2019-2-19 17:00 |
The startup that helped Signature Bank beat JPMorgan to the punch is hiring a former Bridgewater Associates manager as its new CEO.
Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024
2019-2-19 17:00 |
The startup that helped Signature Bank beat JPMorgan to the punch is hiring a former Bridgewater Associates manager as its new CEO.
Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024
Elon Musk and Tesla had better watch out because tech conglomerate Amazon just led a massive $700 million funding round in electric vehicle competitor Rivian. Amazon Leads Major Funding Round in EV Startup Rivian The Michigan-based Rivian has sought to carve out a segment of the burgeoning electric vehicle market by focusing its efforts on building pickup trucks and SUVs.
2019-2-15 17:36 | |
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has completed a $30 million Series B round led by American VC firm Accel and Benchmark, who led the startup's Series A funding in April 2018.
2019-2-15 19:41 | |
Chainalysis CEO Praises Tether’s Transparency And Raises $30 Million The blockchain analysis startup Chainalysis raised $30 million during a Series B funding round. In a recent interview with Fortune, the CEO of the company, Michael Gronager, talked about the importance of stablecoins in the virtual currency industry.
2019-2-13 19:22 | |
Ripple, XRP–Ripple, the startup parent company behind the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization XRP, has announced an expansion of its Blockchain University Program. On the same day when Changpeng Zhao, CEO of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance, told livestream viewers he hoped to partner with Ripple’s XRapid platform in the future, the blockchain-based startup had […] The post Ripple Announces New Partners in Blockchain University Program appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-2-8 04:32 | |
Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made it very clear that Square will only support Bitcoin (BTC) in the foreseeable future. On February 6, in response to some members of the cryptocurrency community inquiring about potential Square integrations, Dorsey said: Nah — jack (@jack) February 5, 2019 He also expressed his enthusiasm towards the Lightning Network, a second-layer scalability solution that enables instantaneous payments on Bitcoin.
2019-2-7 18:13 | |
Crypto payments processor AtomicPay. io’s front-end services were unavailable for a period of almost 8 hours this weekend due to a trademark claim by a company called Vertbase. Vertbase is a money services provider that sells cryptocurrency, while AtomicPay is a non-custodial crypto payments solution for merchants.
2019-2-5 09:38 | |
Within a decade since its launch in 2009, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Square has transformed into a $29 billion digital payments giant and the go-to platform for users to send and receive money and buy Bitcoin.
2019-2-3 03:30 | |
Abra, a crypto wallet provider and payment startup, is run by CEO Bill Barhydt, and he recently sat down to be the subject of an interview with Breaker Mag. In his interview, he discussed the difficulties facing cross-border payment services for the crypto industry.
2019-2-1 07:03 | |
Swift’s chief executive Gottfried Leibbrandt announced on Wednesday that they would be working with the blockchain startup R3. He was speaking at a CNBC moderated panel at the Paris Fintech Forum in the presence of Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse who said the company is open to working with Swift.
2019-1-31 17:59 | |
Po. et’s CEO and Co-Founder, Jarrod Dicker posted an update informing the community about the next phase of the startup, January 24 2019. Furthermore, the CEO announced that he will be moving to the Washington Post, passing over leadership to Po.
2019-1-29 21:00 | |
Cryptocurrency mobile wallet provider BRD wants to accelerate its international expansion, and it has secured $15 million to do it. The Series B funding round was raised from SBI Crypto Investment, a subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings.
2019-1-26 20:04 | |
Despite the bear market, and rising camp of naysayers predicting Bitcoin’s demise, Wall Street is steadily plowing funds into crypto. The latest blockchain company to catch investors’ eyes is Symbiont, a New York startup bringing blockchain tech to capital markets.
2019-1-25 03:00 | |
Jarrod Dicker is stepping down as CEO of media monetization startup Po.et to return to the Washington Post.
2019-1-25 21:31 | |
According to a report published by TechCrunch on January 23, 2019, blockchain-based startup Steemit has promoted Elizabeth Powell as their new MD and chief executive. Steemit Shuffles Their Leadership The prolonged crypto winter has left the players in the nascent industry in dire straits.
2019-1-24 15:00 | |
Indonesian multi-platform behemoth, Go-Jek, recently acquired Philippine-based Cryptocurrency payment company, Coins. ph. Reports indicate the move allows Go-Jek to expand its cashless service delivery across its plethora of service delivery platforms.
