Tagged: gold

January 6, 2020 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, a country suffering from record levels of hyperinflation and rampant corruption, says that the South American nation will be selling oil and part of its gold it produces for Petro, the highly controversial national digital currency. In statements shared with… Read More

December 18, 2019 @ 9:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Evan Kuo, CEO at Ampleforth, a new crypto-asset protocol for developing “fair and independent money.” Kuo, a mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, argues that Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, has the potential to… Read More

October 28, 2019 @ 1:04 pm By Cali Haan  |  

InfiniGold, a company “digitizing” gold reserves at the Perth Mint, has responded to Crowdfund Insider’s questions forwarded earlier this month regarding the companies’ plans to issue a Perth Mint Gold Token (PMGT) on the Ethereum blockchain. Andreas Ruf, CEO at Infinigold, began by describing both… Read More

October 25, 2019 @ 3:47 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Perth Mint says  its project to offer gold-backed Perth Mint Gold Tokens (PMGT), “is paying early dividends with a surge in investors registering to trade gold on digital platforms.” The mint and partner Infinigold tout the offering as, “the first digital gold token on… Read More

October 12, 2019 @ 5:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Perth Mint, a large “precious metals enterprise” in Australia, has announced it will be issuing, “the first digital gold token on a public blockchain-backed…1:1 by GoldPass certificates issued by The Perth Mint…” The release regarding this product does not state when the tokens will become… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 2:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just one week after launching its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, MarketOrders, a B2B platform that enables users to buy gold and diamond jewelry directly from international suppliers, has successfully secured its £400,000 funding target from nearly 100 investors. As previously reported, MarketOrders was founded… Read More

May 13, 2019 @ 11:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Austria-based fintech Bitpanda announced on Monday it has launched gold and silver trading for its one million users. Bitpanda reported that with Bitpanda Metals it is introducing the user experience and convenience of buying digital assets to the world of precious metals trading. Bitpanda also… Read More

December 17, 2018 @ 4:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Goldex, a UK-based trading technology platform that allows users to invest in physical gold, announced last week it secured more than £1 million through its pre-series A round, which was reportedly led by a group of prominent angel and institutional investors in the financial, payment and… Read More

October 2, 2018 @ 8:33 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A writer and analyst for Morningstar believes that, based on a comprehensive assessment, Bitcoin, “does not and will not challenge gold as a safe-haven asset class.” He follows that claim with a tip to buy Goldcorp stock. In a short article written for the large research and investment… Read More

July 16, 2018 @ 9:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Goldex, UK-based trading technology platform that allows users to invest in physical gold, announced on Monday it has launched in London. According to Goldex, retail customers may now have the chance to easily invest in physical gold at the best prices and use it as… Read More

February 13, 2018 @ 1:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic Protocol announced a “dark pool” for trading cryptocurrency in January. Today, Republic Protocol is taking the dark pool a step further by enabling Crypto to gold trading via a partnership with Digix. A dark pool is typically a private securities exchange where investors, usually… Read More

August 7, 2015 @ 12:49 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

    Would a “Safe Room,” a storage facility filled with 80 tonnes of silver and a tonne of gold, worth about S$120 million total, increase your confidence about participating in a peer-to-peer loan platform? Silver Bullion, a Singapore-based bullion retailer, is counting on it. The company just launched… Read More