Tagged: dlt

August 12, 2020 @ 9:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The South Korean city of Seongnam is reportedly planning to expand its blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-enabled payment platform by introducing digital gift certificates. The city’s DLT based payments platform will be accessible via a mobile app, called Chak. The app has been developed… Read More

August 11, 2020 @ 8:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain infrastructure developer, Bison Trails, revealed on August 11, 2020, that it has added support for the Flow blockchain. As explained in a release shared with CI, Bison Trails’ support of Flow will let users access its multi-role architecture. All five Flow node types will… Read More

August 9, 2020 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ubitquity, the developer of a blockchain-enabled platform for real estate and title recordkeeping, has teamed up with Washington-based Rainier Title, which aims to offer the “highest levels” of real property title and escrow services. As mentioned on its official website, Ubitquity offers a simple user… Read More

August 9, 2020 @ 4:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A division of China’s state-owned power grid has reportedly introduced a blockchain-enabled blackout insurance policy that’s issued to the chairman of a local firm that had to compensate for a recent loss due to a power outage. The Zhejiang Ningbo Power Supply Company has teamed… Read More

August 8, 2020 @ 9:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” or high-throughput blockchain platform for enterprises, has teamed up with the developers of the NEAR Protocol in order to speed up the development and deployment of secure “decentralized” identity solutions. The Ontology team will offer technical support for NEAR’s Decentralized Identifier… Read More

August 8, 2020 @ 7:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Santiment, which offers on-chain, social and curated information on over 900 cryptocurrencies, notes that, quite often, development activity is an “underrated” indicator of the success of a blockchain or digital asset project. Santiment believes that developer activity for crypto-related initiatives proves or shows the month-to-month… Read More

August 8, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equilibrium, which describes itself as an all-in-one, interoperable decentralized finance (DeFi) Hub that lets users stake (cryptocurrencies) and earn, lend and raise liquidity “all in one place,” has partnered with Polkadot, a leading blockchain protocol that has been founded by Gavin Wood, an Ethereum (ETH)… Read More

August 7, 2020 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polkadot (DOT), a “decentralized” Web 3.0 compatible, blockchain interoperability initiative, recently launched its test network (testnet), in order to assess its planned sharding implementation – which will be based on parachains. As explained by the Polkadot team,  a parachain is an “application-specific” data structure that’s… Read More

August 7, 2020 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avalanche, which is AVA Labs‘ project led by Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer, has teamed up with blockchain network testers from Whiteblock, in order to analyze performance, identify key optimizations, and “ensure the production readiness” of the Avalanche protocol implementation. As mentioned in… Read More

August 3, 2020 @ 11:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector continues to experience significant growth, as the total value locked in its markets has surpassed $4 billion, according to DeFi Pulse data. DeFi markets leverage blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT), crypto-assets, and smart contracts (automated business logic), in order… Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The development team at Avalanche, which is AVA Labs‘ project led by Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer, confirms that it has been a few months now since they opened Avalanche’s Denali testnet to the general public. Avalanche aims to be a scalable, open-source… Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 3:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In June 2020, the Ontology (ONT) team celebrated two years since the launch of the Ontology mainnet, which aims to serve as a “high-performance” enterprise blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. There are currently 70 decentralized applications (dApps) that are now live on the… Read More

August 1, 2020 @ 1:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilliqa, a “high-performance” and “high-security” blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-based platform, recently revealed that it has chosen Singapore’s digital currency custody service, Onchain Custodian, to secure its network’s assets. As mentioned in a release shared with CI: “In working with the firm, the Zilliqa… Read More

August 1, 2020 @ 12:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cardano blockchain completed a “historic” hard fork (backwards incompatible upgrade) on July 29, 2020 – which initiated the launch of the highly-anticipated Shelley mainnet (main or production ready network). The open-source blockchain-based development platform will try to compete with Ethereum, EOS, and Tron (TRX)… Read More

July 31, 2020 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed on July 29, 2020 that it’s planning to award a single-source contract to blockchain security firm CipherTrace, a Menlo Park, California based business that recently introduced real-time predictive risk scoring for cryptocurrencies. The SEC said that CipherTrace… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys Labs, an organization that aims to solve real-world problems with Ethereum blockchain-based solutions for enterprises, announced on July 30, 2020 that it’s accepting applications for the Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator, which is being powered by Tachyon, an accelerator program by ConsenSys Ventures that takes early-stage… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluzelle, which aims to serve as s “decentralized” data network, revealed on July 30, 2020, that it will be launching Phase 1 of its mainnet. The network is scheduled to officially go live on August 8, 2020. Once the network is live, Bluzelle’s BLZ token… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain interoperability protocol Polkadot has acquired around $43.7 million in funding through a private token sale. The crypto token sale, which was conducted over the course of three days from July 24 to July 27, 2020, included participation from multiple investors, who provided 3,982 Bitcoins… Read More

July 28, 2020 @ 11:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading blockchain analysis firm, Chainalysis, which recently secured $49 million in capital through a Series B round, announced on July 27, 2020, that it has launched Market Intel, its newly designed website for asset managers and regulatory agencies. The new site may be used to… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain-driven, social trading platform HedgeTrade will reportedly be synching up with Bluzelle’s “decentralized” database network, in order to provide blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-interoperable trading tools and features to HedgeTrade’s consumer base. Traders that use HedgeTrade are able to post predictions into a smart… Read More