Tagged: privacy

January 17, 2022 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology, the project that aims to bring trust, privacy, and security to Web 3.0 via decentralized identity and data solutions, recently announced the opening of a new European office in Berlin, Germany. As mentioned in an update shared with CI, Ontology’s move reflects its alignment… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Bitcoin-focused firm Casa recently shared some notable privacy and security stories from last year. Casa wrote in a blog post that as technology continues to make advances, the world of privacy and security changes along with it. The end of 2021 saw… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at ARPA reveals that they’re partnering with Wintermute, a global algorithmic market maker in digital assets. As explained in the update, Wintermute will help ARPA for liquidity provision on centralized and decentralized exchanges. It will support ARPA fiat currency pairs like ARPA/EUR, ARPA/USD,… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash, a cryptocurrency focused on privacy and anonymity, is currently available to trade on Okcoin – “with some of the lowest fees around.” Customers are able to “deposit, withdraw, and trade ZEC against USD on Okcoin.” All Okcoin clients may perform transactions with Zcash including… 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

November 25, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Panther Protocol, an end-to-end privacy solution that creates privacy for decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web 3.0 users across public blockchains, has secured more than $22 million as part of their Public Sale. This brings the total amount secured by the project to $32 million. Panther… Read More

November 13, 2021 @ 11:07 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Aleph Zero, a company using blockchain technology to serve the unique needs of the enterprise, today launched their mainnet. The development comes on the heels of a successful $14.8 million private sale. The funding comes from pre-seed and seed funding rounds in addition to its… Read More

October 5, 2021 @ 9:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Duality Technologies, a provider of privacy-enhanced data collaboration solutions, reveals that it has secured $30 million via a Series B round, bringing its total funding to $49 million. The company’s round was reportedly led by LG Technology Ventures along with contributions from Euclidean Capital and… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Partisia Blockchain, the Web 3.0 public (or permissionless) blockchain developed for trust, transparency, and privacy, recently confirmed the appointment of experienced cryptographer Christian Cachin to their team. Dr. Christian Cachin, a former computer scientist working at IBM, has joined the team as a Consensus and… Read More

July 8, 2021 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taproot has now been locked in and should activate in November of this year. Taproot is the name of various technological innovations that have all been bundled together. When they are activated, they should make Bitcoin (BTC) transactions significantly cheaper and also more private, along… Read More

June 2, 2021 @ 12:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueAccord, a Fintech that aims to transform debt collection into “a pathway toward financial health,” recently revealed that Ohad Samet, CEO and Co-founder of TrueAccord Group, has been named to the inaugural debt collection advisory committee of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation… Read More

May 30, 2021 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia-based COMIT Network, a research and development (R&D) workgroup, recently announced that “trustless” atomic swaps between Monero (XMR) and Bitcoin (BTC) are currently live on Mainnet. According to a release, this allows users to trade XMR for BTC without having to trust a third-party or… Read More

May 1, 2021 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The developers at Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, have revealed that Compute-to-Data has landed in the Ocean Market. According to the Ocean Protocol team, Compute-to-Data “enables buying… Read More

March 29, 2021 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of the Mina Protocol recently shared how they’re creating a private gateway between the “real world” and “crypto.” The development team noted in a blog post: “At Mina, our ambition is to design technology that empowers people. To rebalance the scales and give… Read More

March 24, 2021 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s officials have addressed concerns that the digital yuan may be violating or infringing on user privacy. They’ve looked into questions related to “controllable anonymity” as well. STCN reports that on March 20, 2021, Mu Changchun, Director of the Digital Currency Research Institute of the… Read More

December 23, 2020 @ 7:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mark Goldberg, partner at Index Ventures and an investor in Plaid, Intercom, and Transcend, has shared some interesting predictions around where Fintech might be heading in the next 10 years. 1/ Using the end of year to look ahead — here are 5 predictions around… Read More

October 20, 2020 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

What consumers might say and what actions they take when it comes to sharing personal financial data (via Open Banking) are two different things, ING Bank notes. Although there are many tools to help improve our financial lives, the findings of an ING global survey… Read More

October 19, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase, says that trust is built through “transparency and honesty.” Grewal, the former VP and Deputy General Counsel at Facebook, writes in a blog post that as Coinbase continues its journey toward becoming the “most trusted” venue for traders… Read More

September 18, 2020 @ 12:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

John Izaguirre, the Business Director, Europe at Ontology, a high-performance or high-throughput blockchain platform, believes that privacy is a basic human right. Izaguiree notes that data is becoming a very important topic for both individuals and companies. However, he believes that the Internet is still… Read More

August 29, 2020 @ 11:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Oasis Foundation, which supports the development of the Oasis Network and its ecosystem, has revealed that it will be integrating with Chainlink’s (LINK) “decentralized” oracles, in order to provide support for decentralized finance (DeFi) apps. The integration will also support privacy-oriented blockchain dApps implemented… Read More