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Helix Labs has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round, valuing the company at $40 million. The funding was led by Tribe Capital, EMURGO Ventures, Taureon Capital, LD Capital, and Double Peak Group, according to a company press release.… origin »
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Overstock interim CEO Jonathan Johnson, in an investor call on Monday with shareholders offered an update on the status of Makara Capital's probable investment tZERO, the company's security token exchange, Cointelegraph reports.
2019-8-27 23:10 | |
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HashKey Capital, a venture capital firm based in Hong Kong, has recently invested in another Asian company called Terra. Terra is a stablecoin provider which also manages a payment network. Instead of using the investment to buy equity at the other company, HashKey Capital decided to buy tokens instead. The venture capital company bought several […]
2019-8-27 22:25 | |
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Circle Internet Financial, a leading fintech company offering institutions and individuals a platform to trade cryptos and raise capital, is looking to hire a general partner to help raise and deploy a new $100 million venture fund in collaboration with SeedInvest, according to reports on August 23, 2019.
2019-8-24 19:00 | |
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Starting today, customers of Anchorage will be able to store both Stellar and Tezos tokens on the custodian’s wallet. Anchorage is an institutional crypto custodian that was backed by the giant of venture capital Andreessen Horowitz.
2019-8-22 02:16 | |
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has recently decided to approve IOI Capital and Market’s application for membership. The new company is set to offer digital securities based on the Hyperledger Fabric technology.
2019-8-21 21:39 | |
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Black Manta Capital Partners, a financial company based in Luxembourg, has recently received the license from the German regulator BaFin (Federal Financial Supervisory Authority). With the license, the company will now be able to start offering Security Token Offering (STO).
2019-8-20 22:24 | |
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Black Manta Capital Partners (BMCP) announced the successful reception of the BaFin licence. As a result of the licence, the company will be able to “provide regulated financial brokerage services using blockchain technology in accordance with the MiFID II regime.
2019-8-19 16:48 | |
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Coinspeaker Silvergate Bank Plans to Offer Crypto Loans to Institutional ClientsSilvergate Capital Corporation, which is the holding company of Silvergate Bank, announced that they are planning to offer cryptocurrency-based loans to institutional customers.
2019-8-19 15:39 | |
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Mark Yusko, CEO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, an institutional and high-income investment management company, said Bitcoin remains a safe haven despite falling. Not trying to analyze the reasons for the collapse of Bitcoin, the financier draws attention to the bubble of bonds, the largest in history, in his opinion. Mark Yusko stated in a […]
2019-8-16 18:12 | |
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Twitter announced today it has invested an undisclosed amount into ShareChat, an Indian social media app for local languages. The company led the investment round of $100 million along with TrustBridge Partners, Shunwei Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SAIF Capital, India Quotient, and Morningside Venture Capital.
2019-8-16 08:29 | |
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Zcash, the market’s second largest privacy coin after Monero, recently announced that the Electric Coin Company was considering an entire remodeling of the virtual asset’s blockchain and cryptocurrency.
2019-8-11 20:00 | |
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Katherine Wu, the previous director for the business development at Messari, has a new job now. She will be the new principal of Notation Capital, known as a venture capital company that is focused on investing in the tech sector, which includes the crypto industry.
2019-8-9 21:27 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceAX Trading LLC (AX), a technology-enabled registered broker-dealer and Alternative Trading System (ATS) operator, today announced a strategic partnership with Quant Network a technology company providing financial and regulatory technology as well as interoperability in financial services, payments, and capital markets infrastructure.
2019-8-8 18:35 | |
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Equilibrium Connect, a project created by Equilibrium Labs and backed by the venture capital arm of Ripple Xpring has recently decided to back Interledger, an important protocol that is being used by Ripple.
2019-8-6 21:26 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceBlockFi, a crypto-backed loan company, today announced that it has raised $18. 3 million in Series A funding led by Valar Ventures with participation from Winklevoss Capital, Galaxy Digital, ConsenSys Ventures, Akuna Capital, Avon Ventures, Susquehanna, CMT Digital, Morgan Creek, and PJC.
2019-8-7 18:47 | |
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Coinspeaker Overstock Announces Shareholder Dividends Payable in tZero-Powered Digital SharesOverstock. com, the retail giant firm, has just announced that it will be paying dividends to its shareholders in digital shares powered by an affiliate company, tZero.
2019-7-31 14:47 | |
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San Francisco-based US Capital Global Securities is dipping its toes into the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. The FINRA-licensed broker-dealer company on Monday announced that it is committing $10 million to NYCQ Fund LP, a private digital venture capital fund launched by CityBlock Capital.
2019-7-29 17:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Analysts Downgrading Tesla (TSLA) Stock From ‘Buy’ to ‘Hold’Roth Capital analyst thinks that Tesla (TSLA) stock could trade in a range. He points out that the company needs to finds a solution to fight the margin challenges arising out of higher battery costs and the growing competition.
