Monthly Archives: September 2019

Vakt, a blockchain-based post-trade platform for commodities, has signed a memorandum of understanding with essDOCS, a firm that develops paperless trade solutions, to put European shipping on the blockchain.As markets and technology-focused outlet Benzinga reported on Sept. 20, Vakt and essDOCS will work on a blockchain-based solution that will allow digitization of post-trade process in…

The online real-time economic strategy game, Prospectors, will be launching on the Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX).Prospectors blockchain game lands on WAXIn a Sept. 17 blog post, WAX announced that one of the largest dApps in the world, The Prospectors, is launching on the WAX blockchain, which users buy physical and virtual items using WAX tokens.This…

Blockchain platform Tron’s founder, Justin Sun, has announced a new plan for TRON's (TRX) proof-of-stake mechanism.In a series of tweets on Sept. 21, Sun highlighted four key developments in the new plan for TRON’s proof-of-stake mechanism. Specifically, the developments will focus on the means of distributing staking revenues and greater engagement of the community.Community engagement Sun…

Saturday, Sept. 21 — crypto markets continued to trade sideways, with the majority of the top 20 coins by market cap seeing losses at publishing time.Market visualization. Source: Coin360Bitcoin dominance continues to slipAfter briefly dipping below the $10,000 threshold, Bitcoin (BTC) has bounced back to trade at $10,041 at press time. The major cryptocurrency is…

The concept of illiquidity discounts, how it relates to markets like commercial real estate, and the benefits that tokenization could bring to the industry are topics that I have already discussed in previous articles. In this article, I am taking a closer look at the relationship between liquidity preference and the future demand for tokenized…