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The company’s prized crypto offering, Tzero, is the subject of an SEC investigation, and a highly-anticipated private equity investment into the fledging exchange has withered away. Its blockchain investment arm, Medici Ventures, has yet to generate meaningful revenues and racked up losses of $61 million in 2018.
Popular, privacy-centric cryptocurrency Beam is rolling out a raft of changes with its August upgrade.
A major upgrade puts Waves into the same class of blockchain as messrs Ethereum, EOS and Tron.
The appointment comes shortly after Liquid completed its Series C funding round which valued it at over $1 billion.
Matrix, a custody and trading firm, is understood to have been originally incubated within Bitmain.
Accenture, ABN Amro, Anglo American, CMST International, Hartree Partners, ING Bank, Mercuria and OCBC Bank are among those that have so far signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the blockchain-based platform.
The firm’s parent company, Tagomi Holdings, was launched by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm in December 2018.
The Hong Kong-based company claims to be Asia’s largest blockchain information platform.
It's World Wire platform is now live.
Kakao is South Korea's dominant message-app operator
An article talking about NEM Foundation.
An article talking about Circle's acquisition of SeedInvest.
An article talking about Ethereum's upgrade.
An article talking about Voyager's acquisition of Ethis.io.
An article talking about Coinsquare's acquisition of StellarX.
BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen is close to launching the Chia network,
It promises to provide a faster alternative to cold storage
Europe-based LockTrip wants to create the first functional blockchain-based travel service.
Just a year ago, the company had dismissed the idea of getting into blockchain with Amazon Web Services.
"b_verify," a new blockchain-based system, is designed to help small and medium-size enterprises get financing at potentially better terms while mitigating warehouse deposit fraud.
An article on AI-based agents and blockchain.
An article that talks about a stock exchange blockchain platform securing a license.
An article highlighting WeSure's partnerships.
An article talking about Singapore and its dedication to blockchain.
An article discussing Ethereum's target date for its next blockchain upgrade.
Coinbase Pro has added Brave’s BAT token to its platform.
Bitmain has acquired Telescope.
ConsenSys invests in a blockchain startup.
PNC will use technology built by startup Ripple to process international payments.
Initial coin offering advisory firm Satis Group believes bitcoin's price might jump to $96,000 over the next five years.
A nice piece on Ethereum’s upcoming October upgrade.
In the UK, the Department for International Trade announced that Entrepreneur First (EF) is now also funding blockchain startups.
There was a meeting that brought together some ethereum stakeholders to discuss code changes ahead of a software upgrade scheduled for October.
Minds is shifting to the Ethereum blockchain for its launch.
Everipedia announced it is now live.
Boerse Stuttgart is developing an ICO platform.
Logos Network has raised $3 million is seed funding.
Hedera Hashgraph has raised $100 million.
CLS and IBM announced a collaboration on a proof of concept (PoC) for LedgerConnect.
KT has applied blockchain to its commercial network.
Nervos Network has raised $28 million to build a next-generation blockchain network.
Block.one announced that Peter Thiel has invested in the company, along with other investors, Bitmain, Louis Bacon, and Alan Howard.
R3 is one of several blockchain technology firms that may look to go public in the near term, according to an article from CCN that originally cites reporting from Bloomberg. Several international digital currency miners are also eyeing public raises according to the article.
Dirt Protocol has raised $3 million to use blockchain to build a trusted platform for structured data.
Oasis Labs announced it has raised $45 million from a16zcrypto, Accel, Binance Labs, DCVC (Data Collective), Electric Capital, Foundation Capital, Gaorong, Metastable, Pantera, Polychain, among others.
NASDAQ-listed Xunlei announced a new blockchain advancement.
Facebook is showing how it's getting more into the blockchain space.
Block.one announced that former Jefferies Asia CEO Mike Alexander has joined as CEO of its $1 billion EOS VC venture capital arm.
Funding Circle, the small business loans platform, and INTRUST Bank, a leading US regional bank headquartered in Kansas, today announced the next phase of their strategic partnership to support the growth of US small businesses. Following the successful launch of this partnership earlier this year, the second phase increases INTRUST’s funding commitment and kicks off a targeted, co-branded marketing campaign, giving business owners across Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas greater access to fast and flexible financing.
WSJ's list of companies to watch has a good representation of startups focused on distributed ledger technology including Abra, Blockstream, Digital Asset Holdings, Brave and R3. This month, R3 denied that there was truth behind a story published in Fortune which said R3 was running low on money, according to press reports.
One of the largest raisest this year in the space from the creator of Hyperchain. Hyperchain or Qulian Technology had already raised $78,000,000 in funding from the same investor group.
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