FinTech Interview with Co-founder, CTO, Chipz – Joab Garza
July 12, 202116 min
EQONEX partners with Intelligence Squared
July 9, 20217 min
Intelligence Squared launches a special series of debates titled “Intelligence Squared Crypto: Debates Within Cryptocurrency“, in partnership with EQONEX Group, the Nasdaq-listed digital asset financial services company (Nasdaq: EQOS). Intelligence Squared, the global media company known as one of the world’s leading forums for live debate, today launches a new series seeking to urgently address the key issues in the world of cryptocurrency. The series will bring together some of the world’s best speakers to debate...
The Leading Bitcoin ATM Operator Continues to Pioneer the Decentralized Finance Space with Aave’s Unique Lending Protocol CoinFlip, the leading Bitcoin ATM provider in the U.S., announces today that Aave token (AAVE) is now listed across its 2,500-terminal network. Aave launched in 2017 to explore the potential of leveraging the Ethereum blockchain for use in loans and borrowing of crypto assets. As crypto use continues to change and see more mainstream adoptions, this initiative is...
The vulnerability would render Ethereum Classic perpetually unable to confirm transactions Today, the team behind the VeriBlock® Blockchain project, which extends Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work (“PoW”) security to the world’s blockchains in an entirely Decentralized, Trustless, Transparent, and Permissionless (“DTTP®”) manner, published details on a critical security vulnerability in Ethereum Classic’s MESS protocol they disclosed to ETC developers last October, prior to the activation of the consensus technology on the mainnet. The VeriBlock team intentionally omitted one detail from the...
Cross-ecosystem financial services platform crosses 300K members – Adds WhatsApp and web app channels Today, the world’s first membership powered financial service for crypto and fiat – hi – announced that in under two months of private beta, it has gained over 300,000 members from 130 countries and is now extending its services from Telegram to WhatsApp messenger and added a web app (web.hi.com). hi will be leveraging blockchain technology to build services that are community powered. As members are the key...
Allied Payment Network Partners with NYDIG
July 7, 20214 min
Community Financial Institutions Can Now Offer Consumers the Ability to Buy, Sell and Hold Bitcoin Allied Payment Network (Allied), the industry’s most progressive provider of online and mobile digital payment services to community financial institutions, announced today it has entered into a partnership with NYDIG, a leading technology and financial services firm dedicated to Bitcoin. The partnership enables financial institutions to offer their customers the ability to buy, sell and hold bitcoin. Allied is the first bill...
Hodlnaut Adds Support for Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)
July 6, 20213 min
Hodlnaut adds WBTC to its list of supported assets Hodlnaut is proud to announce the support for WBTC on its leading yield-generating platform. Hodlnaut now enables its users to earn interest rates of 6.0% APR/ 6.2% APY on WBTC. Interest earned on WBTC is accrued daily, and compounded weekly when paid out. Launched in 2018 as a joint initiative by BitGo, Kyber Network, and Ren (formerly Republic Protocol), WBTC is the first ERC-20 token that is backed 1:1...
Khurram Shroff led IBC Group has responded to the Chinese decision to crackdown on cryptocurrency mining within their territory, by deciding to close all its Bitcoin and Ethereum mining facilities across China. The IBC Group will move its staff to new locations; including UAE, Canada, USA, Kazakhstan, Iceland, and various South American countries. The IBC group has significant Bitcoin and Ethereum mining operations across China and has over 1500 people employed in more than 40 cities. The...
Recently, the price of Bitcoin dropped after orders by local authorities to halt mining in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province came late last week, resulting in the shutdown of numerous Bitcoin mines. According to a report from Global Times (China’s national English language newspaper) the ban means that more than 90% of China’s Bitcoin mining capacity is estimated to be shut down, at least for the short term, as regulators across the country have taken similar harsh steps. Now, as a result...
Largest Series B round in Latin America and SoftBank’s largest crypto investment in Latin America1 Investment values Mercado Bitcoin’s 2TM Group, at $2.1 billion USD2 2TM Group, the parent company of Mercado Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency exchange in Latin America, today announced that Mercado Bitcoin has raised $200 million USD from the SoftBank Latin America Fund. The fundraise represents the largest Series B round in Latin America’s history and SoftBank’s largest investment in a Latin...