Deutsche Börse Group and HQLAX have signed a Letter of Intent to form a strategic partnership for the creation of an innovative securities lending solution using the R3 Corda blockchain platform back in March 2018. Later on, Deutsche Börse Group has made an initial investment of a single-digit euro million amount in HQLAX S.à r.l. in exchange for a minority…
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Blockchain education provider B9lab has announced the launch of their Community Blockstars Programme to offer free mentoring, training, and certification in Ethereum for 1,000 aspiring blockchain developers. The Blockstars Community Programme aims to strengthen the Ethereum Development Community. There will be two intakes this year in March and October, each with 500 students taking the course…
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The US-based financial services company, Robinhood, just received the virtual currency license, called BitLicense by the state of New York. Robinhood is one of the most popular cryptocurrency “exchanges” as it offers commission-free trading – a feature that has attracted many customers and new features to the exchange. Some time ago, Robinhood was rumored to…
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Sirin Labs and FIH Mobile have teamed up to launch FINNEY™, the world’s first blockchain-based smartphone back in April 2018. Sirin Labs has today announced its partnership with KoolSpan, a provider of TrustCall Secure Communications, enabling FINNEY users to protect their phone calls and chat and messages with secure end-to-end encryption. FINNEY consumers will have…
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Litecoin Foundation has informed that it has named four new individuals as advisors. David Schwartz, Project Director of the nonprofit organisation based in Singapore, announced last Friday that Luiza Palma, Jonha Richman, Kyle Tekiela and Blake Rizzo have been added to the team. I would like to #FF the newest members to @LTCFoundation @luizalopespalma @BlakeRizzo24…
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LeapRate Exclusive... The global elite and their private jets flew into Davos, Switzerland, last week for the 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting to review, discuss, and debate the pressing world issues of the day. Occasionally, the setting provided an excellent platform for individual leaders to speak to personal items of high priority in their…
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What a difference a year makes or maybe not? The global elite has departed the confab in Davos, jetting away to parts unknown until the next summit. With respect to cryptocurrencies, the opinions expressed at this year’s event were muted, at best. One need only remember that last year at this time Bitcoin was at…
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The US government is currently shutdown. This is one of the longest shutdowns of the US government ever in history. While President Trump tries to firmly defend his position on the future "Wall", the US government shutdown is affecting the number one cryptocurrency by market cap - Bitcoin. While there may be little correlation between…
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Many of the speakers at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, including Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, have claimed that crypto is “too small” for regulation. Kenneth Rogoff stated: I’ve spoken to the regulators and they very candidly say, ‘Well, there isn't really that much value going on in the [cryptocurrency]…
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has today announced that it has stopped an ICO issuer from proceeding with its securities token offering in Singapore. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have raised over $10 billion over the past two years, but reports indicate that nearly 80% of these fledgling startups will fail, either due to poor business planning, incompetent…
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