Mark SmalleyCryptocurrency Blockchain.com Raises $300 Million, Firm’s Post-Money Valuation Now $5.2 Billion bitcoin.com - Jamie Redman The crypto financial services provider Blockchain.com revealed on Wednesday that the company has raised $300 million in a financing round. …
Mark Smalley Beeple Crashes MakersPlace By Selling NFT Art for $1 - Decrypt decrypt.co - Tim Hakki NFT superstar Beeple crashed the crypto art boutique MakersPlace’s yesterday after traffic for his limited edition $1 drop led to system issues. Most …
Mark Smalley Grimes Auctioning Off 10 Pieces of NFT Digital Artwork Rolling Stone - Daniel Kreps Grimes is auctioning off 10 exclusive pieces of digital artwork — in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) — for the next 48 hours, the singer’s …
Mark Smalley People have spent more than $230 million buying and trading digital collectibles of NBA highlights verified_publisherCNBC - Jabari Young A LeBron James highlight sold for $200,000. A Zion Williamson edition went for a little less than that. The National Basketball Association has …
Mark SmalleyDigital Currency What’s the significance of Bitcoin’s $1 trillion valuation? - Marketplace verified_publisherMarketplace - Janet Nguyen Bitcoin’s market value has surpassed $1 trillion, a milestone that puts the cryptocurrency in a very exclusive club with tech titans like Microsoft, …
Mark Smalley Ripple says it will be sued by the SEC, in what the company calls a parting shot at the crypto industry verified_publisherFortune - Jeff John Roberts Ripple, one of the most important companies in the cryptocurrency industry, said Monday evening that the Securities and Exchange Commission is poised …
Mark Smalley Bitcoin Faces A $600 Billion Catalyst, JPMorgan Strategists Say Forbes - Joseph YoungThe Bitcoin price has seen a stunning rally throughout 2020, rising from $3,600 in March to over $19,000 in December. In the longer term, JPMorgan JPMstrategists say a $600 billion catalyst potentially...
Mark SmalleyMassMutual JPMorgan Says MassMutual’s Bitcoin Foray Signals Widening Demand verified_publisherBloomberg - Joanna Ossinger A recent investment in Bitcoin by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. highlights the potential for additional institutional demand for the …
Mark SmalleyFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Next Blockchain Megatrend: Financial Asset Tokens linkedin.com However, before you rush to tokenise, I would urge you to carry out a careful cost benefit analysis of your project in order to find out if it is …
Mark Smalley Avalanche, the latest staking network to launch, already has more than $1 billion staked The Block Avalanche (AVAX) is the latest proof-of-stake (PoS) network to come to the marketplace, officially launching last Monday. Developed by AVA Labs, the …
Mark Smalley SEC, OCC Issue First Regulatory Clarifications for Stablecoins - CoinDesk coindesk.com - Nikhilesh De The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has published fresh guidance, officially clarifying national banks can provide services to …
Mark Smalley Philippines' SEC just denounced the top Ethereum dapp as a Ponzi - Decrypt decrypt.co - Greg Thomson A gas-guzzling Ethereum dapp that accounts for 13% of activity on Ethereum network has been denounced as a potential Ponzi scheme by the Philippines …
Mark Smalley Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Investopedia - By What Is an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)? An initial coin offering (ICO) is the cryptocurrency industry’s equivalent to an initial public offering …
Mark Smalley EY Launches Token and Smart Contract Testing Service in Open Beta - CoinDesk coindesk.com - Paddy Baker Accountancy giant Ernst & Young (EY) has made its token and smart contract review service available for public testing. Launched earlier on Wednesday, …
Mark Smalley Morningstar Is Building A Blockchain Bridge To The $117 Trillion Debt Securities Industry Forbes - Michael del CastilloMorningstar Credit Ratings is making a number of previously unknown moves into the burgeoning industry of assets issued on a blockchain. The rating agency, whose parent company Morningstar Inc. made its...
Mark Smalley IKEA in 'World First' Transaction Using Smart Contracts and Licensed E-Money - CoinDesk coindesk.com - Daniel Palmer IKEA Iceland has taken part in a commercial transaction on ethereum, using smart contracts and licensed e-money to facilitate the settlement of an …
Mark Smalley Enterprise Ethereum Alliance’s Reward Token System Backed by Microsoft, Intel By Cointelegraph investing.com - Cointelegraph Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) are backing a new system of reward tokens created by the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). The EEA, …
Mark Smalley State-Owned French Bank Joins Bitcoin Startup's $8 Million Series A - CoinDesk coindesk.com - Leigh Cuen “We’re convinced that bitcoin is becoming more and more obvious.” That’s not typically what one might expect to hear from a veteran banker at a public …
Mark Smalley Arab Bank's Swiss Arm Is Launching Cryptocurrency Services - CoinDesk coindesk.com - Daniel Palmer The Swiss branch of one of the top financial institutions in the Middle East is launching a suite of cryptocurrency-based services. Arab Bank …
Mark Smalley ConsenSys and WWF Roll Out Platform for Transparency in Philanthropy By Cointelegraph investing.com - Cointelegraph ConsenSys, a blockchain startup founded by Ethereum’s (ETH) co-founder Joseph Lubin, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have jointly launched the …
Mark Smalley First Tokenized IPO Launches on National Stock Exchange - CoinDesk coindesk.com - Daniel Palmer Today marks the launch of what is most likely the first ever blockchain-based initial public offering (IPO), with the national stock exchange of the …
Mark Smalley Gemini Launches Custody Product With 18 Cryptos Including Ethereum Tokens - CoinDesk coindesk.com - Nikhilesh De The Gemini exchange is launching an institutional-grade crypto custody solution, according to an announcement Tuesday. Through the Gemini Trust …
Mark Smalley Blockchain Learning Hub unicef.org Welcome the blockchain learning hub. Many blockchain and crypto resources are publicly available. The amount of information can be overwhelming, so …
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Mark Smalley New Zealand Tax Office Makes It Legal to Pay Salaries in Crypto - CoinDesk coindesk.com - Daniel Palmer New Zealand’s tax office, the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), has made it legal to receive salaries in cryptocurrency, and be taxed accordingly. In …
Mark Smalley BakerHostetler Links with Clause, Brings Blockchain-Based Legal Agreements to Market in the Freight Transportation Industry bakerlaw.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 12, 2019 – National law firm BakerHostetler has collaborated with Clause, a leading software platform for smart legal …
Mark Smalley World Bank Sells $33.8 Million More of Its Private Ethereum Blockchain Bonds - CoinDesk coindesk.com - Nathan DiCamillo The World Bank has issued a second round of its landmark blockchain bonds. The international financial institution raised another $50 million AUD …
Mark Smalley U.S. Lawmakers Are Realizing They Can’t Ban Bitcoin Forbes - Kyle TorpeyThose who have been longtime critics of Bitcoin usually have one key theory in common, which is that governments will eventually ban Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will then cease to exist in any meaningful...
Mark Smalley Leveraging blockchain to make machine learning models more accessible - Microsoft Research microsoft.com Significant advances are being made in artificial intelligence, but accessing and taking advantage of the machine learning systems making these …