Tagged: distributed ledger technology

May 25, 2021 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), which supports the ongoing growth and development of Stellar (XLM), a leading blockchain platform, has noted that on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 “at 1500 UTC,” Stellar (transaction) validators will be voting on whether to upgrade the network to Protocol 17. The… Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 7:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Augur (REP), the developers of a decentralized prediction markets platform, have announced the launch of Augur Turbo— which is the world’s only “fast-resolving, easy-to-use, decentralized betting platform” that reportedly comes with daily markets for sports, crypto, politics, and current events. The Augur… Read More

May 23, 2021 @ 11:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YIELD App, which provides a convenient way to invest in decentralized finance (DeFi) using crypto-assets or traditional currencies (regardless of your financial or tech expertise), has teamed up with DeFi insurance protocol Steady State. As noted in an update from YIELD App, they’re looking forward… Read More

May 23, 2021 @ 8:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

InsurAce, a DeFi insurance protocol, is introducing multi-chain insurance services on its Ethereum dApp (app.insurace.io), in order to offer insurance coverage to protocols and blockchain platforms like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Huobi Eco Chain (HECO), Solana, Polygon, and Fantom. As mentioned in the announcement,… Read More

May 23, 2021 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this week, the NEM Group announced that it had partnered with football legend Sir Kenny Dalglish and current Manchester City player and English Premier League Champion Riyad Mahrez on the “creation of one-of-a-kind digital memorabilia as NFTs.” As mentioned in a release shared with… Read More

May 23, 2021 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Joachim De Koning, the Founder of hybrix, a Utrecht, Netherlands-based company offering a technically borderless cross-ledger (or cross blockchain) platform where users can swap, store, build, explore, and conduct asset transfers across different distributed ledger tech (DLT) networks. Joachim explained how… Read More

May 22, 2021 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology (ONT), a high-throughput and high-performance blockchain platform for decentralized, digital ID solutions, reports that it has successfully integrated with OKExChain. OKExChain is a set of open-source public chain projects implemented by digital asset firm OKEx. The chain has managed to achieve high performance and… Read More

May 21, 2021 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sanctions research from blockchain security firm CipherTrace reveals that over 72,000 “unique” Iranian IP addresses have been linked to over 4.5 million “unique” Bitcoin (BTC) addresses. CipherTrace notes that since monitoring sanctions-related IP usage across the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain network, they’ve been able to identify… Read More

May 21, 2021 @ 2:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis firm, revealed on Thursday (May 20, 2021) that it has launched Chainalysis Business Data, which is described as a “first-of-its-kind” data offering to assist digital asset exchanges and other Fintechs that provide crypto-related services. Chainalysis Business Data should allow service providers… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SlowMist, which focuses on blockchain ecosystem security, and has served major digital asset firms such as Huobi, OKEx, Binance, imToken (with around 1,000 commercial customers), has conducted an analysis on the recent PancakeBunny hack. SlowMist Zone had reported that PancakeBunny, the decentralized finance (DeFi) revenue… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies, Inc., which aims to transform financial services by leveraging the power of blockchain tech, has finalized a $200 million Series D round at a $3.2 billion valuation. 10T Holdings and Morgan Creek Digital have reportedly co-led the investment round. They’ve been joined by… Read More

May 19, 2021 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of decentralized insurance protocol, InsurAce have partnered with Dora Factory,  in order to offer one of the industry’s first IDO (Initial DEX Offering) insurance products on PentaLaunch, an IDO platform that’s reportedly owned by Dora Factory. As mentioned in a release shared with… Read More

May 18, 2021 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Bank’s Securities Services business in Singapore and Hashstacs (STACS) have reportedly finalized their proof-of-concept (PoC), called Project Benja, on the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for crypto-assets and sustainability-related digital bonds. Set in the context of the nascent tokenized securities in the securities… Read More

May 18, 2021 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Telos, one of the most active blockchains or distributed ledger tech (DLT) platforms, has revealed that its TLOS token has been listed on digital asset exchange, Kucoin. After the recent traction on decentralized or non-custodial exchanges (DEXes), such as UniSwap and PancakeSwap, the latest TLOS… Read More

May 18, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

James Wang, an experienced crypto analyst who says that Ethereum (ETH) could be the “last investment of your life,” points out that the world’s largest smart contract platform isn’t merely a cryptocurrency. Wang explains that Ethereum is a complete software platform with a rapidly increasing… Read More

May 17, 2021 @ 10:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Securities, a division of the digital lending service provider Figure Technologies, has reportedly acquired approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to serve as a broker-dealer and also operate as an SEC-registered Alternative Trading System for digital securities that are custodied on… Read More

May 16, 2021 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The founders of Deribit, a crypto futures and options exchange, have reportedly invested $2.5 million into the operations of Attrace, which claims to be the very first “decentralized” referral network. Attrace aims to become a referral standard for “any tokenized asset on any blockchain in… Read More

May 16, 2021 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

High-performance, high-throughput blockchain developer Ontology (ONT) has published its Weekly Report, ending May 11, 2021. Ontology, which develops digital ID solutions and various other distributed ledger tech (DLT) applications, notes that ONTO and bloXroute announced a partnership to offer ETH “front-running” protection for wallet users… Read More

May 16, 2021 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A newly filed lawsuit alleges that the sale of NBA Top Shot “Moments” is in violation of the federal Securities Act of 1933, which is a law that aims to ensure investor protection when acquiring publicly-traded securities. Michael McCann and Jacob Feldman from Sportico note… Read More

May 14, 2021 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized Oracle network provider Chainlink (LINK) recently announced that its Bug Bounty Program has now been extended to the Immunefi platform, serving as a key opportunity to financially support their open-source development community while “improving the robustness of the Chainlink Network.” If you’re interested in… Read More