The coronavirus pandemic is a make-or-break situation for crypto banks as many see opportunities despite the obvious setbacks. As 2020 staggers on, the scourge of the coronavirus is showing no sign of relenting any time soon. Since the reality of the pandemic took hold, it has revealed itself to be a black swan the likes…
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Securitize, a compliance platform for token issuers, has released a new tool that ensures private digital securities trading is completed compliantly. Securitize, a digital securities platform backed by major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, has announced a new tool that assures that secondary market transactions of digital securities are compliant with regulations. According to an April 22…
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Coinbase gets into the DeFi space by launching a crypto price oracle. Coinbase is trying to fix the broken DeFi industry with stable price oracles. In an April 23 announcement, Coinbase introduced the Coinbase Price Oracle — “a critically important service to the DeFi ecosystem” that will be available through the CoinbasePro API. Both existing…
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Speakers from Ternio, Monarch, and Utrust weighed in on the future of the industry & the impact of COVID-19. The current pandemic is far from over and the economic, political, and social ramifications of this crisis remain unclear. Indeed, the nature of the workplace people return to might well be radically different to what previously…
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Curv has launched a software-based custody product allowing secure signing via multi-party computations protocols from offline devices. Curv, a Tel-Aviv and New York-based digital asset security platform, has launched Curv Air Gap — an institutional transaction signing solution that uses multi-party computation, or MPC, protocols on offline devices. The launch comes roughly one week after…
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The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance welcomes Algorand to their team as a corporate member. The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, or WSBA, announced on April 23 that the proof-of-stake cryptocurrency platform, Algorand, has joined their alliance as a corporate member. According to the post, Algorand is teaming up with many of the tech and finance companies…
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Renowned artist, Lyle Owerko, is selling his digital artwork on a blockchain platform backed by major crypto exchange Gemini. Renowned photographer and filmmaker, Lyle Owerko, is selling his digital artwork on Nifty Gateway — a blockchain platform backed by the Gemini crypto exchange. Owerko, whose patrons include Madonna and Jay-Z, is auctioning works that are…
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Why hasn’t the Ethereum blockchain found the perfect solution for its scalability problem since 2014, and does one really exist? The Ethereum team has been trying to solve the blockchain scalability problem since 2014. During that time, solutions such as Raiden, Plasma, zk-SNARKs, sharding and rollups appeared in the developers’ tool kit. However, the implementation…
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Cryptocurrency data firm Nomics announced an artificial intelligence system that makes seven-day cryptocurrency price predictions. Cryptocurrency data firm Nomics is applying artificial intelligence to the often chaotic world of cryptocurrency trading. In an announcement on April 23, Nomics introduced an AI system that makes seven-day cryptocurrency price predictions. The firm claims this makes it the…
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A Paxful survey shows that a growing percentage of Americans are considering cryptocurrencies as an alternative to the current financial system. Americans with a working knowledge of cryptocurrencies have been showing a rising interest in blockchain technology and cryptos. According to a survey conducted by the global peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace Paxful, this demographic increasingly views…
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