blockchain

According to Forbes, in 2018 in the cryptoindustry there were mergers and acquisitions (M & A) totaling $ 559 million. The largest transactions of last year were the acquisition by Circle startup Poloniex for $ 400 million, and the purchase by Coinbase of the Earn project for $ 120 million. Also , the largest US cryptocurrency company acquired analytical services for $ 14.8 million […]

The Japanese financial corporation Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and the American content delivery system Akamai are working to create a blockchain-based Global Open Network payment system. This is stated in the official press release. Partners hope that the new platform will "significantly reduce transaction costs for all types of payment services and will significantly increase the number of processed transactions." Promote the project MUFG […]

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb signed a memorandum of understanding with the company Nvelop from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to launch a licensed trading platform for digital assets supporting Fiat, CoinDesk reports. As the newspaper notes, the new partnership should help Bithumb in the future to reach the markets of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Note that Nvelop was founded by the investment fund E11 and […]

The head of Twitter and Square Payment service, Jack Dorsey, said that he considered it only a matter of time to integrate the Bitcoin microtransaction protocol into the Cash App, Cointelegraph reports. He said this in an interview for a podcast about Bitcoin, which is conducted by Stefan Leiver. Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, was another interviewee for the presenter. SLP52 @jack (CEO @square) & @starkness […]

The American company Reality Shares submitted an application to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to create an exchange-traded investment fund (ETF), which provides partial access to Bitcoin futures. About this writes The Block. The document states that the new fund will provide access to "fiat and widely distributed virtual currencies." “In the future, the fund will be able to invest […]