As cryptocurrency becomes more mainstream, so are the threats faced by financial institutions and investors, and governments around the world. As such, government agencies are prioritizing threats like ransomware that abuse it, and cryptocurrency exchanges are seeking a competitive edge. […]
It’s about three years since we last wrote about Blockdaemon, a New York City-based tech startup that facilitates and manages the deployment of nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. At the time, Blockdaemon partnered with Citizens Reserve to help the startup quickly deploy nodes […]
Microstrategy made the headlines in 2019 after it sold the domain name Voice.com to Block.one for $30 million for its new blockchain-based social media platform. As we reported back then, MicroStrategy is a Virginia-based tech company founded by the renowned Bitcoin investor Michael […]
EmiSwap, a Dubai, UAE-based crypto tech startup, announced today it has closed $1.38 million in private funding for the world’s first community-governed decentralized exchange (DEX) with gamified NFT mechanics. The round was led by some of the major crypto leaders. Founded […]
KILT Protocol today announced SocialKYC, a decentralized identity verification service for regaining control over your digital identity. SocialKYC will allow users to manage, store and present their personal credentials, enabling users to select which elements of their private information are […]
It wasn’t long ago when Fireblocks emerged from stealth to securely transition digital assets to the blockchain. The startup provides an all-in-one platform to store, transfer, and issue digital assets across your entire ecosystem. We wrote about FireBlocks back in […]
Currently, Decentralized Finance, or DeFi as it is called, accounts for investments worth over $42 billion. As it grows at a breakneck speed to rival the centralized financial institutions, it begs the question, can DeFi fulfill the aspiration for blockchain […]
Sentinel, a network layer that allows the development of third-party and white-label decentralized Virtual Private Network (dVPN) applications, today announced its integration with StrongBlock, the leading Nodes-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider. StrongBlock launches and operates full blockchain nodes for non-technical users to […]
As bitcoin surges past $60,000, cryptocurrency startups see renewed interest from investors who want to take advantage of the current momentum for fear of missing out (FOMO). Regardless of your view on Bitcoin, no one can deny the potential of the […]
Back in January, we wrote about Alchemy after the Coinbase-backed tech startup partnered with Crypto.com to power its developer platform, further expanding the Crypto.com Chain support ecosystem. For those of you who don’t know Alchemy, it’s the world’s most powerful blockchain developer […]
Digital Asset is a New York-based blockchain startup that helps companies of all sizes and across industries get distributed applications to market faster, and stay there longer. At the core of its service offering is Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML), an application […]
One of the main goals of productive progression is automation, and it seems no stone is being left unturned. Lawyers are next up on the list of who to replace with technology, though to say they are worried may be […]
Since the beginning of this year, bitcoin has been enjoying a steady price increase as the world’s most popular cryptocurrency continues to gain institutional support from Wall Street banks and payment companies like PayPal. In 2021 alone, bitcoin has increased by […]
Gigaforce, Silicon Valley-based InsurTech startup, today announced the launch of a patent-pending, blockchain-optimized, claims platform designed to expedite subrogation, recovery, and salvage processing for insurance ecosystems. A provider of a SaaS-based, blockchain-optimized, Gigaforce combines heterogeneous data, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven predictive models, specialized […]
For many months, we’ve been trying to get the word out there about how Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is going to change the world financial system as we know it. Now for the first time, millions of people around the world […]
Last week, we wrote about Elon Musk’s partner Grimes making $5.8 million in just 20 minutes after she sold her digital art (Non-fungible token) at auction. Just when you thought NFTs couldn’t get any crazier. This morning, Christie’s Auction announced it has sold […]
We wrote about BlockFi back in August 2020 after the crypto lending startup raised $50M in Series C funding to provide digital asset-backed loans to crypto investors. A lot has changed since then and the company has been expanding its […]
Back in late 2019, we wrote about Unstoppable Domains after the Draper-backed startup launched a $1 million grant to help wallets, browsers and decentralized applications integrate blockchain domains. The San Francisco-based Unstoppable Domains is a registry business similar to Verisign, the […]
We wrote about Bluzelle back in February after the blockchain startup launched its first developer grant program, focused largely on the creation of the censorship-resistant application. As a provider of the decentralized database for Web3, Bluzelle enables Dapps (decentralized applications) to […]
We’ve written a lot about bitcoin over the years. However, for a layman, bitcoin is a difficult concept to understand. In this piece, we would like to share what we believe to be one of the best videos about what […]
