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PBoC Secures $4.7M Funding for its Blockchain Trade Finance Platform From Chinese Govt
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has secured a funding of 32. 5 million yuan ($4. 7 million) for its blockchain trade finance platform for key research and development projects. The country’s central bank has been spearheading this platform that was launched in Sept. дальше »
2020-3-10 22:09
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Zabo Raises $2.5M From Moonshots Capital, Tezos To Bring Crypto Into The Mainstream
The crypto software company Zabo, which claims to directly connect bank accounts and crypto wallets, has just raised $2. 5 million in funding so that it can start adding new customers and building its engineering team. дальше »
2020-3-6 22:06
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Web3 Foundation Is Funding a Project To Bring Bitcoin to Polkadot Via BTC-Parachain
The non-profit organization behind Polkadot, which is the Web3 Foundation, has decided to finance a new bridge that links the blockchain Polkadot network to Bitcoin (BTC). The London-based developer company Interlay is going to be funded by Web3 and build a BTC Parachain that brings BTC-backed assets onto the Polkadot network. The parachain will use […] дальше »
2020-3-6 21:23
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HTC’s New Exodus 5G Hub, A Secure Router Can Run A Full Bitcoin Node and Privacy Apps
The Taiwan-based tech company HTC has just launched a new 5G router that also supports the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. Meet the EXODUS 5G Hub, a router that can run its own #Bitcoin full node, just like the EXODUS 1 or 1s, through Zion. дальше »
2020-3-4 20:06
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Marshall Islands to Issue Digital Currency (SOV) Utilizing Algorand’s Blockchain Tech
The Marshallese sovereign (SOV) will be developed by SFB Technologies. In a statement, SFB’s CTO and co-founder, Jim Wagner, said Algorand has been chosen after an extensive research, also that is scalable and secure enough to properly issue and manage the SOV. дальше »
2020-3-4 20:44
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Vulnerabilities Shake Trust In Blockchain Voting App; West Virginia Turns Back to Paper
The blockchain-based voting app, Voatz, will no longer be used by West Virginia. The news comes after researchers discovered vulnerabilities within the app. On February 29, it was reported by NBC News that West Virginia's secretary of state, Mac Warner, announced that disabled and overseas voter will not be able to use mobile apps in […] дальше »
2020-3-3 22:56
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Compound Protocol Moves Towards Decentralization With COMP Governance Token Launch
Compound is setting its project to a decentralized governance system as it experiments with a testnet launched on Wednesday. The Open Finance backed startup is looking to grant its users the power to propose and vote for implementations to occur on the platform without requiring permissions from the compound team. A tokenization process will be […] дальше »
2020-2-27 00:22
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ConsenSys Health To Spin-Off; Will Focus On Ethereum Based Healthcare Solutions
The Ethereum-focused firm founded by Joseph Lubin, ConsenSys, announced yesterday that it will branch off its health division, dubbed ConsenSys Health. The new independent division will focus on creating solutions for the US healthcare industry. дальше »
2020-2-27 20:06
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Cryptokitties Developer Dapper Labs Brings UFC Collectibles To Ethereum Blockchain
Blockchain is taking its place in the octagon after a partnership announcement between highly rated Ethereum based game, CryptoKitties’ creator, Dapper Labs and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The partnership will see the blockchain-based firm create tradable collectibles of UFC fighters such as Conor McGregor and Khabib. дальше »
2020-2-26 20:25
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CULedger Rolls Out Blockchain Identity Platform, MemberPass For Commercial Use
On Feb. 21, CULedger, a fintech company that is backed by the American trade association, announced that it has commercially rolled on its blockchain identity platform dubbed MemberPass following successful testing of the platform late last last year. дальше »
2020-2-25 00:44
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Blockchain Advocate Caitlin Long To Bring First Digital Asset Focused Bank To Wyoming
A Wyoming company that was founded by Wall Street and blockchain legislative champion Caitlin Long is applying for a banking state division special purpose depository institution (SPDI) approval. Caitlin Long announced on Monday that the bank is going to be called Avanti. дальше »
2020-2-25 20:51
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Top Medical Firms Set to Develop a Blockchain Solution to Prevent Counterfeit Drug Supply
In an announcement released on Feb. 21, a number of global medical firms are entering into the blockchain space to create a decentralized solution to combat counterfeit drugs from the U. S and global markets. дальше »
2020-2-22 20:14
