Tagged: dlt

December 13, 2021 @ 7:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gala Games, the blockchain gaming firm that’s focused on the play-to-earn space, has announced a partnership with Huobi Global in order to help with better serving the distributed ledger tech (DLT) gaming sector, as Gala continues to expand its developer ecosystem. Chosen as the “preferred”… Read More

December 13, 2021 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The first interbank Payment vs Payment (PvP) settlement outside of CLS has been completed using Baton Systems’ Core-FX solution, which is built on Baton’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) and “governed by the Baton Rulebook.” Standing at the threshold of a “new era” in FX settlements,… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 1:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis recently announced product support for the Lightning Network (LN), which is a Layer-2 protocol built on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain that enables “faster, cheaper transactions.” With Lightning, small, recurring transactions that wouldn’t be economical to carry out on the blockchain due… Read More

December 11, 2021 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nervos will reportedly be integrating the Kava network with their cross-chain Force Bridge product to “enable the bridging of liquidity between Kava and Nervos.” As explained in a blog post, the integration will allow for “the movement of native assets between the chains, giving $CKB… Read More

December 10, 2021 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Parallel Finance, an institutional-grade lending protocol for decentralized finance (DeFi), has reportedly secured the fourth slot in the Polkadot parachain auctions. Over 30,000 contributors have “contributed a total of 10.75 million Polkadot (DOT) tokens during the fourth round of the auction, equivalent to $306 million,”… Read More

December 9, 2021 @ 9:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pontoro, the financial tech firm focused on creating the first institutional-grade digital asset securitization and liquidity platform to address “the $15 trillion shortfall in infrastructure debt finance by enabling broader investor participation,” has announced a $6 million preferred seed round that was led by Ulu… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 11:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global platform LynKey, which powers luxury resort and vacation property with blockchain and AI tech, has announced a project for tokenizing and providing NFT solutions of more than $8 billion for travel and tourism by leveraging smart contracts. LynKey will be digitizing luxury resorts and… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 10:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Play-and-Earn game MonkeyBall is confirming that they have beefed up their list of backers. MonkeyBall, a Solana-based gaming platform, stated that it’s pleased their partners wanted to join the MonkeyBall journey and were able to hand-pick backers with a solid reputation and… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), in collaboration with Vanguard and Symbiont, has announced that the companies have completed the margin calculation process “for a live trade of a 30-day foreign exchange forward contract through the use of Assembly, Symbiont’s distributed ledger technology.” As mentioned in the… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 10:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Phase One of the NEVM launch is now officially complete, the Syscoin team announced in a recent update. Their Bitcoin-secured Layer 1 for EVM smart contracts “reached mainnet on block 1,317,500, December 6th, 2021,” according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. With this upgrade… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SETL, a blockchain settlement and payment infrastructure provider, reveals that it has had one of those “breakthrough moments” after its Regulated Liability Network (RLN) was reportedly able to demonstrate that it successfully processed 1 million transactions per second (TPS). The RLN is described as a… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on December 2, 2021, people may sign up to get first access to the Blockchain.com NFT marketplace. In the coming weeks, users may start purchasing, selling, and storing non-fungible tokens or NFTs right inside their Blockchain.com Wallet. As mentioned in an update from Blockchain.com… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 3:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with James Bayly, the Head Of Business Development at SubQuery & OnFinality. Bayly explained that SubQuery serves as a decentralized data aggregation, indexing, and querying layer between L-1 chains and dApps. He confirmed that his team is focused on Polkadot (DOT)… Read More

December 3, 2021 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SlowMist, which focuses on Blockchain Ecosystem Security and have served more than 1,000 customers, notes that on November 30, 2021, their team at SlowMist was “notified of an attack on the Defi protocol MonoX.” More than $18 million in WETH and $10.5 million in MATIC… Read More

December 2, 2021 @ 3:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized application platform Moralis welcomes Craig Hammel to its team as a senior technical advisor. Appointing Craig Hammel, the first engineering hire of Coinbase, should bring his expertise to the Moralis project and improve the initiative’s capacity to “scale and encompass more blockchains.” Hammel will… Read More

December 2, 2021 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken notes that the beauty of the Bitcoin (BTC) network is that “anyone can participate in it without permission.” However, primarily out of convenience, most Bitcoin users “don’t run nodes and instead trust third parties such as centralized exchanges and wallet providers… Read More

December 1, 2021 @ 8:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Axletree Solutions, an international provider of bank connectivity and financial integration solutions that power more than $50 billion in daily transaction volumes, announced that it has entered into a partnership with Roxe, the open global payment network. As mentioned in the announcement, Roxe’s solutions power… Read More

December 1, 2021 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

From its earliest days, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) says that it has sharply focused on protecting their clients’ assets with the strongest, most robust security tech available in the markets. Over time, Coinbase‘s approaches have evolved, but their objective has always been the same: “to provide the… Read More

November 28, 2021 @ 8:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Mattias Tengblad, the Co-founder and CEO at Corite, a platform that allows artists and their fans to join forces. Via the Corite platform, people can invest in music they really love and get paid when it’s streamed on Spotify and… Read More

November 28, 2021 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology Network, which claims to be a high-performance, open-source blockchain specializing in digital identity and data, has now been live for over fours years. The platform remains focused on its journey to Web 3.0 Infrastructure Status. Ontology confirms that it has a continued focus on… Read More