Big companies are getting into the ICO game, crypto and blockchain in general. Previously, Telegram raised $1.7 billion privately before cancelling its public sale. Now the LinkedIn Co-Founder, Eric Ly, has filed Form D with the SEC. With experience as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer, Ly is looking to raise $20 million in a […]
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OKEx, a Hong Kong digital asset exchange has suspended all ERC20 token deposits on April 25 after the discovery of a BatchOverFlow bug with Ethereum smart contracts. According to OKEx, the bug enables hackers to “generate an extremely large amount of tokens, and deposit them into a normal address.” This vulnerability, by extension, would enable […]
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Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, Nest and other ventures has invested in Basis, an ERC20 token. Bain Capital Ventures invested $133 million during the private placement round as their first crypto purchase. Alphabet Inc.’s venture capital division, GV, along with Lightspeed Venture Partners, Foundational Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Sky9 Capital were among the […]
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Health care insurers UnitedHealth Group, Humana and MultiPlan have partnered with provider Quest Diagnostics in a study on utilizing blockchain technology to improve health care data. They are not the first companies to look at marrying healthcare with the blockchain. Medicalchain is one health records company looking to solve this problem, which currently has voluntary […]
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Mailchimp has joined the bandwagon against ICOs by prohibiting email campaigns on their platform, according to the company’s acceptable use policy. This puts them in the same anti-crypto coalition as Facebook, Twitter and Google, with their plans to ban ICO ads. According to Mailchimp’s modifications to their Terms of Use, “we cannot allow businesses involved […]
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Digix DAO (DGD), #28 by market capitalization with a total market cap of $500 million has partnered with Traceto.io as the KYC service provider for the Digix marketplace. KYC, or Know Your Customer is the process of verifying the identities of clients and investors. It is part of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations that govern […]
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Although it’s debatable whether Cambridge Analytica actually did anything outside of Facebook’s Terms of Service, with regard to how the organization collected and utilized customer data, the #DeleteFacebook campaign is very real. Highly influential people have joined the bandwagon, including tech titan Elon Musk who took down the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX. Facebook […]
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According to a report from Sky News, Twitter is expected to ban ICO advertising and most cryptocurrency exchange ads. Facebook was the first platform to make a major push against digital currency advertising, though there has been some speculation that the behemoth social media platform might release its own cryptocurrency or a possible partnership with […]
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Torque Capital Partners, a Venture Capital firm that focuses on blockchain projects has announced three new partnerships. These include Matrix AI Network, CPChain and Zebi. TCP is a group that funds projects of the future. Their organization includes investors, influencers and specialists who partner with top blockchain projects, worldwide. They invest between $500k to $10 […]
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Overstock-backed ICO, tZero has released an amended statement to the SEC regarding a previously confidential Private Placement Offering Memorandum, initially dated December 18, 2017 and supplemented on January 27, 2018. In the amended, supplemented and restated statement made on March 1, 2018, tZero outlines a number of changes to their ICO, presumably to maintain compliance […]
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