Tagged: consensys

January 26, 2020 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Covantis, a blockchain-focused project backed by multinational agri-business companies such as Cargill, has reportedly chosen ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, New York-based Ethereum development studio, as its technology partner. Through Convantis’ partnership with ConsenSys, the Ethereum-based software developer will create a blockchain-powered platform to fully digitize the… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Digital Asset Human Capital Trends Report was recently commissioned by the Blockchain Association, an organization of active industry participants who promote efforts related to innovation and the collaboration needed to support US leadership of the crypto-assets sector. The companies included in the research sample… Read More

September 18, 2019 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

North Carolina-based blockchain development firm Kaleido, a part of ConsenSys’ venture studio, has reportedly become the first to integrate cryptocurrency privacy company QEDIT’s zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) solution. Founded in 2016, Tel Aviv-headquartered QEDIT’s management noted (on September 15) that their partnership with Kaleido will allow… Read More

September 18, 2019 @ 4:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin announced at the Ethereal Tel Aviv press conference (on September 15) that his New York-based venture studio is launching a new product, Codefi, for the emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Lubin, a computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton University, remarked:… Read More

June 3, 2019 @ 11:21 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Civil, “a community-owned journalism network based on transparency and trust,” will lose banking services at major US bank First Republic June 6th, Decrypt reports. Civil has been building a blockchain-based digital archive for news articles, and, according to the Civil website, “…Civil tokens are currently sold by… Read More

April 22, 2019 @ 12:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

A report from last week in the Information states that ConsenSys is in the process of raising up to $200 million from outside investors. Apparently, ConsenSys is slapping a $1 billion valuation on the offering. So is it worth the money? It is too hard… Read More

January 28, 2019 @ 1:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Blockathon Ireland, a blockchain hackathon for Public Services hosted by the Government of Ireland, has announced the winners of the competition portion of the event. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, in association with The Department of Finance, brought together nine technical teams with… Read More

December 28, 2018 @ 10:54 am By Therese Torris  |  

Ever since the Brexit, France has aimed to establish itself as the Continental European alternative to the London Fintech hub. The goal is ambitious. France is home to many a worldwide leading financial institution such as global Nr. 1 insurer AXA and Nr 1 non-Chinese… Read More

December 22, 2018 @ 4:53 pm By Cali Haan  |  

ConsenSys, Ethereum’s largest start-up, may be downplaying the size of impending layoffs at the company in order not to scare off potential investors, The Verge reports. Not so, says the company. Earlier this month, ConsenSys founder and “cryptobillionaire” Joe Lubin circulated a letter to company… Read More

December 9, 2018 @ 9:31 am By Cali Haan  |  

Laura Shin, an independent journalist known for breaking an important story about deception by “blockchain” scions in Toronto, recently spoke to her former colleague at Forbes, Jeff Kauflin, on a podcast convened to discuss layoffs and business structure problems at ConsenSys, one of Ethereum’s biggest spin-off companies…. Read More

November 1, 2018 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

This is an acquisition that may make you scratch your head. ConsenSys, a blockchain ecosystem play founded by Joe Lubin, has purchases Planetary Resources in an asset purchase transaction. Planetary Resources is an asteroid mining venture that has reportedly been struggling. Planetary Resources is a… Read More

October 25, 2018 @ 2:53 am By Cali Haan  |  

A $152 million lawsuit filed by the self-proclaimed expelled CEO against remaining executives at the prediction market platform Augur, has reportedly been settled, and has been taken “off calendar” at San Francisco courts, Forbes reports. According to Forbes, the case filed last April by Matthew Liston… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 10:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Crypto Invest Summit (CIS) is out with an update on their forthcoming event next month. CIS has partnered with Consensys and Token Foundry to educate cryptocurrency and blockchain investors as well as developers. At the event, CIS will introduce a “Builders’ Track,” designed to specialize… Read More

August 15, 2018 @ 12:05 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Cryptocurrency markets have corrected to the upside slightly today, with Bitcoin up about 5% at the time of writing, and Ethereum up about 8%, but memories of yesterday’s steep price declines are still fresh and traders and holders dizzy. According to CCN, in the first… Read More

May 29, 2018 @ 12:41 pm By Cali Haan  |  

In many parts of the Philippines, you’re more likely to encounter a remittance house like Western Union than a bank branch. Cash arrives from abroad, but the access to business loans and mortgages needed to build a self-sustaining economic base are hard to come by…. Read More

May 23, 2018 @ 4:28 pm By Cali Haan  |  

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairperson Jay Clayton told an audience in Washington Tuesday that companies seeking to raise funds via digital tokens in an Initial Coin Offering should be proactive in contacting the agency regarding compliance, Law360 reports. “We’re open for business,” said Clayton…. Read More

May 18, 2018 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

ConsenSys announced earlier this week it has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to launch Kaleido, a new blockchain business cloud that’s aimed to speed and simplify enterprises’ journey to using the technology. ConsenSys claimed that Kaleido is the first Software-as-a-Service featuring popular Ethereum packages Geth and… Read More

May 10, 2018 @ 6:47 am By Cali Haan  |  

Milos Dunjic, a cryptographer and Associate Vice President of Payments Innovation at TD Bank, has stated that whereas blockchain “threatens everything built” by banks, AI is “very friendly technology.” * Dunjic made the comments as part of a fintech panel discussion at the Canadian Undergrad… Read More

May 9, 2018 @ 12:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday blockchain firm ConsenSys announced its expansion into Ireland with the Dublin Innovation Studio. According to ConsenSys, the Dublin-based Innovation Studio will be a multi-functional facility including a development lab, where engineers will build and deliver Ethereum-based blockchain platforms and products stemming from the company’s… Read More

May 4, 2018 @ 6:05 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joseph Lubin told The Street last week that he is “extremely comfortable” that Ethereum does not qualify as a security under US law. “We spent a tremendous amount of time with lawyers in the U.S. and in other countries…it never… Read More