Quant Network (QNT) – the project best known for developing the first-of-its-kind Overledger blockchain operating system – have announced the appointment of Guy Dietrich (Managing Director, Rockefeller Capital Management) to its board of directors. Dietrich – as Quant Network’s blog post states – brings “over 35 years of investment experience” to the Quant Network board. In his capacity as managing…
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The team behind OmiseGO (OMG) have today realized a major milestone; enabling public access to the alpha release of its so-called OMG Network – a proof-of-stake and infinitely scalable Plasma blockchain with a decentralized exchange built into its core consensus layer – for the very first time. The network’s alpha version, which the OmiseGO team are calling Ari – the…
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Bittrex International – a secure, reliable digital asset trading platform built on U.S.-based Bittrex’s cutting-edge trading technology – has become the first exchange to seemingly ride the coattails of Binance’s Binance Launchpad; announcing on Monday its own exclusive token sale platform. Indeed, the Malta-based Bittrex International will soon host a token sale – or, as they are calling it, an…
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Loom Network (LOOM) was the focus of an insightful video chat between three Chorus One team members – co-founder and CEO Brian Crain, business development strategist Brendan Dillon, plus marketing and research analyst Felix Lutsch – shared on Wednesday morning (SGT). Incorporated in the U.S. state of Maryland, Chorus One operates validating nodes and staking services for Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain…
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Blockchain-enabled, rewards-based payment network Liven (LVN) announced earlier on Monday that “cryptocurrency legend and Bitcoin.com CEO” Roger Ver had joined its board, effective immediately. The announcement was authored by David Ballerini, one of Liven’s co-founders. In it, he explained that: Ver’s wealth of experience in the industry and drive to revolutionise cryptocurrency adoption through integration is an outstanding resource to…
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Wednesday has seen yet another major development take place in the budding ecosystem surrounding security tokens and tokenized assets, with Own (CHX) partnering with U.S.-based, S.E.C.-registered broker-dealer Hamersley Partners in a deal that will undoubtedly pique the interest of institutional investors across the globe. Announced via a press release earlier today, Own Group and Hamersley Partners told the public about…
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Wednesday marked the realization of a significant milestone for SingularityNET (AGI) – a project building out a blockchain-enabled marketplace for AI algorithms – with Arif Khan (Marketing VP) announcing the private launch of the SingularityNET platform’s Beta version on the Ropsten network (i.e., one of the public testnets for Ethereum). With that, Khan also detailed the second and third of…
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Travala (AVA) – a fast-growing, NEO blockchain-powered booking marketplace – announced earlier today that users now have the ability to book any of its 550,000-plus listed hotels with Litecoin (LTC), the popular peer-to-peer cryptocurrency created by Charlie Lee. Travala’s announcement – made on their official Twitter account on Tuesday evening – came just hours after Litecoin displaced Bitcoin Cash (BCH)…
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Well, they left it to the penultimate day of the month, but those behind the Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) project have made good on their promise of a January launch after today saw the ERC20-compliant version of the bitcoin (BTC) cryptocurrency go live on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet. For those that need reminding, the Wrapped Bitcoin project was unveiled late last…
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The team behind NKN (NKN) – described as “a new generation of highly scalable, self-evolving and self-incentivized blockchain network infrastructure” in its whitepaper – have proposed a one-to-one token swap from the extant NEP-5-compliant NKN token to one that is compliant with the Ethereum network’s ERC-20 standard. NKN’s decision, according to their announcement published on Friday, was “based on feedback…
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