April 15, 2021 UK hedge fund reportedly plans to invest $84M in crypto The firm’s co-founder Alan Howard already has a personal stake in One River Digital Asset Management’s crypto ventures. Brevan Howard, a U.K.-based asset management…
April 15, 2021 Gold-as-a-currency: Kinesis launches blockchain-backed monetary system in Indonesia In partnership with the Indonesian government, Kinesis is using blockchain technology to deliver gold-based financial services to the population. Kinesis, a gold-backed monetary system…
April 15, 2021 Balancer (BAL) price soars to new all-time high: What’s driving the rally? BAL, the token of the popular automated market maker Balancer, has reached an all-time high due to two major catalysts. BAL, the native cryptocurrency…
April 15, 2021 Blackrock CEO says crypto ‘may become a great asset class’ but is no substitute for currency Larry Fink said he hadn’t been seeing great institutional demand for crypto within Blackrock’s circles. Despite the successful rollout of Coinbase’s stock yesterday, Blackrock…
April 15, 2021 A cure for copyright ills? NFTs promise to empower creative economies NFTs are not an immediate solution to all IP rights issues, but eventually they can give creators more power than they ever had. If…
April 15, 2021 Chainlink releases new whitepaper in a shift toward smart contract computations In its new vision, Chainlink would allow anyone to deploy an arbitrary executable on its network. Chainlink (LINK) has unveiled its new whitepaper on…
April 15, 2021 Miami commissioner wants to let residents pay taxes in Bitcoin A new resolution would establish a task force to study crypto in Miami-Dade county’s public administration. A Miami-Dade County commissioner is backing a new…
April 15, 2021 One of Europe’s largest investment banks issues security token on Tezos Société Générale continues its crypto and blockchain experimentation by issuing a tokenized security on the Tezos network. European financial behemoth Société Générale has issued…
April 15, 2021 Client malfunction brings down Ethereum’s most popular block explorer Etherscan and OpenEthereum are stuck on one block shortly after Berlin hard fork. The OpenEthereum client for Ethereum, formerly known as the Parity client,…
April 15, 2021 Experts debate whether NFTs really need blockchain Crypto YouTuber EllioTrades and law professor Edmund Schuster debated the value of NFTs and the role of blockchain in digital collectibles. At the BlockDown…