Tagged: ethereum

July 17, 2021 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at YIELD App, the developers of a fast-growing wealth management platform for digital assets, has published their second progress report – which reveals that users for their app have doubled while assets have increased by 3x since the last update. The YIELD App… Read More

July 16, 2021 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SCB 10X, the venture division of Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank or SCB (BKK: SCB), has confirmed its most-recent investment into the decentralized finance (DeFi) space through asset aggregator and portfolio dashboard provider, Ape Board. The firm, which currently has over 350,000 users, acquired within 4… Read More

July 16, 2021 @ 12:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Numio, a crypto payments and transfer platform, has closed on a $1.25 million seed round. The funding was led by HashKey Capital with participation from LD Capital, Youbi Capital, Caballeros Capital, DVC, ZMT Capital, as well as angel investors including Suji Yan of Mask Network,… Read More

July 15, 2021 @ 6:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon has partnered with Community Gaming in order to enable scalable E-sports tournaments. Built for grassroots tournament organizers, Community Gaming’s platform has been designed to  make it easier to develop custom e-sports tournaments within minutes with preconfigured payments. As noted in a release shared with… Read More

July 14, 2021 @ 1:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Monday (July 12) that for the week ending July 12,… Read More

July 13, 2021 @ 3:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken will be supporting four new crypto-assets: Axie Infinity (AXS), Chiliz (CHZ), Origin Protocol (OGN) and Perpetual Protocol (PERP). The Kraken team notes in an update that deposits for all four digital assets are available now. Trading will start on July 13,… Read More

July 12, 2021 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Austria-based Blockpit, a provider of legally compliant and audited tax reports for the treatment of digital assets, reveals that it has acquired $10 million in capital as part of Series A round. Blockpit’s investment round has reportedly been led by MiddleGame Ventures (MGV) along with… Read More

July 10, 2021 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Avalanche, a organization developing decentralized finance protocols and other distributed ledger tech (DLT)-based solutions, reveals that it’s preparing for the next generation Avalanche Bridge (AB). AB will be “10x faster and 5x cheaper” than the Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge (AEB), according to an update… Read More

July 8, 2021 @ 5:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nate Maddrey and the other researchers at Coin Metrics note that Ethereum (ETH) gas prices have dropped down to their lowest levels since March, of last year. Although a few months back, average gas price consistently reached 150-200 GWEI, the average gas price has now… Read More

July 8, 2021 @ 10:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Israel’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) has shared information on the “seizure” of virtual currency held by several different crypto wallets that are believed to be associated with donation campaigns “carried out by Hamas.” As noted in a report from Chainalysis, the seizure… Read More

July 8, 2021 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The cryptocurrency markets had been “brimming” with excitement to start the year. However, as we get ready to enter the “dog days” of summer 2021, Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and other virtual currencies are “flatlining,” the Kraken team notes in an update while pointing out… Read More

July 7, 2021 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at IOST recently released their Ecosystem Growth Report for H1 2021. As mentioned in an update, dated July 6, 2021, by the IOST team: “Amid the spike in interest, IOST continues to witness important partnerships and asserting our position as a leader in… Read More

July 6, 2021 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the Bitcoin hashrate (the amount of computing power securing the world’s largest cryptocurrency network) experiences its worst drop ever, the newly established Bitcoin Mining Council has revealed that global Bitcoin mining is now mainly being powered by “sustainable energy.” The report from the Mining… Read More

July 6, 2021 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the fast-evolving world of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, The Pavilions Hotels & Resorts announces that it aims to improve its guest experiences by becoming the first international boutique hotel group to take virtual currency from any country as payment for hotel bookings. The… Read More

July 6, 2021 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum Bank reveals that it has become one of the first banks to provide Ethereum 2.0 staking support. Customers are able to easily and securely stake Ethereum (ETH) via Sygnum’s institutional-grade banking service which can help with generating a substantial yield of up to 7%… Read More

July 6, 2021 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EasyFi is a universal layer-2 lending platform focused on improving the landscape of lending and borrowing digital assets. It is an open network infrastructure that facilitates peer-to-peer and cross-chain asset settlements. In a first-of-its-kind in the DeFi space, users’ creditworthiness is being appraised by EasyFi… Read More

July 4, 2021 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Big Four auditing firm Ernst & Young (EY) has contributed a zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) layer-2 protocol into the public domain in order to help with addressing rising transaction costs on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain network, the world’s largest smart contract platform. The protocol has been… Read More

July 3, 2021 @ 7:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spencer Noon, an investor in Variant, a first-check cryptocurrency venture capital fund, has released their latest Network report, which covers stablecoins and Instadapp. Spencer Noon notes in their weekly update that The Graph recently launched 43 RFPs for different ecosystem initiatives. You may submit an… Read More

July 3, 2021 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at NYDIG, a financial services and technology company dedicated to Bitcoin, has taken a look back at the second quarter and the events that “shaped it,” as well as looking forward to key events in the foreseeable future. The report from NYDIG acknowledges… Read More

July 3, 2021 @ 10:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency adoption has grown considerably during the past year, however, many people still may not yet fully understand how diverse this space really is as an “asset class,” according to a new report from Chainalysis. The team at Chainalysis, a leading blockchain analysis firm, notes… Read More