SharesPost teams up with Lightyear.io to implement Stellar Decentralized Exchange LeapRate

August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SharesPost teams up with Lightyear.io to implement Stellar Decentralized Exchange

SharesPost, a provider of private company liquidity solutions and private capital markets research, has announced a new partnership with Lightyear.io, a software company that develops applications and infrastructure for the Stellar ecosystem. The partnership entails adding the Stellar Decentralized Exchange, a decentralized digital asset exchange, to SharesPost’s Global Liquidity and Settlement System (GLASS) as an…

August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

BitJob creates social mining platform for job referrals and networking

bitJob, the peer-to-peer employment marketplace for students, introduces social mining by integrating blockchain technology with word of mouth referrals to create a seamless online job fair for networking and referrals. BitJob has created a decentralized tool and digital networking system where freelancers and students can earn rewards/money/coins for tagging and recommending friends and classmates for…

July 31, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Trump, Iran and the Bitcoin Boom

The central question nowadays, except for the regulation issues, is whether cryptocurrencies are the answer to the economic problems so many countries are facing. In the summer of 2017, for example, when Bitcoin was trading for around $9,000 on major international exchanges, certain developing countries saw its price rising to almost $14,000. Now, the latest…

July 31, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Binance completes its first acquisition

Binance is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. It just completed its first ever acquisition. Binance bought out the mobile wallet firm Trust Wallet. The company is a mobile app that is essentially an Ethereum wallet that supports Ethereum, ERC20, ERC223 and ERC721. As of now, Binance has not disclosed the amount…

July 31, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Arizona State University and Dash publish new research on blockchain scalability

The Arizona State University Blockchain Research Lab and Dash, a digital currency for payments and e-commerce, have released new research that highlights some of the scaling challenges and potential opportunities for the Dash blockchain. Titled “Block Propagation Applied to Nakamoto Networks,” the paper discusses the results of different scaling solution scenario simulations for the Dash…

July 31, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FintruX Network welcomes Bob Rinaldi to its Board of Directors

FintruX Network, the global P2P lending ecosystem, has just announced a new addition to its Board of Directors, Bob Rinaldi, a serial entrepreneur and business director. FintruX Network is an online ecosystem that facilitates the lending and borrowing of finances to small businesses in a peer-to-peer marketplace powered by blockchain and no-code development. FintruX Network…

JPMorgan claims crypto turbulence is scaring off institutional investors

July 31, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters Eikon to use CryptoCompare for cryptocurrency data

CryptoCompare, the global cryptocurrency market data aggregator, has just announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI). Under the agreement, CryptoCompare will integrate order book and trade data for 50 coins, sourced from a wide variety of trusted exchanges, into Thomson Reuters financial desktop platform Eikon, providing institutional…

July 30, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

These three things will stop the upcoming Bitcoin ETF

Bitcoin's price has been recently going up to steady levels of around $8,500, and now the currency is again trading below $8,000. Many have speculated that the primary reason for the renewed interest in Bitcoin is the upcoming Bitcoin ETF. A Bitcoin ETF will mean a lot to the market, especially to hodlers. Unlike Bitcoin…

July 30, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

McDonalds MacCoin - the new favourite

Millions of businesses and companies of all sorts have already launched their own coins. There are Youtube videos on how to start your own ICO. Initial coin offerings are said to surpass IPOs in the near future in terms of growth potential and "popularity". Now, one of the biggest fast food chains in the world,…

IBM to distribute its custodial solution for digital assets through third party

July 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS and IBM partner on LedgerConnect blockchain network for financial institutions

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing, and data solutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have just announced a collaboration on a proof of concept (PoC) for LedgerConnect − a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for the financial services industry designed to enable banks, buy and sell side firms, FinTechs and software vendors to deploy,…

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