Tagged: dlt

March 4, 2021 @ 3:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AllianceBlock has partnered with DIA (Decentralized Information Asset), the open-source financial information platform that “sources and validates data” for market participants including DeFi platforms and also traditional institutions. According to AllianceBlock, the partnership will see DIA integrate “several elements” of AllianceBlock’s protocol, which has been… Read More

March 3, 2021 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wolfram Blockchain Labs will reportedly be integrating Tezos (XTZ) into the Wolfram Language and Wolfram|Alpha. Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL) and TQ Tezos recently confirmed the integration of Tezos to WBL’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. The Tezos blockchain is now “fully integrated” into the Wolfram… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 10:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile had reportedly spent nearly $67,000 in October 2020 on a 10-second video artwork that he may have watched for completely free online. Pablo has now sold the digital artwork video for $6.6 million. The video has been created by digital… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Security Token Market (STM), which focuses on providing the latest updates on blockchain-based security tokens, reveals that the total security token market cap stood at $536,878,278 for the month of February 2021. The market cap monthly change was +6.42%. The total February 2021 trading volume… Read More

March 1, 2021 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At the end of last year, IOHK, the organization that supports open-source development including the Cardano project, announced their devnets plan to support the “longer-term strategic goal” of opening up Cardano to several different development languages – as explained in the ‘‘Island, Ocean, Pond” video…. Read More

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

Consumers have reportedly spent over $230 million purchasing and trading digital collectibles of NBA game highlights. The NBA’s Top Shot product is a blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-powered digital trading card system that has managed to generate more than $230m worth of gross sales,… Read More

February 28, 2021 @ 8:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized Oracle network developer Chainlink (LINK) has expanded its software bug bounty program. Chainlink notes that in order to ensure their decentralized Oracle Network continues to offer smart contracts access to a secure and reliable external data source, they are pleased to confirm that the… Read More

February 27, 2021 @ 12:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of The Graph, which serves as an indexing protocol for “organizing and efficiently accessing” data from blockchains and storage networks, have revealed that indexing and querying are now live on the Fantom Layer 1 Blockchain. As mentioned in the update, the Fantom layer… Read More

February 27, 2021 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Are you stuck somewhere in outer space with utility bills to settle? Then you need not worry, because the satellites may be able to take care of them. JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) reportedly been testing blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DTL)-powered payments between… Read More

February 26, 2021 @ 5:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-headquartered SETL, a settlement and payments infrastructure provider, has reportedly hired Marjan Delatinne to serve on its executive management team as the company’s Head of Payments. Marjan will be responsible for further expanding SETL’s payments business, and also its market infrastructure and asset management products…. Read More

February 26, 2021 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The research team at McGill is reportedly collaborating on the potential design for the new Bank of Canada digital currency. Professors Katrin Tinn and Christophe Dubach have jointly proposed a new design for a “cash-like” central bank digital currency or CBDC which will aim to… Read More

February 25, 2021 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Security Token Group (STG), which aims to reinvent capital markets with blockchain-based security tokens, has published its January’s edition of the Security Token Market Real Estate report. The report, which was released on February 22, 2021, notes that their security token market tracking site… Read More

February 24, 2021 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Markus Jun, the founder and CEO of ICON Hyperconnect Public Representative, a leading block validator for the ICON network with $20 million in total staked value, and Hyperconnector, an official accelerator partner of the ICON Foundation & ICX Station Seoul. Markus… Read More

February 23, 2021 @ 10:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain platform Ontology (ONT) and Binance, the leading digital currency exchange, have a long and established history of cooperation and partnership which has led to many benefits for both sides, “none possibly more important the integration of Ontology’s Decentralized Identity Solution into the Binance Smart… Read More

February 22, 2021 @ 7:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ubitquity LLC, an enterprise-grade blockchain-enabled platform for real estate and title recordkeeping, is teaming up with LavaTrust Consultancy in order to gain key insights into the US real estate closing sector. Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada, LavaTrust Consultancy aims to bring its industry expertise and… Read More

February 21, 2021 @ 9:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The current Bitcoin (BTC) bull market has been fueling another major boom in blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) startup deals. Coinbase Ventures had launched back in 2018, which was during the extended cryptocurrency bear market that lasted from early January of that year to… Read More

February 21, 2021 @ 3:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading crypto exchange Binance has published it Month 43 (since launching operations) report. The report from Binance includes comments on the recent Binance Coin (BNB) price action and the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), which is being more widely-adopted in the crypto space. The digital asset… Read More

February 20, 2021 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zoe Adamovicz, CEO and Co-founder of Neufund, recently explained how a blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-powered fundraising platform actually works. Neufnd was established in 2016 and its main value proposition involves democratizing access to funding for  entrepreneurs and also to make it more convenient… Read More

February 19, 2021 @ 8:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The ICON Foundation has confirmed that blockchain-enabled platform ICON, one of the largest DLT initiatives in South Korea, has introduced a dedicated audit fund. The initiative has been launched in order to support the secure development for ICON’s evolving ecosystem. The ICON Foundation noted that… Read More

February 18, 2021 @ 8:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain platforms Qtum and Blockpass have teamed up in order to deliver on-chain (or blockchain-based) Know-Your-Customer (KYC) services. As part of the agreement, Qtum will be providing subsidies to “specific” members looking to achieve regulatory compliance through Blockpass’s On-chain KYC solutions. Adam Vaziri, CEO at… Read More