Tagged: public blockchains

October 2, 2021 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology Network, a high-performance, open-source blockchain focused on digital identity and data, writes in a blog dated October 1 that on September 21, 2021, Ontology, in collaboration with AP. LLC, a Japanese consulting company with “strong ties” to local research institutes and researchers, confirmed that… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 10:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polychain and Three Arrows Capital have led a $230 million investment in the Avalanche public blockchain ecosystem. They’ve been joined by R/Crypto Fund, Dragonfly, CMS Holdings, Collab+Currency, Lvna Capital and several angel investors and family offices. The Avalanche Foundation will be using the funds from… Read More

July 23, 2021 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG has been awarded a patent for Chain Fusion. KPMG LLP confirms that the patent was provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for Chain FusionTM, which is a suite of advanced analytics capabilities developed on crypto-asset data and infrastructure products. The solution… Read More

June 5, 2021 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nervos, China’s leading public blockchain, and the team at IOHK, a global blockchain engineering firm and creators of the Cardano (ADA) blockchain, recently revealed that they are  forming a cross-chain bridge that will link the Cardano and Nervos networks. As mentioned in a release shared… Read More

May 16, 2021 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The founders of Deribit, a crypto futures and options exchange, have reportedly invested $2.5 million into the operations of Attrace, which claims to be the very first “decentralized” referral network. Attrace aims to become a referral standard for “any tokenized asset on any blockchain in… Read More

March 7, 2021 @ 5:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOST has teamed up with Polkadot for a cross-chain interoperability “breakthrough” and successfully completed the testnet for its cross-chain bridge. With the rise of cross-chain (communicating between different blockchains) technology leader Polkadot in 2021, side-chain and cross-chain technologies are now a “must-have” for public or… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kadena, the first blockchain tech-focused firm to come out of J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, confirmed in August 2020 that they had performed major updates to their scalable layer-1 public blockchain network. Kadena’s developers claim that they have one of the fastest blockchain platforms… Read More

September 19, 2020 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Harriet Cao, co-founder at the IRIS Foundation, an organization that supports the ongoing development of IRISnet, a platform that serves as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, says that China’s Blockchain Service Network (BSN) is a “relevant step” forward when it comes adopting… Read More

September 13, 2020 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockstream, a company focused on developing various products to support Bitcoin (BTC) adoption, claims that the flagship cryptocurrency is “under threat” from a body of patents being collected by firms operating inside and outside of the digital asset sector. Blockstream argues that if some of… Read More

July 23, 2020 @ 12:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Open-source blockchain platform Nervos announced on July 22, 2020 that it’s planning to integrate with China’s Blockchain-based Services Network (BSN). Nervos claims that it will be one of the first public blockchains to join the distributed ledger technology (DLT)-powered network. As mentioned in a release… Read More

July 8, 2020 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyber Network, a protocol that aggregates on-chain liquidity (on blockchains) and facilitates “decentralized” token trading, has introduced the Katalyst protocol update to better fulfill the liquidity requirements of the decentralized blockchain ecosystem. As mentioned in a release shared with CI: “Katalyst [aims to] harmonize Kyber’s… Read More

April 11, 2020 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past few years, blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been adopted by a large number of companies from several major industries. There are currently hundreds of different DLT platforms being operated across the globe. Most of these blockchain-enabled networks are unable to… Read More