It has been a little over three weeks now since Lepricon opened their token, L3P, to the market on Uniswap, and it has been a bumpy ride out in the markets. “It was much easier before the token went live on the market,” says Founder and CEO Joshua Galloway. When pressed to explain, Galloway, a 20 year veteran of the …
IEOs should be taken critically, the reason is very simple. There was a lot of hype behind it. Everyone wanted to launch an IEO and we saw a similar hype to 2018 and 2019 with ICOs. ICOs did not have exchanges that were deciding which projects to accept and projects didn’t have liquidity. And that was an advantage because the …
“Quantum supremacy.” The term inspires images of a giant world-brain supercomputer that can count the grains of sand on every beach on Earth. But what does Google’s official claim of supremacy mean and how will practical quantum computing change the world of crypto? After a month of speculation, Google announced that it has built and tested a 54-qubit quantum processor called “Sycamore.” …
DigitalBits’s PreSale is live! Backed by some of the top-tier crypto funds and advisors, DigitalBits targets an enterprise go-to-market strategy with a focus on the points economy – further accelerating the adoption of blockchain technology into society. DigitalBits is a third generation protocol over the former Stellar network, that’s tackling the challenges of usability and mainstream adoption. Read more here. Binance …
Few companies in 2019 have managed to attract venture capitalists to private token sales without giving up equity. Yet the hedge fund and predictions market startup Numerai just closed an $11 million round in March led by Paradigm and Placeholder strictly by selling NMR tokens, first launched through an airdrop in 2017. According to Numerai founder Richard Craib, every week …
Facebook is seeking to hire a senior lawyer with experience in both blockchain and payments, a job description uploaded to its website this week confirms. Facebook, which has hinted about plans involving blockchain, cryptocurrency and payments across its social media ecosystem, now wants a Lead Commercial Counsel to guide the rollout of new offerings. “You will be responsible for drafting …
B2C2, a cryptocurrency liquidity provider based in London, has hired Rob Catalanello, a 25-year veteran of Wall Street, to lead its expansion into the U.S. Catalanello has held senior positions at the New York office of French bank Credit Agricole, where he was the head of fixed-income sales, and at Merrill Lynch (now part of Bank of America), where he …
United States-based payment platform Square is hiring cryptocurrency engineers and is offering to pay them in digital currency, according to a tweet published by Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey on March 20. In the tweet, Dorsey announces that “Square is hiring 3–4 crypto engineers and one designer to work full-time on open source contributions to the Bitcoin/crypto ecosystem. Work …
San Francisco-based blockchain firm TokenSoft has rolled out a beta version of its wallet for digital assets and digital securities, according to a press release published on Jan. 29. The new product called Knox Wallet provides cold storage and a self-custody platform for managing multiple assets, including both cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (ETH) and Ethereum (ETH), as well as tokenized …
Tangem, a Switzerland-based ‘smart card’ wallet manufacturer will reportedly issue physical banknotes for the Sovereign (SOV), the state digital currency of the Marshall Islands, according to an announcement on Jan. 28. Per the announcement, physical representations of the digital currency will purportedly ensure that citizens have “fair and equal access to their digital currency, whether or not they have internet …
