Enterprise blockchain company Nuco announced Aion has raised an initial $22 million USD to build the first interoperable blockchain network. The company also shared that Moog Inc., a Fortune 1000 company specializing in building parts for the aerospace and defense industries, will integrate Aion. Moog initially turned to Nuco to develop a native blockchain platform…
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UK FCA regulated global provider of FX and CFD brokerage services Tickmill just announced that has added Bitcoin (BTCUSD), one of the world’s most popular cryptocurrencies, to its list of trading instruments. Bitcoin is a digital currency that is completely decentralised, meaning no central bank or organisation controls it, therefore Bitcoin trading is an attractive…
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Dubai's government is the first one in the world to conduct all transactions through blockchain. The Dubai Land Department has gone completely "cashless" as part of the initiative "Dubai Blockchain Strategy" launched by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dubai Foundation…
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Wysker, a Berlin-based startup that decentralizes e-commerce and that has built the first blockchain-powered shopping app, has now become the first ICO in Germany. What is more, this is the world's first blockchain-powered shopping app with a radical twist to mobile discovery and the first ICO from a company incorporated in Germany. On October 2nd, 2017 at 18:00…
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Russian Miner Coin raised $43 million through an ICO to create a “next-gen ecosystem for miners and investors,” challenging China in this field, reported East-West Digital News. Although the company had previously set a target of $100 million, the amount currently raised is a new record high for the Eastern European ICO market. According to…
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Seven leading banks are teaming up with R3 and Finastra to create a blockchain-based syndicated loan market, LenderComm. This new disruption in the lending market is yet another blockchain application that is going to be used to ease the loan market and serve as a platform for efficiency and up-to-date information. This new project will…
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RoboForex, an international brokerage group which provides online trading services on the global financial markets, just announced that it has expanded the list of its offers available to clients and enabled access to trading CFDs on cryptocurrencies. Two of the most liquid digital currencies, bitcoin and ethereum, have been added to the list of trading…
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The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has set out in Guidance its approach to Initial Coin/Token Offerings (ICOs) and virtual currencies under the Financial Services and Markets Regulations (FSMR). Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has extraordinarily wide application to financial services and markets as a whole. Virtual tokens, at their…
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With cryptocurrencies becoming more popular and maturing in the investment world in thousands of portfolios, industries and innovations, all of them at some point must go through an upgrade. For Ethereum, this upgrade will happen on October 17th, and what is known as "hard fork" will come to life. For many investors, the difference between…
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Just as blockchain is currently disrupting numerous industries, it is time for airline companies to be the next in line. Air France KLM is one of the first aircrafts to be employing blockchain technology in order to keep its top-notch position among customers. The whole maintenance of an aircraft company is usually complicated and blockchain…
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