Cardano (ADA) continues to expand in the market, this time with the first payment system that was installed in Japan, one of the most active countries in the cryptocurrency space. The information was released by the company on its official Telegram channel . First ADA Payment System Installed In Japan According to the information released by ...

  The VeChain price spiked by a third in less than an hour, following confirmation the cryptocurrency had partnered with Walmart in China. Just before 1pm AEST Tom Foth, senior director at Price Waterhouse Coopers posted a brief update on Twitter . "At the Walmart, Vechain, PwC announcement food safety tracking of foods Walmart sells in China....

  Part of the end of 2017's epic cryptocurrency bull market and the beginning of 2018's equally shocking bear market was the regulatory pivot that occurred in major nations. Countries like the United States were (and are still) responsible for much of the crypto market's volume and movement. The US acts as a sort of bellwether that shows how t...

Cosmochain's 1st meet-up is currently taking place at Novotel Ambassador Seoul Gangnam. As notified, we are sharing the contents of presentations at the end of each session. The first announcement was made by Hoyoung Kang from Klaytn, Kakao's global blockchain platform. With less than a week left until the official launch of its mainnet on June 27,...

The New York-based life insurance firm, MetLife is hoping to improve the life insurance claims process by utiling the Ethereum blockchain. MetLife's Singapore-based incubator, LumenLab is teaming up with Singapore Press Holdings and NTUC Income in order to help launch a smart contract platform built on Ethereum Lifechain. Prior to this, MetLife use...

Investment management company Vanguard has just completed a significant implementation of blockchain technology. It is using blockchain to manage data for financial products and the largest mutual fund, the $800 billion Total Stock Market Index Fund. According to Forbes , it has been using blockchain to manage $1.3 trillion worth of index funds sin...

Darma Capital, a new $100M investment firm, is undertaking what might be called a bit gamble on Ethereum (ETH) . The fund is betting big that the leading smart-contract platform will go on a 10-year bull run. Despite Ethereum losing some 94 percent of its gains by the end of 2018, a new investment fund is betting that this is just a minor blip. Dar...

If 2017 was the year of the ICO bubble, then 2018 was the year of wrong predictions. Not only did Bitcoin ETFs face continuous delays, but institutional adoption remained distant, and mass adoption even more so. As for the predictions of President McAfee, well, the less said, the better. It was also supposed to be the year of security tokens. Remem...

I am sending this message from the year 2025. Things are looking bleak here, and some of you will carry blood on your hands. If you don't believe me, please move on, as I have no way of proving to you I'm really who I claim to be. I don't want to waste any of your time, so I'm merely going to explain what happened. On average, every year so far, th...

Blockchain-based social media platform will reward and return control to social media users WASHINGTON, D.C. June 1, 2019 – Social media is fundamentally broken and is in need of a complete overhaul. Block.one today announced Voice, a blockchain-based social media application designed with users of the platform in mind. Voice is a more transparent ...

AN OLD saying holds that markets are ruled by either greed or fear. Greed once governed cryptocurrencies. The price of Bitcoin, the best-known, rose from about $900 in December 2016 to $19,000 a year later. Recently, fear has been in charge. Bitcoin's price has fallen back to around $7,000; the prices of other cryptocurrencies, which followed it on...

On May 20th, blockchain-based social beauty platform Cosmochain (CEO Howon Song) announced that it attracted US$2.5M token investment from US hedge fund Ulysses Capital. This investment is meaningful, as the largest officially confirmed secondary token investment for a dApp project. Ulysses Capital is an event-driven global hedge fund based in Los ...

The last time Binance provided a list of use cases for Binance Coin (BNB) , around late March , we counted around 55 use cases for storing, using, and spending BNB. This time, we're counting at least 83. This means that since we last wrote about #UseBNB on this blog, we've increased the number of use cases for BNB by more than 50%. You can see the ...

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and developer of proprietary blockchain Binance Chain, and Cred , the leading platform for crypto lending and borrowing, today announced an agreement to work together to spur the decentralization of finance. As part of the agreement, Cred will migrate a portion of its ERC20 LBA ...

​ Fantom cryptocurrency is a blockchain project launched by the Fantom Foundation. Their trading symbol is FTM. The coin has been created by their CEO, Ahn Byung . Fantom is basically aiming to create a decentralized app platform. So people could program their own blockchain apps via the Fantom Virtual Machine. It's a similar idea to Ethereum and C...

For the vast majority of the past 2 years, the 2 highest ranked cryptocurrencies (by market cap) were Bitcoin and Ethereum. But though they share many similarities, there are also huge fundamental differences between these 2 giants in the crypto world. Especially for beginners, these differences might not be immediately apparent, which is why this ...

 Fantom , a fast and scalable distributed ledger platform based on DAG technology, announced to collaborate with binance chain to create a multi asset cross chain ecosystem. We are pleased to announce that we are joining the Binance chain family! We're extremely excited to share that we'll be collaborating to create a multi asset cross chain e...

Dear Red Pulse Community, As part of the integration of Red Pulse's tokenized knowledge ecosystem and Binance Chain, we will be migrating a major portion of our token ecosystem to Binance Chain. Binance Chain is the newly developed blockchain software system developed by world-leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance (https://www.binance.com). The P...

On May 5, 2019, US President Donald Trump announced increased trade tariffs on goods imported from China. At that time tariffs of 10 percent had been defined for approximately $200 billion worth of goods. These tariffs increased to 25 percent on May 10. Based on Trump's comments, a 10 percent tariff on another $325 billion dollars worth of imported...

Koine , the specialist financial institution for custody and settlement of digital assets, has acquired Recruitable Ltd (trading as "hireabl"), a pre-launch, fintech company with a scalable platform for automated client on-boarding. ​ Koine plans to make a number of strategic acquisitions of innovative, early stage tech-based, IP owners in order to...