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Big Money: ChainSafe Raises $18.75 Million Series-A

Web3 infrastructure provider ChainSafe Systems has raised USD $18.75 million in a Series A funding round that was reportedly oversubscribed. According to a release, the funding was led byRound13 with participation from new investors NGC Ventures, HashKey Capital, Sfermion, Jsquare, and returning investors ConsenSys, Digital… Read More

New York based Blockchain Firm ConsenSys Acquires $200M to Expand Products like MetaMask, Infura

Blockchain-based solutions provider ConsenSys announced earlier this week that it had finalized a $200 million round, bringing its valuation to around $3.2 billion. New investors Marshall Wace, Third Point, ParaFi Capital, and Think Investments took part in ConsenSys‘ latest investments round. New partners that contributed… Read More

Mark Cuban and ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin Backed Nifty’s Appoints Olta Andoni, as NFT Legal Expert

Billionaire Mark Cuban-backed Nifty’s has reportedly hired Olta Andoni, an NFT copyright legal expert as its new Chief Legal Officer. Andoni will notably be the first CLO of the nascent non-fungible token or NFT-focused social media platform. Nifty’s is a fairly new online network for… Read More

Ethereum Development Studio ConsenSys, HENI Group, Heyday Films Launch Palm NFT Studio, an Innovation Lab for Digital Artists

ConsenSys, HENI Group, and Heyday Films launched Palm NFT Studio on March 30, 2021. It’s described as an “innovation” lab that’s been set up to “collaborate with artists, marketplaces, and rights holders to bring projects and platforms into the Palm ecosystem.” As mentioned in a… Read More

Ethereum Development Studio ConsenSys Acquires Truffle, a Widely Used Set of Blockchain Developer Tools

New York-based ConsenSys, a company that supports Ethereum (ETH) development and various other blockchain-focused initiatives, has reportedly acquired the team and technology of Truffle. As mentioned in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider, Truffle Suite is one of the most widely used blockchain or distributed… Read More

New York based Blockchain Firm ConsenSys Acquires JP Morgan’s Quorum, a Permissioned Version of Ethereum

Brooklyn, New York based ConsenSys, a blockchain software company focused on Ethereum (ETH) development, has acquired JPMorgan’s (NYSE: JPM) Quorum, which aims to serve as an enterprise-variant or version of the Ethereum protocol. As mentioned in a release shared with CI, even before the first… Read More

Blockchain-focused Project Covantis, Backed by Agri-Business Giant Cargill, Chooses ConsenSys as Tech Partner

Covantis, a blockchain-focused project backed by multinational agri-business companies such as Cargill, has reportedly chosen ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, New York-based Ethereum development studio, as its technology partner. Through Convantis’ partnership with ConsenSys, the Ethereum-based software developer will create a blockchain-powered platform to fully digitize the… Read More

Ethereum Development Studio ConsenSys Announces Codefi, A New DeFi Software Suite

ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin announced at the Ethereal Tel Aviv press conference (on September 15) that his New York-based venture studio is launching a new product, Codefi, for the emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Lubin, a computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton University, remarked:… Read More

Will Blockchain Automate Lawyering? Yes and No.

At a recent cryptocurrency conference in Toronto, Dmitry Buterin, father of Ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin and himself a technologist and programmer, floated the idea of an AI judge making better decisions than a human judge hungry for lunch. Judges, said Buterin, are known for issuing… Read More

SEC Again Urges ICO Issuers to Make Contact About Compliance

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairperson Jay Clayton told an audience in Washington Tuesday that companies seeking to raise funds via digital tokens in an Initial Coin Offering should be proactive in contacting the agency regarding compliance, Law360 reports. “We’re open for business,” said Clayton…. Read More

Ethereum Co-Founder Joseph Lubin Confident Ethereum “Not a Security”

Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joseph Lubin told The Street last week that he is “extremely comfortable” that Ethereum does not qualify as a security under US law. “We spent a tremendous amount of time with lawyers in the U.S. and in other countries…it never… Read More

ConsenSys and Swiss Crypto Valley Association Partner Up

The Crypto Valley Association (CVA), based in Zug, Switzerland, has announced a new partnership with ConsenSys. According to CVA, ConsenSys will chair new Enterprise Blockchain Working Group, while joining the existing Regulatory and Policy Working Group. Consensys is a huge, global organization. Today it claims 750+ blockchain experts… Read More

Virtue Poker: Blockchain’s Peer-to-Peer Trust Functions Disrupting Fairness Issues in Gambling.

One of Ethereum’s cofounders, Joseph Lubin, is backing a new online poker platform built on Ethereum, a programmable cryptocurrency and cousin of Bitcoin. Virtue Poker promises to eliminate problems that may have informed a US-wide shut down of the online poker industry in 2011, a… Read More

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