The financial crisis in the traditional market was looming large even before Coronavirus pandemic came into the picture. The virus outbreak across the globe sent the market on a free fall and even Bitcoin experienced a scare with a massive fall of almost 50% within 24-hours. Bitcoin was supposed to outshine the traditional market at […]
Category: STO News
Blockstack Gets Patent Approval for Single Sign-on For Decentralized Applications (DApp)
Blockstack, the decentralized web development platform has been granted a patent for its method of cryptographically signature which makes it possible to sign on any of their Dapss with a single digital signature without the need for any third-party authentication. Blockstack got the nod from USPTO on March 24, merely 8 months after it applied […]
Benjamin Tsai, President & Managing Partner of Wave Financial – Interview Series
Benjamin Tsai is the President & Managing Partner of Wave Financial. Wave Financial offers early-stage investment, asset management, and treasury management to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem What was it that initially attracted to becoming the President and Managing partner of Wave Financial, an early stage venture fund focused on […]
Augur (REP) Delays v2 Prediction Market Launch To June; v1 Cutoff Date Extended
Augur announced its long-awaited version 2 (Augur V2) will be delayed to give the community time to switch from the older V1 versions to the new updates. The team announced most of the work on the new platform is done with a little polishing up and bounty finding hanging in the way. Augur v2 Deployment […]
FINMA Releases Annual Report – List Security Tokens and DLT
This week, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) published its annual report for 2019. Interestingly, the report highlights developments surrounding security token offerings (STO) and distributed ledger technology (DLT). The news falls in line with efforts by Swiss regulators to further develop the country’s blockchain sector. Challenging Questions Discussing the results of the report, […]
The Central Bank of France is Now Testing a Digital Euro
On March 27th 2020, the Central Bank of France announced plans to test a digital Euro. The experiment aims to test a digital version of the Euro in the area of interbank clearing and settlement — and its impact on monetary policy. Central Bank of France Testing a CBDC Explained Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) […]
A Month in Review – March 2020
March has, unfortunately, been a dark month for the world. Nary an industry remains, that has not felt the effects of COVID-19. Despite this, there were select events over the past few weeks that brought positivity, as the world of digital securities and blockchain marches forward. This edition of ‘The Digital’ highlights a few of […]
Court Denies Telegram Request, Confirms Sweeping Ban on Token Release
Telegram proposed for the first time to apply safeguards to exclude US retail investors from Gram resales in the future.
Coinbase’s USDC Bootstrap Fund to Provide $1.1M In Liquidity for DeFi DApps Uniswap, PoolTogether
Coinbase has announced on Wednesday that it has put $1.1 million USDC into the Uniswap and PoolTogether Ethereum DeFi Applications (DApps). The investment is from the USDC Bootstrap Fund that was launched with $2 million in initial funding by Coinbase in September last year. Uniswap, a liquidity provider for Ethereum, and PoolTogether, a ‘no-loss‘ lottery […]
Draper Goren Holm Adds Rodney Sampson as Venture Partner
The Los Angeles-based venture firm, Draper Goren Holm announced the addition of well-known Philanthropist Rodney Sampson this week. According to reports, Sampson is now a venture partner in the firm. As such, he will play a key role in identifying projects of interest to the group moving forward. The news showcases the further expansion of […]