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Northern Data Teams Up With Canaan Creative For Blockchain And AI Development
The globe’s second biggest Bitcoin mining equipment developer, Canaan Creative is joining forces with Norther Data AG, a blockchain infrastructure company, to combine their synergies in various fields related to the blockchain and crypto industry. дальше »
2020-2-20 00:00
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Contents Protocol Refunds $8M ICO, Shuts Down Due To Crypto’s Negative Perceptions
Content-sharing platform, Contents Protocol has announced on Wednesday that is shutting down and will refund investors the $7. 5 million worth of Ether (ETH) that were raised in the initial coin offering (ICO). дальше »
2020-2-20 23:23
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Indian State Telangana Govt Launches Blockchain Accelerator With Tech Mahindra
The IT arm of Mahindra Group and the Telangana government have closed a partnership and aims to launch a blockchain accelerator that will be a model for future accelerators in India. The T-Block accelerator will foster blockchain startups that know how to use the technology in the real world and contribute to the growth of […] дальше »
2020-2-20 23:02
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Microsoft Azure Integrates Lition’s Blockchain Tech to Scale Commercial Operations
Microsoft is one of the fast-moving IT giants in blockchain research for leverage with their existing services. The firm recently integrated Lition blockchain which is set to fulfill a commercial purpose in its cloud product, Microsoft Azure. дальше »
2020-2-20 21:52
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Cloud Storage Platform Sia Launches Decentralized CDN, Skynet, For File Sharing
Nebulous has launched the Skynet platform for enabling low-cost and high-speed file sharing and content distribution. It should be noted that developers at Nebulous have also created the Sia decentralized cloud storage network. дальше »
2020-2-19 00:38
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DeFi App Celsius Partners With Simplex to Integrate Fiat Onramp To Buy Crypto Direct
The UK-based crypto lending firm Celsius Network has just closed a partnership with Simplex so that it can offer in-app crypto purchases, an announcement from February 18 says. More and more crypto business from all over the world are trying to integrate into their operations the fiat onramp options for their customers to jump into […] дальше »
2020-2-19 23:33
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Blocknox, Boerse Stuttgart Subsidiary, Expands Crypto Custody To Institutional Investors
Boerse Stuttgart subsidiary Blocknox has expanded its crypto custody services to institutional investors, says an announcement made on Tuesday. Blocknox is already known for offering crypto custody assets services on the escrow basis, but now it has made the same service available to Boerse Stuttgart BISON app’s users and the BSDEX digital assets exchange. The […] дальше »
2020-2-19 22:38
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DeFi Startup Amber Raises $28M From Pantera, Coinbase To Expand Operations
The Hong Kong-based firm offering crypto finance services Amber Group has managed to raise $28 million in Series A round of funding. The main investors were Pantera Capital, Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital, Fenbushi Capital and Blockchain. дальше »
2020-2-15 21:38
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Ex-Wall Street Team Builds ExOne Platform To Battle The ‘Fragmented’ Crypto Market
On Wednesday this week, XRP perpetual contracts on BitMEX experienced a flash crash causing an outrage from users, some complaining that their whole account was wiped out. For a relatively big exchange like BitMEX flash crashes should be rare but happens all the time due to liquidity issues as the crypto market continues to mature. […] дальше »
2020-2-14 19:26
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People’s Bank of China Has Filed 84 Digital Payment Patents For CBDC’s: Report
According to the Chamber of Digital Commerce, China has filed 84 patents for the digital yuan, its new upcoming digital currency. The patents date to 2017 and are credited to the People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) Digital Currency Institute. дальше »
2020-2-14 00:55
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Northern Data To Host SBI Crypto Servers At Largest BTC Mining Facility In The US
Japanese financial services behemoth SBI Holdings’ subsidiaries is forming a partnership with Whinstone US Inc. , the data centers operator of the Texas-based German tech company Northern Data AG. The news was released on February 13. дальше »
2020-2-13 20:55
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Former Apple Card & Pay Lead Joins Santander To Head Global Digital Payments
An Apple payments products executive, Trish Burgess, has joined the Spain-based bank Santander’s peer-to-peer (P2P) global payments team. As an announcement from Thursday says, Santander is looking to expand it digital payments services in order to make them global. дальше »
2020-2-13 20:38
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Is Wells Fargo Looking To Connect To Crypto Exchanges With A $5M Elliptic Investment?
