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An ultimate financial game-changer: Blockchain technology has dramatically changed the traditional finance industry, and there is more to come.
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High entry barriers, complex transaction processes, and geographical boundaries have historically constrained the real estate and fine art markets. These difficulties though aren’t slowing down the management of traditional assets—especially on the blockchain.
2024-11-29 14:48 | |
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The banking giant was one of the early leaders in applying blockchain tech to traditional financial activities, executing over $1.5 trillion of transactions since its inception.
2024-11-7 19:42 | |
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The Cardano Foundation has launched the beta version of its explorer while Domini aims to disrupt traditional art tapping on blockchain's capabilities
2023-9-8 12:47 | |
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Blockchain startup tZERO, announced a new patent for technology to anchor traditional trading systems to public blockchains
2019-8-6 18:18 | |
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Recent data suggests traditional venture capital (VC) firms are gradually starting to diversify their portfolios, investing in more cryptocurrency and blockchain projects than ever before. Not surprisingly, VC firms specializing in funding blockchain projects top the list.
2018-8-9 15:11 | |
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Among just six companies, the Austrian company has been accepted into the world’s leading accelerator 500 Startups as part of their first ever blockchain batch. Blockpit provides automated cryptocurrency tax reporting and seamless portfolio monitoring.
2018-8-9 05:17 | |
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American troops serving overseas will be able to cast their votes in West Virginia through a mobile voting platform based on blockchain technology in the federal elections in November 2018.
2018-8-7 23:05 | |
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Financial technology firm Paxos has formed a partnership with INTL FCStone Inc’s precious metals division. The department will now be using Paxos Confirmation Service — a tool built specifically for the precious metals arena — to instantly automate daily trade confirmations and reduce human error.
2018-8-9 18:15 | |
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The slow trickle of traditional investment into the crypto market may turn into a flood if a new platform launched by blockchain services provider AxiomLevel Technologies makes its desired impact.
2018-8-6 18:55 | |
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While blockchain innovation swiftly ended up being the most up to date tech buzzword, many have actually overlooked to check out expert system (AI), and exactly how the two could interact according to records since July 31, 2018.
2018-8-6 15:00 | |
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A lot of people have very high expectations for blockchain technology. That is only natural, as distributed ledgers can offer a very different take on traditional aspects of people’s daily lives.
2018-8-6 21:00 | |
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Kheper seeks to tokenize the multi-billion industries through the use of cryptocurrencies. By tokenizing it, Kheper will be making gambling more accessible to the everyday consumer. This is to be achieved by expanding from the traditional online gaming platform to the creation of physical slots. By doing this, it will be creating a unique brand […]
2018-8-4 21:22 | |
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Presenting Red Cat’s blockchain-based Black Box analytics and storage. This product replicates a traditional black box recorder required by the FAA for commercial aircraft. This service will allow companies and drone pilots to view diagnostic metrics with Red Cat analytics to understand crashes or to fine tune their drone performance.
2018-8-4 19:41 | |
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While blockchain technology quickly became the latest tech buzzword, many have neglected to look at artificial intelligence (AI), and how the two could work together according to reports as of July 31, 2018.
2018-8-4 06:00 | |
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The distributed ledger technology is often considered rival of traditional financial systems of bank-to-bank communication.
2018-8-2 21:41 | |
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Yet another firm from traditional markets has stepped into the cryptocurrency boxing ring, with Northern Trust recently diving down the metaphorical rabbit hole that is blockchain. Legacy Markets Firm to Make a Foray into Blockchain and Crypto As per an exclusive Forbes article, Pete Chercewich, the President of Northern Trust’s corporate and institutional services division,.
2018-8-1 02:00 | |
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This combination of available financial data and new possibilities for blockchain-driven efficiencies have made the climate ripe for the disruption of traditional investment banks. “Accenture has estimated that some major investment banks could make a whopping $10 billion in efficiency savings by utilizing blockchain technology,” explains Thomas Levene, founder of Best Blockchain Solutions Consultancy. Thus,
2018-7-31 21:53 | |
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As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring.
