Tagged: blockchain adoption

August 24, 2024 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Superstate Industry Council is welcoming the second cohort of institutions. This diverse group of institutions joins them in “shaping Superstate’s product roadmap and driving the adoption of tokenization within traditional financial services and capital markets.” Since the council’s inception in March 2024, dozens of organizations… Read More

August 23, 2024 @ 10:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Franklin Templeton, a global investment firm with $1.6T in assets under management, has expanded its L1 blockchain footprint by extending the availability of its first-of-its-kind on-chain money market fund to the Avalanche network. The Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (FOBXX or the Fund) was… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In June, a team at CertiK conducting whitehat research discovered a “critical” vulnerability in the Kraken platform. This CertiK team then reportedly “notified the exchange to ensure this important vulnerability was fixed—which was a win for blockchain and Web3 security.” However, in conducting this work,… Read More

August 7, 2024 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Christian Catalini, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Lightspark (which enables Open payments for the Internet; Enterprise-grade, fast, secure payments on Lightning) and the Founder at MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, explains that stablecoins, a novel form of interoperable and programmable money, have the potential “to rewire… Read More

August 4, 2024 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tokinvest, a marketplace for real-world asset tokenization, and Red Date Technology, the commercialization arm and architect of the Blockchain Services Network (BSN), a public permissioned blockchain infrastructure, announced a strategic partnership to bring significant quantities and value of tokenized real-world assets to market. This collaboration… Read More

July 20, 2024 @ 5:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain Coinvestors, a blockchain venture fund-of-funds and co-investment program with a combined portfolio of more than 1,250 blockchain enterprises and projects, including 95 blockchain unicorns, announced its bi-annual Meet the Blockchain Unicorns report which includes the most comprehensive list of blockchain unicorns globally – “including… Read More

July 18, 2024 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street (NYSE: STT) is currently examining various options for settling payments on blockchain, according to a report from Bloomberg. State Street, which is focused on the financial services and banking sector, is assessing if it should introduce its own stablecoin, issuing its own deposit… Read More

July 15, 2024 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

At Tether, they remain dedicated to fostering a robust and innovative blockchain ecosystem for USD₮ and all other tokens we issue. This commitment drives Tether to continuously “assess their transport layers, ensuring a balance between maintainability and usage while prioritizing community interest.” Community input is… Read More

July 12, 2024 @ 5:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Consensys introduced a new chapter in web3 and blockchain adoption with the launch of the MetaMask Delegation Toolkit. The package of developer tools and smart contracts “enables dapps and protocols to build wholly new experiences, while providing robust, granular levels of safety tailored to users’… Read More

July 10, 2024 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

World Chain is described as a new blockchain that prioritizes humans and is designed to scale with the growth of the Worldcoin project in support of all of humanity. The launch of the World Chain developer preview “provides a unique opportunity for developers around the… Read More

July 4, 2024 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

QED, the zk-Native blockchain protocol, announced it has raised $3 million in a funding round led by Arrington Capital with participation from several venture capital firms and companies including Starkware, Draper Dragon, Blockchain Builders Fund, Lbk Labs, Paper Ventures, Valhalla Capital, Edessa Capital and Anagram… Read More

June 25, 2024 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Allaire, the CEO and Founder at stablecoin issuer Circle, says he’s more bullish than he has ever been about crypto. Deeper Dive into my Long Form Post/Cast on why I’m more bullish than I have ever been about crypto.https://t.co/BuQ5UoaQSg “Public blockchain infrastructure has evolved… Read More

June 25, 2024 @ 3:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dan Morehead, CEO at Pantera Capital, confirmed that Pantera recently made the largest investment in its history in the TON initiative. Dan Morehead explained via social media that TON is a Layer 1 network originally “designed by Telegram and continued by the open source community.”… Read More

June 24, 2024 @ 3:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As technologies currently capturing the world’s attention, there are significant synergies to explore between blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI). In their efforts to develop and build the ecosystem for our EVM-compatible sidechain Neo X, the Neo team is announcing a new partnership with Phoenix, a… Read More

June 16, 2024 @ 11:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle is pleased to announce the expansion of their Web3 Services to support the Solana blockchain. This is a key milestone as they aim to “build a comprehensive and robust platform that empowers businesses and developers to build and launch on-chain apps.” Starting with Programmable… Read More

June 16, 2024 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc.  an innovator in the digital assets space and owner of Blockchain Intelligence Group, Netcoins, and TerraZero, announces the launch of Operational Simulator Training for Investigators in partnership with WhiteStream Blockchain Intelligence. Blockchain Intelligence Group, in partnership with WhiteStream Blockstream Intelligence, is… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, the technology platform streamlining the private credit and housing markets, announced the launch of Figure Connect, a blockchain-based multi-seller, multi-buyer marketplace of private credit loans. Figure Connect brings Figure’s broad and deep capital markets buyer universe “directly to Figure’s loan origination partners.”… Read More

June 12, 2024 @ 1:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitdeer Technologies Group (Nasdaq: BTDR), a technology company for blockchain and high-performance computing, announced its research & development (R&D) technology roadmap for the SEALMINER Bitcoin mining machine. This disclosure reaffirms the company’s ongoing commitment “towards driving greater transparency in the mining industry.” In the dynamically… Read More

May 24, 2024 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks claims that it has consistently led the way in providing the fastest and most diverse range of blockchain support. With a growing list of over 60 supported blockchains, Fireblocks enables customers to securely custody tokens “on the latest chains and quickly build innovative services… Read More

May 23, 2024 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Aevo, a high-performance Layer 2 (L2) built on top of the OP Stack that allows perpetual trading, pre-launch futures, and options, all on the same platform with a single margin account. Its… Read More