Tagged: zilliqa

June 24, 2021 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hg Exchange (HGX), a private securities exchange established by a group of capital market intermediaries, reveals that it has graduated from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Fintech Regulatory Sandbox with a Recognized Market Operator (RMO) license. With its RMO permit, HGX may now serve… Read More

June 11, 2021 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based Zilliqa Research Pte. Ltd., the “high” security, high speed, and low fee Layer 1 blockchain protocol firm, and its sister company Zilliqa Capital Pte. Ltd, the tech firm whose goal is to become the “central business and investment hub” for Zilliqa, recently announced that… Read More

March 18, 2021 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Zilliqa, a blockchain ecosystem that seeks to offer services to enterprises, has announced an annual investment fund of up to USD$ 5 million for 15 companies building on the Zilliqa blockchain. Zilliqa strives to address the shortcomings of some established blockchains by providing a robust… Read More

February 19, 2021 @ 12:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

High-performance blockchain ecosystem Zilliqa has invested in XCADEMY, described as an online and mobile YouTube academy. The investment is part of a partnership where Zilliqa and XCADEMY plan a blockchain-based influencer economy, allowing content creators to monetize their content and incentivize user engagement by tokenization…. Read More

February 1, 2021 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Dr. Amrit Kumar, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Zilliqa, an enterprise-grade blockchain development platform. Many of the more popular iterations of blockchain are not sufficiently robust to handle the high transaction rates needed today – not to mention what businesses… Read More

January 10, 2021 @ 11:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Propine, a digital asset custody service provider, has “graduated” from the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Fintech Sandbox program. The company has been granted a Capital Markets Services (CMS) license and is now fully regulated by MAS. It is the first regulated firm of its… Read More

December 29, 2020 @ 9:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online capital formation has emerged as an effective path for private companies to raise much-needed growth capital fueling innovation and creating jobs. Once the realm of VCs and angel investors only, investment crowdfunding now enables retail investors to access promising young firms at an early… Read More

December 17, 2020 @ 11:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Singapore-based Propine, a regulated digital asset custodian, notes that 3 months ago, the company was selected by blockchain platform Zilliqa as one of 8 startups to take part in the ZILHive Accelerator program. The Propine team has now confirmed that they managed… Read More

October 26, 2020 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Dr. Amrit Kumar, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Zilliqa, an enterprise-grade blockchain development platform. Many of the more popular iterations of blockchain are not sufficiently robust to handle the high transaction rates needed today – not to mention what… Read More

September 17, 2020 @ 9:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hg Exchange (HGX), Southeast Asia’s first private securities exchange, has kicked off trading. Founding members of the exchange include PhillipCapital, Prime Partners, and Fundnel – a leading securities crowdfunding platform serving sophisticated investors across Asia. Richard Teng, formerly an executive at the Monetary Authority of… Read More

September 4, 2020 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Speedy blockchain Zilliqa has announced its 2020-2021 cohort of companies participating in the ZILHive Accelerator program, a 6-month blockchain startup accelerator designed to support early and late-stage startups may use the Zilliqa protocol to build blockchain solutions. According to Zilliqa, this year’s cohort has been… Read More

August 1, 2020 @ 1:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilliqa, a “high-performance” and “high-security” blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-based platform, recently revealed that it has chosen Singapore’s digital currency custody service, Onchain Custodian, to secure its network’s assets. As mentioned in a release shared with CI: “In working with the firm, the Zilliqa… Read More

July 10, 2020 @ 5:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zilliqa, an enterprise-level blockchain platform, says it will work with Binance to bring the BUSD stablecoin onto the Zilliqa network. The BUSD stablecoin, issued in partnership with the Paxos Trust Company, is regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services and audited on a… Read More

June 19, 2020 @ 10:50 am By JD Alois  |  

A new private securities exchange, Hg Exchange, has joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Fintech Sandbox. Hg Exchange’s tenure at the Fintech Sandbox begins on June 22, 2020, and is scheduled to last until December of this year. Hg Exchange will offer 24/7 trading… Read More

May 17, 2020 @ 4:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based Anquan Capital Pte. Ltd, a group of technology firms, has teamed up with the Fintech division of Germany’s WEG Bank AG, which offers services under the TEN31 brand name. Anquan Capital has established several innovative tech companies including Anqlave, Aqilli, and Zilliqa. TEN31 Bank,… Read More

April 4, 2020 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kenneth Bok, head of growth and strategy at Zilliqa, an established blockchain project that provides infrastucture to StraitsX, a stablecoin initiative introduced by the Fintech payments provider Xfers, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Xfers is accredited by the Monetary Authority of… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 10:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Singapore based Zilliqa, a speedy blockchain platform, has partnered with Switcheo, to launch a “non-custodial, decentralised exchange” (DEX). Zilliqa and Switcheo are said to be working towards a minimum viable product and rounds of internal testing by the end of Q2 2020 and external user… Read More

November 29, 2019 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilliqa, a blockchain-based platform that aims to deliver high-throughput and high-security, has teamed up with Elliptic, a provider of digital asset risk management software for crypto firms and financial institutions. According to a press release shared with Crowdfund Insider, the partnership between Zilliqa and Elliptic… Read More

November 1, 2019 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-headquartered Zilliqa, a high-throughput public blockchain network for building decentralized applications (dApps), is preparing to launch the return of Blockchain A-Z, a series of educational workshops on distributed ledger technology (DLT).  According to a press release shared with CrowdFund Insider, Zilliqa is teaming up with… Read More

June 10, 2019 @ 9:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Aspiring Ethereum replacement Zilliqa has launched smart contract functionality on its blockchain platform. Zilliqa is one of a handful of blockchain platforms seeking to address shortcomings in the sector. Zilliqa using sharding to speed up its transactional rate – a priority for many potential blockchain… Read More