Tagged: dlt

January 30, 2022 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fidelity is reportedly trying to make its own moves into the fast-evolving Metaverse economy. Fidelity, which manages trillions of dollars in customer assets, has submitted an application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this past Friday for an exchange-traded fund (ETF), known as… Read More

January 29, 2022 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

At 9:34PM UTC on January 27, 2022, a bad actor started their exploit of Qubit Finance’s Ethereum (ETH) to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) bridge. As noted in an update from CertiK, this particular exploit “ended up netting them 77,162 qXETH ($185 million), which they then… Read More

January 28, 2022 @ 6:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO), a key player in critical information, analytics and solutions, has announced a partnership with METACO, the provider of security-critical software and infrastructure to Tier 1 banking institutions operating in the crypto-asset ecosystem. As mentioned in an update shared with Crowdfund Insider,… Read More

January 26, 2022 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scalability has been the “hottest topic” in the crypto space during the past few years, the team at Qtum notes in a recent update. Qtum‘s developers write in a blog post that they have seen several projects “adopt a centralized stance just to speed up… Read More

January 25, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Baton Systems, the Fintech firm that’s focused on transforming post-trade processing by leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT), has appointed David Ornstein to serve as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. Ornstein joins the company at an important time, as industry demand continues to grow steadily for… Read More

January 24, 2022 @ 1:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Nakji Foundation is launching a $200,000 Bug Bounty program for developers and security researchers in order to “help discover vulnerabilities and prevent security problems in the Nakji ecosystem.” Nakji Network is pleased to work cooperatively with Uppsala Security, which has built what they claim… Read More

January 24, 2022 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana (SOL), which has quickly emerged as one of the largest blockchain  or distributed ledger tech (DLT) networks, was recently impacted by instability during a highly volatile week for cryptocurrencies (which saw Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital asset prices fall sharply). some recent metrics on… Read More

January 23, 2022 @ 5:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pledge Finance, the platform for long-term, fixed-rate cryptocurrency-based loans, is pleased to confirm a partnership with zkLink, a provider of secure cross-chain token swaps “powered by zero-knowledge proofs.” As mentioned in an update shared with CI, the partnership will allow Pledge to “integrate with more… Read More

January 23, 2022 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Agoric, the JavaScript-native smart contract platform, has closed its public token sale, having sold more than $50M of BLD tokens in “less than two hours,” according to an update shared with CI. As noted in the announcement, the 48,000+ new account holders, soon to be… Read More

January 22, 2022 @ 2:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Protocol Labs and Faber are collaborating to help with supporting the development of the next-gen of the Internet. The partnership combines Faber’s experience as early-stage deep tech VC and Protocol Labs’ Web3 expertise to “help entrepreneurs create the building blocks of successful new companies in… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The 1inch Network announced on January 20, 2022 that they’ve expanded to Avalanche (AVAX) and Gnosis Chain (GNO). As explained in the update, the expansion to the two fast-growing blockchains will aim to “offer 1inch users more options for low-costs, high-speed transactions.” The 1inch Network… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 1:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Security Token Market (STM) has released a report titled, State of Security Tokens 2022 — Industry Overview. Peter Gaffney, the Head of Research from Security Token Advisors, notes that the “high-level” lifecycle of a security token includes the following: Asset Selection Offering Structuring… Read More

January 19, 2022 @ 8:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Sentinel Protocol team, which is operating a platform leveraging blockchain technology in order to harness collective cyber security intelligence to protect crypto assets against hackers, scams and fraud, has provided an update regarding the suspicious activity incident involving Crypto.com. Through their team’s preliminary analysis,… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology, the project that aims to bring trust, privacy, and security to Web 3.0 via decentralized identity and data solutions, recently announced the opening of a new European office in Berlin, Germany. As mentioned in an update shared with CI, Ontology’s move reflects its alignment… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 3:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Beth Kurteson, MD at digital assets firm Gemini, notes that the company is committed to tapping into the future of financial, creative, and “personal freedom” via crypto. Beth writes in a blog post that central to that effort is the work they do “to support… Read More

January 16, 2022 @ 2:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Larry Kubin, Senior Developer Relations Engineer at digital asset firm Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), notes that in 2021, Coinbase Cloud had announced the launch of their unified developer docs in order to “make it easier and faster for developers to build Web3 applications using Coinbase APIs and… Read More

January 13, 2022 @ 12:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Metaverse and the GameFi world have grown tremendously, with nearly every blockchain  ecosystem in the crypto space getting more actively involved. Polygon (POLY) ecosystem’s capabilities of building and connecting different blockchains and dApps is being supported by the launch of Polygon Studios, which is… Read More

January 12, 2022 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pastel Network, which claims to be the first application-specific and purpose-built NFT blockchain that has “developed protocols tailored to address the needs of the NFT space,” has teamed up with Nervos Network, which is a suite of interoperable protocols “built on top of an open… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the crypto and blockchain space continues to grow steadily, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are becoming more common (because they provide a way to enable decentralized governance). After its MainNet launch back in June 2018, the 3-year-old TRON blockchain platform has developed its own DAO… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at blockchain platform Qtum has shared important community and development updates from December 2021. Qtum writes in a blog post: “A very Happy New Year to all of you. … Now, as we [wrapped] up December, it is impossible to start with anything… Read More