Tagged: token

March 16, 2020 @ 2:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Aurus, a UK-based fintech, scored a €1 million investment from Dubai-based venture capital Silver Rock Group for its gold-back token project. Founded in 2017, Aurus describes itself as a marketplace for crypto-currencies that represent shared ownership of physical assets. The company noted that together with… Read More

March 6, 2020 @ 2:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global digital asset exchange OKCoin, along with OK Group, announced on Friday its CEO Tim Byun has been appointed as Global Government Relations Officer (GGRO) of OKGroup. The OKCoin Board has appointed the company’s current Chairman, Hong Fang, to the position of CEO, effective March 31st. According to OKCoin,… Read More

June 11, 2019 @ 8:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global cryptocurrency exchange Liquid.com announced on Tuesday it has been selected by Gram Asia, the largest holder of Grams from Asia, to lead the upcoming public sale of Telegram Open Network (TON). According to Liquid.com, Gram is the native token of TON Blockchain, a decentralized network… Read More

January 18, 2019 @ 10:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BitTorrent, Inc., a peer-to-peer protocols and products firm, announced the expected release for BitTorrent Speed and its new crypto token, which will create a blockchain application for speedy uploading and downloading of files. According to BitTorrent, BitTorrent Speed is software that connects and rewards users with BitTorrent (BTT)… Read More

January 10, 2019 @ 3:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bitwise Asset Management, a provider of cryptoasset index and beta funds, announced on Thursday it has filed an initial registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a new proposed physically held bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). According to Bitwise, the… Read More

January 3, 2019 @ 1:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

BitTorrent, Inc., the company behind P2P communications protocol and products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, announced on Thursday the launch of its new token, which aims to expand upon its vision of a decentralized internet. According to BitTorrent, the new token, also called BitTorrent (BTT), will enable… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 1:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Boston-based Circle announced on Wednesday the launch of its USD coin. Circle reported that it and the CENTRE open source consortium introduced a service to tokenize US dollars and use those dollars over public blockchains on the internet, which is USD//Coin, also known as USDC. Circle previously announced plans… Read More

September 24, 2018 @ 4:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain FinTech company, Blackmoon, recently announced the launch of its Prime Meridian Capital token, BMxPMR, which the company states aims to bridge the gap between traditional and crypto investments through the inclusion of high portfolio transparency, flexible monthly liquidity, and audited fund structure. According to… Read More

May 22, 2018 @ 4:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

During May 29 and 29 June, decentralized gaming platform Playkey plans to buy back the PKT token on the HitBTC exchange. Although the buyback price will be determined by the exchange rate, the platform believes that the rate shouldn’t exceed $1.24 per PKT. During the… Read More

April 3, 2018 @ 12:28 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

2018 continues to be an exciting year full of innovation and successful funding rounds for Mobius. In January 2018, the company reportedly raised $35 million, claiming the “largest pre-sale of 2018.”  Then came the record MOBI initial coin offering public sale which sold out in two hours…. Read More

February 13, 2018 @ 11:11 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Augmate,  a B2B enterprise company specializing in wearable devices, has received a grant from BitcoinLatina to promote blockchain development in Latin America. BitcoinLatina provides blockchain solutions to scale Latin American consumer, enterprise, government, military, and university services and distributed applications. Its grant, which comes in… Read More

January 30, 2018 @ 10:52 am By Erin Hobey  |  

TrustToken, a global platform for tokenizing fiat currencies and real-world assets backed by Stanford-StartX, FJ Labs, and BlockTower Capital, launched TrueUSD, reportedly the first fiat-backed stablecoin to offer token-holders legally protected certificates of ownership of US Dollars. Seeking to claim wary Tether customers – especially given… Read More

November 13, 2017 @ 11:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Token, Inc., a turnkey open banking platform provider, announced on Monday it has formed a strategic partnership with Envestnet | Yodlee (ENV)to combine expertise in P2D2-compliant payments and financial data aggregation. Token stated its open banking operating system, TokenOS, enables banks to generate revenue from PSD2 compliant… Read More

October 30, 2017 @ 3:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain credit bureau MicroMoney announced over the weekend it is expanding its token distribution campaign into China and U.S. markets. This announcement comes just after the campaign generated $7.8 million. As previously reported, MicroMoney describes itself as a company that is focused on micro-financing in the… Read More

August 4, 2017 @ 1:31 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

The Swap protocol, a decentralized, P2P protocol for trading Ethereum tokens, announced the launch of its token, AIR*, and its token trading platform, AIRSWAP. On October 10, 2017, AIR will be available for purchase in ether. The launch will be a demonstration of the Swap… Read More

June 21, 2017 @ 1:32 am By Jonathan Nieh  |  

Last week, Bancor, a blockchain startup aiming to be the standard for smart tokens, held an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which raised over $144 million in a few hours. A recent post on Hacking, Distributed claims that Bancor’s ICO was flawed and there were a… Read More

June 8, 2017 @ 1:25 am By Jonathan Nieh  |  

According to a recent article on Trustnodes, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore’s central bank, has successfully digitized their national currency by a creating a token out of the Singapore dollar on Ethereum’s blockchain technology. Phase 1 Complete Last November, MAS announced Project Ubin: a… Read More

April 25, 2017 @ 9:45 pm By Jade Shi  |  

Token, a Silicon Valley cloud-based payment network, has raised $15.7 million in Series A funding for its banking platform, which helps financial services comply with EU regulations. The capital infusion will be leveraged to expand the Token platform in Europe. The company has crafted itself… Read More