Ant Financial, the financial subsidiary of the Chinese giant of e-commerce Alibaba, is launching the block-based platform BaaS (Backend-as-a-Service). The announcement was made by Ant Financial Vice Vice President Jiang Guofei at the Ant Technology Exploration (ATEC) conference in Hangzhou. The new BaaS platform is launched in tandem with the partner program "ant blockchain", oriented to enterprises, which, as reported, will enable small and medium-sized businesses to implement new solutions based on the blockbuster. Goofey described this as a transition to the "discovery" of Ant's own technologies and promotion to a wider commercial sector: "Over the past two years, Ant…
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Former Chief Technical Officer of Ripple (XRP), Stefan Thomas, broke up with the company to lead another company called Coil. This firm is aimed at using the Interledger protocol to help monetize the Internet in a way that makes it more vivid for users and content creators. This means that the contribution of each person to the content will be rewarded. According to early announcements, Coil's first product will be a subscription to a flat rate for customers, which will allow them to support content creators on their favorite websites. A member of the Vibrant XRP community, Hodor, explains this…
Crypto currency Stellar [XLM] jumped over EOS, becoming the fifth largest market capitalization asset on the market. Although the difference is only $ 100 million, the past 24-hour pump, which was 26%, gave investors XLM something to boast about. EOS, at the time of printing, traded near the $ 6.08 mark with a capitalization of $ 5.5 billion, while Stellar [XLM] at a cost of $ 0.29 had a capitalization of 5.6 billion . The whole market experienced a positive green week with a fairly large increase in value from Ripple (XRP), Cardano [ADA] and Tron [TRX]. Many have suggested…
The company GitLab Inc., which is behind the same web service for hosting IT projects and their joint development, raised $ 100 million in the round of funding for the D-series, which was headed by venture capital firm ICONIQ Capital. At the same time, GitLab's capitalization exceeded $ 1 billion. GitLab Joins Unicorn Club With $ 100m Raise ? Read @sytses ' latest interview: https://t.co/FEzqVSA0Yh – GitLab (@gitlab) September 21, 2018 So, for the last three years, the platform operator managed to raise $ 145 million. Recall, earlier GitLab made premium plans for open source projects available on a free…
During the final panel discussion at the Baltic Honeybadger 2018 conference, Elizabeth Stark, the head of the California start-up Lightning Labs, suggested that attacks of re-spending on alcooin blockades in the coming year will occur much more often, since the cost of such attacks falls. She also stressed that she was eagerly awaiting the implementation of Shnorr's signatures in the main protocol of bitcoin. In addition, in her opinion, in the coming year, more and more users will start using the Lightning Network with smartphones. Former BitGo engineer and developer of multi-sig-infrastructure in the Casa Jameson Lopp added that in…
In the traditional Sunday digest of BlockchainJournal – a critical vulnerability in the bitcoin network was found and eliminated, decision making on bitcoin-ETF, a new chip from Bitmain and Ripple rally was postponed. Bitcoin This week, the rate of the first crypto currency showed moderate growth, breaking the $ 6700 mark. Nevertheless, there were some obstacles. So, on September 19, reports of hacking the Japanese stock exchange Zaif and stealing $ 60 million triggered a drop in quotations to the area of $ 6,100, but then a sharp increase to $ 6,500, probably against the background of buying 5 million…
An interesting thing is observed when comparing the circulating offer of the coin token Binance coin (BNB) on CoinMarketCap (CMC) and displayed on the website of Binance itself. On the CMC, the number of BNBs circulating on the market is displayed as 112.44 million, while on the Binance website we find that this number is 144.44 million. Obviously, there is a huge difference of about 32 million BNB, which is not reported coinmarketcap, writes the portal ethereumworldnews.com . For better visualization are screenshots from both platforms: BNB in place No. 16 and 112.44 million in circulation . Source of coinmarketcap.com…
Basically, the analysis and all the recommendations, which are given by the authoritative agency Weiss Rating, are achievable only by a narrow circle of persons. But almost a week ago in the "bear" market, the agency predicted a possible rise in prices for 10 different crypto-currencies. In its Twitter, the agency also pointed out the possible growth of the Cardano (ADA) crypto currency. Over the past 24 hours, the ADA rate against the US dollar has increased by 12.49%. ADA is trading at $ 0.0923, with a market capitalization of $ 2.3 billion. If such a growth in the national…
Blockchain technology and more innovative financial products have already begun to restructure the traditional global payment system. Rohit Kulkarni, a Forbes employee and former financial analyst at Citigroup, recently wrote that blockchain technology has already begun "a complete restructuring in the payments industry." He analyzes the links between venture capital, primary public offering (IPO) and the latest financial technologies, arguing that the "position" of traditional financial institutions now looks "incredibly shaky." According to Kulkarni's research, about $ 140 billion was invested in the development of more advanced mobile networks and the improvement of DLT technologies. According to SharesPost Research, the…
Based in the Czech Republic, the developer of software solutions Braiins Systems, which is the operator of the first mining pool in history – Slush Pool, introduced Braiins OS with an open source based on the Linux operating system family, in particular – OpenWrt. The developers stressed that in the future, the system can be used to solve various problems, including the management of complete bit-and-lightning-nodes from single-board computers. Nevertheless, the first use of Braiins OS will be mining devices. We are proud to announce https://t.co/T6yDfIgraT , the very first #opensource OS for miners ⛏️ which was finally finished during…