Tagged: dlt

December 29, 2021 @ 6:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis reveals that scams were once again the largest form of cryptocurrency-based crime by “transaction volume,” with more than $7.7 billion worth of crypto taken from unsuspecting victims globally. As noted by Chainalysis, that represents an increase of 81% compared to last year, a year… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink Keepers is a decentralized transaction automation solution that allows smart contracts to effectively automate important functions and DevOps tasks in a reliable, “trust-minimized”, and cost-efficient way. Blockchain developers, teams, and distributed autonomous organizations or DAOs are able to leverage Chainlink Keepers as a type… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Layer 2 scaling solution Nahmii has shared updates regarding users’ ability to withdraw funds from Nahmii to Ethereum via their bridge. As the team reaches the end of a busy year for the Nahmii project, they wanted to share a timely update with the community… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 8:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dr. Ben Livshits, CEO at Zilliqa, the high-performance, a high-security blockchain platform, notes in an end-of-year update that in a fast-paced industry, the crypto market lows and highs, and uncertainties around Covid-19 “continued to create a trifecta of challenges for all this year.” But the… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 6:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Adam Jeffcoat, the founder of StudioNX, an Emmy award-winning visual development house that creates character-driven IP for feature film, TV and games. With around 20 years of industry experience, StudioNX also specializes in character design, 2d animation, and directing content for… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 9:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fnality, the financial technology company establishing a network of distributed financial market infrastructures using blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT), revealed it will be able to lower banks’ intraday liquidity requirements “by up to 70%, reducing funding costs and payment delays.” The findings come ahead… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 8:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized applications store DappRadar recently published their annual Dapp Industry Report, highlighting records for the decentralized application (dApp) space. As noted in a release shared with CI, 2021 saw the blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) industry expand “across verticals, with usage growing sevenfold as… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tencent Holdings Ltd., a major Chinese multinational technology conglomerate holding company founded in 1998, says it’s getting ready for a carbon-neutral future. Tencent, whose subsidiaries globally market Internet-related services and products, including in entertainment, Fintech, artificial intelligence, and other technology, confirmed that earlier this month,… Read More

December 24, 2021 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HUMAN Protocol announced the complete launch of the HUMAN App: a web-based software application that demonstrates how work “published to the Protocol can be accessed and completed by distributed workforces.” As mentioned in a release, the HUMAN App acts as a gateway to work processed… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 5:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFinity, an institutional digital asset ECN and DeFi marketplace for fiat FX, cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies, has teamed up with Cobalt, a market infrastructure provider that’s focused on ‘re-engineering the institutional FX and digital asset markets to facilitate real-time clearing, settlement and dynamic… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Working with Clearstream, Northern Trust, SETL and others, SWIFT plans experiments in Q1 2022 in order to “explore how it can support interoperability in the development of the tokenized asset market.” Relative to digital currencies and stablecoins, the current market cap of tokenized assets is… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Astra Protocol is pleased to confirm that it has acquired $9 million via its token raise. In addition, various investment groups and individuals have supported the Astra Protocol project, confirming the requirement for decentralized compliance in the DeFi sector. According to Astra, things are progressing… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DOGAMÍ, which claims to be the first-ever mass-market play-to-earn NFT game powered by Tezos (XTZ), has secured $6M in capital from Ubisoft, Animoca Brands, and The Sandbox co-founders. The funding from DOGAMI’s investment round should help with “establishing the future of pet ownership 3.0” and… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The NEO blockchain developers noted that they are focused on building on a commitment to support application developers who make meaningful contributions to the Neo blockchain ecosystem. As mentioned in a blog post, Neo has introduced three different grant programs into the Eco Support ecosystem…. Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HERMESNET, which aims to automate a manual legacy in private equity (PE), has acquired 96% (£145,211) of its £150,000 fundraising target from 107 investors. HERMESNET has secured capital via its crowdfunding campaign being carried out through Crowdcube (with 24 days left in the sale at… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 9:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marieke Flament, the Chief Executive at NatWest’s virtual bank for businesses, is reportedly getting ready to leave her role after two and a half years. Flament will be joining Switzerland-headquartered blockchain foundation NEAR as the CEO, she confirmed in statements shared with Reuters. The non-profit… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 2:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and innovation incubation division of Binance, has reportedly invested in the League of Kingdoms (LoK), which claims to be the world’s first decentralized MMO NFT strategy game built on Ethereum (ETH). In LoK, players are able to build various kingdoms… Read More

December 18, 2021 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys, the Ethereum software firm, has announced the launch of ConsenSys Rollups, in order to offer enterprise-grade scalability to various financial organizations, addressing the key use case of “scalable applications on the Ethereum blockchain.” ConsenSys leveraged the expertise of Mastercard’s engineering team to “design the… Read More

December 16, 2021 @ 11:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

JST Capital, an international financial services company specializing in digital assets, has  announced that it has joined the Pyth Network, which claims to be a next-gen Oracle platform designed to offer trusted and verifiable market data to decentralized applications (dApps), and will be offering real-time… Read More

December 14, 2021 @ 1:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In an attempt to improve the movie industry, NFT Community Arabian Camels and Swapp Protocol have introduced the “Antara Movie NFT,” which allows buyers to hold as much as 50% Intellectual Property rights to “Antara,” a $50M feature film based on the life of Arabian… Read More