Tagged: distributed ledger technology

May 1, 2022 @ 9:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, the provider of digital asset and crypto technology, recently announced that it has become the first platform to launch institutional DeFi access to Terra, “the second-largest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol by total value locked (TVL).” Now, Fireblocks customers can “securely access all of the… Read More

May 1, 2022 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) is “revolutionizing” the world just as the Internet did in its day, according to an update from Santander. The team at Banco Santander (NYSE: SAN) notes that “an increasing number of sectors see the enormous potential in this type… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 6:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoreChain Technologies, the “first” digital B2B payments network built on blockchain, has  announced that it acquired $4.2 million in seed funding. CoreChain’s investment round was reportedly led by Ulu Ventures along with contributions from other existing investors such as Connecticut Innovations, Bloccelerate VC and New… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evvio Inc., a Fintech firm focused on next-gen digital commerce, has announced its collaboration with Vite Labs, a “zero-fee” fast blockchain company. Evvio and Vite’s collaboration is “grounded in a shared vision that next generation e-commerce will eliminate the need for credit cards, bank accounts… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Liminal, an “enterprise-grade” platform for digital asset custody, has announced a partner program with Avalanche, which claims to be the “fastest” smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, “to secure projects built on their platform.” As noted in an update shared with CI, the collaboration… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 10:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The XYO Network (Coinbase: $XYO), which claims to be the “first” blockchain geospatial oracle network backed with cryptography, has reported “record” financial results for the full fiscal year “ending December 31, 2021.” Among its 2021 achievements, the company “doubled in revenue for the full fiscal… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 9:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blackhawk Network, an international branded payments provider, recently announced that it is teaming up with NFT and blockchain wallet provider, Bitski, in order to distribute the “first” promotion for an NFT with the purchase of a gift card, “offering both real and virtual (Web3) world… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 12:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Propy, which claims to be the “premier” blockchain powered, real estate transaction and offer platform, and Abra, a digital asset wealth management platform, have announced a partnership that will “enable Propy customers to buy real estate by securing a loan using their digital assets as… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venly, a “major” blockchain tech provider from Belgium, announced that it has secured over €21 million (appr. $23 million) in Series A funding, led by Courtside Ventures along with contributions from Transcend Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Tioga Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Fortino, Plug and Play, Leadblock Partners,… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Celer Network, a multi-chain operating system, recently announced the mainnet launch of its inter-chain messaging (IM) framework. The mainnet launch is the culmination of years of collaboration and refinement that “brings to the market a bespoke, user-friendly framework that fundamentally changes how multi-blockchain decentralized applications… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FT Partners recently shared their Q1 2022 Fintech Insights Report. As noted in the update from FT Partners, it has been a record year for financing in Fintech. The firm is internationally known for its expertise in the Fintech industry. FT Partners has associations with… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 6:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Maple (MPL), an institutional crypto-capital marketplace powered by blockchain tech, recently announced its launch on the Solana blockchain. As mentioned in an update shared with CI, this launch reportedly makes Maple one of the first undercollateralized lending protocols on the Solana blockchain, “and the first… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 1:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Permission.io, which claims to be the “leading” provider of permission-based Web3 advertising, announced that it’s migrating away from its own proprietary blockchain to Polygon, the “preeminent” Ethereum scaling solution with over 100 million “unique users.” The migration is the company’s first in “a series of… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 6:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AntChain, the “flagship” tech brand of Ant Group, recently launched a new video copy detection solution “to help make copyright protection technologies more efficient and accessible to content creators.” With the recently developed algorithms, AntChain’s new solution can “precisely identify and localize infringements in video… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 7:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Telos Blockchain (TLOS) is pleased to announce to the “billion-plus” global citizens that celebrate and embrace Earth Day that they now have a carbon-neutral smart contract option. Telos with the consulting aid of Plannet Zero, part of RedShaw Advisors Ltd, a carbon risk management and… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Scroll, an EVM-compatible zk-Rollup project to scale Ethereum and “create a platform that is friendly for users onboarding crypto,” recently secured $30 million from researchers and developers, members of the Ethereum community, and investment firms “including Polychain Capital, Bain Crypto, Geometry DAO, and Mapleleaf Capital.”… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A report by Huobi Research Institute has noted that the future development of on-chain cryptocurrency perpetual contracts is constrained “by the performance of their underlying public chains, with a breakthrough in the latter needed for the former to thrive.” The report from Huobi, titled “On-chain… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UAE Trade Connect (UTC) is pleased to confirm that the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) has joined its consortium of UAE banks “utilizing its blockchain platform to help de-risk trade finance.” UTC is the Fintech blockchain platform of e& enterprises, from e& (formerly known… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ETC Group has reportedly added an XRP backed investment product to its expanding digital assets portfolio of Exchange Traded Cryptocurrencies (ETCs) in Europe “which include BTCE, the world’s most traded crypto Exchange Traded Product (ETP).” ETC Group, which claims to be one of Europe’s leading… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DART (Digital Asset Registration Technologies, Inc.), a combined lien and eNote registry system developed by Figure Technologies, Inc. using blockchain technology, recently announced integrations with Blue Sage, a Cloud-based digital lending platform “for retail, wholesale and correspondent lenders, and Docutech, the … provider of document,… Read More