Category: Blockchain

Mark Cuban ethereum blockchain
August 29, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Mark Cuban gets into Ethereum blockchain game with Mercury Protocol communications platform

Serial entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, long a Bitcoin skeptic, has increased some of his cryptocurrency and technology investments recently. Cuban's latest backed venture, Mercury Protocol, has just released a white paper detailing how it plans to use Ethereum blockchain technology to disrupt the global communications industry. According to Mercury, modern communication is…

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August 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hive raises $8.95 million to build blockchain-based invoice finance platform

Hive Project has announced the successful completion of its token sale, raising USD $8.95 million (BTC 2087) from 2234 global supporters. The Hive Project tackles barriers to liquidity faced by SMEs by providing an alternative source of liquidity to that offered by traditional financial institutions. While European Commission reports that SMEs represent over 99 percent…

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August 11, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Russia's NSD and Waves kickstart development of Crypto Assets platform

The National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, and Waves Platform, have started to develop a blockchain platform to support digital assets. The new platform architecture will securely host and store tokenised and crypto assets, settling transactions and providing identification for owners of cryptocurrency wallets. Development of the platform is already under way and…

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August 10, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Microsoft to bring distributed ledger Blockchain to enterprises networks with Coco

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) just announced the Coco Framework, innovation that will advance enterprise adoption of blockchain technology. Current blockchain protocol technology requires complicated development techniques to meet the operational and security needs of enterprises. The Coco Framework reduces this complexity, and when integrated with blockchain networks addresses critical needs for commercial adoption like high-transaction speed,…

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July 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Borsa Italiana with IBM to develop securities data blockchain solution for European SMEs

Borsa Italiana and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have announced they are building a blockchain solution to digitize the issuance of securities for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. Designed to simplify the tracking and management of shareholding information, the new system intends to create a distributed shared registry containing a record of all shareholder transactions,…

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July 11, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Euronext announces launch of DLT joint venture LiquidShare for SME post-trade

BNP Paribas, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, S2iEM and Société Générale with the support of Paris EUROPLACE announced the creation of the European fintech venture LiquidShare. This new independent startup is the fruit of a partnership launched by its shareholders in June 2016 to develop a post-trading blockchain infrastructure for the Small and Medium…

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FunFair blockchain gaming platform
July 07, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Ethereum casino platform FunFair raises $26 million in Token presale

Tech entrepreneur Jez San’s latest venture, FunFair Technologies, has raised a landmark sum from the presale of tokens that will eventually power every aspect of its blockchain-based gaming technology platform. FunFair is designed to deliver unrivalled transparency for consumers and efficiency for casino operators. Slated to last a maximum of 15 days, FunFair’s Phase 1 Token…

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June 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blockchain announces Series B with Lakestar and GV

Blockchain announced today that it has raised a Series B of $40 million with Lakestar and GV (formerly Google Ventures) with additional participation from Nokota Management and Digital Currency Group. Blockchain's existing investors – Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mosaic Ventures, Prudence Holdings, Virgin, and Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Group) – also participated in the round. Blockchain's…

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Huobi DM adds EOS to its cryptocurrency contract trading platform
June 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

EOS blockchain operating system unveils year-long token distribution

EOS, the blockchain operating system designed to support commercial decentralized applications, today announced further details for its digital token distribution to open on Monday, June 26. EOS's token distribution follows a groundbreaking participation model that will take place over the course of one year creating the fairest token distribution project launched on Ethereum to date.…

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