Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has finally opened up it’s long-awaited “store” in America’s part of the crypto-space, by launching trading on its new exchange for U.S. users. Today, on September 24, Binance.US has been officially launched.https://t.co/AZwoBOy3iq Opens Trading For BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, LTC, BNB and USDThttps://t.co/Sc8MkzYkn4 pic.twitter.com/wlv9SCshlM— Binance.US (@BinanceAmerica) September 24, 2019The company hopes that by doing so, it could enlarge its influence...
Read More »Blockchain is the Catalyst for the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry
The logistics and supply chain industry has been topsy-turvy since the dawn of the new millennium. So many issues have made many logistics and supply chain systems to change from being simple down-to-earth and easy to use to becoming complex and most times incomprehensible.This has made many nightmares come true for organizations with losses ranging from thousands to millions of dollars. This has however changed over time with the introduction of solutions that have changed the outlook of the...
Read More »IBM Indicates Willingness to Work with Facebook on Libra
One of the greatest technology companies on the face of the earth IBM has indicated its willingness to work with social media giant Facebook on its cryptocurrency Libra. In a CNBC interview on Monday 23rd September 2019, the Blockchain services of the firm Jason Kelley indicated his organization’s willingness to work with just about anybody in the crypto space. He said:“Blockchain is a team sport… Our clients are ready to work with (Facebook) and we’re ready to work with all of them to bring...
Read More »Blockchain Startup Everledger Secures $20M Funding from Tencent, Fidelity, and Others
London-based blockchain startup Everledger recently announced of securing a massive $20 million in Series A funding led by Tencent Holdings Ltd. Other major participants to this funding round included Rakuten, Fidelity, Graphene Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Vickers Venture Partners.Founded in 2015, Everledger uses the blockchain technology to develop an immutable ledger for asset ownership. In addition, Everledger also looks to tap other emerging technologies like AI and IoT to create robust...
Read More »Alibaba Group (BABA) Now Owns 33% of Jack Ma’s Ant Financial
After the close of a successful deal, a third of Jack Ma’s online financial services provider, Ant Financial, is now owned and controlled by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA). The deal is more than a few years in the making as it was first proposed that both giant companies initiate much stronger collaborative efforts more than five years ago. Both companies were started by Ma.Originally starting as Alipay, Ant Financial was founded back in 2004 and by 2013, it had overtaken PayPal as the...
Read More »Top German Stock Exchange Boerse Stuttgart Launches Digital Asset Exchange
Innovative and top tier German stock exchange Boerse Stuttgart is the second largest in terms of trading volume and number of deals and has introduced a digital asset exchange called BSDEX, which goes live today. Currently, the platform offers Bitcoin spot trading. The platform will be open to German residents this year and early next year the exchange will be open to the residents of the European Union. Immediately though only a few chosen traders are allowed to trade on the platform. Retail...
Read More »Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Gets Mild-Response on Day 1, BTC Price Drops Below $9800
On Monday, September, Bakkt announced the commencement of the trading facility for its physically-settled Bitcoin Futures contracts. Bakkt‘s Bitcoin Futures contracts offer both, daily contracts and monthly contract settlement options. Besides, that Bakkt platform also provides Warehouse facility for storing the physically-delivered Bitcoin tokens upon contracts expiry.But despite much hype surrounding the launch of Bakkt Bitcoin Futures, the first day of trading was not very impactful. On...
Read More »Kik Shutting Down Its Messaging App, CEO Threatens to Quit
The Canadian social media and messaging app company Kik said to be thinking about possible shutting down of its popular Kik messaging app.Two people familiar with the matter claim that the company is moving all the app’s users to alternative platforms. They also added 70 employees of Kik’s Israeli cryptocurrency subsidiary Kin being noticed about possible layoffs even though some will allegedly be offered the option of transferring to a new company that is based on the same technology, the...
Read More »Overstock Names Jonathan Johnson as Company’s New CEO
Photo: OverstockOnline retail giant Overstock announced that they’re enthroning Jonathan Johnson, who was previously temporary signed, to be no its permanent CEO. Just for reminder, 10 days ago, the company’s, now ex CEO Patrick Byrne, announced that he’s dumped all of his equity holdings in the company over because, as he said, both the “deep state” and the government for his sale.In a cryptic message to “Erstwhile Teammates” on his personal website, Patrick Byrne was “explaining” the...
Read More »Cisco Systems and SingularityNET Hosting Their AI Project on Blockchain
Networking giant Cisco Systems decided to go with the blockchain-based platform developed by SingularityNET to host its decentralized AGI project.SingularityNET is a startup that labels itself as a “decentralized artificial intelligence” company, and them working with Cisco Systems on such an ambitious project is a big deal.When talking about artificial intelligence technologies it should be clear that this is in no way new technology. But the truth is, its development is something that...
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