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Coinbase Raises $300 Million in Serie E Funding Round Led by Tiger Global

October 30, 2018 by Shaurya Malwa at Business, Exchange, Finance, Investment, News, Regulation

Establishing its dominance as the “Google of Cryptocurrencies,” San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase raised $300 million in a recent Series E Round, as reported by Fortune on October 30, 2018. Coinbase a Crypto “Unicorn” As stated in a blog post, the $300 million round was led by New York-based Tiger...

Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures Contracts to go Live in December

October 25, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Exchange, Finance, Investment, News, Platform, Tech

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has announced that its recently established cryptocurrency exchange, Bakkt, will launch physically-settled daily bitcoin futures contracts on December 12, 2018, according to a notice by ICE on October 22, 2018. Bitcoin Futures Gets December Launch As...

Binance to Launch a Crypto Exchange in Singapore After Landing Vertex Investment

October 25, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Blockchain, Finance, News, Platform, Tech

Binance, a blockchain company that runs one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has announced an investment from Vertex Ventures to open a crypto-to-fiat exchange in Singapore, Bloomberg reported on October 23, 2018. Vertex Invests in Binance to Expand in Singapore Vertex Ventures, the venture capital arm of...

China’s People Capital VC Firm Partner Xunlei to Launch DLT Laboratory

October 25, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Blockchain, Business, News, Platform

People Capital, the investment and venture capital arm of China's leading newspaper, People's Daily Online, has formed a strategic alliance with Xunlei Limited, a Chinese multinational technology company and online service provider, to develop a distributed ledger technology (DLT) laboratory to explore the groundbreaking technology in various scenarios, reported Business...

A Legal Framework for Blockchain – Made in Germany – with the Help of Startups like Lition

October 22, 2018 by Guest Post at Adoption, Blockchain, Investment, Regulation

Blockchain is primed to disrupt the future of business as we know it, and German lawmakers are all for it. The CDU/CSU and SPD coalitions (major German political parties, for the uninitiated) aim to lead the European blockchain charge in developing a comprehensive blockchain strategy that fosters innovation and nurtures...

SEC Introduces Online Form for FinTech Investors Seeking ICO Advice

October 21, 2018 by Nuno Menezes at Altcoins, Blockchain, Finance, News, Tech

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission ICO Advisory Board stated it had enabled an online request form for FinTech-related meetings and other assistance, as per an announcement on October 19, 2018. SEC Launches Online Request Form The SEC is actively trying to deliver best practices to investors on the...

Goldman Sachs and Mike Novogratz Bet Big on Cryptocurrency Custodian BitGo with $15 Million Investment

October 19, 2018 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Business, Finance, Investment, News

Institutional interest in cryptocurrencies seems to be slowly and steadily gaining upward traction. Per a report published by Bloomberg, dated October 18, 2018, the Wall Street goliath Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Ventures have made a substantial investment in BitGo Holdings Inc. Specifics of the Investment...

World Payments Report: Public DLT Fails to Meet Financial Market Demands

October 19, 2018 by Cindy Huynh at Altcoins, Blockchain, News, Platform, Regulation, Tech

While the International Word Bank Organization believes that distributed ledger technology (DLT) could fundamentally transform the existing financial sector, the World Payments Report 2018, published on October 16, 2018, concludes DLT cannot keep up with the financial market demands due to many problems and challenges facing DLT adoption. Public DLT Technology...

Fidelity Investments Set to Reward Employees in Cryptocurrency

Fidelity Is Bringing Cryptocurrency Trading to Institutional Investors

October 17, 2018 by Cindy Huynh at Adoption, Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, Finance, Investment, News

Fidelity Investments, a multinational financial services corporation that manages $7.2 trillion in assets announced the launch of Fidelity Digital Asset Services, a cryptocurrency custody and trading platform for institutional investors. According to a Forbes article published on October 16, 2018, Fidelity Investment’s jump into cryptocurrencies could help the broader financial...

Worlds Biggest University Endowments Harvard, Stanford, MIT Heavily invest in Crypto Funds

Worlds Biggest University Endowments Harvard, Stanford, MIT Invest in Crypto Funds

October 16, 2018 by Pratik Makadiya at Business, Finance, Investment, News

Many leading academic players including Harvard University, Stanford University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have reportedly invested in crypto-centric funds. The revelation indicates the shift of interest of institutional investors towards the growing asset class. University Endowments Invest “Millions of Dollars” in Crypto As per the report published by...

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