2018-7-31 15:58 | |
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Access to personal financial data and the emergence of blockchain technology have been the catalyst for a revolution in the banking sector. At the start of this year, banks within the European Union were ordered by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to grant customers access to their personal data.
2018-7-31 20:42 | |
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The world of cryptocurrency is in a constant state of flux. As a result, the process of sorting through untold amounts of background information and data can be a laborious, time-consuming endeavor.
2018-7-30 16:47 | |
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The ‘Foresting’ or ‘Foresting Platform’ is a blockchain based social media that deviates from the distribution system of traditional social media platforms, and provides a fair value distribution system for users who are the true owners of the platform that deliver content through blockchain technologies and contribute to platforms in a variety of forms.
2018-7-28 22:08 | |
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Block Sports is a decentralized sports betting exchange that approaches the concept of a blockchain-native sports betting platform with two key objectives — creating a decentralized and trusted framework for sports betting and providing a rich user experience through an off-chain service layer.
2018-7-28 13:58 | |
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The cooperative exchange (COOPEX) is the first cooperative exchange platform that aims at doing away with the traditional cryptocurrency exchange for new and small blockchain projects. Currently, the state of exchange using cryptocurrencies is improper and opaque.
2018-7-27 19:48 | |
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Blockchain is being explored by a wider and wider audience everyday, and traditional centralized bodies like banks and governments are starting to take interest into what the tech can do for them.
2018-7-27 18:14 | |
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Both cryptocurrency and traditional financial tools are finally merging with crypto-backed fiat loans; crypto-traders have the tricky task of navigating the markets, spend parts of their gains and yet remain fully invested.
2018-7-27 17:30 | |
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The value of the cryptocurrency market has increased to well over $300B, and has opened the doors to an entirely new class of wealthy individuals looking to invest in luxury art and rare collectibles.
2018-7-27 06:00 | |
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Bitcoin has now held above the critical level of $8,000 for more than 40 hours, a clear testament that this recent rally could actually be sustainable and by now all eyes are on $10,000. What’s most notable is that the break above $8,000 happened on extreme volume.
2018-7-27 05:00 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected the Winklevosses’ latest attempt to list a bitcoin ETF. After having a proposal rejected last year, the Gemini exchange founders had hoped to secure their Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust on BATS Global Market’s BZX stock exchange with this latest attempt.
2018-7-27 02:19 | |
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The cross-border transaction happened remotely using cryptocurrency (BTC) as the means of payment, thus eliminating the need for banks and eradicating geographical limitations usually tied to traditional deals.
2018-7-26 20:17 | |
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BRAVO the Phoenix-based traditional payments application has announced a public Token Sale to raise funds, for global expansion, while integrating cryptocurrency payments and blockchain technology in order to reduce transaction costs and latency on the platform.
2018-7-26 16:18 | |
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SolarisBank, a Berlin-based fintech company offering Banking as a Platform (BaaP) services, announced to start providing traditional banking services to crypto and blockchain companies from the European Economic Area (EEA).
2018-7-26 16:00 | |
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In traditional markets, policymakers began aggressively ousting anticompetitive economic behavior following the rise of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil at the turn of the 20th century. Some of these displays have been made highly public, while others have slipped under the radar.
2018-7-26 22:00 | |
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have traditional investment options available to you on the cryptocurrency market and blockchain ecosystem? Have you ever wondered what this integration might look like? Well, wonder no more.
2018-7-26 21:47 | |
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What is motivating a steady stream of executives in traditional Fortune 500 companies to abandon their blue-chip careers for uncertain futures in blockchain startups?
2018-7-25 18:03 | |
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A Chinese scientific research institute and value-added Internet service provider Tencent Holdings have jointly released a July 24 report emphasizing the impact of blockchain on the transformation of traditional financial services.
