Tagged: block.one

July 11, 2021 @ 1:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bullish, a tech firm focused on creating financial services for the digital assets sector, recently revealed its plans to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) via a merger with Far Peak Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: FPAC), a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC…. Read More

June 6, 2021 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Voice, a blockchain-powered social media platform developed by Block.one, has announced its NFT Residency for “emerging” creators. The team at Voice notes in an update, dated June 2, 2021: “Continuing with our mission to empower creatives, we are partnering with leaders in arts and culture… Read More

April 22, 2021 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Block.one, the developer of the EOSIO open-source software, has shared an economic analysis performed by Prysm Group for a proposed Stake-Based Voting and Rewards Mechanism, which specifies an alternative model for “inflation distribution” on the EOS public blockchain network. The proposal aims to serve as… Read More

March 21, 2021 @ 11:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain security firm CipherTrace has provided an analysis on the proposed Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidance for digital assets and virtual asset service providers (VASPs). On March 19, 2021, global anti-money laundering watchdog, the FATF, released a public consultation for its latest Draft Guidance… Read More

February 28, 2021 @ 9:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Block.one, a U.S.-based blockchain software developer, recently announced it has joined the LACChain, a global alliance led by the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Lab) to accelerate the development of an open and interoperable blockchain ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean. LACChain reported that… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 6:02 pm By Lee A. Schneider  |  

As with most years, I started 2020 with a sense of optimism, looking forward to another productive year at work and doing the Appetite for Disruption podcast with my co-host Troy Paredes. In fact, he and I wrote an article discussing 2019 that focused more… Read More

December 23, 2020 @ 2:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  CoinDCX, an India-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Tuesday it raised Rs 100 crore ($13.9 million) through its Series B investment round, which was led by Block.one with participation from DG, Jump Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital, Mehta Ventures, and Alex Pack. Founded… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently connected with Luke Stokes, Managing Director for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability as well as the Interim Executive Director for the EOS Foundation, which is focused on supporting the development of EOS, a major platform for building decentralized applications (dApps). Stokes says… Read More

October 8, 2020 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Block.one, the company behind the development of EOS, a major blockchain platform for developing decentralized applications (dApps), will be working cooperatively with the Google Cloud team. Google Cloud is a global hyper-scale cloud and infrastructure provider. According to a release, Google Cloud will be joining… Read More

September 6, 2020 @ 2:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brendan Blumer, CEO at Block.one, the company behind the development of EOS, one of the largest platforms for building decentralized applications (dApps) that’s funded by a record $4.1 billion+ token sale from 2018, points out that Ethereum (ETH) is too slow. Blumer notes that conducting… Read More

August 17, 2020 @ 10:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockfolio, which provides blockchain and crypto industry updates with detailed pricing, market data, news, and direct updates from key players, reveals that 32% of people responding to a survey said they do not know anything about decentralized finance or DeFi. The Blockfolio online survey, which… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 9:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Voice, a blockchain-based social media platform created by Block.one, the company behind EOS, a leading distributed ledger tech (DLT) development platform, has confirmed that it has officially launched. Voice is presently available only in the read-only mode for the general public. The social media network… Read More

June 22, 2020 @ 10:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sparrow, an options trading platform has raised USD$ 3.5 million in a Series A funding round, according to a company release. The round was led by HDR Group, the parent company of BitMEX – a crypto exchange. The funding also included participation from Signum Capital, Du… Read More

June 7, 2020 @ 2:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Voice, a blockchain-powered social media platform that aims to “take social back from Big Tech,” confirmed on June 4, 2020, that the beta version of Voice will be open for public reading and international registrations will be accepted until August 15, 2020…. Read More

June 2, 2020 @ 7:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brendan Blumer, CEO at Block.one, the developer of EOS, a leading platform for building decentralized applications (dApps), reminded his social media followers that it’s now been two years (on June 2, 2020) since the EOS mainnet went live (during the summer months of 2018). Blumer… Read More

May 28, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Block.one, a Cayman Islands-registered open-source software publisher that developed EOS, one of the largest platforms for building decentralized applications (dApps), has reportedly awarded a $50,000 grant to each of the 34 promising or high-potential startups. These tech companies are part of a global entrepreneurship program… Read More

May 19, 2020 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investors are reportedly looking to recover funds they had invested in EOS tokens, which they did through the record-breaking $4.1 billion initial coin offering (ICO) conducted by Block.one, the Cayman Islands-registered software developer that created EOS, one of the largest platforms for building decentralized applications… Read More

May 15, 2020 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this week, it was reported that Telegram has decided to abandon its initiative to launch a blockchain platform called TON (Telegram Open Network) and a cryptocurrency named Gram. The decision was the direct result of an ongoing enforcement action launched by the US Securities… Read More

May 12, 2020 @ 4:00 pm By Lee A. Schneider  |  

In the wake of the announcements of Facebook’s Libra and the Chinese government’s intention to have a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), the topic of CBDCs as a new component of a country’s legal tender has become popular with governments and commentators. The basic idea… Read More

May 2, 2020 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Block.one, a Cayman Islands-registered software company that developed EOS, one of the largest blockchain-based platforms for building decentralized applications (dApps), has been working on a new social media platform, called Voice. Voice has been developed using the EOS protocol and it aims to reward content… Read More