The international digital assets manager Morgan Creek Digital has just announced a major investment into the blockchain-based real estate startup RealBlocks. They are backing a $3.1M seed round into the new company. Real estate has always been seen as the market sector most likely to be first revolutionized by tokenized securities. Although big-name purchases of […]
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PO8 Company out of Bahamas to Use Blockchain to Look for Lost Artifacts in the Ocean
Does the idea of looking for forgotten riches under the ocean excite you? It surely did for the folks at the Bahamian tech company PO8. The Caribbean company has developed a blockchain project that is quite creative and different from most of the other uses we often see. PO8 is using the blockchain in order […]
IOTA Recovers All Stolen Funds From 2018’s $11 Million Hack
Last week, a UK national was arrested under suspicion of stealing €10 million ($11.34 million) in IOTA tokens.
Security Token Leader Polymath Locks Up 75 Million of Its Tokens
Polymath, a startup focused on the tokenized security industry, has just announced that they will be locking up around $9 million worth of its tokens for the next five years. This means that up to 75 million of its POLY tokens, which is 7.5% of the total supply, will be unavailable to issuers for the […]
BAC Token ICO: Blockchain Business Application Chain Project?
What Is Business Application Chain (BAC)? The Business Application Chain (BAC) is an open-source blockchain platform that was designed to facilitate decentralized application and smart contract development that any organization can efficiently achieve. The platform allows optimized access to a secure and faster blockchain that enables businesses around the world to engage in the blockchain transformation. […]
Nasdaq Enters Crypto Market Through Security Tokens, Leads $20 Million Funding in Symbiont
As of late January 2019, Symbiont has announced a successful funding round totaling $20 million— and led by Nasdaq. Separately, Symbiont and Nasdaq have partnered to bring compliant security tokens to the United States, which highlights just one way Nasdaq is quickly entering the realm of blockchain-based assets. Nasdaq’s Involvement with Symbiont Explained The past […]
Wikipedia Starts Accepting Donations Via BitPay Crypto Payment System in BTC and BCH
Have you ever heard of a site called the Wikipedia? Well, of course, you have. It is the largest digital encyclopedia in the whole world and it uses a lot of collaborative work in order to create the highest qualified information for you to use completely for free. .@Wikimedia Foundation Works with BitPay to Accept […]
Monetary Authority of Singapore Disowns the National Cryptocurrency Scam ‘NOTASCAM Token’
What a great way to get the New Year started than with the Venezuelan government-backed cryptocurrency known as #MadCoin. According to the news reaching us, the Whitepaper explaining the whole project is nothing more than a used Toilet paper-like document. And it can be exclusively downloaded off the site’s hurriedly-developed website! Hope nobody took that […]
TokenSoft announces ‘Knox Wallet’ – A Mobile Custody Solution for Security Tokens
Announcement TokenSoft has been off to the races in 2019. Today, the ambitious company announced the beta-launch of their newest service – a mobile custody solution for digital assets, including digital securities. This service is known as the ‘Knox Wallet’. It should be noted that this is a beta-launch. This custody solution comes on the […]
Want Privacy? AZTEC Proposes Confidential Token Contract Standard
AZTEC’s zkERC20 standard defines how to interact with a confidential token contract.