2019-1-23 23:00 | |
Blockchain startup OB1, the developers of decentralized shopping platform OpenBazaar, have announced Haven, a privacy-focused app for socializing with friends and making purchases with cryptocurrencies.
2019-1-19 00:57 | |
Providence, Seychelles — January 16, 2019 — Digitex Futures, a non-custodial commission-free futures trading exchange, has begun onboarding traders to the Beta version of its platform. Marking exactly one year since the Digitex ICO, which sold out in 17 minutes, the ambitious crypto startup has taken CEO Adam Todd’s vision from an idea to reality […]
2019-1-17 08:08 | |
American crypto wallet and custodial firm BitGo has teamed up with Genesis Global Trading, a digital asset trading firm, to improve the crypto trading experience for its institutional investors.
2019-1-17 01:02 | |
Blockchain digital identity startup Authenteq has raised US$5 million in funding from Draper Associates and Capital300. The company is reportedly in talks with additional investors about a second closing of the Series A funding round which CEO Kari Thor Runarsson expects to happen in the next coming weeks.
2019-1-14 22:44 | |
A crypto startup that raised close to $80 million in a 2017’s ICO funding has come in the midst of a controversy. Singapore-based crypto-wallet TenX is facing accusations of insider trading after its co-founder and now-former CEO Julian Hosp allegedly dumped $2.
2019-1-13 16:00 | |
The co-founder of blockchain-based identity management platform CivicKey has weighed in about the current state of the cryptocurrency markets. Amongst other things, Vinny Lingham stated that he feels the Bitcoin price will retest the $3,000 level in the near future.
2019-1-11 03:00 | |
The crypto winter has devastated companies in the industry, including ShapeShift. CEO Erik Vorhees confirmed on Jan. 10 the layoff of 37 employees in the well-funded startup, a third of the firm’s workforce.
2019-1-11 21:20 | |
Digital asset exchange ShapeShift felt the frost of the crypto winter as the establishment was forced into firing 37 employees, reports a blog post made by the exchange’s CEO Eric Voorhees. The blog post titled “Overcoming ShapeShift’s Crypto Winter and the Path Ahead” explained that ShapeShift had to reduce the size of its team by […] The post Another crypto startup in trouble: ShapeShift restructures for the future, fires a third of its team appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.
2019-1-10 07:41 | |
Bitcoin Price “Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better” Vinny Lingham, CEO of Civic, a blockchain startup focused on facilitating a so-called “Secure Identity Ecosystem,” recently sat down with CoinTelegraph for the outlet’s “Hodler’s Digest” weekly report.
2019-1-9 04:00 | |
The ongoing cryptocurrency bear market appears to have claimed yet another victim. The latest digital currency-related firm to announce a restructure is exchange platform Shapeshift. According to a Medium post by the company’s CEO, 37 of Shapeshift’s employees have been laid off.
2019-1-9 03:00 | |
CoinDesk profiles Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of the Goldman Sachs-backed crypto startup Circle that had a banner year in 2018.
2018-12-31 19:55 | |
CoinDesk profiles Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of the Goldman Sachs-backed crypto startup Circle that had a banner year in 2018.
2019-1-2 19:55 | |
Tron’s Justin Sun Urges Developers To Join Him As reported by Ethereum World News previously, as reports arose that ConsenSys, the Ethereum development consortium headed by Joseph Lubin, Tron CEO Justin Sun urges developers at the startup to send resumes to his team.
2018-12-31 01:45 | |
Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of San Francisco based startup Ripple, has focused a lot of his efforts in the past to defend the cryptocurrency his company made, XRP. Many critics pointed out in the past that XRP is a heavily centralized cryptocurrency, mostly due to the way its validator network is structured and due to […] The post Is XRP Really More Decentralized Than Bitcoin And Ethereum, as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse claims appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.
2018-12-26 07:08 | |
“By Many Measures, XRP Is More Decentralized Than Bitcoin And Ethereum” Since XRP, the digital asset of choice for the fintech startup in Ripple, rose to the near-tippy-top of the cryptocurrency leaderboards, many pundits have questioned the asset’s inner workings.
