Blockchain & Digital Assets

May 7, 2020 @ 10:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain-based fan engagement platform for sports and entertainment, Chiliz, announced on Thursday it has formed a global partnership with mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, UFC. According to Chiliz, the partnership will enable UFC to tap into a captive audience of enthusiastic sports fans from around… Read More

May 7, 2020 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

The “Tokenise Stock Exchange“ has announced the launch of its new website and the registration of investors. The digital asset exchange says it expects to be up and trading digital securities shortly. While operating out of London, the Tokenise Stock Exchange is licensed in Barbados… Read More

May 7, 2020 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The GSX Group, the company that operates the Gibraltar Stock Exchange and the Global Blockchain Exchange, has announced the launch of “GRID,” a platform to create and deploy “Smart Securities” or tokenized assets. The GRID is said to facilitate the tokenization of new and existing… Read More

May 7, 2020 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

YRD Capital, a company that claims to be the world’s first fund of funds holding digital assets is now available in the UK.  In a note from the firm, the expansion into the UK follows the fund’s second investment in a UK based fund and… Read More

May 7, 2020 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nervos, an open-source public blockchain platform, revealed on May 6, 2020, that it has established CKLabs, a virtual incubator for startups and teams working on distributed ledger technology (DLT)-focused initiatives. Nervos’ program will offer equity-free funding to early-stage blockchain projects. It will also provide dedicated… Read More

May 6, 2020 @ 3:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bitfinex announced on Wednesday it is now offering Bitcoin Dominance (BTCDOM) Perpetual Swap through its digital asset exchange. Bitfinex claims Bitfinex Derivatives is the first derivatives platform to offer Bitcoin BTCDOM, which enables investors to take a position on the market weighting of the world’s… Read More

May 6, 2020 @ 2:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The New Zealand Financial Markets Authority announced earlier this week it has added Karatbar International GmbH, Karabit Foundation, and Associated Companies to its warning list. As previously reported, Karatbars International GmbH is a German company that has been promoting a digital currency, called KaratGold Coin,… Read More

May 6, 2020 @ 2:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Libra Association, founded by Facebook to create a global payments cryptocurrency, has announced the selection of Stuart Levey as its first CEO. Levey will step into the leadership position from HSBC, a global bank with 235,000 employees across 64 countries. Levey is currently serving… Read More

May 6, 2020 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ray Youssef, CEO and co-founder at Paxful, a leading peer to peer (P2P) Bitcoin (BTC) marketplace, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Paxful says it’s on a mission to support “social justice through financial freedom worldwide.” The company offers a platform with… Read More

May 6, 2020 @ 8:20 am By JD Alois  |  

CoinSwitch, an aggregator of cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced the launch of a dedicated cryptocurrency exchange for India. The announcement follows recent changes in India that enabled crypto exchanges to have relationships with banks. India is, of course, a huge market with profound potential for growth…. Read More

May 6, 2020 @ 3:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Li Lihui, the former president of the Bank of China, claims that the nation’s highly-anticipated virtual yuan will be launching soon. Lihui has argued that the digital renminbi could potentially replace cash. The central bank digital yuan, or CBDC, is still in its testing phase… Read More

May 6, 2020 @ 2:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Last month, the TAP Network revealed it would be partnering with privacy browser developer Brave. TAP Network aims to establish a go-to rewards-as-a-service platform, which has reportedly been licensed and white-labeled by leading brands and businesses. It aims to bring rewards from over 250,000 major… Read More

May 5, 2020 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset lending platform BlockFi is recruiting more old finance veterans with the appointment of Wittney Rachlin as Chief Growth Officer and David Olsson as Global Managing Director of European and Asian markets. Zac Prince, CEO and co-founder of BlockFi, said crypto financial services are maturing… Read More

May 5, 2020 @ 2:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” public blockchain network that aims to provide a “distributed trust” platform, announced on Tuesday it has joined the Celo Foundation Alliance for Prosperity, which is a mission-aligned network of organizations fostering social impact and financial inclusion through the use of blockchain… Read More

May 5, 2020 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany-based Black Manta Capital Partners, a security token offering (STO) platform, has teamed up with Finoa, a digital asset custody firm, in order to offer custody solutions for security tokens to institutional clients. Both companies aim to work together to create a compliant security token… Read More

May 5, 2020 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Encrypted messaging provider Telegram reportedly missed its April 30, 2020 deadline for launching the Telegram Open Network (TON), a blockchain platform (under development) that will be protected by a built-in “anonymizer” and proxy. The TON platform aims to offer messaging, the Gram cryptocurrency, and various… Read More

May 5, 2020 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Vereign AG, based in Zug, Switzerland, has closed on a financing round of CHF 2.5 million (~ $2.58M) to establish a Swiss network for a verified and self-managed identity service. The financing round was led by AquilaDirekt AG and a renowned Swiss entrepreneur through a… Read More

May 4, 2020 @ 11:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Maker (MKR) governance token holders have decided (through community voting) to approve a proposal which recommends adding Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an Ethereum-based token backed 1-to-1 by Bitcoin (BTC), as the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol’s (MakerDAO) newest collateral type. WBTC is an ERC-20 compliant token that… Read More

May 4, 2020 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has made it quite difficult for the United States Congress to conduct meetings and deliberate. Lawmakers have offered suggestions regarding how to keep things going during the ongoing crisis. As mentioned in a Senate memo posted on April 30, 2020, blockchain-based… Read More

May 4, 2020 @ 7:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alexander Holmes, chairman and CEO at giant money transfer service MoneyGram (NASDAQ:MGI), says it was a “quiet quarter” for the company when it comes to developments related to its partnership with American Fintech firm, Ripple. Holmes, whose comments came during an earnings call for Q1… Read More