No, the blockchain is not in your car. Luxury carmaker Groupe Renault tested its blockchain project aimed to ease compliance certification of vehicle components. The project, Extended Compliance End-to-End Distributed, or better known as XCEED, grew out of Renault’s partnership with other companies to develop a blockchain supply-chain solution by sharing data. It’s built on…
Read more
That’s a lot of whiskey gingers. A fund launched in March with the aim of tokenizing up to $20 million worth of whiskey has announced its first successful investment round and the purchase of its first tranche of Kentucky bourbon. Wave Financial Group announced Sept. 11 that its Kentucky Whiskey 2020 Digital Fund had bought…
Read more
Centralized Decentralized Finance may not make a lot of sense, but it is coming. Crypto.com, a conglomerate dealing primarily with payments and the exchange of crypto assets, announced its foray into decentralized finance with a platform named DeFi Swap. According to its whitepaper, published on Friday, DeFi Swap is a fork of the popular Uniswap…
Read more
The 2020 Chinese Blockchain Innovation rankings have been released. Beijing has been named as China’s top blockchain city in the 2020 Chinese Blockchain Innovation Rankings ahead of the blockchain hub of Shenzhen. The rankings were revealed in a special session at the China International Fair for Trade in Services Summit. According to Finance China, Beijing…
Read more
It is no secret that Binance’s vision of DeFi involves many centralized aspects. Following the launch of Binance’s Smart Chain, an Ethereum-compatible blockchain with a keen focus on decentralized finance, the exchange is now doubling down on its strategy to attract DeFi projects. At the company’s World of DeFi summit on Thursday, Binance’s CEO Changpeng…
Read more
“Welcome the world’s newest Bitcoiner,” Pomp stated on Twitter. Bitcoin bull Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano may have just persuaded Jim Cramer, the outspoken host of CNBC’s Mad Money, to invest in crypto. In a Sept. 10 tweet, Pomp claimed to have converted the man who once stated that Bitcoin (BTC) was like “Monopoly money” in a…
Read more
The platform will allow investment in commercial real estate from as little as $5,000, and liquidity in the form of token-backed loans during the 12-month lockup period. Despite receiving hype as a potential killer-app for blockchain, tokenized real estate has in many ways failed to live up to its early promise. However, fintech startup Reinno…
Read more
The funds will go to 28 companies working on the Ethereum blockchain. The Ethereum Foundation has announced that over $3.8 million in grants will be awarded to teams working on the Ethereum blockchain. In a Sept. 8 post published on the Ethereum Blog, the Ethereum Foundation, or EF, announced that it has given grants to…
Read more
London Stock Exchange-listed miner Argo Blockchain is mining 545% more Bitcoin than last year, with profits up 280%. Publicly-listed mining firm Argo Blockchain has published bullish interim half year results for 2020, despite the recent Bitcoin (BTC) halving and a host of “challenging conditions.” Argo Blockchain PLC is headquartered in London, with its shares listed…
Read more
After providing initial seed funding to Luno in 2014, Digital Currency Group has acquired the cryptocurrency exchange platform. One of the largest organizations investing in blockchain companies, Digital Currency Group, or DCG, has acquired the British multinational cryptocurrency exchange Luno. DCG first bought a stake in Luno by investing in the exchange’s seed round in…
Read more
