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