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Turkey-based Takasbank Tokenizes Gold with BiGA Digital Gold

January 3, 2020 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

After having launched a digital gold trading platform based on blockchain technology, Takasbank, a subsidiary of Borsa Istanbul, launched a digital asset fully backed by physical gold reserves dubbed BiGA. The news comes directly from Takasbank on December 30. BiGA Digital Gold Turkey's Istanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank (Takasbank),...

Keychain Partners with Japan’s JCB for the Use of Blockchain in the Payment Industry

December 29, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

Japanese firm JCB Co., Ltd., and blockchain technology provider Keychain, announced the start of collaboration for the use of blockchain in the payment industry. According to the news published on Finance2nd, the Japanese company will use Keychain's technology to increase cybersecurity and operational integrity in next-generation payment systems. JCB-Keychain Collaboration...

Leading Decentralized Investment Banking Group Coinstreet Appoints New CTO and Senior Advisor

December 23, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

Leading fintech and digital asset consultancy firm Coinstreet Partners has announced that Samuel Reid and Pietro Doran have been appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Senior Advisor of the group respectively. According to the news published on PRNewswire on December 23, Reid will be responsible for everything related to the...

Axie Infinity Community Alpha Seeks user Feedback and Introduces new Gameplay Features

December 20, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

Axie Infinity, a decentralized game based on the Ethereum blockchain, just launched an early Unity-based version of its game available only for those who own at least three Axies. This move highlights how the team behind Axie Infinity is looking to gain feedback from its users before launching into the...

Dragonfly Capital and Paradigm Invest in MakerDAO Aiming at Asia Expansion

December 20, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

The Maker Foundation officially announced that Dragonfly Capital Partners and Paradigm have become part of the governance of the Maker protocol thanks to an investment of $ 27.5 million, corresponding to around 5.5 percent of the MKR supply. The announcement was made on December 19, 2019. Bringing DeFi to Asia...

Sweden’s Central bank Partners Up With Accenture to Launch E-Krona

Sweden’s Central bank Partners With Accenture to Launch E-Krona

December 17, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

The Swedish central bank announced that Accenture, an Irish-domiciled multinational professional services company, will be its technology partner to create a pilot platform for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) known as the e-krona. The news was released by all-stocks.net on December 16. Sweden: Cashless Society and Digital Transformation Sweden is...

SIBEX and Paxos to Facilitate Gold Trading Across a Blockchain

December 16, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

SIBEX a crypto liquidity provider is partnering with New York-based cryptocurrency company Paxos in order to improve peer-to-peer (P2P) over the counter (OTC) trading for physical gold. The news was released by enterprise times on December 16. Improving Gold Liquidity SIBEX is the creator of a P2P protocol that allows...

Former Silk Road Administrator Thinks Bitcoin will Smash $100k in 2020

December 14, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Bitcoin

Ross Ulbricht thinks that the price of Bitcoin is going to have a big upward rise that could lead it to the goal of $100k dollars. According to what Independent reported on December 13, Ulbricht would base its analysis on the Elliot Wave Theory. Market Analysis of a Prisoner Even...

Uphold Will Start Offering Cash and Crypto Loans in Partnership With Salt

December 13, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Bitcoin

Uphold announced a partnership with crypto-backed lending company Salt in order to offer its users the possibility to request loans using cryptocurrencies as collateral. The news was reported by Finance Magnates on December 13. Crypto Loans for 1.7 Million Users Uphold, a cloud-based financial services platform that enables anyone, anywhere...

Penta Security Partners with R3 for Digital Asset Management and MPC Technology

December 13, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

Penta Security and blockchain software firm R3 announced a strategic partnership in order to combine Penta Security’s technologies and R3’s blockchain platform to improve digital asset management and MPC (Multi-Party Computation) technology, this according to news released by PRNewswire. Safer Digital Asset Solutions Penta Security Systems Inc. is an information...

Beowulf Blockchain and Pacific Link Foundation to Help Human Trafficking Victims

December 13, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

The Pacific Link Foundation will use the educational services of Beowulf Blockchain to help human trafficking victims and disadvantaged children to acquire skills and resources necessary to thrive in society. This according to reports from EconoTimes, published, December 12. Support the Anti-Human Trafficking Mission Through Education Beowulf Blockchain is a...

Bit5ive and Fastblock are now the Official Bitmain Distributors for South America

December 12, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Bitcoin

Bitmain Technologies, the world’s leading manufacturer of Bitcoin mining equipment, has strengthened its international presence by appointing Fastblock and Bit5ive as official distributors of Antminers in South America. The news was released by Newswire, December 12. Bitmain Aiming for South American Market Share Latin America is becoming what California was...

France: Napoleon Bitcoin Fund Launches as First of it’s Kind

December 12, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Bitcoin

Napoleon Asset Management launched the first Bitcoin Fund in France regulated by Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), an independent public body that is responsible for safeguarding investments in financial instruments. As reported by LesEchos on 11 December, the fund will be accessible only to institutional investors. The First French Crypto...

Japanese Banks turn to JPMorgan’s Network to Fight Money Laundering

December 11, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

Japan is considering the option to use JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s blockchain-based information network in order to fight money laundering within the nation. According to the news published by Bloomberg, December 10, there would be more than 80 institutions interested in being part of the network. Japan Leads Interbank Information...

Myron Scholes summoning a new stablecoin

Nobel Prize-Winner Myron Scholes Backs Stablecoin to Rival Facebook’s Libra

December 10, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

The Saga Foundation, a Swiss non-profit created last year dedicated to developing new technologies in open and decentralized software, is launching a new virtual currency called Saga (SGA). The token is connected to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) cash reserve that can initially only be owned by accredited and identified...