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Charlie Lee, creator of the Litecoin cryptocurrency, said he had invested in the American company Casa. The latter is known as a developer of a multi-signature scheme, which requires signing tools on three hardware devices, a Keymaster key manager, as well as a hardware bitcoin node with support for the Lightning Network. According to Charlie Lee, what Casa does is very important for the entire cryptocurrency industry, and today […]

Indian mobile operator Reliance Jio Infocomm, owned by the country's richest man Mukeshi Ambani, intends to launch its own blockchain within a year. This was stated by Ambani himself. “From the very first day, tens of thousands of active nodes will be online,” he stressed. So, it is assumed that the new network will become the largest operating blockchain and will focus on the distribution of content while maintaining privacy […]

The cryptocurrency platform Bakkt acquired the developer of custodial solutions DACC for $ 11 million. This follows from the analysis of the financial report of the parent company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) for the second quarter, reports The Block. So, on the eighth page of the document the amount that ICE spent on the purchases of other companies over the course of six months is indicated – it amounted to $ 352 million. However, the report said that […]

Large venture capital firms Multicoin Capital and Coinbase Ventures made two joint investments in start-ups NEAR and Textile. A Series A round of financing for NEAR was led by Metastable and Accomplice. Other participants include Pantera Capital, ACapital and Xpring from Ripple, as well as well-known business angels Nawal Ravikant, Andrew Keyes and Balaji Srinivasan. In total, the startup managed […]

3M international research company announced the launch of a digitalization initiative for the loyalty program and plans to transfer customer interaction to the blockchain. This is reported in the press release of the company. The 3M project will be implemented on the basis of the Verisium solution, which uses the Quorum blockchain platform from JPMorgan and the Microsoft architectural services complex. As part of the initiative, a number of 3M products for the auto repair business […]

The world's leading developer of blockchain solutions, Digital Asset Holdings, has made DAML smart contract programming language compatible with the Corda platform from the R3 consortium, the Hyperledger Fabric framework, and the Amazon Aurora cloud database. DAML integrations announced for @Hyperledger Fabric, @ inside_r3 @Cordablockchain and @awscloud Aurora! Read the press release https://t.co/INhUjU9ICR pic.twitter.com/eFUl0wkRUM – DAML (@DAMLdriven) June 18, 2019 Early support […]