ventures, Castle Island Ventures,… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 8:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Turnkey open banking platform provider, Token.io Limited, announced on Wednesday it has joined forces with UK fintech Money Dashboard for a new integration of Token Pay on the Money Dashboard App. According to the duo, this integration enables thousands of UK consumers to initiate instant,… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB), has teamed up with Samsung-backed blockchain tech company, Blocko, in order to implement a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-powered “smart” credit management platform. As mentioned in a release shared with… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 1:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Quant, a platform that aims to connect the world’s networks to blockchain to distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions with “just three lines of code,” has reportedly partnered with Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), a leading provider of database software. The Quant team confirmed that it would be… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite recent volatility in the Bitcoin (BTC) and larger cryptocurrency markets, decentralized or non-custodial digital asset exchanges continue to “maintain their long-term trend lines” according to the team at Bamboo Relay, another project that has integrated Chainlink Oracles for stop-loss order functionalities. A stop-loss order… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, Crypto.com, DARMA Capital, Huobi Wallet, Matrixport, and Trustology will reportedly join the ConsenSys Codefi Staking Pilot Program, in order to gain early access to the Ethereum 2.0 staking solution. Ethereum 2.0 or Eth2 is a major system-wide upgrade to Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s reserve bank has reportedly appointed a six-member legal advisory team to look into the feasibility and potential benefits of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The Korean central bank’s advisory group includes three university professors, two legal experts, and a senior official… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 10:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized VPN network, Orchid Protocol, is developing two Chainlink-powered decentralized oracle networks which will allow users to estimate the bandwidth cost on Orchid. Users will know how much they can expect to pay (approximately) in the native OXT token and US dollars. The OXT/USD feed… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Haley, the product manager and client services specialist at Casa, a company focused on developing security and custody solutions for Bitcoin (BTC), confirms that the company received an investment from Mantis VC, the VC division of The Chainsmokers. The funds will be used to… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 9:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Dash Investment Foundation (DIF), an organization that makes Dash (digital currency) denominated business loans and equity investments within the blockchain and crypto-asset sector, has purchased gold for the first time. The organization said it will be introducing its Dash-to-gold rebalancing strategy, which involves diversifying… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 2:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over a year after raising $3.4 million, UK-based international money transfer platform TransferGo reportedly raised $10 million through its latest investment round. The platform also expanded its services to 11 next markets. As previously reported, TransferGo claimed last year to be the first… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

A new report claims that established banks Swedbank and SEB enabled “suspected fraud networks” to operate in the Baltics and mentions bankrupt peer to peer lending platform Envestio by name. Envestio, and similar platform Kuetzal, recently filed for bankruptcy in Estonia. Earlier this year, both… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinDCX, one of the largest digital asset exchanges in India, has introduced an online platform and subsidiary, called DCX Learn, which aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for people who want to learn more about cryptocurrency and blockchain tech. As mentioned in a release… Read More