High-Performance Blockchain Platform Ontology Partners NEAR Protocol to Speed Up Development of “Decentralized” Identity Solutions by Omar Faridi

August 8, 2020 @ 7:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Santiment, which offers on-chain, social and curated information on over 900 cryptocurrencies, notes that, quite often, development activity is an “underrated” indicator of the success of a blockchain or digital asset project. Santiment believes that developer activity for crypto-related initiatives proves or shows the month-to-month… Read More

 Tagged augur, band, Band Protocol, dapp, decentralized finance, defi, distributed ledger technology, dlt, ERC-20 Tokens, ethereum, gno, gnosis, maker, mkr, rep, snt, status

August 8, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equilibrium, which describes itself as an all-in-one, interoperable decentralized finance (DeFi) Hub that lets users stake (cryptocurrencies) and earn, lend and raise liquidity “all in one place,” has partnered with Polkadot, a leading blockchain protocol that has been founded by Gavin Wood, an Ethereum (ETH)… Read More

 Tagged alex melikhov, blockchain interoperability, decentralized finance, decentralized lending, defi, distributed ledger technology, dlt, eos, equilibrium, eth, ethereum, lending, margin trading, polkadot, stablecoins, web 3.0

August 8, 2020 @ 6:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Hao, CEO at OKEx, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, notes that the US dollar “drop” and the Bitcoin (BTC) surge recently occurred at the same time. Hao points out that there’s been a regular downward adjustment of interest rates on US Treasury… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, btc, crypto exchanges, crypto trading, crypto-assets, digital assets, gold, gold bullion, jay hao, okex, precious metals, tether, us dollar, us dollars, us treasury bonds, usdt

August 7, 2020 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polkadot (DOT), a “decentralized” Web 3.0 compatible, blockchain interoperability initiative, recently launched its test network (testnet), in order to assess its planned sharding implementation – which will be based on parachains. As explained by the Polkadot team,  a parachain is an “application-specific” data structure that’s… Read More

 Tagged blockchain interoperability, distributed ledger technology, dlt, dot, dot tokens, parachains, polkadot, shards, test network, testnet

August 7, 2020 @ 7:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

North America is reportedly the third-most active region in terms of the total cryptocurrency volume moved or transferred on-chain, right behind Western Europe and East Asia. According to a Chainalysis blockchain and digital asset market report: “Overall, North America-based [cryptocurrency] addresses accounted for 14.8% of… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, bitcoin investments, bitcoin trading, btc, chainalysis, crypto investments, crypto trading, crypto-assets, digital assets, institutional investors, north america, trading patterns

August 7, 2020 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avalanche, which is AVA Labs‘ project led by Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer, has teamed up with blockchain network testers from Whiteblock, in order to analyze performance, identify key optimizations, and “ensure the production readiness” of the Avalanche protocol implementation. As mentioned in… Read More

 Tagged ava labs, avalanche, blockchain testing, decentralized finance, defi, distributed ledger technology, dlt, web 3.0, whiteblock

August 7, 2020 @ 5:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum based Uniswap, a leading non-custodial crypto token exchange, has reportedly secured $11 million through a Series A investment round. Uniswap’s latest funding round was led by giant VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Union Square Ventures, Version One, Parafi Capital, Variant, SV Angel and A. Capital… Read More

 Tagged a16z, andreessen horowitz, crypto-assets, decentralized finance, defi, dex, digital assets, eth, ethereum, investment round, Non-Custodial Exchange, union square ventures, uniswap

August 7, 2020 @ 2:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase announced earlier this week it has appointed Greg Tusar, Co-Founder of U.S.-based institutional crypto brokerage platform Tagomi, as its new Vice President of Institutional Products. The appointment comes just a couple of months after Coinbase acquired Tagomi.  According to Coinbase, Tusar brings more… Read More

 Tagged appointment, coinbase, cryptocurrency, digital currency, greg tusar, tagomi

August 7, 2020 @ 1:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global digital asset financial service company BCB Group announced on Thursday it has formed a partnership with U.S. fintech Circle. BCB reported that it will be implementing the full range of Circle platform functionality to improve the speed, efficiency, and cost of client payments as… Read More

 Tagged bcb group, circle, cryptocurrency, digital asset, digital currency, stablecoin, usbc stablecoin

August 7, 2020 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic Note, a digital asset that provides purchasers with a portion of the income generated by the investment crowdfunding platform, has sold out receiving $16 million in commitments. The offering is being made via Reg D 506c (accredited only) and as a “testing the waters”… Read More

 Tagged digital assets, republic, republic note