A judge has ruled that the $100 million ICO conducted by the Canadian messaging platform Kik in 2017 violated federal securities laws. U.S. District Judge Alvin Kellerstein has sided with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), ruling that the Canadian technology firm Kik’s $100 million initial coin offering (ICO) violated federal securities laws. On […]
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Australia’s Prime Minister has announced the Federal Government’s biggest investment in blockchain to-date, with two pilots set to receive almost $5 million. The Australian government this week unveiled its $574 million Digital Business Plan that includes seven-figure grants for distributed ledger technology initiatives. Announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison ahead of next week’s Federal Government […]
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Do you want to learn everything about DeFi, inside and out? Can you handle it? With its year-to-date growth of more than 15x in total value locked, and more than $11 billion committed to the protocols, decentralized finance (DeFi) has become a mainstay in the crypto industry, and a whole new industry in itself. Meanwhile, […]
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Having the world use one distributed ledger will support technical uniformity, interoperability of applications and a more honest planet. Despite being, perhaps, the biggest tech buzzword of the last decade, blockchain technology has largely remained just that: a buzzword. While its best-known implementation, Bitcoin (BTC), has become a household name, the technology that underpins it […]
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DJ David Guetta goes virtual. Sensorium Galaxy, a not-yet-released virtual reality platform, has signed famous French DJ David Guetta. The platform hosts its own ERC-20 token, known as SENSO. “In a similar fashion to in-game currencies like Fortnite’s V-Bucks, SENSO is used for all value transactions within the Sensorium Galaxy,” Sensorium Corporation’s Deputy CEO of IR, blockchain […]
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A stablecoin that will be used to pay entrance fees for the golfing tournaments of a Kenyan ‘entrepreneurs network’ has started testing under the local regulatory sandbox. YENTS, an unusual stablecoin developed by the Kenya’s Young Entrepreneurs Network (YEN), has entered into testing under the local regulatory sandbox. YEN, which organizes golfing tournaments to facilitate […]
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Banking will not become decentralized, but with blockchain, it will become accountable for both banks and clients. Recently, European central bank executives — Thomas Moser from Swiss National Bank and Martin Diehl from Deutsche Bundesbank — stated that central bank digital currencies don’t need a blockchain. They expressed their opinions by saying that blockchains — […]
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Without constant nurturing through communication and collaborative efforts, the pursuits of legislators and businesses would be fruitless. Repeatedly, proponents of disruptive technologies have proven that regulation and innovation have an immense potential to actualize a mutually beneficial existence. The often delicate relationship between innovators and regulators — which may be mired by antagonism — is […]
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The Federal Reserve Bank has been exploring digital currencies to modernize the U.S. payments sector. The President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has revealed details of the Fed’s ongoing research into a potential digital dollar. Speaking in a keynote address on September 23, Loretta Mester emphasized that the Federal Reserve has […]
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The world of fine spirits continues to apply distributed ledger technology. The Stin, an Austrian-based gin distiller, is set to use ICON (ICX), South Korea’s largest public blockchain project, to transparently track its supply chain. An Austrian blockchain firm, block42, will be combining near-field communication (NFC) technology with the ICON blockchain to maximize the security […]
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