Tagged: distributed ledger technology

March 27, 2023 @ 6:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banxa, the on-and-off ramp solution for web3, has integrated with The Graph, the decentralized infrastructure protocol, “to allow users to pay with fiat currency to access blockchain data organized by The Graph.” This integration, now “available directly in The Graph’s user interface, decreases barriers to… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Exit scams, popularly referred to as rug pulls, are “an ongoing criminal scheme in Web3,” according to an update shared by CertiK. CertiK writes in a blog post that a rug pull “involves fraudsters robbing a crypto project by liquidating their holdings without warning and… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Telegram users are now able to send Tether’s USDT stablecoin to each other. As part of a recent notification, the messaging app provider told its users that the app’s wallet feature can support USDT-TRON, commonly referred to as the TRC-20 standard. The ability to accept… Read More

March 20, 2023 @ 7:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

RockX, a blockchain node network headquartered in Singapore, announces the launch of Bedrock — the world’s first AML and KYC compliant, institutional-grade Ethereum liquid staking platform to have gone live to the public. Bedrock is described as “a non-custodial, on-chain and independent liquid staking solution… Read More

March 18, 2023 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

National Australia Bank (NAB) has completed an intra-bank cross-border transaction using NAB-issued stablecoin, which represents a “world-first” by a major financial institution on a layer-one public blockchain. This pilot transaction on the public and permissionless Ethereum blockchain “involved deployment of stablecoin smart contracts for seven… Read More

March 18, 2023 @ 2:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs, which claims to be the leader in blockchain intelligence solutions, announced the availability of new, on-demand Crypto Compliance and Investigations Certifications within TRM Academy. TRM Academy is “an online learning portal featuring an extensive library of self-service digital courses and certifications, created for… Read More

March 15, 2023 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wemade Co., Ltd, which claims to be one of the largest publicly-listed gaming companies in South Korea with a market capitalization of $1.4 billion, has announced a strategic partnership with Space and Time (SxT), a key player focused on decentralized data warehousing. The partnership will… Read More

March 14, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bloxmith, the “player-first” Web3 gaming studio, announced that the open beta for Raiders Rumble, its 1v1 squad battler game for mobile powered by the Flow blockchain, is now available for download on Google Play and Apple App Store. Raiders Rumble challenges players “to apply fast-paced… Read More

March 9, 2023 @ 3:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In keeping with their promise to continue supporting and expanding the vechain ecosystem, the team are pleased to share that, as of today, VeChain has been formally integrated with DappRadar, which claims to the world’s largest global Dapp store and cross-chain Dapp community. Users can… Read More

March 8, 2023 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mysten Labs, a Web3 infrastructure company and initial developer of the Sui Layer 1 blockchain, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. Under the terms of the MOU, Alibaba Cloud will aim… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nym, a network layer privacy provider, has announced a Nym integration with Ethereum validators and even clients “to provide network-level privacy to the entire ecosystem.” A libp2p module “enables over half a million Ethereum validators worldwide to shield transactions via the Nym mixnet.” The module… Read More

March 3, 2023 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EquiLend announces that it has selected Digital Asset in order “to provide the distributed ledger technology underpinning the EquiLend 1Source initiative.” Unveiled in July 2022 as part of EquiLend’s Digital Transformation Working Group, which consists of many of the world’s largest banks and broker-dealers, 1Source… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aventus, a Web3 solutions provider for enterprises, has partnered with Nexos Technologies, a digital payments and banking platform providing open banking and payment solutions, in order “to bring blockchain-enabled solutions to the digital banking and payments sector.” Nexos Technologies has deep domain expertise “in traditional… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Floki is now officially partnered with one of the biggest lending protocols on the BNB chain, Venus Protocol. Venus claims it is “the leading lending and borrowing protocol on the BNB chain as well as the second biggest DeFi protocol on the chain after top… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 12:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chain Reaction, a semiconductor company focused on disruptive blockchain and privacy hardware, announced that it raised $70 million in its Series C funding round “led by Morgan Creek Digital and participation from Hanaco Ventures, Jerusalem Venture Partners, KCK Capital, Exor, Atreides Management, and BlueRun Ventures.”… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs announced it has entered into a partnership with Tencent Cloud to support projects and developers across the Avalanche ecosystem. In addition to providing developers with rapid node deployment, both parties will also “explore Avalanche Subnets for enterprises to help accelerate adoption of Web3… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 9:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HashKey DX Co., Ltd. (Headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, CEO: Andy Dan) has signed an exclusive domestic distribution agreement with CertiK (Headquartered in New York, USA,Co-Founder: Prof. Ronghui Gu and Prof. Zhong Shao) in order “to bring blockchain-specific security solutions to the Japanese market.” Blockchain technology… Read More

February 25, 2023 @ 10:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swarm, the regulated blockchain platform, announces the launch of a public investment offering for Apple, Tesla, and two US Treasury Bond ETFs on decentralized finance (DeFi). The “fully” asset-backed tokens are “available on the Polygon blockchain for both retail and institutional investors, with no minimum… Read More

February 23, 2023 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

B2B B2B2C blockchain based luxury platform GUHADA recently announced that it has completed attracting an 8 billion KRW Series B investment. Leading domestic venture capital firms such as Korea Investment Partners, Woori Bank,  DTNI Investment (DTNI), BM Ventures participated in the Series B investment round…. Read More

February 21, 2023 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

2023 is “proving” to be an exciting year for the VeChain Foundation. They have many tech developments “in the pipeline, including a near-term deployment of some ground-breaking tools that promise to lower barriers to entry and elevate the VeChainThor ecosystem even further.” Their mission has… Read More