New York-based payment startup SendFriend, focused on the use of XRP tokens for international money transfers, closed a $ 1.7 million round of financing from Barclays Bank and fintech company Ripple, CoinDesk reports. Mastercard Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Techstars Incubator, Mahindra Finance, 2020 Ventures and 8 Decimal Capital also participated in the round. Note that SendFriend got into the business accelerator […]
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The team of the Californian cryptostartap SFOX concluded that if in January of this year the market was dominated by “moderately bearish” sentiments, in February they changed to “moderately bullish”. Below is the SFOX multifactor index, the values of which depend on such variables as volatility, prevailing sentiment in the market, and also indicators of industry development. Associated with blockchain, cryptocurrency and ICO HIP several […]
Former engineer LedgerX, developer of Bitcoin Core and recognized master of high-speed typing Brian Bishop turned out to be a supporter of transhumanism ideas. In May last year, he and the scientist Max Berry, who previously worked at a major biotechnology company, opened their own enterprise, focused on creating designer babies and modifying the human germline. This is the big one kids, this article has […]
American companies AdvisorShares and Sabertooth Advisors have created an exchange-traded investment fund (ETF) based on high-tech companies that work with blockchain technology and cloud computing. According to MarketWatch, the launch of the AdvisorShares Sabertooth ETF (BKCH ticker) took place on February 7. According to a registration statement issued by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a new fund can invest in stocks, […]
The famous American film studio SingularDTV, working on the basis of distributed registry technology, re-branded, changing its name to Breaker. Cult film directors David Lynch and Stephen Soderberg are invited to work on the updated project, the Verdict portal writes. In particular, Lynch will be the executive producer of The Happy Worker. Soderberg. Also, Breaker launched a decentralized entertainment application that allows content creators to manage the rights […]
The US subsidiary of the Huobi Group – HBUS Exchange, – has entered into an agreement with a financial company from Nevada Prime Trust to support the input / output of fiat funds, reports CoinDesk. As the newspaper notes, HBUS will allow users to trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether USD together with the US dollar. At the same time, Frank Fu, HBUS CEO, stressed that the company intends to conclude a few more […]
Enero de 2019 estuvo marcado no solo por la continuación de la tendencia bajista en el mercado de la criptomoneda , sino también por el lanzamiento de dos nuevos proyectos…
The New York blockchain startup Blockstack reported on the ongoing work on a new distributed protocol called Stacks, which uses the hash power of the Bitcoin network in combination with the Proof-of-Burn mechanism (PoB). The presentation of Stacks took place in January at an event organized by a startup in Hong Kong. An explanation of the principle of the new consensus algorithm is also available in the video posted by the lead developer of the project […]
Ethereum startup Aragon is exploring the possibility of launching the aragonOS platform to create smart contracts on the Polkadot protocol. This was told by the technical director of the startup Jorge Iskierdo, writes CoinDesk. According to him, the additional network will not affect the work of Aragon that started in November 2018 in the Ethereum blockchain. “The idea is to make the majority of aragonOS transactions virtually free and highly optimized,” […]
The number of downloads of the mobile application of the Japanese stock exchange Coincheck since the renewal of registration of new accounts in October 2018 reached 1.73 million. This is evidenced by the report of the online broker Monex Group, which owns the site, Bitcoin.com writes. At the end of December, more than 900,000 new users confirmed their identity. Monex Group notes that the resumption of activity allowed the exchange to halve losses […]