Tagged: distributed ledger technology

May 30, 2023 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UrbanChain announced that it has raised a £5.25m Series A round led by global investment firm Eurazeo through its venture expertise dedicated to the Climate and Smart City space. Launched in 2017, the Manchester headquartered energy technology company “runs the a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy exchange… Read More

May 30, 2023 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fibonacci, a commercial public chain that focuses on the social field and builds a social and creator economic ecosystem, has partnered with Alchemy Pay “to provide a convenient fiat on-ramp and off-ramp solution within its ecosystem.” With this collaboration, Alchemy Pay “offers a user-friendly plugin… Read More

May 30, 2023 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polymesh, which claims to be the leader in public-permissioned blockchain, announced today its integration into the ecosystem of NayaOne, a digital transformation platform for the financial services industry. This integration provides opportunities “for financial institutions to effectively and efficiently leverage the benefits of blockchain technology… Read More

May 29, 2023 @ 10:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Horizen, a layer 0 public blockchain, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Band Protocol, a cross-chain data oracle platform, “to provide real-time price feeds and reliable data for EON, Horizen’s new EVM-compatible smart contracting platform.” The partnership will bring decentralized oracle services “to… Read More

May 26, 2023 @ 6:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Symbiosis, a cross-chain liquidity protocol, announced the addition of Arbitrum Nova to its platform. This integration will “allow users to swap assets across 12+ chains.” Arbitrum Nova is a new chain that is designed to be more cost-effective and faster than Arbitrum One. It is… Read More

May 23, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology, a blockchain network focused on enhancing trust, privacy, and security in Web3 by offering decentralized identity and data solutions, has formed a partnership with Alchemy Pay to integrate its on and off ramp solution. Through Alchemy Pay’s plugin, dApps and platforms on Ontology “can… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink, the industry-standard Web3 services platform, and Arbitrum, the Layer 2 scaling solution suite for Ethereum dApp development, have announced the launch of Chainlink VRF (Verifiable Random Function) on Arbitrum One. Chainlink VRF is described as “the industry’s most widely adopted random number generator (RNG),… Read More

May 19, 2023 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wormhole Foundation announced that Wormhole has been selected as the next official bridge for NEAR. Wormhole will launch the first trustless NEAR <> ETH corridor powered by Zero Knowledge (ZK) Proofs. This corridor will enable all major NEAR assets “to be seamlessly bridged to the… Read More

May 18, 2023 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Horizon Blockchain Games, a web3 infrastructure and gaming company, and Polygon Labs, a growth and development team for the Polygon protocols, announced a strategic alliance aimed at enhancing web3 infrastructure. Horizon’s Sequence product is described as “a leading web3 developer platform: its modular all-in-one web3… Read More

May 18, 2023 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Flipside, a “pioneer” in blockchain marketplace design and analytics, announced the launch of its on-demand blockchain data offering specifically for the enterprise. Flipside Shares is “available on Snowflake Marketplace and provides joint customers – of all sizes – with access to expertly modeled and curated… Read More

May 18, 2023 @ 7:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With this key acquisition, Ripple takes on the growing institutional crypto custody market, expected to reach $10T by 2030 Ripple, the Fintech focused on enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, announced it has acquired Metaco, a Swiss-based provider of digital asset custody and tokenization technology. Diversifying… Read More

May 17, 2023 @ 4:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CertiK, the New York-based blockchain security company, and Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced the signing of a partnership to provide blockchain security services to cloud-based Web3 projects. Web3 developers can now “accelerate their development process and secure their… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 7:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Concordium, the Layer 1, science-backed blockchain creating a safer digital world, and XONE, a mobile game that brings people together through music and entertainment, announced a partnership that brings web3 security and identity solutions to the entertainment industry. XONE’s platform “empowers anyone to build and… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), a firm focused on digital payments, was one of nine finalists tasked with exploring innovative blockchain-based use cases for the Real Digital (Brazil’s central bank-issued digital currency, or CBDC) as part of the most recent LIFT Challenge. The company partnered with Agrotoken,… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 7:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum announces the addition of Cosmos’ native token ATOM to its expanding portfolio of regulated digital asset banking products and services. Sygnum clients “can now conveniently buy and hold ATOM on its institutional-grade platform and stake their holdings to earn attractive staking rewards” From today,… Read More

May 10, 2023 @ 5:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Digital Asset and market participants announce their plans to launch the Canton Network, the industry’s “first” privacy-enabled interoperable blockchain network designed for institutional assets and built “to responsibly unlock the potential of synchronized financial markets.” Canton Network participants reportedly “include 3Homes, ASX, BNP Paribas,… Read More

May 8, 2023 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SI Tickets, the ticketing site from Sports Illustrated, announced the launch of “Box Office by SI Tickets,” a self-service event management and primary ticketing solution built in partnership with web3 firm ConsenSys and powered by Polygon’s blockchain technology. Box Office is described as “the first… Read More

May 7, 2023 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BOTLabs GmbH, developer of KILT Protocol, and Deloitte Consulting AG announced the integration of KILT blockchain technology for issuing reusable digital credentials to support KYC and KYB processes. These credentials “have multiple use cases including regulatory compliance for banking and Decentralized Finance (DeFi), age verification… Read More

May 5, 2023 @ 2:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, a firm digitizing the issuance, management, and trading of real-world assets, today launched a new feeder fund offering tokenized exposure to an evergreen private credit fund from leading private markets investment firm Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE), available “exclusively” on the Polygon blockchain. Hamilton Lane… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Video is a popular and engaging form of media that creators leverage to connect with their communities and share content across platforms. And as such, it has played a crucial role in the development of the online creator economy. However, there have been some limitations… Read More