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Payment giants drive crypto adoption by engaging with startups
3.9.2020
Companies like Visa and Mastercard are taking an interest in crypto startups to drive growth, but does this challenge the fundamentals of crypto?
Cryptoverse in Chaos: Giants Race for New DeFi Darling Curve, Yam Plots Comeback
14.8.2020
The governance token CRV of Curve, exchange liquidity pool on Ethereum (ETH), was launched prematurely by an anonymous 'Chad,' and major exchanges moved to list it, as numerous theories are flying around, while YAM announced its transition to 2.0. This all happened in a matter of hours.
The...
Google, Facebook, Twitter Face Class-Action Lawsuit for Banning Crypto Ads
20.7.2020
Cryptocurrency businesses are taking Google, Facebook, and Twitter to court in a class-action lawsuit that could cost the social media giants $300 billion. The plaintiffs say that their businesses have been hurt by Google, Facebook, and Twitter banning crypto ads on their platforms. Google...
Shipping Giants Piloting Blockchain to Improve Efficiency
12.7.2020
The Port of Rotterdam, along with global shipping giants, launches blockchain pilot to improve container handling’s safety and efficiency
Neo Founder Says Next-Gen Internet Will Break Up Tech Giants’ Data Silos
7.7.2020
The founder of blockchain platform Neo, Hongfei Da, discussed the importance of next-generation internet at Unitize
John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
4.7.2020
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government,...
Mining, Steel Giants Complete USD14m Blockchain-powered Iron Ore Trade
29.6.2020
One of the world’s largest mining companies, BHP Group, says it has completed a USD 14 million blockchain-powered iron ore transaction with China’s Baosteel – one of the largest steelmaking firms on the planet.
The move follows on from last month’s trade between the two companies that saw...
Financial Giants Fujitsu & Nomura to Launch Digital Asset Trading on Blockchain
26.5.2020
Source: Adobe/Игорь Головнёв
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has signed a deal with major securities company Nomura that will see the duo co-launch an interoperable blockchain platform for trading “digital assets” such as securities.
Per a report from Nikkei, Fujitsu is working on the project with...
China’s BSN Aims to Reclaim Financial Data From Tech Giants
12.5.2020
Research Fellow Martin Chorzempa argued that China’s blockchain strategy is entirely focused on domestic objectives during Consensus
Hot Scandals, Business Giants, Halvation and 20 Crypto Jokes
9.5.2020
It was a fun, pre-halving week. Coinbase analyst said that we shouldn't count on banks to invest in crypto, and options traders appear to be skeptical about current ETH price. Business giants join a new consortium to help firms ‘manage digital assets’, Blockstream updated their BTC satelite...
Tech Giants Are Role Models in Developing Cross-Chain Interoperability
8.5.2020
Analysis of the challenges and benefits of creating blockchain protocols capable of true interoperability
Business Giants New Consortium To Help Firms ‘Manage Digital Assets’
5.5.2020
Some of the biggest names in IT, conventional finance and blockchain technology have joined an open-source digital standards consortium that they claim will help overcome the hurdles involved with “managing digital assets” and the “adoption of digital identity” – making use of “interoperable...
4 Financial Giants Launch Blockchain-Based Tech Platform + More News
18.3.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Adoption news
Clearstream, Credit Suisse Asset Management, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, and Natixis Investment Managers have...
2 Japanese Business Giants to Offer Crypto Margin Trading + More News
11.3.2020
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Exchanges news
SBI VC Trade, the crypto exchange run by the Japanese financial giant SBI, will follow...
Brave Challenges Google’s Advertising Power Before the UK Competition Watchdog
22.2.2020
The company behind the privacy-oriented browser Brave has set out to convince regulators in the U.K. to end Google’s advertising monopoly in the digital space. In a filing with the country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Brave puts forward recommendations on how...
T-Mobile, Orange and Other Giants to Test Blockchain-powered Platform
18.2.2020
Four of the world’s biggest telecoms providers will cooperate on a joint pilot that could see blockchain technology applied to inter-operator roaming agreements.
Per Mobile Europe, Deutsche Telekom and its United States-based mobile and wireless network operator T-Mobile US will team up with...
Financial Giants-Backed Fnality To Launch First USC Token This Year
14.2.2020
Nasdaq is among the shareholders of Fnality. Fnality International, a technology firm founded in 2019, with fifteen major financial firms, including ING, Nasdaq, UBS, Barclays, as shareholders, aims to roll out its payment system this year, launching the first ‘version’ of its USC token.
As...
French Payment Giants Worldline and Ingenico Merge in $8.6 Billion Deal
3.2.2020
Ingenico and Worldline merge to become a European payments behemoth
ConsenSys to Build Global Trade Platform for Agribusiness Giants
24.1.2020
ConsenSys will be developing an Ethereum-based platform to digitize the post-trade finance industry for a foundation of agribusiness giants including Cargill
Abu Dhabi, Financial Giants Bet on Blockchain to Help ETF Ecosystem
7.1.2020
New York-headquartered international investment giant WisdomTree Investments together with Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) and other investors invested in Securrency, as they aim to integrate blockchain technology into the exchange-traded fund (ETF) ecosystem.
Securrency,...