Tagged: avalanche

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

December 26, 2020 @ 11:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Avalanche, a blockchain project led by Cornell professor Dr. Emin Gun Sirer, claim that their platform is showing “no signs of slowing down.” In January 2021, the Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge will be introduced on mainnet, a “tremendous” effort across multiple organizations including ChainSafe,… Read More

December 14, 2020 @ 4:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic has revealed its next funding vertical today in a unique venture with Avalanche and Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, LLP. Initial Litigation Offerings or “ILO” will soon bring the multi-billion dollar asset class to retail investors, according to a blog post. In fact, the first ILO… Read More

December 9, 2020 @ 3:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a digital security platform and SEC-registered transfer agent, has integrated with Avalanche, an open-source platform for launching applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in one, interoperable ecosystem. The Securitize platform says it can now issue and manage private securities using the Avalanche blockchain. The Avalanche… Read More

October 27, 2020 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bloq has launched support for managed Avalanche nodes. Users will now be able to set up a cluster of Avalanche nodes (or transaction validators) in a few minutes through the Bloq platform. Avalanche is a blockchain-enabled platform for creating “an open, simple, and democratic Internet… Read More

October 18, 2020 @ 9:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs, an organization focused on building Avalanche so that the platform can empower people to create “an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance,” notes that Avalanche has integrated with Magic to bring passwordless authentication to the blockchain based platform. The Ava Labs team… Read More

October 13, 2020 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs, an organization focused on building Avalanche so that the platform can empower people to create “an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance,” notes that ecosystem growth on Avalanche is “imperative.” Ava Labs confirms that while working towards Avalanche’s mainnet launch, they had… Read More

October 7, 2020 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs, an organization focused on building Avalanche so that the platform can empower people to create “an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance,” has introduced the newest class of grant recipients for Avalanche-X, which is an accelerator program for blockchain developers focused on… Read More

October 3, 2020 @ 10:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, an organization focused on building Avalanche so that the platform can empower people to create “an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance,” has noted that leading up to the official launch of the Avalanche mainnet, it… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 8:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Avalanche, a blockchain project led by Cornell professor Dr. Emin Gun Sirer, have announced that their platform’s native AVAX token will be available for trading on Binance, the world’s largest digital currency exchange. AVAX token trading will be available on Binance, beginning… Read More

September 22, 2020 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO at FTX, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and Alameda Research, has commented on some blockchain projects that he thinks are worth talking about and appear to be making some progress. While confirming that he’s not offering investment advice, Sam said that Solana (SOL)… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchains or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-enabled platforms and the activity that occurs within them can become a bit overwhelming for the average user, even if they’re tech-savvy or know-how “decentralized” systems are supposed to work. Blockchain explorers, which allow us to view cryptocurrency or DLT-based… Read More

August 29, 2020 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Avalanche team, which develops blockchain-powered apps including those involving decentralized finance or DeFi, claims that its mainnet release candidate, called Everest, has been “outstanding thus far.” The Avalanche project developers noted that over 650 full, block-generating transaction validators are taking part in activity on… Read More

August 22, 2020 @ 6:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Avalanche team, which develops blockchain-powered apps including those involving decentralized finance or DeFi, says it’s been working to ensure Avalanche has “a successful, decentralized launch” while offering a great user experience. The developers at Avalanche, which is led by Cornell computer science professor Emin… Read More

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

August 2, 2020 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The development team at Avalanche, which is AVA Labs‘ project led by Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer, confirms that it has been a few months now since they opened Avalanche’s Denali testnet to the general public. Avalanche aims to be a scalable, open-source… Read More

July 26, 2020 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avalanche, which is AVA Labs‘ project led by Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer, has integrated with Torus to enable the development of decentralized finance (DeFi) apps. As mentioned in an update shared with Crowdfund Insider: “This integration will add considerable security and recoverability… Read More

June 25, 2020 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Emin Gün Sirer‘s Ava Labs Avalanche token sale has raised $12 million led by Initialized Capital and other well-known investors including Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, NGC Ventures, and Dragonfly Capital. Avalanche (previously AVA) has recently gone through a brand consolidation following the successful launch of its… Read More