Tag Archives: Blockchain News

It seems that the biggest tech behemoth Microsoft in the world decided to enter the crypto space with the leading blockchain gaming project. It plans to use the ENJ token in order to back-up blockchain assets.The biggest technological company on Wednesday introduced Azure Heroes. It works as a rewards system using digital collectibles. In order for this to happen, Microsoft decided to partner with the blockchain gaming project Enjin to create a blockchain-based recognition program.As per the...

Technology has been able to penetrate pretty much every industry in the global economy. The optimization and streamlining feature that the concept has can’t possibly be overstated, and while incumbent traditional organizations still control a large portion of the market share, there is a continued threat of newer firms coming over and posing a lasting challenge.One of the most important sectors of the global economy is the financial sector. As many have stated, the financial sector controls...

The team of Ethereum developers has announced a proposal for a new hard fork which is expected to solve problems currently associated with the Ice Age. In a recently published Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) – EIP 2387 – authored by developer James Hancock, the new hard fork if deployed, would significantly “postpone” the coming of the Ice Age. Muir Glacier is named after a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, located in Alaska.Hancock explains that the Ethereum network is...

In what is seen as a paradox that has put many pundits on the edge, recent data indicates that XRP that is widely used by Ripple in its solutions is already less than one month away from being the worst-performing cryptocurrency token that is among the top ten in terms of market capitalization. Research indicates that coming up as a close second in this regard is Bitcoin Cash (BCH) which has lost 49% of its value since its all-time-high as against XRP’s 51%. XRP at the time of the 2017...

Last month in November 2019, crypto exchange Binance joined hands with smartphone manufacturer HTC for a special edition “cryptophone”. Dubbed as the HTC EXODUS 1 – Binance Edition, the handset integrates Binance’s proprietary blockchain network, the Binance Chain with HTC’s own native Zion Vault wallet app.As a result, the handset promises to support Binance’s decentralized exchange (DEX), the BNB token, preloaded DApps, etc. In the latest announcement, Binance has said that the...

Taking a contrarian view, Morgan Creek Digital co-founder and prominent personality in the crypto space Jason Williams has described the upcoming Bitcoin halving event as a non-event. He made this known in a tweet early this week. Unpopular Opinion –Bitcoin halving in May 2020 won’t do anything to the price. It will be a non-event.— Jason A. Williams ? (@JWilliamsFstmed) December 1, 2019While halving refers to the reduction by half of the Bitcoin rewards that are given to miners every four...

As we are coming to the year’s end we somehow always tend to look in the past to reconcile what was good and what wasn’t. Speaking of the IPOs, we can surely say this year was marked by numerous IPO failures with more than half of stock market debuts now trading below their initial offering.We can just mention hail-raiding companies as are Uber and Lyft who were probably the biggest losers of the year. However, there were also plenty of unicorns that got smashed in 2019 including Peloton (the...

In what seems like an about-face, global banking custodian State Street has drastically cut down its Decentralized Ledger Technologies team, as sources indicate. Rather than focus on building a complete DLT ecosystem from scratch which hitherto before now had been the strategy that State Street pursued, the custodian has decided to focus on digital assets which include tokenized stocks and bonds as well cryptocurrencies. Such an approach is to be applied instead of a bottom-up strategy which...

FinAccel, an Asian fin-tech company involved in leveraging deep data analytics across users’ digital footprint in order to automate credit risk scoring and access to credit in Southeast Asia, has announced it raised $90 million in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Asia Growth Fund, jointly established by Mirae Asset and Naver Corp, and Australia-based venture capital firm Square Peg. Among other investors were Singtel Innov8, Telkomsel Indonesia, Cathay Innovation and Kejora...

American multinational investment bank and financial services company Morgan Stanley has changed its rating on stocks from Roku, the on-demand video streaming platform backed by Fox. Even though Roku has had an amazing year and climbed quite explosively in the stock market with 400% year-to-date YTD returns, Morgan Stanley dropped its Roku rating from equal weight to underweight.In a recent note to the company’s investors titled “It’s All Priced In”, Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne,...