Tagged: blockchain adoption

July 6, 2023 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Concordium, the Layer 1, science-backed blockchain creating a safer digital world, has today announced its strategic partnership with IMPERO Group, a technology consulting firm based in South East Asia. This collaboration marks “a significant milestone in Concordium’s expansion plans and aims to revolutionize identity management… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CFTC Commissioner Caroline D. Pham, sponsor of the Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), announced new members and leadership of the GMAC and its Subcommittees on Global Market Structure, Technical Issues, and Digital Asset Markets. CFTC announces their new Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee – Members from… Read More

July 4, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralization theatre: We’ve heard it time and time again in recent months as several projects have struggled to commit to the underlying ideological tenets of blockchain amid growing skepticism of the space. Others have fared relatively well, though — from the community-initiated vote for the… Read More

July 1, 2023 @ 7:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs, which claims to be the leader in blockchain intelligence solutions, released the Illicit Crypto Ecosystem Report, a detailed guide to the complex dynamics of crypto crime. The new report “identifies over 40 types of criminal activity, and reveals that a seismic shift in… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sologenic, a global firm focused on blockchain tokenization technology, announces the launch of two solutions: SOLONEX, an asset tokenization brokerage solution, and a specialized custom-built CBDC Tokenization Solution. Geared at facilitating financial transactions and asset management, these solutions will aim to bridge the gap between… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Recently, The Graph, a protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data, eclipsed one trillion queries. For years, subgraphs on The Graph have “been powering thousands of decentralized applications (dapps) in development and production across the hosted service and Graph Network.” There are over 74,000 subgraphs… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced the launch of the Multi Token Network (MTN), a set of core capabilities designed to make transactions within the blockchain and digital asset ecosystems secure, scalable and interoperable – enabling payment applications and trade more efficiently. A new solution for the… Read More

June 27, 2023 @ 6:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More than half—52%—of the Fortune 100 have “pursued crypto, blockchain or web3 initiatives since the start of 2020, according to recent research results shared by Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN). As mentioned in a blog post, about 60% of Fortune 100 initiatives “reported since the start of 2022… Read More

June 25, 2023 @ 5:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Dr. Ben Zhang, COO & Co-founder of NodeReal, which claims to be a one-stop blockchain infrastructure and service provider that embraces the high-speed blockchain era and empowers developers by “Make your Web3 Real”. They aim to provide scalable, reliable, and efficient blockchain… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 7:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Algorand, the “pure” proof-of-stake Layer-1 blockchain network, continues to deliver the advanced technology required to power real world applications with its latest protocol upgrade that unleashes faster block times, as well as other improvements. This recent protocol upgrade, “now live on Mainnet, reduces block time… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 3:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Energy Web, the world’s “largest” ecosystem of companies using open source, decentralized technologies to accelerate the energy transition, is coming to Polkadot, the next-generation blockchain network powering the movement for a better web. The move will allow Energy Web “to create the framework for a… Read More

June 20, 2023 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The pilot program will evaluate high value payments use cases “using the Ripple CBDC Platform based on the core technology of the XRP Ledger.” Ripple, which claims to be the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, announced its collaboration with the Banco de la… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the world of blockchain continues to evolve, innovative applications and new kinds of collaboration are “emerging to tackle various challenges.” Frac, a platform in the high-value fractional asset trading market, has adopted vechain’s propriety technologies “to increase security and add immutable authentication to their… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 11:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Andrew Saks, who talked about the importance of financial inclusion for the vast majority. Notably, 1.4 billion people remain unbanked, which takes several countries in Southeast Asia to allow a larger virtual currency ecosystem to take root in their countries. The… Read More

June 13, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Like many in the blockchain and web3 ecosystem, DFINITY says they have been watching recent regulatory developments in the United States with some alarm. As noted in a blog post, the SEC in particular, has been “taking wide-ranging actions across the industry.” DFINITY says they… Read More

June 13, 2023 @ 10:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE: BIGG), owner of Blockchain Intelligence Group , a developer of blockchain technology search, risk-scoring and cryptocurrency and digital asset training, is announcing the latest release of its renowned Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI) training program; CCI ETH. This new certificate course… Read More

June 10, 2023 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cronos Labs, a blockchain startup accelerator that focuses on decentralized finance, Web3 games, social applications, and on the development of the Cronos blockchain’s ecosystem, will collaborate with Google Cloud “to enhance its Accelerator Program and provide startups with resources to develop innovative AI-enabled Web3 applications… Read More

June 9, 2023 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys and Fireblocks announced the integration of MetaMask Institutional (MMI), the web3 wallet for organizations and the first multi-custodial institutional web3 offering on the market, with Fireblocks, an easy-to-use platform “to build innovative products on the blockchain and manage day-to-day crypto operations.” The integration, which… Read More

May 31, 2023 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen recently announced their partnership with TRON in order to provide on-chain insights to their ecosystem. The team is pleased to work with TRON, which claims to be “one of the leading blockchain networks by TVL and activity.” TRON’s low fees and fast transaction speeds… Read More

May 31, 2023 @ 9:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aptos Network was created by a team of over 350 developers across the globe with the goal of solving the existing problems in Web3 that have been standing in the way of mass blockchain adoption. Aptos Network is now live on the QuickNode platform. The… Read More