Tagged: blockchain adoption

September 9, 2023 @ 3:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As momentum for crypto builds around the world, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is executing on Phase II of their “Go Broad, Go Deep” strategy for international expansion. Coinbase says that it sees the following: 1) enactment of clear rules; 2) innovation of more efficient, more accessible products… Read More

September 6, 2023 @ 4:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State lawmakers in Wyoming have reportedly passed 28 different blockchain-related bills since the year 2019. However, cryptocurrency revenue has been quite limited, even though there have been several different initiatives that were introduced. As covered, crypto VC investments have also shifted towards infrastructure development and… Read More

September 6, 2023 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Travis Kling, a former L/S Equities Portfolio Manager that fell down the “Crypto rabbit hole” who’s now running the Ikigai fund, notes that as summer officially draws to a close, you may have been “away from the screens over the last few months.” Travis has… Read More

September 5, 2023 @ 2:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) is reportedly working on a new digital marketplace that will leverage blockchain technology. Murray Roos, head of capital markets at the LSE Group, told the FT that the company had made the decision to move forward with the initiative after… Read More

September 4, 2023 @ 1:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Elliptic – which claims to be the global leader in crypto-asset risk management – is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with Provenance Blockchain Foundation in order “to integrate the Provenance Blockchain into its wallet intelligence tool.” With Elliptic Lens, companies transacting on the… Read More

September 1, 2023 @ 3:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

This strategic partnership showcases Copper‘s continued commitment to providing secure and reliable custody services “for innovative blockchain projects and protocols and promoting sustainability.” Copper, a digital asset infrastructure provider, is has officially integrated custody support for Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol‘s new asset, the Sustainable Bitcoin Certificate… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brian Armstrong, CEO at Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), has shared several ideas that he claims to be most excited about in crypto right now. The Coinbase Chief Executive says that if you’re building something in crypto or thinking about doing so – check it out. They are… Read More

August 29, 2023 @ 4:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

One of the first decisions made when building Soroban, the Stellar network‘s smart contract platform, was “choosing a platform for it to run on.” The developers say they decided “to build on WebAssembly (Wasm) in April of 2022.” As noted in a blog post, Wasm… Read More

August 28, 2023 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Haven1, an EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain network, has announced a strategic alliance with the team at Coinbag, an institutional-grade asset management solution. The alliance will bring the founding members and the highly-skilled team of developers from Coinbag over to Haven1, “bolstering the network’s development in… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 11:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Web3 software technology company, Consensys, announces the completion of the public launch of its Layer 2 blockchain solution Linea. This milestone follows the Linea mainnet “going live at EthCC in Paris.” In the first month of Linea’s mainnet going live, the L2 blockchain “saw a… Read More

August 14, 2023 @ 12:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Telos announces its partnership with Open Ocean, which claims to be one of the widest reaching decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregators in Web3. From swaps and gas-free limit orders to its powerful v3 API, OpenOcean is “an ‘all-in-one’ crypto-companion every crypto user and platform needs.” Through… Read More

August 13, 2023 @ 1:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spearbit, a smart contract audit and security solutions firm with clients such as Polygon, OpenSea, Optimism and more, announced that it “has raised a $7 million funding round led by Framework Ventures, a venture capital firm known for its early entry into decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

August 9, 2023 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On July 30th, 2015, the Genesis block of Ethereum was created. Eight years later, today Ethereum is the dominant blockchain network “with growing developer interest, lower transaction fees, and faster settlement times.” Yet, fewer than 0.5% of the 100 million developers worldwide “are actively building… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 9:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase, one of the largest and most established cryptocurrency exchanges in the US and other jurisdictions, is stepping into the Layer 2 market with the launch of Base. As a key blockchain industry move, deBridge has integrated Base “to bring high performance cross-chain trading and… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 8:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has signed a strategic agreement with Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on the blockchain. This strategic partnership empowers TASE “to offer a comprehensive range of innovative and secure digital asset products and… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The last couple of months have been anything but “dull” for the digital asset industry – enforcement actions, regulatory proposals, the first ever SPBD approval and, of course, the landmark Ripple decision, the team at tZERO recently noted. tZERO Group, Inc., which claims to be… Read More

August 1, 2023 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lifty, a Web3 gaming platform, has joined forces with IOST in order “to propel the adoption of blockchain technologies among the general public.” This partnership aims “to leverage Lifty’s transparent blockchain analytics and innovative Web3 marketing tools to empower gamers and enhance the gaming experience… Read More

July 29, 2023 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deloitte and Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, announced a new strategic alliance to help the organizations’ mutual clients address digital asset ecosystem compliance challenges. Through the alliance, Chainalysis’ and Deloitte’s shared clients will be able “to leverage Chainalysis’ proprietary blockchain dataset and analytics software and… Read More

July 29, 2023 @ 10:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PARSIQ is pleased to introduce their SDK, a toolkit “to harness the potential of Data Lakes for comprehensive blockchain data processing.” Data Lakes serve as “a custom, application-specific data layer for filtering, aggregation, and analysis of blockchain-scale data contained in the Tsunami data store.” This… Read More

July 28, 2023 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Republic of Palau and Ripple have launched a limited stablecoin pilot. Palau and Ripple, the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, started collaborating on exploring potential use cases in 2021. The U.S. Dollar-backed Palau Stablecoin (PSC) will be “issued on the XRP Ledger… Read More