Tagged: avalanche

December 20, 2021 @ 9:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken notes that they’re pleased to confirm that their cryptocurrency trading platform now supports the Avalanche (AVAX) C-Chain. Funding and Trading Funding is currently live, and trading is scheduled to start on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 — at which point Kraken will… Read More

December 18, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo, the provider of digital asset financial services, now supports the Avalanche (AVAX) native token and assets launched natively on Avalanche’s C-Chain “across its custody and hot wallet products.” As mentioned in the update, this gives BitGo’s clients the “most secure and reliable way to… Read More

December 16, 2021 @ 3:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nansen, a blockchain data analytics platform, has raised a $75 million Series B round led by Accel. GIC, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Tiger Global, and SCB 10X are among the VCs and angel investors who also participated in the round. This funding will be used to… Read More

December 3, 2021 @ 4:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Umbrella Network, a decentralized Layer-2 oracle solution, today announced its launch on Avalanche, providing the ecosystem access to high-scale and low-cost oracles. Avalanche is designed as a highly scalable ecosystem, with the aim of delivering near-instant transaction finality while levying low transaction fees. It has… Read More

November 17, 2021 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deloitte has entered an alliance with tech firm Ava Labs in order to support a new disaster recovery platform that leverages the Avalanche blockchain to “help state and local governments easily demonstrate their eligibility for federal emergency funding.” As mentioned in the announcement: “Developed with… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 10:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Tether Operations today announced it has launched Tether tokens (USDt) on Avalanche, a decentralized smart contracts platform built for the scale of global finance and business. Avalanche is designed as a highly scalable ecosystem, able to deliver rapid transaction finality and low transaction fees. It is… Read More

October 29, 2021 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic, a top online investment platform, has listed its first litigation funding offer or “Initial Litigation Offering” (ILO) a tokenized security for a court case initiated by Apothio. Litigation funding is a method to crowdfund a legal case that is expected to be brought to… Read More

October 13, 2021 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Although it has previously been announced, the Growth DeFi team is now formally confirming their plans to introduce their complete ecosystem arsenal cross-chain on the Avalanche network. Growth DeFi, which leverages the power of decentralized finance protocols to maximize capital efficiency and value, noted in… Read More

October 1, 2021 @ 1:06 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Add STASIS CEO Gregory Klumov to the list of cryptocurrency figures who believe China’s recent decision to ban digital assets will not stop the market from growing. A sister company of EXANTE, STASIS is a stablecoin and tokenization platform based in Malta. In late September the… Read More

September 30, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

HLTH.network is now using the Avalanche (AVAX) platform to launch the base layer protocol for global health data and the accompanying line of products. At the beginning of the company’s second phase, HLTH.network’s growth led them to switch.  The primary reason for the decision was… Read More

August 24, 2021 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avalanche lending protocol BENQI has reached $1 billion in total value locked (TVL) only a few days after its launch. BENQI, an algorithmic liquidity market protocol, has managed to attract more than $1 billion in total assets to its “decentralized” platform since its launch on… Read More

August 6, 2021 @ 3:12 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The new Avalanche Bridge provides a better user experience than its predecessor, its creator believes. It replaces the Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge that launched in February The Avalanche Bridge is estimated to be five times cheaper than the Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge. It was built using Intel SGX Enclave… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 5:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The availability of Chainlink Price Feeds on the Avalanche mainnet will improve the quality of DeFi applications developers can create on the popular platform. The feeds bring secure price reference data from several asset classes. Some options now available are price-sensitive derivatives markets, low-cost lending… Read More

July 23, 2021 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink (LINK) price feeds are now live on Avalanche mainnet, which should help pave the wave for advanced decentralized finance (DeFi) apps. Developers are now able to create externally connected smart contracts on Avalanche mainnet by utilizing Chainlink-based decentralized Oracle networks. As noted in an… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 4:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ripple better up its game if it wants to stay top of mind when it comes to settlement systems, the CEO of tokenization platform STASIS warns. STASIS is a tokenization platform, including smart contract creation, that claims deep expertise in the current regulatory environment. It… Read More

July 10, 2021 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Avalanche, a organization developing decentralized finance protocols and other distributed ledger tech (DLT)-based solutions, reveals that it’s preparing for the next generation Avalanche Bridge (AB). AB will be “10x faster and 5x cheaper” than the Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge (AEB), according to an update… Read More

July 1, 2021 @ 8:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avalanche, an open-source platform for deploying decentralized applications (dApps) and enterprise-grade blockchain initiatives, notes in a blog post that Lydia Finance, an Automated Market Maker (AMM), Yield Farming, and Staking platform, is live on Avalanche. As mentioned in the announcement, their intuitive UI and comprehensive… Read More

May 28, 2021 @ 12:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lee A. Schneider has joined Ava Labs as the firm’s first General Counsel, according to a note from the company. Schneider is well known in the crypto/blockchain sector having previously been GC of Block.one/EOS. He is a regular suspect in Washington, DC where he is… Read More

February 17, 2021 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After receiving a grant from the Avalanche-X program, Axelar and Avalanche are teaming up to “realize” their shared vision or goal of achieving decentralized interoperability. Axelar aims to expand its “decentralized,” cross-chain communication network to include Avalanche, which is building the “Internet of finance.” As… Read More

January 22, 2021 @ 5:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YIELD App is getting ready to expand its decentralized finance (DeFi) banking solution to Avalanche. According to a blog post published on January 22, 2021 by Ava Labs, which supports the ongoing development of Avalanche, a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-focused platform and project, this new… Read More