Wells Fargo made a $5 million investment in the startup Elliptic, which is known for connecting crypto exchanges with banks. The announcement was made on Thursday that Wells Fargo Strategic Capital (WFSC) has helped Elliptic to raise $28 million in a Series B funding. дальше »
2020-2-13 19:22
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ConsenSys Codefi’s Activate To Launch Its “Proof-Of-Use” Token Platform With SKALE
Activate, a Consensys backed token platform, has announced making its maiden token launch with the SKALE mainnet. Built by the ConsenSys Codefi, it is set to allow the users inputs in the sales of the tokens. дальше »
2020-2-12 23:51
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Google Cloud Joins Hedera Hashgraph’s Governing Council To Instill Protocol Reliability
Google Cloud is now a member of the distributed ledger firm Hedera Hashgraph’s governing body, as an announcement from Tuesday says. This is from a blog post from the cloud-focused business unit reads: “As part of our council membership, Google Cloud will operate a Hedera network node, and make the ledger data available for analytics alongside […] дальше »
2020-2-11 20:20
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MouseBelt’s Blockchain Education Alliance Adds Mastercard, Binance X, Xpring, KuCoin and NEO
Launched by MouseBelt, which is a blockchain accelerator, the Blockchain Education Alliance has gained a few important new members. The announcement was made by the MouseBelt Blockchain Accelerator’s university program director Ashlie Meredith, on February 11. дальше »
2020-2-11 20:02
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Australia Releases Roadmap To A ‘Blockchain-Empowered Future’
The Australian government will release its national blockchain roadmap on Friday, February 7, after almost a year of preparations. It’s been about a year since the Ministry for Trade, Tourism and Investment and the Ministry for Industry, Science and Technology in Australia have made the announcement for the country’s national blockchain strategy that aims for […] дальше »
2020-2-8 23:33
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Real-Time Payment Network Transparent Raises $14M From Pantera, Jack Dorsey’s Square
Transparent Financial Systems is in the process of creating a decentralized compensation settlement system. The startup, based in Seattle just finished their Series A fundraising round which saw a total of fourteen million dollars raised. дальше »
2020-2-6 18:30
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NYSE, Bakkt, & eBay Under One Roof? ICE Makes a Takeover Offer to eBay
The Wall Street Journal has just reported that a company that owns the NY Stock Exchange, just made an offer of $30 billion dollars for eBay, the company is the well known Intercontinental Exchange and located in Atlanta. дальше »
2020-2-6 00:45
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Digital Securities Platform Securitize Gets Investment From Sony Financial Ventures, Global Brain
Sony has joined Santander, MUFG, and Nomura and has invested in Securitize. Sony made this move after the latest funding round held by Securitize, which showed the participating venture capital companies had raise a total of fourteen million dollars. дальше »
2020-2-5 18:24
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New Bitcoin Bank App Launched By Twitter, Medium Co-Founder Backed Fintech Firm Mode
Biz Stone, the Medium & Twitter co-founder has invested in a financial services company called Mode. The company has just released a BTC (Bitcoin) banking application for use in iOS gadgets. The UK-based firm said that the application will be available globally, but users in the United States would not have access to it yet. […] дальше »
2020-2-5 21:05
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Cambodia’s CBDC Initiative, Project Bakong Payments App, Countdown Has Begun
The Phnom Penh Post reports that within the next couple or more months, Cambodia’s central bank is going to launch its own blockchain-based peer-to-peer money platform. The system is called Project Bakong and it will be a central bank digital currency (CBDC) – backed payments app. дальше »
2020-1-31 22:03
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Swiss-Based Overture To Become First Authorized IPO On Ethereum Blockchain
As firm in Switzerland, is now permitted to integrate a blockchain IPO that offers tokenized shares. In an announcement made Wednesday, Andriotto Financial Services says that Overture, the firm for which it offers financial advice, is going to provide something different than what other security offerings do: “The company has approved the first Swiss articles […] дальше »
2020-1-29 20:14
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World’s Largest Oil Firm Saudi Aramco, Drops $5M Into Vakt’s Blockchain Trading Platform
A leading oil corporation from Saudi recently invested $5 million towards a blockchain based startup dubbed ‘Vakt’. Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), initiated the transaction through its investment wing and has since joined 11 other investors who were initially part of the project. дальше »
2020-1-29 21:04
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Swiss Private Banking Giant Julius Baer Adds Digital Asset Trading And Crypto Custody Services
The major Swiss wealth management and private banking group Julius Baer just launched, in partnership with Seba, its new custodial and trading cryptocurrency services. The announcement was made on January 21, after the minority equity stake acquisition from 2018 and the partnership closed with Seba Bank AG, which happened back in February 2019. According to […] дальше »
2020-1-27 20:59
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Harmony To Start Rolling Out ONE Token Swap To Native Blockchain
