2019-10-10 20:55 |
While the blockchain industry comes to terms with the settlement between Block.one and the SEC, crypto lawyers are explaining the implications for token projects. origin »
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Following its settlement with the SEC, Block.One seems to have figured out that fines may simply be the cost of doing business for blockchain
2019-10-10 16:11 | |
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Mike Casey wades into the thorny issue of the U.S. government settlement struck with blockchain startup Block.one over its EOS ICO.
2019-10-8 07:00 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission handed down a $24 million slap on the wrist to Block.one for allegedly selling unregistered securities in its $4 billion ICO, begging the question: what would be an appropriate settlement with Ripple Labs, which conducted an “ongoing ICO”, as Ripple’s release of XRP has been labeled in an ongoing […] The post $322 Million: How The SEC Should Settle With Ripple Labs Over XRP appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-10-3 23:07 | |
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Block. one, the company behind EOS, will pay a one-time penalty of $24 million for their multi-billion dollar initial coin offering (ICO) that lasted for a year, September 30, 2019. EOS raised nearly $4 billion over the span of a year, issuing an ERC-20 token in exchange for money at the time.
2019-10-2 09:33 | |
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How did Block.one make it out relatively unscathed by the SEC, and what are the greater ramifications of its ICO settlement? The post Op Ed: Key Takeaways From Block.one’s $24M Settlement With the SEC appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-10-2 00:54 | |
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Boston based Nebulous who created a Sia network, a decentralized cloud-based data storage network has reached a settlement with the Security and Exchange Commission(SEC), over unregulated securities offerings and conversion rates.
2019-10-1 23:13 | |
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Blockchain company Block. one has reached a civil settlement agreement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a year-long unregistered initial coin offering (ICO) it held through 2017 and 2018.
2019-10-2 14:05 | |
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The US regulator achieved a settlement with the developer of the blockchain platform EOS. Now Block One will pay $24 million for selling unregistered securities to investors.
2019-10-3 12:14 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has come to a settlement agreement with blockchain company Block. one over the yearlong token sale for EOS. It was the largest token sale of the year raising over $4 billion so naturally attracted the attention of regulators.
2019-10-1 08:06 | |
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Today has been a generally good day for most of the altcoins with decent gains all round following a week from hell. One of the top performers at the moment is EOS which has surged almost 15 percent on the news that Block.
2019-10-1 06:30 | |
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The U.S. SEC has settled with EOS creator Block.one in the form of a civil monetary penalty of $24 million
2019-10-1 02:55 | |
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Block. one may have raised something in the order of $4 billion in its ICO, allegedly falling afoul of SEC regulations on the sale of an unregistered security: but who cares? EOS fans will be delighted to know that the dApp platform’s chief architects agreed to a settlement with the SEC today that sees them pay […] The post $24 Million SEC Penalty: Block.
2019-10-1 02:33 | |
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The Instanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank (Takasbank), which is based in Turkey, has recently announced the launch of a new blockchain platform that would be used to trade physical gold. According to the bank, the new platform is going to be called BiGA (which means one gram of gold) and it will enable the […]
2019-9-7 02:51 | |
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In an industry where innovation is status quo, crypto exchanges have taken the lead in terms of delivering new tokens and creating newer gateways into the crypto ecosystem. One such leading establishment, Gemini announced the launch of Gemini Clearing™, which allows trades that are negotiated off-exchange or OTC to settle between Gemini accounts.
2019-9-6 00:30 | |
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OKEx, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, has recently announced on social media that it would start a offering daily settlement of its futures contracts for Bitcoin SV (BSV) and Ethereum Classic (ETC) today.
2019-8-27 00:10 | |
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Ravencoin was declared one of the most exciting cryptocurrencies of 2019, and Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has confirmed that he believes in what the project is trying to achieve as he announced that tZERO would be listing it on their platform, August 20, 2019.
2019-8-21 17:00 | |
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NGC Ventures leads multi-million funding for decentralised trading protocol, Troy Network » CryptoNinjas NGC Ventures, the multi-strategy crypto fund of one of the world’s leading blockchain investment firms, has announced a strategic investment in Troy Network, the decentralized protocol for global trading and settlement.
2019-8-5 06:42 | |
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Not long ago, one of the leading global money transfer and payment services providers, Moneygram International got into partnership with the Fintech company, Ripple Inc. The aim of this partnership is for Moneygram to leverage on Ripple’s XRP integrated financial tool, xRapid to minimize the high cost associated with funds transfer and settlement.