2018-12-23 02:08 | |
Totle, backed by NEO Global Capital (NGC) and Arrington XRP, is helping to solve the liquidity issue for decentralized exchanges (DEXs). The Detroit, Michigan-based startup has launched a business-related API dubbed Totle Movement, marking a shift to a business-to-business strategy.
2018-12-19 17:42 | |
Tron, led by its founder and CEO, Justin Sun recorded a number of key milestones, according to the Dapp weekly report published on Dec. 17th. Tron’s global expansion continues smoothly as the startup held its first Africa meetup in Nairobi, Kenya.
2018-12-19 15:29 | |
Former JPMorgan executive Blythe Masters stepped down from her CEO role at blockchain startup Digital Asset.
2018-12-19 15:26 | |
Digital Assets Holdings CEO Blythe Masters has stepped down from her role, but will remain on as a shareholder, strategic advisor and board member.
2018-12-19 01:31 | |
Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the service was announced in a Medium post.
2018-12-18 02:32 | |
Civic CEO Vinny Lingham is the subject of no confidence calls this week after his startup partnered with controversial blockchain entity Dentacoin. Dentacoin Goes For Damage Control Lingham, who raised $33 million for Civic in an ICO last year, had remained largely quiet regarding use of the funds, the ongoing cryptocurrency bear market taking a heavy toll on its CVC token which currently trades at record lows.
2018-12-18 01:00 | |
BlockFihttps://bitcoinmagazine. com/articles/blockfi-gives-hodlers-another-option-borrow-against-crypto-assets/, the New York-based startup that provides crypto collateralized loans, has raised additional funds to expand its services.
2018-12-14 01:12 | |
In a blog post published on Dec. 12th, Peter M. Dray, the co-founder, and CEO of FITBLOX, a Wyoming-based fitness startup told Block. one about their new dApp and its use of the EOS platform. The new startup has a vision of combining secure fitness technology with incentive-based social media.
2018-12-13 15:59 | |
Binance Chief Speaks On DEX — BNB Like Ethereum (ETH) As reported by Ethereum World News last week, Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the world-renowned crypto startup that is Binance, recently sneak peaked its most promising venture yet, the so-called “Binance Chain” and the decentralized exchange (DEX) that will be based upon it.
2018-12-11 05:31 | |
Chinese-based cryptomining firm Bitmain is shutting down the operations of Bitmaintech Israel, its research and development (R&D) center in Ra'anana, Israel, according to reports from local news outlet Globes.
2018-12-10 20:51 | |
Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
Alan Lane started his relationship with Bitcoin in 2013. The Silvergate Bank CEO made his first purchase of Bitcoin that year, preceding the addition of the first crypto exchange as a client to the small bank.
2018-12-3 05:50 | |
The CEO of blockchain startup AriseBank, Jared Rice, is facing up to 120 years in prison for duping numerous investors out of $4 million in a cryptocurrency scheme. Rice promised his cryptocurrency would offer Visa-like functionality, but instead he spent investors’ Bitcoin on hotels and clothes.
2018-11-29 14:43 | |
Mexican startup Airtm will launch a campaign to raise donations for Venezuelans, a country whose poor monetary policies have plagued it with hyperinflation. Called the AirdropVenezuela.
2018-11-28 19:29 | |
CEO of identity management startup Civic, Vinny Lingham told CNBC in his latest interview that Bitcoin prices will remain range-bound for the next few months. He also noted that the prices could hover over the $3,000 mark as the markets are tested some more.
2018-11-27 15:29 | |
Today, November 26, 2018, marks the launch of the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) and the FIO Protocol, an interwallet protocol that seeks to make the transfer of cryptos between wallets as simple and straightforward as making transfers on PayPal.
2018-11-27 02:52 | |
Amun AG, a startup in Zug, Switzerland, has received a license from Swiss authorities to offer a new cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP). An ETP is a blanket term to denote a security that derives its price from an underlying asset (e.
2018-11-20 02:50 | |
Shapeshift CEO Eric Voorhees and cryptocurrency loans startup Salt Lending Ltd. is under investigation by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concerning its $50 million ICO in 2017, per a Wall Street Journal article, published November 15, 2018.
2018-11-19 01:00 | |
Crypto loans startup Salt and its former CEO are said to be under investigation by the SEC, according to the The Wall Street Journal.
2018-11-16 15:10 | |