Tagged: distributed ledger technology

April 21, 2022 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blank-check company Global Blockchain Acquisition Corp. has reportedly filed for a $150M initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday (April 20, 2022). The firm’s management noted that they plan to focus its search for an initial business combination on blockchain or DLT-related technology, economy, industries and… Read More

April 18, 2022 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Aventus Network – the “full service” enterprise blockchain solution that brings scalability, speed, lower costs and interoperability to blockchain transactions – has announced that its native utility token AVT has been listed on international cryptocurrency exchange, Gate.io. This is the third listing on an… Read More

April 18, 2022 @ 12:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinweb, a layer-2 cross-computation platform, recently announced that it has acquired FINTRAC-registered OnRamp Technologies Limited, a payment company with Money Services Business consents (MSB) “providing users the access to fiat rails for projects being built on top of the Coinweb platform within the regulated Canadian… Read More

April 17, 2022 @ 5:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Societies, which claims to be Southeast Asia’s largest SME digital financing platform, recently announced that it has teamed up Dedoco, a “decentralized” digital document and workflow management platform, in order “to become one of the first FinTech platforms to enable micro, small and medium… Read More

April 16, 2022 @ 7:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockdaemon, which claims to be the largest institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure company for node management and staking, announced that it has added four new investors: Citi Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Telstra Ventures, and Invicta Growth as it “continues its high-velocity growth powering the blockchain economy.” The firm… Read More

April 14, 2022 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Recently, we connected with Abhishek Singh, the Co-founder and CEO of Comdex, a decentralized synthetics protocol working towards making global financing more accessible to the multitude. Developed on the Cosmos blockchain, the Comdex protocol is building solutions to democratize finance. They use synthetic assets to… Read More

April 13, 2022 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hogan Lovells has reportedly become the first law firm “to implement an ecosystem-scale document and contract automation technology which will drive efficiencies within commercial transactions for clients.” The blockchain or DLT-enabled technology platform, DriveChain, is “now available to firm clients across all sectors and industries.”… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Investcorp, a global alternative investments firm, recently announced the launch of eLydian Lion, which is reportedly the first dedicated institutional blockchain fund based in the GCC, with “a global investment mandate.” The Fund – which will be led from Investcorp’s Abu Dhabi office – will… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

bloXroute, which claims to be the provider of the “first” and “fastest” blockchain distribution network (BDN) that helps DeFi traders on Ethereum, Polygon and BSC, has completed a $70 million Series B funding campaign “led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from Blindspot, Dragonfly,… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 11:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The venture divisions of virtual currency trading platforms Huobi and Kucoin are reportedly among the backers of a $250 million ecosystem fund to support initiatives launched on Toncoin, which is the re-launch of failed blockchain/DLT initiatve, TON. In addition to Huobi Incubator and Kucoin Ventures,… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Ethereum’s (ETH) very first mainnet shadow fork has gone live (as of April 11, 2022). This, as the developers of the second-largest digital currency by market capitalization continue the gradual transition to a proof-of-stake or PoS (blockchain) consensus model. The shadow fork is a… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas Securities Services has reportedly carried out a technical proof of concept  for mutual fund transfers via tech provider fundsonchain‘s settlement platform. The fundsonchain platform supports the complete fund processing by automating it through end-to-end processing of tokenized fund shares, based on distributed ledger… Read More

April 11, 2022 @ 7:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Interchain Foundation (ICF), the Swiss non-profit and steward of the Cosmos ecosystem, recently announced the launch of the Interchain Developer Academy, a free online training program “for software developers looking to migrate careers into the highly competitive blockchain industry and gain exposure to the… Read More

April 10, 2022 @ 8:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It only feels like “yesterday” when CertiK was announcing their B2 round of funding, where the firm had been valued at $1 billion. The blockchain-focused firm also mentioned that just 3 months later, here they are again, and now they are “a $2 billion company.”… Read More

April 10, 2022 @ 1:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The HBAR Foundation, an organization that supports the development of the Hedera ecosystem by offering grants and various other resources, recently announced the launch of a $250 million Metaverse Fund “to onboard both consumer brands and their users to Hedera Hashgraph’s Metaverse ecosystem.” The Metaverse… Read More

April 9, 2022 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Compute North, which claims to be the leader in sustainable, large-scale computing infrastructure, has announced that construction is underway “to build a 300MW TIER 0™ data center next to the Wolf Hollow Generating Station in Granbury, Texas.” As covered, Compute North works with clients in… Read More

April 7, 2022 @ 3:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Pocket Network, a relay infrastructure middleware protocol that provides abundant blockchain bandwidth from “a globally distributed network of 40k+ full nodes to applications in Web3 across 40+ blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Fuse, Avalanche, and Harmony,” announced its protocol has “processed a record number… Read More

April 7, 2022 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Socure, the provider of digital identity verification and fraud solutions, has announced that Dibbs, the real-time, blockchain-enabled marketplace for collectors, “is using the Socure ID+ platform to provide a faster, more accurate collector onboarding experience.” With the accuracy of Socure’s graph-defined identity verification and fraud… Read More

April 4, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Syntropy, a Web3 connectivity firm, and Entain, which claims to be one of the largest sports betting and gaming companies, announced the successful implementation of Syntropy’s relay network with its “decentralized autonomous routing protocol (DARP), connecting the data centers across the globe.” Syntropy’s DARP technology… Read More

April 4, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance’s Chief Technology Officer, Rohit Wad recently shared why he decided to make the leap to crypto and blockchain, and the projects that “excite” him. Rohit noted that before the COVID-19 pandemic, his mother “didn’t even use credit cards.” He added that now, she knows… Read More