October 13, 2019 @ 6:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brighton, Massachusetts-based blockchain startup SimplyVital Health, Inc. was awarded a $225,000 grant by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research on integrating different distributed ledger technologies (DLT). According to the release, SimplyVital will work on integrating the open-source Nexus protocol with the Graphene… Read More

 Tagged Andrea Belz, Graphene protocol, healthcare, Nexus protocol, simplyvital health, US National Science Foundation

October 13, 2019 @ 6:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bank startup Juno has issued a release reporting $3 million in seed funding from some prominent names. The digital banks says it has received the backing of Sequoia, Polychain and Dragonfly. Juno was founded in July 2019 by Varun Deshpande, Ratnesh Ray, and Siddharth Verma… Read More

 Tagged banking, juno, olaf carlson-wee, singapore, varun deshpande

October 13, 2019 @ 1:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based decentralized communication company New Vector raised $8.5 million to help drive adoption for an alternative messaging protocol, called Matrix. The Matrix protocol has been designed to enable secure communication through end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms such as Riot.IM, which is an alternative to Slack, Telegram,… Read More

 Tagged matrix, New Vector, uk, united kingdom

October 13, 2019 @ 12:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Facebook’s subsidiary Calibra is being sued for trademark infringement by Current, the developer of a mobile banking app. The complaint was submitted on October 10 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. It alleges that Calibra’s logo is quite similar… Read More

 Tagged banking, calibra, current, facebook, Howard Shire, lawsuit, libra, pepper hamilton, Stuart Sopp

October 13, 2019 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mobile wallet developer BRD is partnering with Fintech Ripple’s Xpring to promote XRP adoption. The companies revealed on October 11 that Xpring is planning to invest approximately $750,000 into BRD in order to develop the “internet of value.” As part of the strategic partnership, BRD… Read More

 Tagged adam traidman, BRD, ripple, wallet, xpring, xrp

October 13, 2019 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marco Polo, a trade finance blockchain that has partnered over 20 banks, is testing its first trade deal between Germany and Russia. The company’s pilot was announced on October 11.  Russian’s Alfa-Bank and Novolipetsk Steel Company (NLMK) will take part in the pilot. Germany’s Commerzbank… Read More

 Tagged commerzbank, corda, Dina Merkulova, ennno-burghard weitzel, Enno-Burghard Weitzel, germay, Marco Polo, pilot, r3, russia, trade finance

October 12, 2019 @ 7:11 pm By Xu Gao  |  

Chinese Banks May Stop Cooperation with Third-Party Data Provider Following Release of a New Privacy Regulation According to reports, People’s Bank of China (PBC) has issued the “Personal Financial Information (Data) Protection Measures (Draft)” to some Chinese banks this week. It is believed that the… Read More

 Tagged alipay, weibo, weiyangx, xu gao

October 12, 2019 @ 5:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-headquartered crypto exchange Coinbase is expanding its operations in Europe with an e-money license granted by Ireland’s central bank. On October 11, Zeeshan Feroz, CEO of Coinbase’s UK division, revealed that the digital asset trading platform had become “one of just a few companies”… Read More

 Tagged coinbase, e-money license, ireland, zeeshan feroz

October 12, 2019 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a notice regarding Box Exchange, a partner of tZero, pertaining to the launch of the Boston Securities and Token Exchange (BSTX) which is seeking regulatory approval to offer publicly traded security tokens. tZero is a subsidiary of… Read More

 Tagged Boston Securities and Token Exchange, box exchange, bstx, filing, overstock, sec, security tokens, tzero

October 12, 2019 @ 5:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Perth Mint, a large “precious metals enterprise” in Australia, has announced it will be issuing, “the first digital gold token on a public blockchain-backed…1:1 by GoldPass certificates issued by The Perth Mint…” No date for when the product will become available has not yet been… Read More

 Tagged australia, gold, goldpass, infinigold, perth mint