2019-6-28 15:26 | |
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Ripple, one of the prominent players in the FinTech industry, continues to make strides in the cross-border payment settlement ecosystem. The firm recently announced a partnership with MoneyGram, a money transfer company headquartered in Dallas.
2019-6-19 17:30 | |
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Euroclear, one of the world’s largest securities depositories, says it will push forward with building a pilot blockchain-based platform for the issuance and settlement of ECPs
2019-6-19 10:40 | |
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Ripple has agreed to enter into a strategic partnership with MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI), one of the world’s largest money transfer companies. Through this partnership, which will have an initial term of two years, Ripple would become MoneyGram’s key partner for cross-border payment and foreign exchange settlement using digital assets.
2019-6-20 23:30 | |
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More nations appear to be starting to see the folly of fiat currency. With growing calls for gold-backed currencies for international settlement, there may be an opportunity for Bitcoin to facilitate trade deals with far less manipulation than possible when using national currencies.
2019-6-12 00:00 | |
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Banks have begun showing an increasing interest in alternative solutions for overseas transfers. A new trial by over a dozen banks will explore the concept of USCs, or utility settlement coins. While this sounds somewhat innovative, one has to wonder how things will play out exactly.
2019-6-5 11:30 | |
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Bakkt, one of the most awaited institutional platform, made an announcement about the two Bitcoin futures that will be listed on the platform today. The announcement was made by Kelly Loeffler, the CEO of Bakkt on the official Medium blog.
2019-5-13 17:42 | |
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Societe Generale S. A. , one of the largest financial institutions in France, issued covered bonds worth $112 million in the form of security tokens using the Ethereum blockchain. It was a pilot program to test how the use of blockchain and cryptocurrency could reduce the time and cost of settlement of securities, reported Bloomberg, May 09,Read MoreRead More.
2019-5-11 09:00 | |
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Embattled Bitfinex has announced the integration of Blockstream’s Bitcoin sidechain, the Liquid Network. The upgrade is already seeing users impressed with faster and more private transactions.
2019-5-10 18:00 | |
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The CEO of the London Stock Exchange, one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges, believes that blockchain can be used in issuing securities
2019-5-2 14:33 | |
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The cryptocurrency ecosystem is a very diverse one with thousands of cryptocurrency projects, most of which are designed for certain unique uses. XRP is currently the third largest of these cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and it clearly has the vision to become the world’s leading blockchain-based remittance services provider.
2019-4-30 22:49 | |
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Ripple (XRP) recover after Apr-24 hammering Bitstamp reminds users of Ripple’s decentralization strategy Critics claim Ripple (XRP) is nothing more than an “airdrop” whose absence wouldn’t affect operations.
2019-4-25 20:00 | |
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Тhe WINBIX marketplace aims to create a new channel for sales, allowing participants to sell goods at the demand prices at any time. The system uses the reversed auction model. The price of the goods decreases until one of the participants stops the auction.
2019-4-15 06:03 | |
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Joseph Lubin, founder of ConsenSys and one of the original co-founders of ethereum, has given a powerful speech at Deconomy where he lays out a vision for ethereum as a... The post Joseph Lubin Tears Apart Dfinity, Polkadot, Cosmos, Fabric, EOS, Corda, Says Only Ethereum Viable as a Global Settlement Layer appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-4-6 18:01 | |
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Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos have tidied up divorce proceedings, and amazingly, Mrs. Bezos isn’t dragging him to the cleaners. The world’s richest man is keeping a staggering 75% of his Amazon stock.
2019-4-4 21:38 | |
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The San Juan Mercantile Bank & Trust International (SJMBT), a new bank in Puerto Rico catering to cryptocurrency traders, is now fully operational. SJMBT announced its receipt of all appropriate licensing from Puerto Rican regulatory officials to begin offering “fiat and digital asset custody and settlement services,” which are “to be integrated with the trading platforms offered by its affiliate, the San Juan Mercantile Exchange (SJMX).
2019-4-3 00:47 | |
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AhrvoDEEX is a peer-to-peer decentralized equity exchange that enables profitable trading by using multifactor ranking systems and deep learning algorithms that create smart equity scores and price targets to streamline the decision-making process.
2019-3-28 21:33 | |
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On March 26, 2019, South Korea’s central bank published 2018 Annual Payment Settlement Report. In the report, the country’s apex bank has given a summary of research it conducted on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
2019-3-27 16:00 | |
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Santander Bank wrongly gave Ripple fans hope when a member of its support team tweeted the following on Friday: Hey Wes, we're doing great. We're using XRP for international payments to 18 EU countries and the USA.