Holders of Harmony’s ONE token who want to participate in the network activities should prepare to swap their BEP-2 (Binance chain) and ERC-20 (Ethereum) tokens for Harmony’s native blockchain coin. The announcement that the Harmony’s token swap is ready to start was made on a blog post Thursday and it said: “The native ONE token […] дальше »
2020-1-26 07:56
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Travala Expands Its Crypto Payments Options By Adding NEM’s XEM Token
Travel platform Travala, a firm that allows its customers to pay for hotel accommodations using digital currencies, has partnered with the NEM Foundation to support XEM token payments. In a blog post, Travala and NEM Foundation announced that XEM has been integrated as a payment option on Travala’s platform. In this regard, XEM is now […] дальше »
2020-1-26 17:42
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BIS Survey Reveals CBDC’s Are Moving From ‘Conceptual’ To ‘Intensive Practical Development’
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) conducted a survey, showing roughly ten percent of central banks are expected to issue a Central Bank Digital Currency in the near future. The BIS report was released on January 23 and presented the results from a survey conducted on 66 central banks from all over the world, investigations […] дальше »
2020-1-24 00:30
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Monerium Partners With Algorand To Put Its Regulated E-Money On The Blockchain
Monerium which is regulated to offer e-money in the European Economic Area (EEA), is teaming up with Algorand in a non-exclusive partnership deal to introduce fiat money transactions within the Algorand blockchain platform, CoinDesk reports. дальше »
2020-1-22 00:03
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Budweiser Brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Uses Blockchain Technology To Help African Farmers Get Paid
The AB InBev Budweiser owner is offering African farmers the opportunity to prove their revenue by using a blockchain-based system that was developed in a partnership with BanQu. The system tracks and replaces the AB InBev local suppliers and removes all the burden of paper trails. дальше »
2020-1-22 21:50
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Venezuela Pres. Maduro Still Trying to Promote Petro With International Crypto Casino Launch
Nicolas Maduro has at long last authorized the opening of an International Casino in a luxurious Hotel, in the city of Caracas. The casino will be in support of the Petro (PTR) and Public. This means that the casino will operate with Venezuela’s cryptocurrency Petro and the funds will be used to support the public […] дальше »
2020-1-21 18:57
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Swiss Crypto-Friendly SEBA Bank To Raise An Additional $96.5M 2 Months After Getting License
SEBA, is the famous crypto bank which obtained its regulatory license last year in November from the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). The crypto asset bank is looking to raise a secondary capital of 100 million Swiss Francs which is equivalent to $95 million US Dollar, reported Financial News London. SEBA and its competitor Sygnum […] дальше »
2020-1-18 18:45
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Chrysler Building’s Blockchain Real Estate Owners To Sell Building In Zurich, $135M Cash & ERC20
The current owner of the Chrysler building is offloading a property valued at around $135 million to a blockchain-based real estate firm. It’s expected that the buyers will pay a fifth of the asking price in the form of tokenized securities. дальше »
2020-1-18 23:45
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Akon Finalizes Agreement to Build ‘Akon City’ to be Run Entirely on Akoin
Singer Akon has officially announced that the paperwork has been signed to launch Akon City in the West African country. On Monday, the singer took to Twitter to announce that he had finalized an agreement to build a 2,000-acre “Akon City” in Senegal. дальше »
2020-1-16 18:27
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Anchorage Adds To Crypto Product Suite; Analytics, Brokerage, Custody, and Staking
Anchorage, the cryptocurrency custody company is slated to start providing crypto brokerage services, thanks to its latest acquisition of Merkle Data. This deal is meant to help them enhance their services. дальше »
2020-1-16 17:15
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JPMorgan’s DLT Spinoff Kadena Debuts The First Hybrid Blockchain, Adds Cosmos Network to Wallet
Kadena, a crypto startup which is a spinoff of JPMorgan’s blockchain center has rolled on its own public blockchain which marks what they termed as the first hybrid blockchain in the industry, Cointelegraph reports. дальше »
2020-1-16 01:26
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Blockchain is The Most In-Demand Skill on LinkedIn for 2020
While creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability, and emotional intelligence are the top 5 most in-demand soft skills, Blockchain is ruling among the hard skills. Blockchain is the new entrant in the most in-demand hard skills which are about what we’re working on. дальше »
2020-1-14 17:30
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Chinese Smartphone Retail Giant Invests In Decentralized Cloud Storage Firm, Monsoon Blockchain
A subsidiary of D. Phone, one of the largest Chinese mobile phone retailers, has made its first steps into the blockchain space by acquiring a minority stake in Monsoon Blockchain, a US startup. It seems Dixintong Technology Group and Monsoon Blockchain signed the purchase on January 7. дальше »
2020-1-14 00:53
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