Blockpass teams up with Blockchain Advisory LeapRate

February 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blockpass teams up with Blockchain Advisory

Maltese-based Blockchain Advisory (BCA) has just announced a strategic alliance and collaboration with Blockpass IDN. The two companies' aim is to create a reg-tech focussed compliant ecosystem within blockchain, and bring together two established businesses already at the forefront of legal compliance. Blockpass has announced a number of key collaborations recently, including the ones with…

Tom Lee declares an end to Crypto Winter and all-time BTC highs in 2020

February 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Crypto bouts of anxiety strike again, as Crypto Winter refuses to thaw

What a difference a few weeks can make in the Bitcoin investment community. Back on the 3rd of January, an exalted technical indicator was “suggesting Bitcoin is in its longest buying streak in six months.” Digital diehards were rejoicing. Bitcoin prices soon pierced $4,000, a level that had been described as a “titanium resistance level”…

Mt. Gox trustee granted another delay for distribution plan for victims

January 31, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Analysis reveals two hacking gangs liable for $1 billion in crypto losses

If there is one trait that a blockchain is known for, it is that its records are immutable. They cannot be modified. They are a permanent record, and if someone has the time, the inclination, and the know-how, they can analyze a series of transactions to reveal important facts that may lay hidden in the…

January 31, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Social crypto trading platform Blockport to launch STO in March

Social crypto trading platform Blockport has announced that it plans to launch a multi-stage security token offering (STO) starting in March 2019. The company kicked off 2019 by moving out of the beta version of its exchange. Now its goal is to raise at least 15 million EUR from the token offering. The goal for the…

January 31, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

The continuing saga of BitGrail and Nano reaches a verdict in Italian court

What happens when a crypto exchange has weak security protocols, the tokens of an ICO startup go missing, a heist of $170 million takes place, and then everyone starts pointing fingers and blaming everyone else for the transgression? Matters like these usually end up in a court of law. The news today from a bankruptcy…

January 30, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Cryptocurrency cybercrimes amount to $1.7 billion

2018 was definitely the year of cryptocurrency thefts and cybercrimes. According to a report from CipherTrace, a US cyber security company, the thefts in 2018 increased by the staggering 400%, to the jaw-dropping amount of $1.7 billion. Of the total $1.7 billion, $950 million come from cryptocurrency exchange thefts and wallets. The total amount of…

Abra adds native ETH deposits and withdrawals in the Abra wallet

January 30, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

WBTC launched on Ethereum blockchain, fully backed by Bitcoin

WBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin) has officially launched on Ethereum as an ERC20 token fully backed by Bitcoin. The new token is a joint initiative by BitGo, Kyber Network, Ren (formerly Republic Protocol), and other community partners. Its aim is to bring Bitcoin’s liquidity to the decentralized ecosystem on Ethereum and enhance all decentralized applications (DApps). It…

January 30, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cryptos experiencing downward volatility again – Technical reasons cited

Yikes! The sky is falling again… or is it? It seems that, every time Bitcoin and its altcoin brethren stumble a bit, the end of the world is near at hand. Yes, BTC dropped from $3,550 to $3,357, a 5.5% fall, in a matter of hours, dragging other token values along with it, as the…

XEM token just listed on Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange

January 30, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Stellar Lumens XLM just listed on Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has announced that it has added Stellar Lumens (XLM) to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). XLM follows the addition of XRP, EOS, and TRON in recent weeks. GBX has been granted a full license as a provider of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) under Gibraltar’s Financial…

January 30, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

R3 and SBI Holdings plan to accelerate Corda adoption in Japan

The enterprise software firm R3 has just announced its plans to to boost the adoption of Corda in Japan and the wider East Asian region. The blockchain consortium has teamed up with SBI Holdings, which joined R3 back in 2016 and is its largest shareholder. Firms in Japan will now have access to Corda’s ecosystem applications and…

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