Flipside Crypto announced that it has raised $7.1 million in a Series Seed Prime financing. The round was led by Galaxy Digital Ventures with participation from Collaborative Fund, CMT Digital and Avon Ventures, as well as previous investors True Ventures, Founder Collective, Digital Currency Group,...
Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, announced it has launched its own bitcoin futures contracts. The first trade was executed on Sunday (Sept 22), but did not have much of a reaction in spot markets, according to CNBC. In fact, bitcoin’s...
Two firms are teaming up to create a blockchain solution for the European shipping market. VAKT, a specialist in commodity post-trade processing via blockchain, revealed that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with essDOCS, a provider of paperless trade solutions, according to Coin Telegraph....
China’s cryptocurrency czar said that while no country is ready to welcome Facebook’s Libra, they might not have a choice. “No countries welcome Libra, but it might be unstoppable anyways,” Changchuan Mu, the new director of China’s Research Institute on Digital Currency, said, according to...
Indian auto manufacturing giant Tata Motors has launched its AutoMobility Collaboration Network 2.0, a platform that will help develop a center of AutoMobility innovation via partnerships for new technologies and/or business models. The company is looking for blockchain solutions for automotive, parking marketplace, NLP native...
Huobi Group has announced the official launch of a digital asset exchange in Argentina. Reuters reported that Huobi Argentina will hire a local team and establish a fiat gateway to trade or convert the Argentine peso to cryptocurrency. The gateway is expected to launch around...
HTC has announced it is partnering with Bitcoin.com to add bitcoin cash support for its Exodus 1 blockchain phone, which will come with Bitcoin.com’s preinstalled wallet and be rolled into the Exodus 1 software update. Bitcoin.com will also sell the Exodus 1 and all future versions....
Square Crypto has announced that it is giving the first of many grants to support open-source bitcoin projects to the BTCPay Foundation. The crypto-focused branch of mobile payment company Square is giving the BTCPay Foundation a grant of $100,000 to support BTCPay Server, an open-source...
Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, is joining the 320 banks in the JPMorgan Chase-led blockchain initiative, the Financial Times reported Sunday (Sept. 15). The move is intended to lower costs at Deutsche Bank — which clears more euro-denominated payments than any bank worldwide — and...