2019-7-23 11:58 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceMGT Capital Investments, a U. S. based bitcoin miner with operations at hosted facilities in Colorado and Ohio, today provided an update, noting that earlier this week, the company ordered 1,100 Bitmain S17 Antminers from Bitmain.
2019-7-19 22:56 | |
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According to a post published July 17, 2019 on BusinessWire, the video game studio and blockchain infrastructure company Horizon Blockchain Games (Horizon) raised $3. 75 million in a seed round, led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture fund, Initialized, with participation from Golden Ventures, Polychain, Coinbase, Digital Currency Group, and Inovia Capital.
2019-7-18 19:00 | |
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Five years ago, global funding for the femtech sector had barely reached $100 million total. But now the femtech industry is set to see a huge increase with more than $400 million funneling in — the largest amount of funding the industry has ever received.
2019-7-17 16:41 | |
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Several cryptocurrency analysts have opined that the altcoin season is near even though Bitcoin, the top cryptocurrency by market cap has shown more gains in the past few months. Like these analysts, Barry Silbert, founder, and CEO of Digital Currency Group, a venture capital company has stated that it’s beginning to feel like the right […] The post Barry Silbert: This is The Time for Quality Altcoins to Surge with Bitcoin appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-7-11 12:35 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceNebulous, the company building the Sia decentralized cloud storage platform, today announced it has closed a $3. 25 million funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, A.
2019-7-11 20:58 | |
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Torus, a company that focuses on improving self custody of cryptos, has closed a two million dollar round of funding from the likes of Multicoin Capital, Binance, and Coinbase Ventures. Private key management is one of the biggest obstacles to self custody of crypto and allowing users to hold it for utilization on a dayRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-11 19:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Richard Branson’s Space-Tourism Venture Virgin Galactic Goes PublicVirgin Galactic announced that it will go public in the second half of 2019 with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp expected to acquire 49% of the space-tourism company.
2019-7-10 13:46 | |
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The usage of cryptocurrencies and its connected distributed ledger technology has increased with several mainstream organizations adopting it. This was proven again when BTG Pactual and Dalma Capital, the largest standalone investment bank in Latin America revealed that the company would be using the Tezos blockchain for their ‘Security Token Offerings’ venture.
2019-7-5 20:00 | |
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released the first license ever to a crypto hedge fund in the U. K. this week. Prime Factor Capital, the company that received it, can be considered an important pioneer in the industry for receiving such important permission.
2019-7-4 03:08 | |
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Euronext, a European stock exchange with branches in Amsterdam, Paris, London, Brussels, Dublin, Oslo and Lisbon, is reportedly investing €5 million on Tokeny Solutions. The amount, equivalent to $5.
2019-7-3 21:45 | |
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Hedera Hashgraph, a major Enterprise blockchain firm fully backed by the Digital Currency Group and BlockTower capital has just revealed that its president, Tom Trowbridge has left the position. Trowbridge was a founding member of the company and had a few responsibilities including raising capital, managing the company's governance council and also ensuring the firm […]
2019-7-3 21:16 | |
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The crypto world has huge news from the United Kingdom this week. Prime Factor Capital, a company created by former Black Rock and RWE AG employees, has become the first crypto hedge fund of the U. K.
2019-7-3 00:40 | |
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A Canadian company, Blockchain Venture Capital Inc. , has developed a stablecoin, CADT, pegged to the Canadian Dollar as the country celebrated Canada Day. Like all stablecoins, CADT will be pegged 1:1 with the Canadian Dollar and will have reserves backing it.
2019-7-2 15:30 | |
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CoinMarketCap, the data aggregator for most cryptocurrencies, today announced the acquisition of Hashtag Capital, a company which has developed a set of algorithms for calculating “true price” involving liquidity.
2019-6-28 16:00 | |
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CoinMarketCap (CMC) has made their first ever acquisition after buying out Hashtag Capital for their proprietary algorithm called “true price. ” This will allow the company to go beyond traditional volume-weighted pricing models, as per a blog post, June 26, 2019.
2019-6-28 23:00 | |
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tZERO, the blockchain technology company for capital markets, through its tZERO Crypto unit, today has launched its digital wallet and exchange services app, the tZERO Crypto App. The app is available for download today on iOS, and will be coming soon to Android.
2019-6-28 20:22 | |
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Coinspeaker CoinMarketCap Makes Its First Acquisition to Provide ‘True Prices’ for CryptosCoinMarketCap has made its first-ever acquisition. The company acquired is Hashtag Capital, a startup involved in developing algorithms that analyze 'all points of available liquidity' to more accurately reflect an asset.