2018-7-25 17:52 | |
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For many, the complex nature of crypto investing is an unsolvable enigma. Despite the potential for great returns, many are hesitant to jump in and navigate the complexities and uncertainties inherent in this space.
2018-7-25 17:09 | |
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SLEECOIN is a decentralized online platform, which has been designed to connect Hosts and Guests in the shortterm rental of real estate. The objective of the development of this platform is to reduce the traditional transaction fees and remove the risks related to data management, while ensuring the flow of information is transparent and accurate.
2018-7-24 22:18 | |
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Margin is a Wanchain-enabled targeted loan platform and one of the first peer-to-peer lending solutions on the blockchain. Margin's pioneering lending model enables it to offer a kind of loan that the traditional banking industry has never offered: a 0% APR loan backed by the MRG treasury to borrowers in verifiable debt-trap situations.
2018-7-24 22:18 | |
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Cryptocurrency has been gaining significant prominence and the topic of its mass adoption is well-discussed within the blockchain community. Majority of cryptocurrency enthusiasts, backed by their belief of crypto technology being able to change the traditional financial technologies, advocate for the ease of operation that will potentially be achieved after cryptocurrency is adopted by the The post Top 6 reasons hindering crypto mass adoption appeared first on ItsBlockchain.
2018-7-24 15:58 | |
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A new report from an EU department shows that all is not well in the fintech sector as competition intensifies between traditional finance and crypto finance. The report prepared by the Police Department for Economic, Scientific, and Quality of Life Policies on the recommendation of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON).
2018-7-23 17:19 | |
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The use of renewable energy is critical in preserving the environment for current and future generations. However, the reality in most parts of the world is that this clean energy is not produced in the same large-scale manner as the traditional energy.
2018-7-23 16:15 | |
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EkkBaz will simplify B2B interactions and expand the earning potential of millions of traditional, community-based grocery store owners in the FMCG industry around the world with an omnichannel approach by utilizing the existing blockchain, artificial intelligence, social and collaborative technologies in an easy-to-use mobile interface.
2018-7-22 20:34 | |
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The revolution happening in world finance, thanks to the emergence of cryptocurrencies has brought so much comfort to a lot of people who have been waiting for ways through which an individual can have absolute control of his or her finances, without being manipulated and taken advantage of by traditional financial institutions.
2018-7-22 19:47 | |
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Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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The following is a diagram from a slide that I made in one of my presentations at Cornell this week: </img> If there was one diagram that could capture the core principle of Casper’s incentivization philosophy, this might be it.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this kind of token goes as follows. We, the developers, build a network, and this network allows you to do new cool stuff.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Tokenization on the blockchain can make all asset groups easier to liquidate by creating a tradeable standard in security tokens. Longer term, return-seeking strategies typically tend towards investment in real estate, private equity, hedge funds, and companies.
2018-7-21 19:00 | |
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Points (PTS), a blockchain data collaboration protocol for better credit scoring and inclusive finance, has announced $ 8 million in funding from traditional and blockchain venture capital including DHVC, Cherubic Ventures, Ce Yuan, Ontology Foundation, Nest.
2018-7-21 13:16 | |
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Uncertain regulatory conditions continue to have a negative impact on the sustainable growth of the DAO ecosystem, revealed a new European Central Bank Occasional Paper.
A young Andreas Antonopolous in the making, a nine-year-old in the United Kingdom, tried to orange pill his classroom.
The report awarded points to the fiat ecosystem for the safety and stability policy while highlighting that “Public oversight has helped achieve safe and robust payment systems.”
The marketing will adjust to a new crypto future, with a decentralized consumer community, operating via Web 3.0.
In coexistence with mutual benefits, decentralized finance and central bank digital currencies will finally make money universally available worldwide.
Education and accessibility are crucial to make DeFi more accessible to the upcoming inflow of retail investors.
2021 will be a pivotal year for DeFi by transforming the way we see financial services and the future of money.