Tagged: tezos

January 4, 2022 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Metaversal has announced a $50 million Series A funding round led by CoinFund and Foxhaven Asset. Metaversal states that round was oversubscribed and also includes participation from Collab+Currency, Dapper Labs, Digital Currency Group, Franklin Templeton, Galaxy Vision Hill, Narwhal Ventures, NGC Ventures, Rarible, Rockaway Blockchain… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DOGAMÍ, which claims to be the first-ever mass-market play-to-earn NFT game powered by Tezos (XTZ), has secured $6M in capital from Ubisoft, Animoca Brands, and The Sandbox co-founders. The funding from DOGAMI’s investment round should help with “establishing the future of pet ownership 3.0” and… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 10:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Plenty, a Tezos-based DeFi protocol, recently launched its routing feature, a move which should make DeFi on Tezos an easy-to-use and smooth experience, the company said. It offers yield farming and a decentralized exchange and allows onboarding from other blockchains. Its protocol allows users to… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 9:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

YouHodler, a Fintech platform that assists consumers with accessing the benefits of the crypto economy, has reportedly added support for Polkadot (DOT), Tezos (XTZ), TRON (TRX) and Aave (AAVE) tokens. YouHolder also noted in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider that they’ve established a 100%… Read More

August 26, 2021 @ 11:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tezos (XTZ) has been chosen to enable smart contracts for “leading” European banks, according to a recent update. Crypto Finance Group, InCore Bank, and Inacta announced on August 24, 2021, that they are selecting Tezos for “innovative, compliant on-chain digital financial products.” As mentioned in… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 6:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bender Labs and Plenty DeFi are rewarding users of the Tezos DeFi ecosystem. Plenty will create a $PLENTY pond where users can stake $PLENTY tokens to earn $WRAP governance tokens as rewards (Bender Labs launched Wrap Protocol). At the same time Wrap Protocol will create… Read More

July 25, 2021 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini announced earlier this week that they’re supporting Tez or XTZ, the native token of the Tezos ecosystem, which is one of the longest-running Proof of Stake or PoS blockchain networks. XTZ is currently available for trading and you may also now… Read More

June 9, 2021 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nate Maddrey and the Coin Metrics research team noted that during the past month, Ethereum (ETH) trading volumes have been catching up with Bitcoin (BTC) volume on Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange. Although Bitcoin led by a significantly large margin at the start of… Read More

May 4, 2021 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

METACO, a digital asset infrastructure provider serving financial institutions, has integrated with Tezos, a public blockchain. METACO provides an end-to-end solution for functionalities on Tezos and other major proof-of-stake and DeFi protocols, including; Aave, Uniswap, and Compound METACO provides digital asset services such as tokenization,… Read More

April 1, 2021 @ 2:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tezos has invested an undisclosed amount in venture firm Draper Goren Holm, an LA-based venture studio and fund that is a partnership between Tim Draper, Alon Goren, and Josef Holm. In 2017, Tezos raised a huge ICO that reportedly generated over $230 million in funding…. Read More

March 3, 2021 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wolfram Blockchain Labs will reportedly be integrating Tezos (XTZ) into the Wolfram Language and Wolfram|Alpha. Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL) and TQ Tezos recently confirmed the integration of Tezos to WBL’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. The Tezos blockchain is now “fully integrated” into the Wolfram… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZERO has partnered with ROI Group, a real estate development company, to digitize up to $50 million of preferred equity in a luxury hotel and residential development located in downtown Dubai, according to a release. The tokenization will utilize the Tezos Blockchain. This is said… Read More

December 4, 2020 @ 2:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

DealBox has made the leap from Stellar to Tezos and the company completed the process with the assistance of Vertalo. DealBox is a digital security platform that facilitates tokenization as well as investment crowdfunding. In migrating from Stellar, DealBox leveraged Vertalo’s digital transfer agent while… Read More

September 30, 2020 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain focused VC firm Draper Goren Holm has invested in Tezos Stable Technologies (StableTech), the Foundation for DeFi on Tezos. Draper Goren Holm led the recently closed seed round. StableTech seeks to coordinate the development and deployment of open-source DeFi projects. Tezos Stablecoin Foundation (TSF) is… Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, will be offering four new altcoin/USDT underlying “quanto” futures contracts for EOS, Chainlink (LINK), Tezos (XTZ), and Cardano (ADA). These new contracts are being introduced in order to expand the exchange’s existing altcoin (or… Read More

August 24, 2020 @ 11:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Aspen Digital, a digital security, is now trading on tZERO – a regulated ATS and subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK). Aspen Digital is utilizing the Tezos blockchain and is said to be the first digital security based on Tezos to trade on a marketplace. The shares… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain infrastructure developer, Bison Trails, revealed on August 20, 2020 that it has launched its double-signing protection software (DSP) which aims to address the risk of “slashing penalties” associated with double-signing messages for the same block on a distributed ledger tech (DLT) based platform. According… Read More

June 30, 2020 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feyyaz Alingan, the Founder of Blue Alpine Research, a Switzerland-based research firm focused on digital assets, has pointed out several “alternatives” to Bitcoin (BTC). Alingan, an electrical engineering graduate from ETH Zürich, says that Ethereum (ETH) may be considered a Bitcoin alternative. He notes that Ethereum’s… Read More

May 29, 2020 @ 7:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is focused on providing more ways for users to earn financial rewards by simply holding digital assets. Coinbase recently introduced Tezos (XTZ) staking rewards for its US-based customers. The exchange will now be offering this option to its UK clients… Read More

May 13, 2020 @ 1:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of researchers claims that most of the digital transactions on EOS, Tezos (XTZ) and with the Ripple company-associated XRP virtual token don’t actually transfer any “value.” Research published on arXiv reveals that merely 2% of transactions conducted on the XRP ledger and only… Read More