2019-6-27 11:41 | |
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dfuse, a blockchain API company, today announced it has raised $3. 5 million (USD) in an oversubscribed seed round led by Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven crypto fund and Intel Capital. Also participating in the funding were BoxOne Ventures, Panache Ventures, and White Star Capital.
2019-6-27 16:29 | |
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Zcash, the privacy-centric cryptocurrency project, swiftly stole the Libra’s limelight and switched the debate from payments and fiat-backing to blockchain technology and scalability. Lofty ambitions of Zcash aside, the Electric Coin Company’s [ECC] new blockchain has not convinced everyone in the community just yet.
2019-6-24 16:30 | |
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Our previous events of Blockchain Eventon were a stellar success as we attracted some of the top reputed names in our participation list from companies such as Reliance Big Entertainment, Adani Group, DBS Bank India Ltd.
2019-6-21 09:30 | |
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Brand Capital, the strategic investment arm of The Times Group, India’s largest media group, will invest up to US$6. 5 million in Indorse, a blockchain-powered professional network. The company will make an initial investment of US$2 million as a convertible note at a valuation of US$15 million with the option of a further tranche of US$4.
2019-6-21 23:40 | |
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The venture arm of the banking giant BNP Paribas decided to join investors in a $16. 5 million investment on the fintech company Token. The information was released by the company in a press release uploaded on June 18.
2019-6-20 03:42 | |
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Fortem Capital is creating the first ever platform on the Polish market based on the blockchain technology. The platform allows to invest in our projects in a simple and secure way. We provide investors with an opportunity to invest their assets in real property sector, through our projects by using the Fortem Capital token.
2019-6-18 22:51 | |
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Even though the crypto bear market seems long gone for most investors, people who were building businesses around this space during that time are still facing the repercussions now. Dispatch Labs is one such company whose operational capital is running on fumes.
2019-6-16 23:55 | |
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By CCN Markets: For all the hype over Beyond Meat’s IPO and insane rising stock price, Red Robin, a good old-fashioned burger chain, soared roughly 30% on Thursday. One of its institutional investors would like to see the company sell itself.
2019-6-15 23:00 | |
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A bear market casts a long shadow. Crypto’s total value may have doubled since December, but it turns out that some companies in the space are still reeling from the downturn. One such company is blockchain-agnostic solutions provider, Dispatch Labs, which Crypto Briefing has learned has been running very low on operational capital for months.
2019-6-15 19:29 | |
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By CCN Markets: Analysts at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Markets predict that Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin, could be the company’s most significant achievement yet.
2019-6-15 18:09 | |
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Investment bank RBC Capital Markets believes that Facebook’s upcoming crypto project will be “one of the most important initiatives in the history of the company”
2019-6-15 17:56 | |
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According to a recent report released by Micky, Decentralised Capital founder Stephen Moss said that it is necessary to have reputable independent auditing to secure regulatory approval for their proposed Bitcoin ETF.
2019-6-13 04:26 | |
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Spring Labs, the company developing the Spring Protocol, a blockchain-based platform designed to transform how information and data are shared globally, today announced that the company has raised $23 million in Series A funding.
2019-6-12 20:00 | |
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AlphaPoint, a provider of asset tokenization software and digital asset trading technology for licensed broker-dealers, MTF, and exchange operators, today announced it has expanded its operations by opening an office in Zurich, Switzerland.
2019-6-12 19:04 | |
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Kraken announced the launch of a new onchain staking product for US clients, marking a significant return to staking services in select states after facing regulatory scrutiny. The offering will allow users in 37 states and two territories to stake digital assets such as Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Polkadot (DOT), and Cardano (ADA), according to […] The post Kraken relaunches compliant staking for US clients after SEC settlement appeared first on CryptoSlate.
After the SEC ordered Kraken to close its U.S. staking platform in 2023, the exchange has re-opened crypto staking for specific tokens in select states.
Jito surged over 8% on Wednesday as the network outpaced several blue-chip blockchain networks in fees. Jito (JTO), the largest liquid staking platform on Solana (SOL), has become the second most profitable entity in the crypto industry after Tether. According…
Starknet has announced that the second phase of staking for its native token will go live as early as the second quarter of 2025. After launching the first phase of Starknet (STRK) staking, the team behind the Ethereum layer-2 scaling…
Proof-of-stake blockchain network Algorand has announced that staking rewards are now live, offering real-time block reward payouts to validators. The Algorand Foundation stated that the program follows the recent upgrade to the network’s consensus mechanism, which was deployed earlier this…
Staking platform P2P.org is teaming up with Northstake, a tokenized Ethereum validator marketplace, to bolster institutional participation in the staking market. P2P.org, which offers non-custodial staking services, has joined Northstake’s ETH validator marketplace as an infrastructure provider, the two platforms…
The Ethereum Foundation, the non-profit organization supporting the development of the Ethereum blockchain network, has set up a multisig wallet as it looks to participate in the decentralized finance ecosystem.