2019-3-26 11:45 | |
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IBM’s Jesse Lund, who heads the blockchain division, claims IBM is the leader in blockchain technology. In a recent interview, Lund stated: What IBM’s been doing as the leader in blockchain technology for the last three years is adding security and confidence to the system.
2019-3-23 21:47 | |
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HSBC Bank Plc, one of the largest banking and financial institutions in the world, is looking to form a strategic partnership with South Korean lenders in a bid to make its Voltron distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform commercially available for the settlement of trade invoices and more, reports The Korea Times on March 12, 2019.
2019-3-14 20:00 | |
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The genie is now out of the bottle, and one of the crypto industry’s most bizarre trademark disputes is now over. The ABBC Foundation, which is behind the Alibabacoin cryptocurrency, has conceded the coveted Alibaba brand name to the China-based e-commerce giant of the same name.
2019-3-13 19:18 | |
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Blockchain technology has been heralded as one of the biggest success of the cryptocurrency revolution. From successful settlement trials between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank to a purported blockchain-based database to tackle fake university degrees, many see a bright future for the technology even if they harbor more skepticism for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. However, several significant […]
2019-3-7 18:13 | |
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The Radianz Cloud is based in Britain, and they described themselves in a recent press release as “one of the world’s largest, secure networked financial cloud communities. ” The community is made up of various exchanges, institutions, brokers, and clearing/settlement houses.
2019-2-28 02:10 | |
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An IBM executive is unfazed by the current market realities, saying he sees Bitcoin (BTC) reaching a value of $1 million as a present possibility. Jesse Lund, vice president of Blockchain and Digital Currencies at IBM, shared his predictions at the IBM Think 2019 Conference, which took place February 12–15, 2019.
2019-2-23 00:42 | |
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One of Wall Street’s fiercest bitcoin critics may have been playing us all along. JP Morgan Creates ‘JPM Coin’ Cryptocurrency JP Morgan, the gargantuan investment bank led by Jamie Dimon, just became the first major US financial institution to launch its own cryptocurrency.
2019-2-15 15:34 | |
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Brock Pierce wants to see balance in the world. He effects this vision in more ways than one. For starters, he says he “positively discriminates against people who need a hand up. ” But more importantly, he’s currently in the process of discriminating against himself in the settlement of the Mt.
2019-2-7 16:10 | |
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Chimpion is an all in one ecommerce, point of sale, digital wallet with crypto to fiat settlement system. Chimpion’s is launching e-commerce storefronts that allow merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments, choosing their favorite altcoin as the base currency denomination and allowing the merchant to settle their crypto into fiat through a stablecoin.
2019-2-2 00:03 | |
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This article is a direct follow-up from our Taproot explainer. If you haven’t read that article, you should probably do so first. If Taproot is deployed on Bitcoin, many smart contract constructions will look just like regular transactions on the blockchain.
2019-1-26 01:23 | |
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Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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Blockchain payment platform BitPay has announced that 2018 has been their most profitable year, having “processed over a $1 Billion again in payments and set a new record for transaction fee revenue.
2019-1-18 22:47 | |
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The controversy around Ripple and their centralization, premined coins and influence of banks aside, Ripple Labs is all about improving the speed and cost of cross-border payments. Mercury Ltd is one of the companies that uses Ripple’s xRapid software, solution for value transfer that exclusively uses XRP as the settlement currency.
2019-1-17 18:52 | |
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Gennaro D'Urso is the founder of Pharma Collective and Israel Mersky is the Director at Pharma Collective. Gennaro has a background in science and entrepreneurship, while Israel comes from the advertising industry and has experience in the pharmaceutical psychedelic space.
Jasper De Gooyer is the co-founder and CTO at SEDA, a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain.
Bitget, top global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, is responding to trader demand and is to list SKALE (SKL). The SKALE Network is designed to enhance the scalability and efficiency of Ethereum-compatible applications.
VALR, Africa's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched perpetual futures trading, featuring the world's first Bitcoin and USDT perpetual futures paired against the South African Rand.
Controversial crypto exchange Binance has appointed Richard Teng as its new CEO. The appointment follows the resignation of former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao who pleaded guilty to charges levied against him by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao will reportedly step down as CEO of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
Since its 2009 inception, Bitcoin has heralded a shift from traditional to decentralized finance (DeFi), signaling the future of financial markets. Today, the crypto landscape extends beyond Bitcoin, with multiple projects contributing to a dynamic ecosystem of financial innovation.