Kyber Network Adds Support for Indorse (IND), a Platform for Supporting Great Software Engineering Teams by Omar Faridi

October 27, 2020 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dr. Joshua Ellul, the Chairman of Malta Digital Innovation Authority and Director of Centre for DLTs, University of Malta, and his colleagues have authored a new paper, titled “Towards Configurable and Efficient Runtime Verification of Blockchain Based Smart Contracts at the Virtual Machine Level.” The… Read More

 Tagged distributed ledger technology, dlt, Dr. Joshua Ellul, malta, malta digital innovation authority, research paper, smart contracts, virtual machine

October 27, 2020 @ 1:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

William (Bill) Hinman, Director of the Security and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, plans to leave the SEC later this year, according to a notice posted by the agency. Hinman joined the SEC in 2017 and was soon engulfed in the initial coin offering… Read More

 Tagged bill hinman, jay clayton, sec, securities and exchange commission, shelley parratt

October 27, 2020 @ 12:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

    Recently, Kik settled a long legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the end, Kik must pay a $5 million settlement pertaining to an initial coin offering (ICO) that was deemed to be an unregistered security offering. Additionally, for the… Read More

 Tagged enforcement, ico, initial coin offering, john berry, kik, lawsuit, munger, perspective, sec, securities and exchange commission, settlement, tolles and olson

October 27, 2020 @ 11:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Openfinance has been acquired by INX Limited, a company that is seeking to build a digital asset issuance and trading platform that is in the midst of a registered token offering. INX filed a form F-1 registration statement with SEC in 2019 which was subsequently… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, alternative trading system, ats, broker-dealer, inx limited, jim stonebridge, openfinance, security token offering

October 27, 2020 @ 9:43 am By JD Alois  |  

JPMorgan’s (NYSE:JPM) JPM Coin is being used live today by a “large international technology company that is using it for round-the-clock cross-border payments,” according to a report. JPM Coin was revealed back in early 2019. More of a stablecoin, the digital currency is viewed as… Read More

 Tagged jpm coin, jpmorgan, onyx, takis georgakopoulos, umar farooq

October 27, 2020 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A report published by Global Digital Finance notes that during the past 18 months, the developments related to central bank digital currencies (CBDC) have “accelerated dramatically.” CBDC projects have gone from the research stage to formulating key policy requirements. Countries like China have even introduced… Read More

 Tagged cbdc, cbdcs, central bank digital currency, china, digital currencies, digital currency, digital dollar, digital dollar project, global digital finance, research, usd dollar, virtual currency

October 26, 2020 @ 11:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain platform Ontology (ONT) is building on Polkadot (DOT) so that it can accelerate the adoption of decentralized identity solutions. The Ontology team noted that they will be developing applications on Polkadot, which is a sharded blockchain that can seamlessly connect several different chains together… Read More

 Tagged blockchain interoperability, decentralized id solution, did, did solution, distributed ledger technology, dlt, dot tokens, eric wang, ont tokens, ontology, parachain, parachains, parity technologies, polkadot, yaoqi jia

October 26, 2020 @ 10:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SignKeys, a Singapore-based digital asset solutions provider, notes that recent positive news for Bitcoin (PayPal adding support for BTC and other cryptos) may have led to a 15% increase in its price (around $13,000 at the time of writing). SignKeys points out that Bitcoin still… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, btc, Crypto Transactions, crypto-assets, digital assets, paypal, satoshi labs, signkeys, singapore

October 26, 2020 @ 6:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fuse.io, a Tel Aviv based Fintech firm that aims to leverage (decentralized finance) DeFi infrastructure to create a platform for entrepreneurs that allows them to turn “communities into economies,” notes that they’re proud to confirm that after Fuse Studio was shared on Product Hunt this… Read More

 Tagged crypto tokens, crypto-assets, decentralized finance, defi, digital assets, Digital Economy, digital tokens, fuse.io, israel, mark smargon, product hunt, tel aviv

October 26, 2020 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

VeChain, the developer of blockchain-based solutions for enhancing supply chain management processes (among other use cases), will be involved in the launch of the first blockchain-based “intelligent” tumor treatment center. VeChain will be working cooperatively with Renji Hospital and DNV GL in order to introduce… Read More

 Tagged china, distributed ledger technology, dlt, dnv gl, healthcare, intelligent tumor center, renji hospital, sunny lu, vechain, vechain foundation